As someone who has been using squid to block ads and other annoyances since at least 1996 or 1997 (i.e. since animated gif ads became commonplace) I have to say that squid is no longer of much (if any) use in blocking ads.
That capability was a casualty of https everywhere - generally a good thing but with some unfortunate collateral damage.
With https, squid only sees a single CONNECT, it doesn't see individual URLs or requests, so is unable to filter any of them.
I rely mostly on uMatrix and uBlock these days....and spend far too much time fucking around with Stylus (which is useful not only for making sites readable by undoing cretinous web-designer abominations but also to, e.g., force "display: none !important;" on all sports and celebrity crap on newspaper web sites) and Tampermonkey
> Isn't it safer to carry your phone, protected by a password or biometrics
No.
Phones are not secure, especially not when someone has physical access to the device. and biometrics would be a laughable joke, security-wise, if they weren't a method for corporations to gather finger-print, retina, etc data from their customers. Ooops, did I say "customers"? I meant "their products".
> than a wallet which contains payment cards that only need to be touched to a reader to spend your money? Or actual cash?
I leave all but one card at home when I don't need them, and have physically destroyed the RFID antenna in my cards with a hole-punch.
I also live in a country with the remnants(*) of a decent welfare system with government old-age, disability, single-parent etc pensions, and unemployment benefits - which means nobody's starving or desperate for money or bankrupted by medical expenses, so mugging is extremely rare.
Paid for from taxes, of course, but a) welfare is a fuck of a lot cheaper than even the cost of prisons, let alone the direct and indirect costs of petty crime and b) citizens here expect government to provide services that benefit the public in exchange for tax money, rather than just give it to corporations.
I'm also 6'5" and solidly built, and guns are both strictly regulated and extremely rare (and only an extremely tiny percentage of the population have caught american gun-nut disease) so I have few concerns for my physical safety.
(*) it has survived decades of on-going attacks by neo-liberals because it would be political suicide for any political party to directly attack it. So they can only whittle it away slowly.
> Got news for ya', Sunshine: your bank pimps out your data too.
Well, duh! WTF do you think I don't give my bank any more information than is absolutely necessary? e,g, I haven't (and won't) give them my phone number, or my email address (and if that ever becomes necessary, I'll make one just for them so I'll know if they abuse it).
(and I've got so sick and tired of online stores routinely abusing the email addresses I give them to spam me - either directly or by selling my email - that I rarely buy anything online any more. I permanently boycott spammers, and my personal boycott list has grown so large it's getting difficult to remember)
I do, however, live in a country where banks are regulated and where it's illegal for retailers to collect or share data on customer purchases without their explicit consent. They're not allowed to capture or store line-item data from EFTPOS transactions in any manner that can identify individual customers - this is why customer "loyalty" cards are pushed so heavily, the fine-print of loyalty-card T&Cs grant that consent.
phone-based transactions are another end-run around those privacy laws, partly because it's a grey-area whether they're covered by the same laws and, if so, to what extent. And partly because google, apple, etc are scofflaws who ignore or bypass laws and regulations whenever they can.
> This is the main reason we need Bitcoin/cryptocurrency -- privacy.
fuck no! bitcoin isn't private, it isn't anonymous, and it's not even a fucking currency. and the per-transaction costs are obscene.
bitcoin and other crypto-"currencies" are a combination of techno-libertarian gold-bug fetishism and basement-dwelling grifter fantasy of running scams just like the big boys on Wall St.
I pay cash for almost everything and I don't give a fuck if you personally believe Apple Pay is more secure or more private because:
0. you're a fucking idiot. This is proven beyond any doubt by your faith in Apple Pay's "security" and "privacy".
1. I'm never going to own an Apple spy-phone.
I won't even use an Android phone or tablet unless it's been wiped and re-flashed with an AOSP-based ROM that uses micro-G and no-gapps instead of google spyware....and even then, I'll never use it with or for anything sensitive or confidential (or allow it to have access to sensitive or confidential data - e.g. i'll ssh IN to my phone but never OUT from it because even after all the steps I take to improve its security, I *still* don't trust it enough to trust a key generated or stored on it).
2. Apple are spying cunts. Just like Visa. and Mastercard. and Google. And Facebook. and all the other corporate cunts.
3. Apple & Visa & Mastercard & banks all aggregate the data - are you really stupid enough to think they act independently of each other and don't share data? That they aren't just different tentacles of the same finance industry cunts?
I'm in.au too and I don't use any phone-based payment. WON'T use them.
