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gilbert31

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Haec non sunt illa droida, quae quaeritis. 🌐Neoliberal🌐 🇪🇺European Federalist🇪🇺 🇲🇫🇲🇽🇮🇹

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Linux market share passes 4% for first time (arstechnica.com)

We see the nearly 33-year-old OS’s market share growing 31.3 percent from June 2023, when we last reported on Linux market share, to February. Since June, Linux usage has mostly increased gradually. Overall, there’s been a big leap in usage compared to five years ago. In February 2019, Linux was reportedly on 1.58 percent of...

gilbert31 ,

We should thank Microsoft for rendering Windows absolutely unusable, to the point that many people are just jumping ship and installing a Linux distro.

The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee... (www.pandasecurity.com)

The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee…::We analyze a new study where the EUIPO suggests online piracy is on the increase within the European Union.

gilbert31 ,

The convenience of streaming services disappeared, this is just a natural consequence.

gilbert31 ,

I’m still using uBlock Origin to block ads everywhere, but I no longer use YouTube directly, instead I go through Invidious or Piped.

gilbert31 ,

It seems like it worked, the same guy published an update asking people to stop filing the same complaint again and again. The agency is looking into it.

gilbert31 ,

I’m happy to report that the vote was postponed because they did not have the votes for the proposal to pass. I know it is not a definitive victory because they will simply try to do it again, but it’s good that they failed once again.

gilbert31 ,

Make sure you’re using the latest version of uBlockOrigin, then update all your filters. Should work just fine.

gilbert31 ,

Use Firefox, update the uBlockOrigin extension, update the filters, remove any other adblocking extension in case you have it. Should work just fine then.

gilbert31 ,

Yes, they can, it will probably become a cat and mouse situation. The main idea is to put pressure on people that will not take the time to keep looking for alternatives or new solutions and will simply pay up or watch the ads.

gilbert31 ,

It could be simply luck because it is a slow rollout, or it could also be that you got the filter updates on the background. In any case, you know what to do if you ever run into it.

gilbert31 ,

Fake news. We now know that Israel had nothing to do with this, the explosion was caused by a malfunctioning rocket fired by a Jihad group in Palestine.

gilbert31 ,

The picture comes from the cover of a Goosebumps book, I used to read those when I was a kid, good times.

gilbert31 ,

The only subscription that I have left is Spotify. I used to have Netflix as well before the explosion of streaming services started, when it made sense because it was convenient to have immediate access to almost all content. Now that every show is in a different service, I decided to go back to torrents with Stremio.

gilbert31 ,

English is phonetically inconsistent, you can find examples to support both ways of pronouncing it.

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