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Zaria Gorvett, writing for BBC:
In the middle of a Russian swampland, not far from the city of St Petersburg, is a rectangular iron gate. Beyond its rusted bars is a collection of radio towers, abandoned buildings and power lines bordered by a dry-stone wall. This sinister location is the focus of a mystery which stretches back to the height of the Cold War. It is thought to be the headquarters of a radio station, "MDZhB", that no-one has ever claimed to run.

>middle of Russian swampland
http://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/The_Buzzer_(ZhUOZ_MDZhB_UZB76)
"At least two transmitters exist for MDZhB. One is confirmed to be at 6018’40.1N 3016’40.5E where it sends radio relay and phone lines directly from Moscow via St. Petersburg’s command hub on Palace Square.
The other site is claimed to be located at Naro-Fominsk, Moscow district at 5525’35N 3642’33E where the 69th communications center is located, which serves as the main staff headquarters of the Western Military district in Moscow. "

I guess wooded areas with nearby lakes and that have modern 4 lane highways near towns and cities counts as "swampland" to the idiot BBC.

>rectangular iron gate. Beyond its rusted bars
It's not rusted. It is, however, rectangular. See for yourself.

>This sinister location
Yeah, its real sinister looking just a few yards off the A-121 highway. Just look at the street view of it in Google maps. Spoooooky.

Yeah, about your "obvious male", lookup Buck Angel some time.

Statistically, you or a close family member is more likely to touch your daughter than some stranger.

Two words you need to learn: statistical dispersion.

For the sake of argument let's take "manliness" and "womanliness" as givens, and not some kind of social construct. Not all men are equally manly; some are very manly and some are sissies. Likewise for women -- not all women are equally "womanly".

So you have two population bell-curves, and the curves overlap. That is to say some women are more manly than some men. Everybody knows this, and yet somehow they talk as if all men were identically masculine and all women were identically feminine.

What does this has to do with engineering? Not much. Different types of engineering have different requirements. Women as a population tend to have slightly better verbal reasoning skills and men as a population tend to have slightly better spatial reasoning. So you'd expect women to do better, say, as software engineers; and men to do better as mechanical engineers.

However the small population differences in ability are dwarfed by individual variability. There are men with extremely formidable verbal reasoning skills, and women with astonishing spatial reasoning skills. Case in point: when I was at MIT I knew a woman who got her PhD in EE and was the first person to figure out how to fold a stellated icosahedron in origami. I don't care if you are a man, even a manly man, it's a safe bet that her right brain could kick your right brain's ass.

And that's OK. It doesn't make you less of a man; it means you have to judge people as individuals.

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Now, back on topic...

Try owning linux some time and see if you can find the best of anything.

I wanted a program to do backups, and went to google to see if there was one or two favorites to choose from.

The first page of results lists "14 outstanding backup utilities for linux", "10 best linux backup solutions", "10 outstanding backup utilities", "34 best free linux backup" (wtf?), and "5 awesome open source backup software for linux".

None of these sites has the programs sorted in the same order, so... which one is the best? Which are the 3 most popular?

It's not clear that there can be "34 best" of anything, and once you get that far down the list it simply becomes "a list of all backup programs", with no realistic way to choose.

Next I'm going to implement a web page on a Raspberry pi - I'll start with a google search for "top open source web server". and see what's popular...

This, I refuse to subscribe to HBOGo, I happily pirate Game of Thrones.

Or you could buy it from the Play store for the perfectly reasonable price of 3 bucks per episode. I don't know if that link will work for you, but here in Europe that's the deal.

this isn't really hard. We elected somebody who's pro-business/anti-consumer. This is absolutely nothing we should have expected. Trump and his party have decades of this behavior. There's a joke about face eating leopards making the rounds that explains the phenomenon more humorously.

It doesn't actually give any sources related to the middle ages. The example it gives is of Charlemagne, who legislated for the education of all catechumenates, but this was about church doctrine, not necessarily reading. He did also found monastic schools, collect and copy manuscripts, and encouraged education amoung court and government officials. And the timeline of the paragraph is all over the place. "as light and leisure time and printed religious indoctrination spread" points to late reinsurance or early industrial, as does the bit after the Charlemagne reference. Anyways even though complete literacy was rare, there were women that influence the intellectual development of the period. https://books.google.com/books...

