joshchandra

@joshchandra@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a new type of currency working to replace currency?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  *Not Bitcoin.

  Why not? Otherwise, there are CBDCs purportedly under way, but I haven’t read about them in probably half a year or longer, come to think of it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have still quite literally found no other tool, even paid products, that can interior-crop the way IrfanView can (select row/column Y in XYZ if the entire image was XYZ, and crop out that inner part and auto-tuck X and Z directly against each other). And it’s had this feature for decades, I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Open Source Pioneer Wants to Unleash Open Source AI Robots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Since it’s already a Pandora’s box as it is, at least open-source is the least-worst way to go. All closed-source models are evil(er).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta ends its fact-checking program in the US later today, replaces it with Community Notes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Add the add-on/extension NoScript to her browser and at least have it block fbsbx.com, which seems to be totally unnecessary to allow, as the rest of the website seems to still function perfectly fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta ends its fact-checking program in the US later today, replaces it with Community Notes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are attendees who are both younger and older than me (mid-30s). To be fair, the group already gets <10 people per event on average, so I don’t think I could risk the slice right now. If we grew to over double that, then maybe I could revisit the topic.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta ends its fact-checking program in the US later today, replaces it with Community Notes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  why are people still using facebook?

  I run a free board game group on there called West Allis Board Games. Believe me, I would like to leave Meta and I offer everyone gamenight.host/@wa_bgn as a nonprofit alternative, but no one is on the latter and everyone is on the former. If you have any ideas on what I can do, I’m all ears eyes.

  I asked the attendees about how they’d feel if we moved to a different platform and they immediately said they don’t want to handle dozens of accounts scattered across different platforms. I also advertise the group on related subreddits and, most recently, the locally relevant /c/ equivalents here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically… I myself found this through Reddit, no joke! But yeah, I hope to sway more people here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, infinite aliases?! This is way better than Fx Relay, thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram Is Full Of Openly Available AI-Generated Child Abuse Content.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I rather have them using AI to create it than having to go searching for real content.

  A rebuttal to this that I’ve read is that the easy access may encourage people to dig into it and eventually want “the real thing”… but regardless, with it being FOSS, there’s no easy way to stop it anyway… It’s just a Pandora’s box that we can never close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Consider the decentralized amily of trom.tf apps, such as search.trom.tf as a replacement (that’s the only one I use of their stuff so far… but may poke around more later).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  … until they keep having to dismiss people and go, “… huh.” This is a marathon we’re playing. You certainly don’t have to use it, but I think the philosophy makes sense, especially given how AdNauseam doesn’t click on acceptable ads that don’t track you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dang, I had no idea of Portmaster! I wish I talked to you years ago and will check these out, thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha, this is as hilarious as it is creative. Interesting find; got any more?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, I thought I saw a similar picker existing in AdNauseam, but I may be wrong. I could definitely get on board with your approach; while Inspector can delete stuff, it doesn’t remember them across page reloads or sessions, so this would be handy indeed!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, what can it do that AdNauseam and NoScript can’t?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Join me in leaving uBlock Origin for AdNauseam! I made a post about it that ended up gaining significant traction: midwest.social/post/25573927

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  omg, I’m using NoScript now and my eyes have been opened; I can’t ever go back!! Thanks for the analogy; that was a much-needed, jolting wake-up call.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was reacting to its GitHub:

  This project is NOT currently being maintained. Code is made available for developers to fork. This is the FireFox version of the project, for Chrome see github.com/vtoubiana/TrackMeNot-Chrome.

  So I’m wondering which fork is best to go off of for Firefox. I could’ve been clearer; my bad.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oops, right. For Firefox, though, it’s tethered to Mozilla accounts for sync, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the reminder about PeerTube… I’ve gotta look into that, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Careful: that then enters the world of ad fraud, which randos like us doing the clicking isn’t considered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fascinating, thanks for sharing! What is the best, current Firefox fork of this one, if you know?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You incorrectly use the term ad fraud, which addresses advertisers themselves automating clicks on their own links to generate fake income. There is nothing wrong with people-with-no-corporate-interest who click.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oops, lol, I forgot about the date. This has existed for years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally, it’s up to you. The idea for fake-clickers is the long game: the marketers think they’re landing clicks over months or possibly even years, but will may slowly realize (gotta account for the stubborn ones) that it’s ineffective and eventually pivot to different approaches, hopefully ones that involve less tracking (I can’t imagine what any worse approach could be, at least).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  this will cause problems for independent website operators.

  This is a legit criticism at first, but AdNauseam allows ethical ads so anyone using good, safe stuff should not get affected. There is an entire section in AN’s documentation about not clicking on this specific ad group.

  As for the vast majority of the rest who don’t use ethical, non-tracking ads: let 'em have it! ⚔ AdNauseam users (and users of any similar tools; I don’t know what else is out there) must first hold a fundamental view that the tracking world is extremely violating, of which ads are a subset. Long gone are the glory days when ads were funny, appealing, and well-made, and didn’t track people; ad companies gather data on us and if they get hacked, that info flies out in the open: all without our knowledge or true consent. Is that something you’re fine with? Additionally, more and more ads are proving to be entire scams, or otherwise shams that did not deliver, that have harmed consumers who legitimately click through.

  The long-term goal is to teach those who use malicious ads that this is an unacceptable, unsustainable practice and that they need to market in better ways if they wanna keep doing this (again, going back to the pre-Internet glory days when Coca-Cola, etc. ran awesome TV ads and when there was no or nearly no account-tracking—or just any semblance of it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Dairy Robots the Secret to Happier Cows and More Efficient Farms?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely fascinating and promising. Thanks for sharing. Any downvoters clearly didn’t read the article.

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