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Starter Kit to browse Web in 2024/2025 (Must-have)
  • Addy.io gives you email aliases as not to expose your actual email address. Everything gets funnelled into a single inbox of your choosing still. And the great thing is that if you use a unique email alias for all services, you know instantly who leaked your email address if you start getting spam. :D

  • Can somebody solve this puzzle?
  • I got past it because it happened to throw a place from my country. And there was also a flagpole with a flag on it to really drive it home. XD

  • What movie did you watch as I kid which you shouldn't have?
  • The scene with the guy without eyes and a tongue is imprinted into my mind because I happened to look at the TV just as that happened. I don't even remember how old I was, but definitely way under 10.

  • Regain Control in my ass
  • Spark of Blue in my ass

  • Reddit Undeleted all my posts and comments
  • Every time this gets brought up, I go back to a thread where my most popular comment was (since I no longer have an account to check back on and it's the only one I know for sure I can find). To this day, it luckily still remains deleted. If it does get restored, I wonder if it becomes the original comment or the generic [deleted in protest of the Reddit API change] or whatever I set them to be edited to before deletion.

  • Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads
  • This is Fennec, a fork of Firefox for mobile, though mobile Firefox has this same menu. c: Extensions are very much supported on mobile and it's great.

    Though I should add: I'm not an iOS user, so the story is likely to be different there, Apple being Apple and whatnot.

    A screenshot from an Android phone, showing Fennec, a Firefox fork, listing extensions, including uBlock Origin.

  • In world first, Russian chess player poisons rival’s board with mercury
  • You're also wrong. He's a singer known as Freddie. And I don't know what kind of necromancy was used to get him on a chess board.

  • Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription
  • Good to know! Thanks for the warning. c: My default course of action will likely be just disabling the old alias and making a new one.

  • Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription
  • Lol! I need to start doing something like this when one of those email addresses eventually ends up in a breach. :D

  • turn freeloaders into profit
  • Reminds me of the grim (or beautiful, depending on how you look at it) practice of photographing the deceased, especially children, during the Victorian era. Dressed up and posed, sometimes with living family in the same photo. Part of the reason being the exact fact that they wouldn't move during the shot.

  • Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
  • Laughs in long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony fox

  • As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play extra ads when I pause a video
  • Thanks for confirming! I haven't used the actual YT app in such a long time, so I haven't been able to confirm whether my DNS solution works.

  • Fake job interviews target developers with new Python backdoor
  • I've gotten offered a job on the first interview and I worked there for a while. Then again, that was not in my field of IT and was a part-time job with a well-known company, alongside studies. So while it can be a red flag, it's not always. Depends on the situation. Just stay vigilant.

  • Japanese police create fake support scam payment cards to warn victims
  • I mean, there are cases of victims being directly told by store employees that they can't sell the cards because it's a scam, and them getting right back on the phone with the scammer and going to another store instead.

  • As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play extra ads when I pause a video
  • NewPipe app is a good one, or Tubular if you want sponsor block too (though you can't comment or like videos etc. on either). But if you want to use the actual YT app, the solutions in the other comments are good. I assume that setting up a Pihole or some other ad-blocking DNS could also work. I assumed wrong. See reply.

  • Kummakivi is a 500.000 kg rock in Finland that has been balancing on another rock for 11.000 years
  • Being in the middle of the large and relatively stable Eurasian plate does help, though. The Mediterranean region, being closer to the edge region, does experience quite a bit more, though, and some strong ones have historically been felt all the way up here, too.

  • Are there any innovative platforms in the Fediverse?
  • I'm setting up some things for myself before I start proper streaming but little test streams I've done have been very successful!

    And I've subbed to the community, so really appreciating the advertising. Cx

  • Are there any innovative platforms in the Fediverse?
  • Owncast is rather interesting to me. Self-hosted streaming platform that can use the ActivityPub to publish streaming notifications, if desired.

  • Kummakivi is a 500.000 kg rock in Finland that has been balancing on another rock for 11.000 years
  • Finland is not close enough to the edges of tectonic plates, so if we get earthquakes here at all, they're barely noticeable.