And FYI, gas stations are much more likely to be "shitholes" than superchargers. Here's a random list of supercharger photo pictures .. How much of a "shithole" do they look like to you?

The original point is that you suggested having lunch while your EV charged. Someone replied that he did not want to eat lunch at a shithole.

"Shithole" might be an exageration, but I don't want to eat lunch or hang around at either a gas station or an EV charging station (likely the same place anyway). Eateries at such places are the type of busy, noisy places I hate. I stop to eat at roadside inns which are likely never to have charging points, or just pull off the road miles from anywhere and eat my own sandwiches.

Like many who announce brave new ways of living, you assume that everyone else has a lifestyle similar to your own, and your Brave New World by amazing co-incidence happens to be pretty similar to the one you have around yourself already.

As much as I dislike the catastrophic environmental damage EV production causes

Out of curiosity, what do you mean?

Here's what production from a lithium salar looks like. Pump brine up from underneath, dry on the surface in controlled conditions to concentrate the salts of interest, send for further refining. Most of the salars flood annually and reclaim the (salt) drying ponds, meaning you have to rebuild them annually.

Do you mean energy? I'll refer you to this study, and in particular, graph 5a. Blue + red at the bottom are energy used to propel the vehicle. Green + purple + cyan is energy used to produce the vehicle, if battery packs are not in mass production (aka, no Gigafactory). Green + purple (no cyan) is the energy used to produce the vehicle with mass-produced batteries (aka, with Gigafactor(y,ies). Note the difference vs. gasoline. Is there something about this you find objectionable?

The study also focuses on recycling of li-ion batteries. Again, mass production is key. In small-scale production, batteries are manufacturing cost limited, and it's not worth the expense to recycle old batteries to recover materials vs. sourcing virgin materials. In mass production, however, costs are primarily dictated by raw material costs, and so recovery of raw materials (likewise en masse) becomes quite economical.

Is there some other aspect to EVs that concerns you? If it's copper, it's worth noting that regular vehicles contain huge amounts of copper in their overgrown wiring harnesses. The average car today has a 4km-long wiring harness. Tesla has put a huge amount of effort into reducing this. The Model S's harness is 3km; the Model 3's is 1,5km; and the Model Y is targeting a staggeringly low 100m.

It's certainly not the anodes - I presume. They're graphite/amorphous carbon and sometimes silicon. The electrolytes and membranes are basic petroleum products, and if there's anything an EV does, it's reduce petroleum consumption overall. Is it the cathodes that you object to? Tesla's are nickel cobalt aluminum oxide. Nickel and cobalt come from the same ores; cobalt is usually recovered as a side product, as nickel is more desirable. We use nickel en masse every day, in the form of stainless steel, where it makes up 1-4% of the mass (also many non-stainless steels). People who cook with stainless steel cookware usually consume about 80 micrograms of nickel per day because of this. It's found in many copper alloys in significant concentrations, it's used in high concentrations in heat-resistant alloys, such as inconel, which you can find in many gasoline-driven cars (usually higher-end ones). Cobalt is also used in high-performance alloys, although it's more commonly used in catalysts (including those used to make synfuels for cars). It's also used in car airbags. Regardless, nickel and cobalt are only a fraction of the cathode, which is in turn only a fraction of a battery. It's hard to say where Tesla's cobalt is actually from, because over the past several years it's been being stockpiled by hedge funds betting on a price rise. However, there are big producers of nickel/cobalt around the world. In North America one of the biggest is from the Canadian Sudbury deposit, which is one of the great success stories in environmental remediation - to the point that they decided to deliberately not remediate one patch of

90 minutes? What year is this, 2005? Supercharging is half an hour to 80%. And herp, derp, humans have to eat at some point.

