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  • I got stoned enough to forget my age a few months ago… not like for a moment… I consciously focused on it for 15 minutes, couldn’t figure it out, kept pondering the rest of the night and couldn’t remember until the next morning…

    I am old enough to occasionally forget my age, not to literally not be able to recall it… so I can empathize if bro is just waaay too stoned to comprehend the concept of a bra haha










  • xe3@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlHow I like my pi
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    10 months ago

    Pihole is a great project, but it is objectively less capable than uBlock Origin.

    That is not a criticism of the software. It is just a fundamental fact that DNS based adblockers are less powerful, and less granular/precise than Browser based adblockers.

    They do work well in combination though (the DNS level adblockers gives you moderately effective network wide blocking, and uBlock Origin gives you exceptional blocking but is limited to the browser.


  • There are only *two must have extensions in Firefox:

    1. uBlock Origin
    2. Your password manager’s browser extension

    Beyond that it’s all optional. Most things I used to use extensions to accomplish are now possible to accomplish using Firefox’s built in settings or using uBlock Origin.

    There are a few other extensions I use that I consider useful but optional:

    1. Dark Reader
    2. Facebook Container
    3. Libredirect

  • I think there is no “we” and there is no “them”

    It’s an arbitrary distinction between two groupings that are too broad to meaningfully judge.

    There is also no point or honor in judging on its own. If you dislike Greenpeace’s approach, find another approach and devote yourself to it, put your money where your mouth is.

    Activism is in reality often a choice between choosing the least worst strategy in a context where you have limited power and control, and any decision you make will alienate someone. Particularly the armchair-sitters who believe they are “in the middle” and who’s only contribution tends to be saying empty things like “I believe in their mission just not their tactics” but don’t put forward a practical strategy of their own. This applies to most activism, particularly direct action.






  • I think it hasn’t ‘happened’ or ‘not happened’, I think it began losing its way and losing its identity years ago, but I think what we have seen recently is a big acceleration of that process, and for many the straw that broke the camels back was the recent changes and toxic behavior of the ceo and pr team

    I agree that saying ‘risks losing its identity’ makes it sound like it is hypothetical and in the future which is not accurate.


  • For me personally, it is a ‘wait and see’ situation.

    I’m giving Lemmy a fair shot, and expect rough edges and limited features because of its newness and design model. But it has a long way to go in terms of ironing out the wrinkles adding features, and most of all improving privacy, security, and the underlying system. There is a lot that still needs to be figured out and thought through.

    It feels great to be using a federated, open, user respecting, not solely profit driven platform, but we’ve still got a long way to go in terms of privacy and security and such.