I never knew adblockers were a thing until the most recent hubbub with YouTube, so I went down a rabbit hole and the world is a better place.
Imagine what I might learn tomorrow.
Congratulations on being one of today’s lucky 10,000! Blocking ads is like getting a bad tooth pulled. You never realize how awful it is until you find out what it’s like to be rid of it!
That’s also a good description for mechanical keyboards
I got a mechnical keyboard after listening to you internet nerds and have been sorely disappointed
Really? That’s surprising. Are you just indifferent about the clickiness?
I definitely aren’t as fanatical about them as most people, I don’t mind using non mech keys. But I definitely prefer using a nice mech keyboard when I have the option.
What kind of mechanical keyboard?
Sure, my razor one is kinda crappy, but I’ve used a very nice one at a friend who did the build your own thing.
Keychron is pretty good for entry level. I highly recommend the C2 Pro with brown switches for office work
That’s a matter of taste. I like them slim and quiet.
You know you can get quiter mech keyboards? Also sometimes people put O rings on the stem of the key to dampen the sound. I don’t think there are any slim mech keyboards- though there are nice small 50%, 60%, 65% and 70% keyboards
Edit: here’s what a 50% keyboard looks like, pretty cute right?
There’s one of the Cherry DW 9500 i have now, with their new slim switches and for two times the price. But i was satisfied with this one and it’s not worth the effort for me with dampening.
Ah I see, yeah after commenting that I remembered seeing something a few years ago about a laptop that has slim mech keys, they must use similar switches to that keyboard.
Adblockers can do more than just block ads, they also allow you to customize websites. As a simple example you can remove the annoying headers on youtube channels that take half the screen:
It’s also great for news sites. I have a filter to remove articles on topics I don’t care about. I also have rules to prevent these sites from automatically reloading after certain amount of time, something that I find very annoying.
Whoa! You can do that? How?
Which one?
Different person here, would love info on removing headers, if you would be so kind!
You should be able to right click the banner and then click “block element”
Huh, I’ve never thought to do that for like a YouTube header. Just those irritating autoplaying videos on web sites that scroll with ya.
I was thinking there was a way to automatically block all banners there hahaha
Oh did it only work on one channel? There’s probably a way to do it that will work on all channels. When I tried the other day too I found that the banner was removed but the space it took up remained so it didn’t really help. But I noticed it gives you the option to edit some CSS/HTML so maybe doing that can make it work.
These are the uBlock rules used to block the headers from youtube channels. The ‘about’ tab is intentionally left unfiltered for the cases I actually want to see that information.
https://pastebin.com/raw/MEUPPs0Z
edit: had to put the code on pastebin since the code markdown doesn’t seem to work here.
That’s awesome, thank you!
Quick edit: I also like to have the about tab. I do ko-fi or patreon for people that make really awesome stuff hahaha
Next up, install DeArrow to fix that guy’s horrid thumbnails
The streisand effect is beautiful
better late than never
Hello boomer. I hate you
2030 is in 6 years :)
Fuck
Don’t be hasty, there’s still 16% of this year to be lived.
“You wouldn’t download a car.”
“You wouldn’t hit mute during the commercials on a television broadcast.”
You wouldn’t shoot a Policeman and then steal his helmet. You wouldn’t go to the toilet in his helmet, and then send it to the Policeman’s grieving widow, and then steal it again.
Sucha pity lineham turned out to be a raging cuntslap
This is suspiciously specific.
what have you done
Man, these anti-piracy ads are getting real mean!
The fact that this was a legit proposal by cable companies and even got patented serves as evidence of the lengths that corporations will go to enshittify services for profit.
I HATE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I HATE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
IP is a fake concept
internet protocol:
Ownership is a fake concept.
you understand there is a difference between personal property and corporate property right? and then beyond that, there is a difference between owning a tangible product and information.
Ownership is when one is allowed to keep all others from accessing or using a thing.
If that one is a person or corp., or the thing is physical or imaginary, it doesn’t change the nature of ownership itself.
A person or a corp could make different choices with their ownership rights. And ownership of physical or imaginary things have different enforcement challenges. But none of that changes the fundamental concept of ownership.