And I love how much you're willing to damn an EV for even the slightest increase in long-distance trip time (most people taking 500 mile trips rather rarely), but are perfectly content to need to at random intervals in your normal everyday life have to divert from your schedule and go out of your way to a gas station, stand outside in whatever weather there is and pump gasoline (which gives off carcinogenic fumes) in a "shithole". And FYI, gas stations are much more likely to be "shitholes" than superchargers. Here's a random list of supercharger photo pictures (flickr, so it should be by and large just random people's snapshots). How much of a "shithole" do they look like to you?

Very low degradation even under extreme conditions

Great for you, but it's a well known problem that many people have experienced. There's a reason that pretty much everyone else is climate controlling their packs. Tesla degradation isn't anywhere nearly so fast (click "charts")

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I wonder how this compares to Google's approach to speeding up ML, the Tensor Processing Unit, and whether the ideas can be combined for even faster learning.

like I have been working towards?
http://web.archive.org/web/201...
"I feel open source tools for collaborative structured arguments, multiple perspective analysis, agent-based simulation, and so on, used together for making sense of what is going on in the world, are important to our democracy, security, and prosperity. Imagine if, instead of blog posts and comments on topics, we had searchable structured arguments about simulations and their results all with assumptions defined from different perspectives, where one could see at a glance how different subsets of the community felt about the progress or completeness of different arguments or action plans (somewhat like a debate flow diagram), where even a year of two later one could go back to an existing debate and expand on it with new ideas. As good as, say, Slashdot is, such a comprehensive open source sensemaking system would be to Slashdot as Slashdot is to a static webpage. It might help prevent so much rehashing the same old arguments because one could easily find and build on previous ones. ..."

My latest efforts along that line: https://github.com/pdfernhout/...

And I put together ideas here like using IBIS:
https://github.com/pdfernhout/...

Of course, there seems to be so much age discrimination at Google (including against people who can't easily relocate), not much point in me applying there in my 50s:
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Of course, older software developers with families and community roots might help provide a moral conscience to the organization as well as provide examples to others about work/life balance -- which might be bad for Google's short-term bottom line...

Although such older people (of all genders) also might have helped Google think through better ways to do hiring long ago.

Also, I've made some previous comments I made about Google in 2008 that might be problematical in getting me hired there: :-)
http://www.pdfernhout.net/a-ra...
"So what is Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California but a little temporary space habitat bubble of happiness for regular employees, but floating on a sea of relative misery for everyone else planetwide who supports it? Can't we as a society or Google/Virgle as an aspiration do better that that? And even within that bubble are emerging issues. How long can a company expect to run on twenty-somethings without kids?
Google-ites and other financially obese people IMHO need to take a good look at the junk food capitalist propaganda they are eating and serving up to others, as in saying (even in jest): http://www.google.com/virgle/o... "we should profit from others' use of our innovations, and we should buy or lease others' intellectual property whenever it advances our own goals" -- even while running one of the biggest post-scarcity enterprises on Earth based on free-as-in-freedom software. :-(
Until then, it is up to us other "semi-evil ... quasi-evil ... not evil enough" hobbyists with smaller budgets to save the Asteroids and the Planets (including Earth) http://www.openvirgle.net/
from financially obese people and their unexamined

Cept that it went up between 3 Aug and 7 Aug?

https://www.google.com/finance...

Opps!

Consider yourself informed.

>I almost never use GPS on my phone because I have very little data plan

Google maps lets you offline a section of a map, great if you don't have coverage.

google howto @ Download areas and navigate offline

It's almost as if nobody actually has any logical, reasoned response to his critique...

Because it's simply earlier to ignore everything that came before his critique in a "last words win" mode of analysis?

It's not as if nobody has addressed this before.

There. You have a logical, reasoned response to his critique. Game on.

If you have a look at Google Trends https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=fake%20news, you'll see that you've been living in a cave.

Or you're being intentionally obtuse.

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A firewall app will block this kind of thing. For example: https://play.google.com/store/...

