Horses were domesticated some 6000 years ago. I feel so old!

Wow that’s a lot of effort compared to just blocking CSS and javascript with something like uMatrix.

There, I saved everyone a click. Now thank me for my service.

Product manager for proprietary malware peddler attempts to convince suckers that their malware does anything other than artificially restrict users and further the cause of vendor lock-in.

It should have been made clear to everyone back in 2019 when Mozilla let a signing certificate lapse, causing all extensions to be disabled for all users everywhere all at once that leaving your extensions at the mercy of Mozilla (a.k.a. Google’s lapdog) is a terrible idea.

about:addons
navigate to Gear icon
“Install addon from file…”

Maybe he just doesn’t want to run DRM in his browser.

Maybe he wanted use a a least-friction streaming option.

Maybe he doesn’t want the NFL to correlate and data broker his viewing activity.

Maybe he has some ethical qualm with the NFL or their streaming infrastructure choice.

Maybe “It’s Free, it’s for Me” was meant as in liberty and not price.

Archived

Just last week I did a drive clone for somebody who’s disk reported a total runtime of over 9 years. The SMART stats only reported one pending sector and long spin up time but it was making noises that said otherwise.

The clone completed with only three I/O errors.

Stripping out the audio tracks for languages I don’t speak reduces the file size a little.

ffmpeg

Honestly I should have a bit of respect for zeds and alphas who grow up around locked black boxes and still despite that manage to come out the other side knowing how to use something like terminal or git.

Even no tech seems to be better than consumption focused devices.

It is far preferable to teach old relatives, who have never touched a computer, how to do basic things than it is to try to introduce a better or faster or freer way to those who have already been exposed to the officially ordained Microsoft or Apple way of doing things that should be simple.

Me: Whoops I accidentally archived it.

Aside: I am surprised to see people (on the fediverse of all things) hating on cryptocurrency. Where did this sudden turn of perception come from?

Zero sympathy for the phone zombies that saw a random code and decided to pursue it uncritically. Streamwise are pretty awesome trolls apparently.

They’re just playing the role that their masters have given them. The “decision” was timed just perfectly in step with Google Execute Order 66’ing v2.

Minetest

It’s a bit more nuanced even.

If you have one-time physical access, then you have total access, permitting the storage is not encrypted.

If you have recurring, undetected physical access, then you have total access.

Ex: Dropping a script into someone’s unencrypted /boot partition that captures the decryption credential, then coming back later to collect the credential and maybe also remove the evidence.

Not a bother at all! I have used uMatrix for several years now. It is no longer actively maintained, but has an absolutely unrivaled grid interface (hence Matrix) that comprehensively lays everything out into columns and rows.

Rows represent the different domains and subdomains that a webpage loads assets from.

Columns represent the different types of assets individually.

Sane, strict rules that can be set within the My rules page:

https-strict: * true
https-strict: behind-the-scene false
noscript-spoof: * true
referrer-spoof: * true
referrer-spoof: behind-the-scene false
no-workers: * true
* * * block
* 1st-party image allow

Or these can be set with the graphical matrix grid with global scope selected, then click on the lock icon to make it persistent.

What uMatrix does that uBlock Origin does not (or the authors refuse to integrate into uBlock Origin):

• Cookie handling. uMatrix is particularly intelligent about cookies in that it will still accept cookies from sites, but never release those cookies back out to web servers (when cookies are blocked).
• CSS handling. IIRC uBlock does have some rudimentary all-or-nothing css blocking but cannot do so granularly.
• An awesome, fast, easy to check at a quick glance visual interface.

Unfortunately, uMatrix has been left to bitrot, so I’ve been closely watching the development of xiMatrix which replicates the idea and extends it to also handle remote fonts and inline scripts. (But still needs further development before I can consider it a drop-in replacement IMO).

It can and does continue to grow. We do not delete content. There is a trove of old (not recently acquired) files on these drives that several members have not gotten around to yet.

I am currently trying to devise a system wherein these different drives can be synced across geographically distant locations. Like a bi-directional rsync system which doesn’t remove extraneous files from the destination.