Only a complete fucking moron thinks it's OK to let a device as easily hacked, infected with malware from the appstore, and/or stolen as a mobile phone to have access to their bank accounts.
Only a fucking cretin thinks it's a good idea to let Google or Apple or Samsung, etc have access to your bank account or credit card.
BTW, they're not free. You're paying with your privacy and anonymity. You're paying with reduced security and increased hassle. You're paying with the risk of fraud and theft being forced onto you rather than the financial institution. You're paying with the difficulty of spotting fraudulent transactions (with business names on the line-items that have little or no relationship to the name of any shop you buy stuff in) buried amongst hundreds of other small transaction.
I also refuse to use the paypass/paywave/RFID anti-feature of any debit or credit card as a matter of principle because not only did my bank refuse to give me a card without it (and refuse to change the unauthorised transaction limit from $100 to $0 or anything else), not one bank in the fucking country offers it - apparently both Mastercard and Visa require it.
Fuck the so-called "convenience" - entering a PIN when buying something isn't even slightly difficult and is essential for security if my card ever gets lost or stolen (and fuck the bank's promise to pay back any theft - I might end up getting most or even all of my money back but they won't compensate for the months of arguing with the bank before that happens).
And there's no fucking way I'm installing any app from any corporation on my phone - certainly not an app from my bank who has no need or right to spy on me 24/7. I won't even give them my phone number (I don't give out my phone number to ANY company unless it's absolutely unavoidable and *I* both see a need for it AND decide it's worth the risk. I get very little SMS spam. These facts are not unrelated.)
"chip and PIN" cards are OK. not perfect, there's room for improvement, but they at least have the essential feature of **requiring** the user to authorise every transaction before it takes place.
Looking back, my impression is that I really ticked them off when I quit after one of the owners had yelled and thrown stuff at me in a private office so, not having any other job lined up I formally quit by the end of the day. Yes, it was that bad and I didn't feel physically safe working there anymore. I suspect, though I don't know, that the lawsuit was more about harassment than any hope of collecting a penny from me.
If you're white and respectably middle-class, you could have called the police and insisted that they arrest the owner for assault and battery. And you should waited for them to fire you in retaliation rather than making it easy for them by quitting.
Having a dated police record of the incident on file could have helped your later case. It might even have resulted in them offering compensation to get you to drop the charges.
Of course, if you're not both white & middle-class, trying that is likely to result in you being arrested or even shot by the cops. There's a small chance that would happen anyway even if you're white: rich white guy privilege is stronger than poor white guy privilege.
the same losers using the same fascist tactics. incels are part of the same manufactured mob too.
the vast majority of them are complete fucking losers manipulated by actual nazis for political purposes. and they don't even bother trying to hide the similarities and connections between the different loser groups being manipulated.
npm is especially bad, but ruby and python aren't much better - they all encourage the use of brawndo-installer ("curl $URL | sudo bash" - it's got what programmers crave) to install libs and other software.
You do realise that crypto-"currencies" are the ultimate in fiat currency, right? created from nothing, worth nothing, and not even useful as any kind of currency.
only moron gold-bugs use the term "fiat currency" in any non-sarcastic or non-ironic way.
From the Book of Cryptogenesis:
And on the seventh day Our Lord Satoshi finished his labours and said "fiat pecunia!" And lo, there was finance industry jizz all over the waters.
Except those who have been paying their life-insurance premiums for 30 years and are forced onto these "New & Improved" spyware policies which immediately classify them as a high risk and void their policy.
Which is probably EXACTLY what this change is designed to do - dump all the boomers who have been dumb enough to pay for life insurance for decades now that they're getting to the age where 90% of them will be dead within 10 years.
That's an extremely bad example you've used there - devos was given that job so that she could destroy public education, to remove it as an alternative to corporate and religious charter schools.
Corruption is not the definition of democracy, it is the bane of it.
BTW, you missed the previous poster's point. which was not that philanthropy is inherently bad (although it often is - whether it's a self-serving sham for tax-dodge purposes, or to dress up religious or corporate indoctrination as some kind of selfless educational cause).
No, the point was that the NEED for philanthropy is the problem. That poverty and lack of resources and lack of opportunity are the problem. This is especially true when we don't live in a world that is even remotely poor, this modern world has an enormous abundance - a massive excess - of food and resources and wealth...the problem is that almost all of it is "owned" and/or controlled by a tiny handful of people. If the resources of society were used to benefit the people rather than just further enrich those who are already rich, then philanthropy would be irrelevant.