Protect yourself vs. WanaCry easily

From MS - SMB Ports 445/139 (TCP) & 137/138 (UDP) protection via regedit.exe:

Disable SMBv1 on the SERVER, configure the following registry key:

Registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters Registry entry: SMB1

REG_DWORD: 0 = Disabled
REG_DWORD: 1 = Enabled

Default: 1 = Enabled

Enable SMBv2 on the SERVER, configure the following registry key:

Registry subkey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters Registry entry: SMB2

REG_DWORD: 0 = Disabled
REG_DWORD: 1 = Enabled

Default: 1 = Enabled

---

Disable SMBv1 on the CLIENT, run the following commands:

sc.exe config lanmanworkstation depend= bowser/mrxsmb20/nsi

sc.exe config mrxsmb10 start= disabled

Enable SMBv2 & SMBv3 on the CLIENT, run the following commands:

sc.exe config lanmanworkstation depend= bowser/mrxsmb10/mrxsmb20/nsi

sc.exe config mrxsmb20 start= auto

---

* The above is per https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2696547/how-to-enable-and-disable-smbv1,-smbv2,-and-smbv3-in-windows-vista,-windows-server-2008,-windows-7,-windows-server-2008-r2,-windows-8,-and-windows-server-2012/

(THIS HAS BEEN PATCHED but you can protect this way too & it works...)

Not sure if this works in a "mixed-mode" network though (check MS link) using older Windows (e.g. XP/2000 etc.).

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P.S.=> For a SINGLE 'standalone' non-networked PC (no home network/LAN but TCP/IP connected online) turn off Server & Workstation services.

That shuts off any "handles" (port 445) this thing propogates thru + turn off NetBIOS over TCP/IP in your internet connection & uncheck/disable Client for Microsoft Networks + File and Print Sharing. Port 139 & 445 always pop up issues over time. It also makes your packet trains smaller (no encapsulation of LanMan)

I covered all this 11++ yrs. ago in a security guide I wrote for users with a single system & apparently, its advice STILL STANDS THE "TEST OF TIME" https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/ vs. even today's threats like this one.

* This effectively makes this threat a non-issue + saves you CPU cycles/RAM & other I/O wasted on services you don't NEED as a single PC user only... & you don't. They're just wastes with a single PC really. Many services are (covered in guide above based on CIS Tool guidance (who took fixes to their ware from "yours truly" too, no less)) & again, no more encapsulated packet bulk... apk

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I could easily be wrong, but looking up google voice 'free number' seems to imply you need the phone number from a 3rd party to get incoming calls.
If thats' the case, doesn't work.

https://support.google.com/voi...

Need, like skype a stand alone real phone number to receive calls from the outside work(skype-in), then the outgoing calls.

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* Via what u NATIVELY have in the FASTER kernelmode IP stack!

APK

P.S. - Safe https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e01211ca36aa02e923f20adee0a3c4f5d5187dc65bdf1c997b3da3c2b0745425/analysis/1433430542/

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Ads/script & malware rob speed/security/privacy

Hosts add speed (via hardcodes/adblocks), security (vs. bad sites/malware/poisoned dns), reliability (vs. dns down), & anonymity (vs. dns requestlogs/trackers).

Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus + less security bugs/complexity & faster vs. addons/routers/remote dns!

Avoids DNSChangers in routers/IP settings & dns redirects (99.999% of ISP DNS != patched vs. it) + lightens DNS load & resolves faster from local system RAM!

* Via what u NATIVELY have in the FASTER kernelmode IP stack!

APK

P.S. - Safe https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e01211ca36aa02e923f20adee0a3c4f5d5187dc65bdf1c997b3da3c2b0745425/analysis/1433430542/

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Ads/script & malware rob speed/security/privacy

Hosts add speed (via hardcodes/adblocks), security (vs. bad sites/malware/poisoned dns), reliability (vs. dns down), & anonymity (vs. dns requestlogs/trackers).

Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus + less security bugs/complexity & faster vs. addons/routers/remote dns!

Avoids DNSChangers in routers/IP settings & dns redirects (99.999% of ISP DNS != patched vs. it) + lightens DNS load & resolves faster from local system RAM!

* Via what u NATIVELY have in the FASTER kernelmode IP stack!

