There have been exactly two innovations in web browsers in the last 16 years:
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@cstross I have literally never seen my web browser try to do that.
@jwz Ah. Seems to be a standard feature on Firefox and Safari on my machines?
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@jwz Ah. Seems to be a standard feature on Firefox and Safari on my machines?
@cstross Beats me. I use Safari on macOS and iOS and I've never seen it.
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@cstross Beats me. I use Safari on macOS and iOS and I've never seen it.
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3. Vimperator extension for Firefox (can't remember the year). Using vim keys for absolutely everything was a boost.
Tridactyl is carrying the torch the best it can with new limitations on the browser.
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There have been exactly two innovations in web browsers in the last 16 years:
1. "Show Reader Automatically" in 2010;
2. "Hide Distracting Items" in 2024.Everything else has either been a waste of goddamned time, or actively malicious. Mostly the latter.
There are counter-fingerprinting tools, too.
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@philnelson @jwz @cstross It only appears if they detect that the page is some other language and depending on privacy settings they may be unwilling to attempt that
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@jbayes Hiya, keen to understand more (and hopefully help). What distracting items are you trying to hide?
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@jbayes this is like half the reason I use ublock origin! Thank you lightning button! If only you worked more reliably... Like... If you were built into the browser...
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There have been exactly two innovations in web browsers in the last 16 years:
1. "Show Reader Automatically" in 2010;
2. "Hide Distracting Items" in 2024.Everything else has either been a waste of goddamned time, or actively malicious. Mostly the latter.
@jwz Vivaldi is experimenting with tiling tabs, which looks interesting. Those guys are probably worth watching, as they don't waste their time with slop.
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@jbayes this is like half the reason I use ublock origin! Thank you lightning button! If only you worked more reliably... Like... If you were built into the browser...
@elladan Yeah, I appreciate that Ublock Origin tries, but it's difficult enough to use that it's usually easier to find a different workaround.
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@plwt Stuff that obscures the content on the page. See OP:
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3. Vimperator extension for Firefox (can't remember the year). Using vim keys for absolutely everything was a boost.
Tridactyl is carrying the torch the best it can with new limitations on the browser.
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There have been exactly two innovations in web browsers in the last 16 years:
1. "Show Reader Automatically" in 2010;
2. "Hide Distracting Items" in 2024.Everything else has either been a waste of goddamned time, or actively malicious. Mostly the latter.
@jwz 3. the indicator which tab plays the annoying sound?
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There have been exactly two innovations in web browsers in the last 16 years:
1. "Show Reader Automatically" in 2010;
2. "Hide Distracting Items" in 2024.Everything else has either been a waste of goddamned time, or actively malicious. Mostly the latter.
@jwz I have never thought to hide website footers, thanks for that idea.
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@philnelson @jwz @cstross It only appears if they detect that the page is some other language and depending on privacy settings they may be unwilling to attempt that
@philnelson @jwz @cstross @malwareminigun there's metadata a page author can set in there that'd make that a non-issue. This can be set per element (you can be lazy and set it for the whole page, or individual paragraphs, divs, or spans and so on)
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Global_attributes/lang
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There have been exactly two innovations in web browsers in the last 16 years:
1. "Show Reader Automatically" in 2010;
2. "Hide Distracting Items" in 2024.Everything else has either been a waste of goddamned time, or actively malicious. Mostly the latter.
@jwz Love that the example is the Macalope! I feel like there used to be more semi-mainstream curmudgeonly tech critics, but he’s almost the last ungulate standing.
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There have been exactly two innovations in web browsers in the last 16 years:
1. "Show Reader Automatically" in 2010;
2. "Hide Distracting Items" in 2024.Everything else has either been a waste of goddamned time, or actively malicious. Mostly the latter.
@jwz what about the thing that autofills 2 factor codes from sms?
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Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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@EUCommission If you think that the Fediverse is so good, why aren't you taking more steps to embrace it?
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Ora veniamo alla questione lavoro, che poi in realtà dovrebbe essere piú una questione «immortalità e società», ovvero: come reagirebbe le nostre società al caso di un singolo individuo (o una manciata di individui) che avessero ottenuto l'immortalità (almeno in termini di “non morire di vecchiaia”)?
Per cominciare, il soggetto in questione finirebbe intanto nel mirino della guardia di finanza dopo aver superato tutti i limiti attualmente considerati per la vita umana.
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@Thayer 😮
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Stop chat control!
Stop dismantling digital rights!
Leave corporate media platforms!
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(È un racconto di fantascienza quindi la questione viene sollevata dopo il “first contact” con le prime civiltà aliene, vertendo su quella che di fatto è una quarantena della specie umana per evitare che il virus della vecchiaia distrugga la civiltà galattica. Poi visto che vi piacciono le barzellette a sfondo sessuale vi racconto quella dello scambio di coppia con gli alieni.)
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Svolta della Santa sede: via da quell’affresco il volto di Meloni
#spinoza abkualcosa
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@punissuer @EUCommission W is owned by a Swedish company, nothing to do with the EU as such.
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Prima di toccare la questione “lavoro”: mi sono dimenticato di aggiungere alla questione “immortalità in che senso?” un riferimento ad un racconto di fantascienza di cui ora mi sfuggono titolo ed autore (forse Fritz Leiber?) il cui tema di base è l'idea che gli esseri umani in realtà sarebbero immortali, se non per un agente infettivo che causa la vecchiaia.