Do they provide complete source code, including any required compilation scripts and data that can be used to build this exact binary image that they're distributing?
Because that's what the GPL **requires** them to do.
What does Windows 8.1 actually give you that's worth keeping? That's worth the risk of making your VMs vulnerable to viruses, spyware, and other malware running on the host OS?
BTW, if you want a GUI to create & manage VMs, you can use libvirt's virt-manager.
2. "Union" doesn't necessarily mean "left wing". There's lots of right-wing unions, including cops & building industry & miners & transport workers. and, yes, prison guards.
Prison guard unions are not, by any stretch of the imagination, "left wing". Prison guards, like cops, tend to be right-wing authoritarian thugs. They're often wanna-be cops with some serious psychological or violent flaw that even cop recruiters can't overlook.
I used extremely cheap (IIRC they were under $20 for ~5 meter panels) wire & brushwood fencing to cover my cyclone-wire back fence. This is not the high-quality stuff used by professional fence builders, it was the cheap crap available at discount hardware stores. Just tie it onto the cyclone fence with some fencing wire.
Dunno if they have this in the US but it's not uncommon in AU - here it's made from Ti Tree varieties (Melaleuca sp.), the same species that Ti Tree oil comes from. an extremely fast growing scrubby bush. I expect they'd use different species in other countries because it would be an environmental crime to introduce such a fast growing invasive weed to other countries.
Anyway, I knew it was cheap shit and would only last a few years but that's all it had to last for in order to provide shade and shelter from the hot & dry north wind for some creeping roses to establish themselves.
Any creeping or vine plant would do. jasmine, honeysuckle, passionfruit, whatever.
For example, the morning glory that came and completely took over the back fence, killing most of the roses. but now i have a back fence that's completely covered in morning glory with occasional roses popping out.
Yes. Steam can run in "offline" mode. Also, many (most?) games on steam can be run directly, without using the steam client as a launcher.
If steam went out of business, the only games that would stop working would be the ones that had 3rd-party "always-online" DRM (like some of the rockstar and ea games) - not steam, 3rd-party shit.
You'd probably also lose any saved games in the steam cloud, but you can disable that and store saved games locally.
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Soylent Corporation is always "hiring".
As someone who has been using squid to block ads and other annoyances since at least 1996 or 1997 (i.e. since animated gif ads became commonplace) I have to say that squid is no longer of much (if any) use in blocking ads.
That capability was a casualty of https everywhere - generally a good thing but with some unfortunate collateral damage.
With https, squid only sees a single CONNECT, it doesn't see individual URLs or requests, so is unable to filter any of them.
I rely mostly on uMatrix and uBlock these days....and spend far too much time fucking around with Stylus (which is useful not only for making sites readable by undoing cretinous web-designer abominations but also to, e.g., force "display: none !important;" on all sports and celebrity crap on newspaper web sites) and Tampermonkey
> Isn't it safer to carry your phone, protected by a password or biometrics
No.
Phones are not secure, especially not when someone has physical access to the device. and biometrics would be a laughable joke, security-wise, if they weren't a method for corporations to gather finger-print, retina, etc data from their customers. Ooops, did I say "customers"? I meant "their products".
> than a wallet which contains payment cards that only need to be touched to a reader to spend your money? Or actual cash?
I leave all but one card at home when I don't need them, and have physically destroyed the RFID antenna in my cards with a hole-punch.
I also live in a country with the remnants(*) of a decent welfare system with government old-age, disability, single-parent etc pensions, and unemployment benefits - which means nobody's starving or desperate for money or bankrupted by medical expenses, so mugging is extremely rare.
Paid for from taxes, of course, but a) welfare is a fuck of a lot cheaper than even the cost of prisons, let alone the direct and indirect costs of petty crime and b) citizens here expect government to provide services that benefit the public in exchange for tax money, rather than just give it to corporations.
I'm also 6'5" and solidly built, and guns are both strictly regulated and extremely rare (and only an extremely tiny percentage of the population have caught american gun-nut disease) so I have few concerns for my physical safety.
(*) it has survived decades of on-going attacks by neo-liberals because it would be political suicide for any political party to directly attack it. So they can only whittle it away slowly.
> Got news for ya', Sunshine: your bank pimps out your data too.
Well, duh! WTF do you think I don't give my bank any more information than is absolutely necessary? e,g, I haven't (and won't) give them my phone number, or my email address (and if that ever becomes necessary, I'll make one just for them so I'll know if they abuse it).