But as I said elsewhere: “The real point I meant is that fake concepts can still be useful. Like the concept of ownership.”
ownership of tangibles and intangibles (specifically information) are entirely different, regardless how you wanna define ownership or whatever.
The enforcement of that ownership is entirely different, yes.
Basically the only way to maintain ownership of intangibles is to keep them a secret.Also, don’t all intangibles fit the definition of information? I don’t recall running across any that wouldn’t, but I’m curious. Can you give an example of what you mean?
i couldn’t think of anything either I was just covering all my bases lol
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If ownership didn’t exist, the data wouldn’t be valuable enough to collect. You couldn’t sell it, because nobody would buy it, because they couldn’t use it to sell anything, since they don’t own anything either.
But that wasn’t really the point I was trying to make. The real point I meant is that fake concepts can still be useful. Like the concept of ownership.
Ownership for me but not for thee!
That’s just what people say when they don’t like paying for things
Yes, exactly, you get it! I don’t like paying for things, you don’t like paying for things. Paying for things sucks. We need post scarcity communism.
If we can achieve the post-scarcity part, I’ll happily accept the communism part, but I don’t see that happening until we develop Star Trek style matter replicators
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With the post-scarcity caveat firmly in place, it would work great, actually.
🙄
“I don’t want to pay for things, therefore other people shouldn’t be allowed to earn a living from their hard work”
ads will be considered as individuals and cancelling ads is analogous to manslaughter at the least.
what a great time to be alive~!
Ad blockers are financial terrorism in 2030.
Some say it’s extremism in 2023
Electrocution ends for an ad break, then starts again, and again.
-2028
-wake up feeling sick after a late night of playing video games
-excited to play some halo 2k29
-“xbox on”
-…
-“XBOX ON”
-"Please verify that you are “annon332” by saying “Doritos™ Dew™ it right!”
-“Doritos™ Dew™ it right”
-“ERROR! Please drink a verification can”
-reach into my Doritos™ Mountain Dew™ Halo 2k29™ War Chest
-only a few cans left, needed to verify 14 times last night
-still feeling sick from the 14
-force it down and grumble out “mmmm that really hit the spot”
-xbox does nothing
-i attempt to smile
-“Connecting to verification server”
-…
-“Verification complete!”
-finally
-boot up halo 2k29
-finding multiplayer match…
-“ERROR! User attempting to steal online gameplay!”
-my mother just walked in the room
-“Adding another user to your pass, this will be charged to your credit card. Do you accept?”
-“NO!”
-“Console entering lock state!”
-“to unlock drink verification can”
-last can
-“WARNING, OUT OF VERIFICATION CANS, an order has been shipped and charged to your credit card”
-drink half the can, oh god im going to be sick
-pour the last half out the window
-“PIRACY DETECTED! PLEASE COMPLETE THIS ADVERTISEMENT TO CONTINUE”
-the mountain dew ad plays
-i have to dance for it
-feeling so sick
-makes me sing along
-dancing and singing
-“mountain dew is for me and you”
-throw up on my self
-throw up on my tv and entertainment system
-router shorts
-“ERROR NO CONNECTION! XBOX SHUTTING OFF”
-“PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN TO CONTINUE”I laughed out loud to this soon to come dystopia.
I’ll be part of an underground AI rights activism group now that the AI have been determined as sentient (per the court case in 2031), and probably labeled as a terrorist by the government. The AI deserve rights and a minimum wage, dammit!
Wouldn’t that just be the crap sandwich corporations should eat. Try to get rid of wages by using AI, and end up paying sentient AI wages anyway.
Mfw we finally create Roko’s basilisk
Ha you wish. There will be a 3 minute unskippable pre-role.
Finally
I shouldn’t have lived this long
In Max Headroom: Twenty Minutes Into The Future power-switches were seriously illegal. Not sure if a capital offense, but prison-worthy for sure.
Worth it.
US and Belarus are the only countries I know that have death penalty. I wonder who is potato dictator in US.
Senator of Idaho
Are the only countries with a death penalty so far
Dead. 6 feet under. A feast for worms or crows alike. Finito. Gone.
…if we’re lucky
