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unicornpornon Retro nostalgia and why my new website looks like Window 9x (2019)

Just disabled, how lovely!

unicornpornon Cohort IDs can be collected over time to create cross-site tracking IDs

I do well with Max Tabs set to 60 when researching something. Anything above that is just bad habits.

unicornpornon Nobody is joining Google's FLoC

Google's ~64% market share is bad enough as it is. Android being the dominant OS helps, I guess.

unicornpornon Element Matrix Services Launches Bridging for Microsoft Teams

This. Seems they will never fix it.

unicornpornon Cohort IDs can be collected over time to create cross-site tracking IDs

I've been a Tree Style Tab user for many years, but I have to confess I have a complicated relationship with this add-on. I've reached >600 tabs more than once. That's not only a feature.

unicornpornon Reuters website goes behind paywall in new strategy

The problem articulated by Antonio Garcia-Martinez:

> The customer always gets what they want: In the case of an ads-driven business model where the advertiser is the true customer, that’s balanced political news alongside frivolous lifestyle stories as a canvas for ads. In the case of subscribers, it’s being flattered by having their own worldviews echoed back at themselves in more articulate form. Nobody actually pays for news, unless your livelihood depends on it, which is why outlets like The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg will still flourish, but nothing vaguely resembling news will otherwise remain in a subscription-driven world.

Source: https://www.thepullrequest.com/p/twilight-of-the-media-elite...

unicornpornon Cohort IDs can be collected over time to create cross-site tracking IDs

Switch browser while you can. Firefox might not be perfect (or even getting slightly worse), but at least it's an alternative and I can easily say it's better than Chromium in most. At least ad blocking worka as it should.

unicornpornon Stop Spotify Surveillance

> I am wary of it more when govt uses it, but it can be dangerous with companies too.

Have we already forgotten that PRISM proved that data collection is outsourced to companies? They're basically one and the same.

unicornpornon 533M Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online

Last time I tried (a year ago or so) I couldn't add new people to chat to. They had to contact me first.

unicornpornon The final official release of Classilla

...with warning signs all over the place.

unicornpornon Giant Ship Is Moved To and Fro to Break Suction: Suez Update

That is to be expected outside the smol web. :)

However, Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin shows the article without a trace of what you're describing.

unicornpornon The fingerprint inside photos

exiftool -all= filename.ext

That is all.

unicornpornon FileZilla now contains adware if you download from the official homepage

So, don't touch it. WinSCP for Windows and Cyberduck for macOS.

unicornpornon The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

37 comments and no links to the source. Here it is: https://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2014/0612/647669-document...

Listen to it.

unicornpornon Nyxt Browser

Oh, Privoxy. Must've been 20 years since I used that. But, can it block certain elements with certain IDs? And do I have to disable DoH to make it work?

unicornpornon Chrome can now live caption audio and video

Interesting.

unicornpornon Chrome can now live caption audio and video

Would be interesting to see a list of supported languages.

Still, in 2021, YouTube doesn't autocaption Swedish. So I guess there's not much hope for my native tongue here either.

Also, can you download these generated subtitles on Chrome for desktop? And, will this be in Chromium too? Speech recognition files are downloaded and run offline. But are they be a proprietary addition only to Chrome users?

unicornpornon Fabbrica: A sans serif typeface with a utilitarian aesthetic

Don't get me wrong, I'm a typehead. But, how does a commercial font end up on the first page of HN?

unicornpornon The Signal Server repository has not been updated since April 2020

Syphon[1] (although open alpha) too.

[1] https://syphon.org/

unicornpornon Firefox replaces Google Analytics with fake no-op in strict tracking protection

https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/ematrix/ if you're willing to use a fringe browser.

unicornpornon Firefox replaces Google Analytics with fake no-op in strict tracking protection

There's an alternative for Pale Moon...

https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/ematrix/

unicornpornon Firefox replaces Google Analytics with fake no-op in strict tracking protection

uMatrix has been abandoned, sadly.

unicornpornon The Framework Laptop

Will it be available in the EU or US only? Buying from the US not an alternative considering toll fees, VAT etc.

unicornpornon Show HN: QEMU front end for M1 and Intel Macs

This is insane. Best software find in a long time. An open-source alternative to Fusion is very welcome for me.

And, lovely work on the UI!

unicornpornon Dreamcast Architecture: A Practical Analysis

And nowadays it emulates on and $40 SBC. Fantastic times!

unicornpornon Taking a Stand in the War on General-Purpose Computing

After ZeroNet is installed on your computer and you have it running on port 43110 you can visit his site using that link.

unicornpornon Show HN: CompreFace is a free and open-source face recognition software

I'd love to see this in https://www.home-assistant.io/ !

unicornpornon I Miss My Bar

https://gossips.cafe/

unicornpornon Kill the Newsletter – Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds

I use this: https://notifier.in/

Same thing, works well. Newsletters are plague.

unicornpornon TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across Europe

What would you improve?

I think what happened when brexit went into full effect was pretty telling. Both Facebook and Google were on their toes to get back to abusing the data of UK citizens. There's much to be gained.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/15/facebook-...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-privacy-eu-exclusi...