pwalker

@pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrome VPN Extension With 100k Installs Screenshots All Sites Users Visit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure about the current situation. However in general Twitch uses server side injected ads (SSAI), which are basically unblockable. They can however be bypassed (using different methods, each having it’s own pros and cons). Anway there is a very active twitch ad blocking community that will explain everything: github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions Most reliably is having either an http proxy or a vpn in a country that is not served ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrome VPN Extension With 100k Installs Screenshots All Sites Users Visit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that is actually quite dynamic as sometimes advertisers suddenly choose to place an ad in somen fringe country like czech rep. or Georgia. Mostly those small eastern EU countries are not attractive enough for advertisers. For some reason I also never get ads with Luxembourg IP, even though they are one of the richest countries in the world. Probably too small of a traget audience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrome VPN Extension With 100k Installs Screenshots All Sites Users Visit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use my paid vpn extension (Nord) to select a Country for twitch.tv which isn’t served ads. However I would all my traffic go through that specific vpn as it causes trouble with other appe/pages. So being able to cnveniently switch my IP per domain is pretty nice sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shit like this is why we need open source printers!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some years ago I heard about this German guy that found a mind boggling but in Kyocera scanners and the whole story how they tried to play it down is really insane. So definitely worth watching, unfort only with German audio: youtu.be/7FeqF1-Z1g0

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they are referring to the point that you want your personal votes to be kept private. Some say it is a form of “cowardice” to not vote publicly.

  Personally I see your point is very valid and at least this should be more actively described when signing up for Lemmy and that obviously your instance admins can see everything and you should be very careful (e.g. VPN) if you’d like to participate privately in a conversation. Maybe this is not the right platform for you then ufortunately. Everything in life has its pros and cons and certainly Lemmy is not perfect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Guy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure why u only mention iMessage, but it also works fine in Signal and other messaging apps 👌

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree but it’s still in an early development state. Not really usable for everyday work let alone most people never heard about it 😅 But yeah still cool to mention it under “modern” browsers. I wish them good luck with the first alpha next year. I hope it’ll be successful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the dude even mentions ladybird as browser, nice 😎

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i did it!!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  lets delay the birth a bit 😅, tell us when re-birth is happening

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  luckily u didn’t suggest to cut the cheese 😅 cheese is life, I can eat less beef but not my cheeeeeese 🙃

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about the GI Rights Hotline⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well actually: “It was originally an initialism used in U.S. Army paperwork for items made of galvanized iron.[2] The earliest known instance in writing is from either 1906[3] or 1907.[2]” Also later on re-interpreted as “government issued” etc. but I guess today it just means US army soldier

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bros being bros⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk man some here might begin to think you have a drug problem and sexual uncertainty on top. No judging tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #10⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  btw. Metro 2033 Redux also for free on Steam.

  Also on a side note, one of the coolest milsim/tactic shooters in recent years is also on sale: Insurgency Sandstorm. It even gets a big map/weapons update next week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Summit for Lemmy is now open source⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love that you link Obtanium. This is the first time I saw an app dev actually linking to Obtanium. Getting your FOSS app update directly from the git repos without the google bs around it just seems logical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨immich v1.127.0 released with manual face tagging feature⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t heard about this project before. I was using a self hosted Nextcloud instance so far. What would be the benefit of switching to immich? I guess immich does have some advances features, like the tagging was mentioned, specifically for picture management.