reksas
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- Comment on Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production 2 hours ago:
what kind of things could you power with that amount?
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 22 hours ago:
not just stop, rip every half decent video from there and save it somewhere else. Losing everything in youtube is library of alexandria level loss.
- Comment on Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade. 1 day ago:
it can block any element from the website, even things that are not ads. If you for some reason wanted to remove button “mark all as read” or from this website you could do it. Just remember to add notes to the blocklist so you know what is blocking what if you need to unblock something later. For example, i really dislike shorts on youtube so i just removed the entire shelf and side button. I guess you could do same with some other tool, but this is just more clean way to do it and doenst require extra extensions.
It also seems to be much more serious about blocking ads than other blockers and the dev seems to actively work towards fixing any anti-adblock stuff websites add.
Noscript is more like whitelist for scripts and first line of defence for me.
- Comment on Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade. 1 day ago:
If anything ever happens to ublock i’ll definitely switch to that one as retaliation.
- Comment on Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade. 1 day ago:
I also use ublock origin on top of it, that way its a little safer to test which sites to allow. Anything blocked on ublock origin is definitely something you dont need to run the website and if it is then its likely not worth using that website anyway.
- Comment on Did ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all return the same formula for reciprocal tariff calculations, several X users claim. 1 day ago:
One would have had to ask the ai about it before all this to know where it might be getting its information from
- Comment on Did ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all return the same formula for reciprocal tariff calculations, several X users claim. 1 day ago:
what if they all come up with that because it has been publicised and they just refer to that because they have nothing else to base the questions about that specific topic on?
I just glanced at it and wouldnt know how something like that is even supposed to be, so I dont really know how unhinged the tariff rate thing is. It wouldnt surprise me if it was based only to whatever happened to be going through the madmans mind at the time.
- Comment on Could human stomach acid be bioengineered to break down microplastics? 1 day ago:
The goal is to keep that crap out of the body, not become filter
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 1 day ago:
google has way too much power. its threat to everything
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 2 days ago:
if enough people start doing it its effective
- Comment on Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade. 3 days ago:
I would feel like wading through sewer bare footed if I had all javascript enabled by default
- Comment on If I acted like a semi white power douche. On X Meta or whatever. And was a yes man to Elon and promoted the Orange Peel. While using fake photos of myself. Can I bilk them for alot of cash? 4 days ago:
no benefit in embarrassing them. Should instead keep taking the money and use it for causes that resist them while trying to maintain secrecy so you can keep it going longer.
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 6 days ago:
i can feel it too when I use it. that is why i use it only for trivial things if at all.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 1 week ago:
i wonder if reddit will eventually ragequit and restrict access to all content in there before trying to sell it off
- Comment on Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
people who react like that are giving them power
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I just wonder if the research into its effects is going forward as fast as it can since if there was some serious harmful effect from it it would cost a lot of money to many rich people. They would definitely want to silence anything about it as long as they can just like they did with climate change.
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 1 week ago:
when you dont have arguments that fit with what you want to do, you make up your own.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
i wonder if microplastic could affect this. Even if its inert it must do something if enough accumulates in the brain.
- Comment on Do you think Social Media is just exaggerated as being placed of being the source of all problems? 1 week ago:
the ones who own the social media are the source of so many problems.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 1 week ago:
anyone believing brave is good for privacy is quite naive
- Comment on Now Even Gmail Will Push AI-Powered Search on You 1 week ago:
Aye, I have looked through this too: european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/gmail
Unfortunately every service seems to have something going on that I dont like or they dont have something I want. Maybe I should just be less discerning. It doesnt help that switching is a lot of effort and bother. I took a look at disroot but i heard about that too that there are some things about it that make it not useable to me, like them storing the mails unencrypted apparently. Proton might be good, but after everything i have heard about that too i fear it might develop more problems later which would just have me switch again. Tuta might be good, but I have heard about that one too that they like sending ads about their services you cant opt out so that kind of attitude doesn’t sit well with me. Not even google does that. Others can’t be used for free or are too obscure.
kmail on your list wasnt on the site i looked at, maybe that one is good one. At least it seems good enough at quick glance.
- Comment on Now Even Gmail Will Push AI-Powered Search on You 1 week ago:
I dont even mind this too much yet still I want to switch off from gmail. If google decided to suspend my account for some reason I would be completely fucked. Even if you love google you still should switch off from using their services because there is a chance you might lose access to them in the future if this world goes even more off its rocker.
- Comment on How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To 1 week ago:
when shit really hits the fan europe will lose access to some if not all us based services.
- Comment on ARK DLC Trailer Slammed For Being Made Entirely Through Gen AI 2 weeks ago:
anything ai generated just feels deeply wrong if its supposed to be anything other than wanting to see how some idea might look like. I dont listen to much music so ai generated music can sound pretty good to me, but even then I still notice that there is no unifying idea in the background, just bunch of random threads that go nowhere. There is no reason for anything to be there in ai generated content because there can’t be any reason since ai can’t do anything by itself. Its so stupid they even call it ai because there is no intelligence involved.
- Comment on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies 2 weeks ago:
to me, ai is a bit like bucket of water if you replace the water with “information”. Its a tool and it cant do anything on its own, you could make a program and instruct it to do something but it would work just as chaotically as when you generate stuff with ai. It annoys me so much to see so many(people in general) think that what they call ai is in anyway capable of independent action. It just does what you tell it to do and it does it based on how it has been trained, which is also why relying on ai trained by someone you shouldnt trust is bad idea.
- Comment on Digg is about to be rebooted. Thoughts? 3 weeks ago:
was ebaulmsworld something that was before digg?
- Comment on Reddit could soon punish users for upvoting violent content. 4 weeks ago:
violent is the new harmful
- Comment on Reddit adds new tools, including Post Insights and Rules Check, which lets users see if what they are posting potentially goes against a subreddit's rules and will suggest communities for your post. 4 weeks ago:
i wonder how long it will take for rest of the users to get fed up with that shit
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 4 weeks ago:
its sickening how they pretend to care about animals and nature by being vegan yet its just egotripping and blatant animal abuse. If they actually care about animals they should be the first ones denouncing vegan cat food.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 4 weeks ago:
at least here its more easy to just let them stew with eachother or for more sensible part of that community to just break off. in reddit its the site owner who ultimately decided how the site goes, here its the community itself.