(and I've got so sick and tired of online stores routinely abusing the email addresses I give them to spam me - either directly or by selling my email - that I rarely buy anything online any more. I permanently boycott spammers, and my personal boycott list has grown so large it's getting difficult to remember)
I do, however, live in a country where banks are regulated and where it's illegal for retailers to collect or share data on customer purchases without their explicit consent. They're not allowed to capture or store line-item data from EFTPOS transactions in any manner that can identify individual customers - this is why customer "loyalty" cards are pushed so heavily, the fine-print of loyalty-card T&Cs grant that consent.
phone-based transactions are another end-run around those privacy laws, partly because it's a grey-area whether they're covered by the same laws and, if so, to what extent. And partly because google, apple, etc are scofflaws who ignore or bypass laws and regulations whenever they can.
> This is the main reason we need Bitcoin/cryptocurrency -- privacy.
fuck no! bitcoin isn't private, it isn't anonymous, and it's not even a fucking currency. and the per-transaction costs are obscene.
bitcoin and other crypto-"currencies" are a combination of techno-libertarian gold-bug fetishism and basement-dwelling grifter fantasy of running scams just like the big boys on Wall St.
in short: bitcoin is for retards.
don't worry, the fish can just buy ear-muffs.
I pay cash for almost everything and I don't give a fuck if you personally believe Apple Pay is more secure or more private because:
0. you're a fucking idiot. This is proven beyond any doubt by your faith in Apple Pay's "security" and "privacy".
1. I'm never going to own an Apple spy-phone.
I won't even use an Android phone or tablet unless it's been wiped and re-flashed with an AOSP-based ROM that uses micro-G and no-gapps instead of google spyware....and even then, I'll never use it with or for anything sensitive or confidential (or allow it to have access to sensitive or confidential data - e.g. i'll ssh IN to my phone but never OUT from it because even after all the steps I take to improve its security, I *still* don't trust it enough to trust a key generated or stored on it).
2. Apple are spying cunts. Just like Visa. and Mastercard. and Google. And Facebook. and all the other corporate cunts.
3. Apple & Visa & Mastercard & banks all aggregate the data - are you really stupid enough to think they act independently of each other and don't share data? That they aren't just different tentacles of the same finance industry cunts?
I'm in .au too and I don't use any phone-based payment. WON'T use them.
Only a complete fucking moron thinks it's OK to let a device as easily hacked, infected with malware from the appstore, and/or stolen as a mobile phone to have access to their bank accounts.
Only a fucking cretin thinks it's a good idea to let Google or Apple or Samsung, etc have access to your bank account or credit card.
BTW, they're not free. You're paying with your privacy and anonymity. You're paying with reduced security and increased hassle. You're paying with the risk of fraud and theft being forced onto you rather than the financial institution. You're paying with the difficulty of spotting fraudulent transactions (with business names on the line-items that have little or no relationship to the name of any shop you buy stuff in) buried amongst hundreds of other small transaction.
I also refuse to use the paypass/paywave/RFID anti-feature of any debit or credit card as a matter of principle because not only did my bank refuse to give me a card without it (and refuse to change the unauthorised transaction limit from $100 to $0 or anything else), not one bank in the fucking country offers it - apparently both Mastercard and Visa require it.
Fuck the so-called "convenience" - entering a PIN when buying something isn't even slightly difficult and is essential for security if my card ever gets lost or stolen (and fuck the bank's promise to pay back any theft - I might end up getting most or even all of my money back but they won't compensate for the months of arguing with the bank before that happens).
And there's no fucking way I'm installing any app from any corporation on my phone - certainly not an app from my bank who has no need or right to spy on me 24/7. I won't even give them my phone number (I don't give out my phone number to ANY company unless it's absolutely unavoidable and *I* both see a need for it AND decide it's worth the risk. I get very little SMS spam. These facts are not unrelated.)
"chip and PIN" cards are OK. not perfect, there's room for improvement, but they at least have the essential feature of **requiring** the user to authorise every transaction before it takes place.
None of them are good for YOU.
They're just another tool to turn you and your life into saleable product, and to skim a percentage from every single thing you buy.
Now that that question has been answered, we can move onto something far more useful and interesting:
Every employer has given free cyanide candy to every employee over 50. Which flavour is best for you, and which colour is prettiest?