APK

P.S. - Safe https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e01211ca36aa02e923f20adee0a3c4f5d5187dc65bdf1c997b3da3c2b0745425/analysis/1433430542/

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Ads/script & malware rob speed/security/privacy

Hosts add speed (via hardcodes/adblocks), security (vs. bad sites/malware/poisoned dns), reliability (vs. dns down), & anonymity (vs. dns requestlogs/trackers).

Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus + less security bugs/complexity & faster vs. addons/routers/remote dns!

Avoids DNSChangers in routers/IP settings & dns redirects (99.999% of ISP DNS != patched vs. it) + lightens DNS load & resolves faster from local system RAM!

* Via what u NATIVELY have in the FASTER kernelmode IP stack!

APK

P.S. - Safe https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e01211ca36aa02e923f20adee0a3c4f5d5187dc65bdf1c997b3da3c2b0745425/analysis/1433430542/

Every study I've ever read says

And in what journal were those zero studies published? Because I've read plenty of actual, peer-reviewed studies, which say exactly the opposite. Which should be patently obvious to anyone who takes half a second to think about it. A typical gasoline car burns its weight in gasoline every year, up in smoke. And the mass of a car gets largely recycled at end-of-life. The more valuable the material in a car, the more likely it is to be recycled.

Oh, and as for the whole "rare earths" canard? Teslas, for example, don't use rare earths. Neither in the batteries nor in the motors. They use AC induction motors - that is, aluminum and copper. The battery cell cathodes are varying combination of nickel, cobalt, aluminum and oxygen; the anodes carbon with optional silicon; there's thin separator membranes and organic electrolytes; and of course, lithium which intercalates in the anode and cathode, of which most is mined in the least environmentally destructive manner imaginable (from drying salar brine - even more to the point, many of the salars flood annually and reclaim the drying ponds every year).

More to the point... nor are rare earths actually rare. Want to know something that's actually rare? Precious metals in your catalytic converter and spark plugs. They don't use much, of course - but they're mined from ores in ppb quantities, so you have to move a lot of ore to get those small quantities.

Oh, and by the way, if you want to raise an issue of copper usage (you can also use aluminum, but we'll ignore that)... ironically Tesla's vehicles may be using less copper than gasoline vehicles. One thing Tesla has been very aggressive about is reducing the wiring harness, which has grown into huge, heavy complicated mass on conventional vehicles. The Model S's was 3km (the average car today is 4km). The Model 3's wiring harness is 1,5km. And they're looking to get the Model Y down to a tiny 100m, and raise the voltage, which means less copper. The thing will weigh almost nothing.

See subject & NT based OS' "NSAKey" https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=NSAKey&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/

* :)

(Sarcasm... or, is it?)

APK

P.S.=> In any event (despite my "flippant post")? This is disgusting & wrong of the NSA to do imo - they're supposed to PROTECT US, not abuse us (OR our companies)... apk

I take it you've never owned a real outdoor watch, or, say, a mechanical watch with stopwatch function

I have owned all of those, they were also too large. In particular I had a Garmin GPS/altimeter watch ages ago, it was nice but did I wear it when not hiking? No. It was not practical for general use.

When I was a kid I had of course along with everyone else the Casio calculator watch, which was also in retrospect absurdly large.

Simply put MOST PEOPLE DO NOT WEAR SUCH LARGE WATCHES. Further re-enforcing my point that watches of that size are not acceptable to most people, which is why Apple does not produce a watch meant to be a general-purpose instrument widely used, in a size that would preclude either being true.

The Apple Watch is vastly better at being a hiking watch than any Garmin device I have seen in the past or present. But then what do you expect with a general purpose computing device and a nice screen matched against older purpose-built technology?

Whatever you say Jessie Venutura.

By way of reference, I consider the smaller Apple Watch to be overly large for a watch but I still wear it because I enjoy the feature set. Anything larger is pure Mayor Of Geekville.

(*) Whether the Republicans are also corrupt, or have a different level of corruption, is still an open question.

Whether the Republicans are also corrupt is only a question an idiot would have to ask at this point. If they have a different level of corruption, it is not apparently significantly different, so that question is not already answered, merely irrelevant.

