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CharlesDarwin

@ CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world

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  • Infinite "prove you are a human" loops on archive.is with Firefox + VPN?

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  • What VPN?

  • Watching Youtube with VPN on

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  • That makes sense for your use case. My use case is that I don't want my YT watching habits being scooped up if I can help it. At one point I might not have cared too much about things like YT, but under the current administration I have a lot more reservations about that.

  • Infinite "prove you are a human" loops on archive.is with Firefox + VPN?

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  • Are there any alternatives?

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    CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world

    Infinite "prove you are a human" loops on archive.is with Firefox + VPN?

  • Watching Youtube with VPN on

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  • Good to know. I was using FreeTube on a Linux machine I have set up to do most of my Youtube watching, but I had to disable VPN. I got tired of trying different countries and just turned off VPN. I'll try Swedish servers...

  • Watching Youtube with VPN on

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  • Is that an option on Mac or Linux?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world

    Watching Youtube with VPN on

  • Freetube is working again!

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  • Thanks. It seems maybe Italy works for the moment anyway.

  • Freetube is working again!

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  • Do you know of a working exit country/location? I've tried a few different locations with no dice, but if I know there is one that works for someone else, I'll certainly try that.

  • Freetube is working again!

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  • I'm using Private Internet Access. It's weird, because as soon as I turn it on, FreeTube fails to play anything.

  • Freetube is working again!

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  • I'm not understanding why it doesn't work when I turn on my VPN, though. Is there a way to watch Youtube and have the VPN on?

  • Why do you hate Teams/Why is Teams despised?

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  • What annoys me is that they seem to just ignore any requests to fix things that are broken. For instance, I don't want to see everyone's incoming video by default. I have to turn it off for. Every. Single. Meeting.

    And I'm hardly the only one. Here is an example of someone asking for this, back in 2020:

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/can-incoming-video-have-a-default-to-turn-off/98c198b5-e9ad-48d5-80d4-dc7051968e51

    I suspect that Microsoft views Teams users as basically hostages since it's often something forced onto a big user base at many companies. If you hate it? Too bad: if you want to stay employed, you'll just use it.

  • Alternative github frontends?

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  • We should rename Solar to Patriot Power to make it palatable to the right

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  • How about slapping something gun-related on it, like that Black Rifle company?

  • I hate using mobile to read articles

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  • I wish I could vote you up 1000x for the RSS recommend. I've never stopped using it (even though many people snickered when I mentioned it - "oh, that old thing ?" - but I've never been one to care what is considered "cool" when it comes to technology anyway) only on the desktop, using elfeed, mostly.

  • I hate using mobile to read articles

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  • It's not Javascript per se, it's the abuse of it that I take issue with. Also, there are plenty of places where it has no purpose that benefits the user and it would be quite possible to have many sites/pages that don't require Javascript at all.

  • I hate using mobile to read articles

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  • I think I might put that on a T-shirt. Ferchrissakes. The propensity for everyone to want to build a GD React SPA with gobs of unnecessary Javascript is so very rampant right now.

    Let the backlash begin. Someone has got push back - the hegemony of Javascript frameworks as the Golden Hammer of the Internet has just got to end.

    I remember when Spring came along and effectively put the end to baroque J2EE stuff; it seems that the frontend is long overdue for this type of revolution. Or at least stop inflicting this awful experience on the users...why do I need to keep upgrading my computers every few years, just to browse the freaking Internet? Why is Javascript necessary to read text? It's ridiculous.

  • How is woke a religion?

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  • Yeah, I have some extended family that was raised in the more liberal/red letter type of xtianity, only to later "rebel" by veering toward more authoritarian/right wing style of interpretations of "the" bible. Most of them are full maga now and don't resemble anything I was taught as the core of xtianity.

    When it comes to trying to square the "old" and the "new", I think it's mostly in the eye of the beholder. A lot of xtians declare they have a "new covenant", so therefore, they can selectively decide what is not law and what isn't, especially when it comes to things like dietary laws being rejected. But there is that "not one jot or tittle" portion, and the position that the OT validates the claims made in the NT, so...not sure how they select what they will and will not follow. I think that's how absurdist things like voting on what is and what is not canon came about...

    I watch all of that with a bit of amusement, I must say, much like I watch right wing Americans claim they want this country to follow xtianity and the Constitution, when right off the bat, the First Amendment and first commandment are in obvious conflict with one another...the First Amendment clearly lays out a secular country and the first commandment demonstrates that the god of "the" bible is a jealous god that won't tolerate anything else but complete devotion. No real way to square that circle without changing this country to something other than its intent, which means they will not be following the Constitution...

  • How is woke a religion?

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  • True. I was raised in a religiously leftist household, and even as a child, when I first came across right wing xtians, I was legitimately confused by how they even exist. Our instruction was pointedly about reading the words of the character of Jesus (or for those too young to read, having it read to you) and boy is there a lot of stuff in there that I have no idea how the hard right xtians explain away.

    Of course, there are the later writings from someone who never even MET the character of Jesus, which seem to be more problematic. I think it was RAW that said the people that seem to want to follow Paul more so than Jesus should really be called "Paulian", not xtians.

    Of course, the OT and NT taken as a whole, and then trying to treat it as a cohesive message is a fool's errand and it quickly falls apart, but....

  • How is woke a religion?

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  • What are the set of beliefs (or lack thereof) that require someone advocate for any of these things, though? You are saying these individuals behaved/are behaving badly - okay, let's assume that is true. What about irreligion would lead to any of that?

    When you say they "militarize" rationalism, how have any of these people done that? All of them are still proponents of liberal democracies.

  • How is woke a religion?

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  • I'd like to understand what the definition of what "New Atheism" is. I know there have been a few tempest in a teapots over certain individuals [1] and their behavior; nothing about atheism - new or otherwise - seems to require them to behave like some individuals have, as far as I know. I also have no idea how this set of (non) beliefs would make them a hate group.

    [1] thunderf00t, for example. I also know plenty of people that go crazy over the mere mention of, say, Sam Harris, or Richard Dawkins, or Christopher Hitchens. Not sure if those guys are who we are talking about here.

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    Reading Glassdoor reviews without signing up?

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    Who are the next batch of "The Others"? (aka: Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Douglas Rushkoff, Kevin Kelly, Stewart Brand, Ivan Stang, etc.)

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    CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world

    Resurrecting High Weirdness on the Web? (StumbleUpon clones?)

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    CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world

    Resurrecting High Weirdness on the Web? (StumbleUpon clones?)

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    CharlesDarwin @lemmy.world

    Seeking sites like BoingBoing, Disinfo, DangerousMinds...