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“> driving out rivals, diminishing competition, inflating advertising costs, reducing revenues for news publishers and content creators, snuffing out innovation, and harming the exchange of information and ideas in the public sphere.”

I feel like it is going to be hard to prove that Google’s anti-competitive actions have inflated advertising costs. Also, did news publishers lose revenue because of Google or was it Craigslist and jobs sites that killed their classified business?

Google is definitely a monopoly and has acted badly, but proving the harm in this way is going to be tricky. The government should go after them for privacy, the place where they have clearly abused their relationship with the public. Google normalizing spying on users has created the data economy that has resulted in us being spied upon us all the time and having all of our personal data being leaked over and over again.

xylogx ,

I would go past underrated and day much maligned.

Student dorm does not allow wifi routers

I just moved into a student dorm for a semester abroad, and beforehand I emailed them asking whether they had ethernet ports to plug my router into (I use it to connect all my devices, and for WiVRn VR streaming). They confirmed that I could, but now that I’m here the wifi login portal is asking me to accept these terms from...

xylogx ,

As someone who has administered networks and written policies like this the concern here is that you will run an open network that may be used for piracy, hacking, DDOS or to send bomb threats. Tracing down this type of behavior is required by law and allowing students to run open networks makes this near impossible.

xylogx ,

For a D&D cooking show, check out Delicious in Dungeon!

xylogx ,

If you have your router setup to resolve DNS, which is common, then while the VPN is active if you use your router for DNS, your router will be sending queries with the sites you visit from your real ip address to your DNS provider.

xylogx ,

Yes, you can configure non-router DNS in your DHCP server or you can manually set DNS on individual hosts. For a VPN you want to make sure the VPN connection has DNS manually configured.

xylogx ,

Fmovie is a new one I never heard of before. Good thing they mentioned it so I know to avoid it in the future.

xylogx ,

Cloudflare has a bot score. Depending on how sus your bot score is you can use several different levels of verification. The checkbox you refer to is kind of in the middle. There is also a more complicated intrusive captcha and a totally transparent javascript. It’s a pretty slick system.

xylogx ,

Many scientific hypotheses started out as what seemed like crazy ideas at the time. When Galileo and Newton challenged the ideas of Aristotle, this was seen as fringe and radical. When Einstein challenged the accepted Newtonian dogma it was seen as scientific heresy at first. These ideas only seem mainstream to us with hindsight.

xylogx ,

Here is a famous faked photo of fairies from 1917 -> en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies

xylogx ,

I had an Impala that I named Vlad, so it was “Vlad the Impala”.

xylogx OP ,

Correct!

xylogx ,

They had no choice but to settle because much of the evidence was the result of torture and could have been invalid in a trial.

xylogx ,

Here are two I recommend:

The Rest is History - two historians, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook go deep on interesting topics from history.

Never Post - a podcast described as “about and for the internet” and in some sense the spiritual successor to Hello Internet but also reminding me of classic Radiolab. Worth checking out.

xylogx ,

It is a dog whistle for racism. The facts do not matter and the issues don’t matter. It is just another opportunity put out their message of hate and intolerance.

xylogx OP ,

Took this with my iphone 15.

xylogx ,

What are your use cases?

xylogx ,

Yeah, but the question is who else. Any suggestions?

xylogx ,

Great list! I would also add to this PCR, the technology that allowed us to map the human genome.

xylogx OP ,

Thanks that is super-helpful! There is also a Gigabyte option that is only moderately more expensive. I will check it out!

xylogx ,

Did anyone read the phrase “fed up carpenter” and immediately think the was the second coming of Christ?

xylogx ,

A lot of good stuff here. The three things that are most notable for me are:

Notepadqq

Fsearch

Librewolf

xylogx ,

Librewolf is great. Secure and private by default. For compatibility it is nearly as good as Firefox.

xylogx ,

How about a simple faraday shield for the key fob?

xylogx ,

So like philosopher kings?

How to make it so frequently used sites don't constantly require 2FA? [SOLVED]

EDIT: After reading all the responses, I’ve decided to allow cookies to persist after they close the browser, which I expect will make it so that 2FA doesn’t kick in as often, at least not on their most frequently used web sites. I may also look into privacy oriented browser extensions that might offer some protection, such...

xylogx ,

Allowing cookies for websites you are logged into makes sense. If you are going to login the site already knows who you are can track you, so you do not lose much with the exception. What I do for some sites like google services is access them from a separate browser.

xylogx OP ,

Not anymore according to Wikipedia:

SteamOS, version 3.0. This new version is based upon Arch Linux with the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment

xylogx OP ,

Good question! After installing Emulators on my Steamdeck I realized it could run as a desktop. Also, I learned it was a rolling release. This seemed attractive to me, so I wanted to hear how mainstream this could be.

Sounds like the answer is not very. Some other good suggestions in this thread I might try, though.

xylogx ,

Does it support offline access?

xylogx OP ,

Thanks! I was playing hide and seek with this little fella for a while and I thought I had lost him when he suddenly hopped up on this bush and I snapped a few quick shots.

xylogx ,

I am really liking this one.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2fcc649b-a214-49b8-891a-8f48a9c0460b.png

xylogx ,

I knew the story of John Lasseter, but I never knew Ed Catmull’s role in Pixar. He was the tech guy who turned into the pragmatic leader.

Lots of good info on the early days of tech, interactions with Steve Jobs and really insightful advice on how to nurture creativity.

xylogx ,

“ …ways you can organize a business that makes literally impossible to legally do these things. ”

Not disputing this is true, but could you provide some examples?

xylogx ,

I block logs.roku.com and cloudservices.roku.com on my pihole without impacting any functionality.

xylogx ,

We need a fediverse streaming service.

xylogx ,

Who are some people to follow on Bookwyrm?

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