Your first response is to name calling.

It's interesting, because I've always held that the Republicans were cold, selfish Scrooge-like people who don't care about others.

Coming through the election, I've just now realized how poorly based that opinion is. When I mentally gauge the amount of hate and loathing from the left to come up with a "compensation" metric, and if I apply this metric to some of the widely-held beliefs that I've been told over the years, many of them evaporate.

Republicans are more charitable than Democrats, for instance.

Apply your own metric to well-known memes about the Republican party, and what do you come up with?

And then look up some actual statistics. You may be surprised at the results.

Was the first website I saw taken down of many in the future. A malware data base, taken down as it could harm other sites. https://www.google.com/search?...

Also... "Coffee Lake"? What were they drinking when they came up with... oh. Right.

On the lake?

Interesting they seemed to pick a name corresponding to a dried up barren lake bed... Maybe there's probably some sort of subtle subconscious thing going on there...

China did this long ago - anyone recall the "Chinese Water Army" https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=%22Chinese+Water+Army%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1/ ?

* Straight outta the "George Soros playbook" (lol!).

APK

P.S.=> So, in other words, they're up to their SAME OLD TRICKS... apk

And why even mention Google?! What VR headset do they offer for sale?

https://vr.google.com/daydream...

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Ads/script & malware rob speed/security/privacy

Hosts add speed (via hardcodes/adblocks), security (vs. bad sites/malware/poisoned dns), reliability (vs. dns down), & anonymity (vs. dns requestlogs/trackers).

Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus + less security bugs/complexity & faster vs. addons/routers/remote dns!

Avoids DNSChangers in routers/IP settings & dns redirects (99.999% of ISP DNS != patched vs. it) + lightens DNS load & resolves faster from local system RAM!

* Via what u NATIVELY have in the FASTER kernelmode IP stack!

APK

P.S. - Safe https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e01211ca36aa02e923f20adee0a3c4f5d5187dc65bdf1c997b3da3c2b0745425/analysis/1433430542/

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Ads/script & malware rob speed/security/privacy

Hosts add speed (via hardcodes/adblocks), security (vs. bad sites/malware/poisoned dns), reliability (vs. dns down), & anonymity (vs. dns requestlogs/trackers).

Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus + less security bugs/complexity & faster vs. addons/routers/remote dns!

Avoids DNSChangers in routers/IP settings & dns redirects (99.999% of ISP DNS != patched vs. it) + lightens DNS load & resolves faster from local system RAM!

* Via what u NATIVELY have in the FASTER kernelmode IP stack!

APK

P.S. - Safe https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e01211ca36aa02e923f20adee0a3c4f5d5187dc65bdf1c997b3da3c2b0745425/analysis/1433430542/

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Ads/script & malware rob speed/security/privacy

Hosts add speed (via hardcodes/adblocks), security (vs. bad sites/malware/poisoned dns), reliability (vs. dns down), & anonymity (vs. dns requestlogs/trackers).

Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus + less security bugs/complexity & faster vs. addons/routers/remote dns!

Avoids DNSChangers in routers/IP settings & dns redirects (99.999% of ISP DNS != patched vs. it) + lightens DNS load & resolves faster from local system RAM!

* Via what u NATIVELY have in the FASTER kernelmode IP stack!

APK

P.S. - Safe https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/e01211ca36aa02e923f20adee0a3c4f5d5187dc65bdf1c997b3da3c2b0745425/analysis/1433430542/

I would prefer the ability to pick and choose embedded objects from specific sites. i.e don't embed youtube links.

chrome disable html5 autoplay

I have stopped going to CNN because of how shitty their site is. It's been a shitshow for a long time, but the auto-pay videos and related scrolling issues were the absolute last straw.
 
  Disable HTML5 Autoplay extension.
 
It's a little quirky and sometimes requires you to hit play twice or advance the time 1 second to make a video start, but I much prefer that to autoplay. (The advance 1s quirk may also be related to my adblocking - quite possible it's waiting for an ad to load which never will.) Works on most websites.