If you're white and respectably middle-class, you could have called the police and insisted that they arrest the owner for assault and battery. And you should waited for them to fire you in retaliation rather than making it easy for them by quitting.
Having a dated police record of the incident on file could have helped your later case. It might even have resulted in them offering compensation to get you to drop the charges.
Of course, if you're not both white & middle-class, trying that is likely to result in you being arrested or even shot by the cops. There's a small chance that would happen anyway even if you're white: rich white guy privilege is stronger than poor white guy privilege.
the same losers using the same fascist tactics. incels are part of the same manufactured mob too.
the vast majority of them are complete fucking losers manipulated by actual nazis for political purposes. and they don't even bother trying to hide the similarities and connections between the different loser groups being manipulated.
in fact there are a lot of potential negatives for the end-user, including:
* insecurity by obscurity
* fragmentation and incompatibility - i.e. vendor lock-in
* customised back doors
these problems would be mitigated if the license required sharing via a GPL-like license (GPL v3, to prevent the patent loophole)
npm is especially bad, but ruby and python aren't much better - they all encourage the use of brawndo-installer ("curl $URL | sudo bash" - it's got what programmers crave) to install libs and other software.
"Spybike" and "Everdebt".
This is called the "Run our spyware or fuck off" policy.
You do realise that crypto-"currencies" are the ultimate in fiat currency, right? created from nothing, worth nothing, and not even useful as any kind of currency.
only moron gold-bugs use the term "fiat currency" in any non-sarcastic or non-ironic way.
From the Book of Cryptogenesis:
So what you're saying is that bitcoin is good for fuckwits who think that gambling isn't a cretinous fucking thing to do?
That's pretty much what I thought about bitcoin anyway.
> In Australia the Insurance companies have a new trick: Deny payouts at all costs. Make stuff up, blame the user, twist the law.
Why do you think this is a new trick? This isn't new in Australia or anywhere else.
life insurance is a scam. always has been, always will be.
> In theory, everybody wins,
Except those who have been paying their life-insurance premiums for 30 years and are forced onto these "New & Improved" spyware policies which immediately classify them as a high risk and void their policy.
Which is probably EXACTLY what this change is designed to do - dump all the boomers who have been dumb enough to pay for life insurance for decades now that they're getting to the age where 90% of them will be dead within 10 years.
That's an extremely bad example you've used there - devos was given that job so that she could destroy public education, to remove it as an alternative to corporate and religious charter schools.
Corruption is not the definition of democracy, it is the bane of it.
BTW, you missed the previous poster's point. which was not that philanthropy is inherently bad (although it often is - whether it's a self-serving sham for tax-dodge purposes, or to dress up religious or corporate indoctrination as some kind of selfless educational cause).
No, the point was that the NEED for philanthropy is the problem. That poverty and lack of resources and lack of opportunity are the problem. This is especially true when we don't live in a world that is even remotely poor, this modern world has an enormous abundance - a massive excess - of food and resources and wealth...the problem is that almost all of it is "owned" and/or controlled by a tiny handful of people. If the resources of society were used to benefit the people rather than just further enrich those who are already rich, then philanthropy would be irrelevant.
Do they provide complete source code, including any required compilation scripts and data that can be used to build this exact binary image that they're distributing?
Because that's what the GPL **requires** them to do.
Why wait?
What does Windows 8.1 actually give you that's worth keeping? That's worth the risk of making your VMs vulnerable to viruses, spyware, and other malware running on the host OS?
BTW, if you want a GUI to create & manage VMs, you can use libvirt's virt-manager.
1. [citation needed]
2. "Union" doesn't necessarily mean "left wing". There's lots of right-wing unions, including cops & building industry & miners & transport workers. and, yes, prison guards.
Prison guard unions are not, by any stretch of the imagination, "left wing". Prison guards, like cops, tend to be right-wing authoritarian thugs. They're often wanna-be cops with some serious psychological or violent flaw that even cop recruiters can't overlook.
I used extremely cheap (IIRC they were under $20 for ~5 meter panels) wire & brushwood fencing to cover my cyclone-wire back fence. This is not the high-quality stuff used by professional fence builders, it was the cheap crap available at discount hardware stores. Just tie it onto the cyclone fence with some fencing wire.
Dunno if they have this in the US but it's not uncommon in AU - here it's made from Ti Tree varieties (Melaleuca sp.), the same species that Ti Tree oil comes from. an extremely fast growing scrubby bush. I expect they'd use different species in other countries because it would be an environmental crime to introduce such a fast growing invasive weed to other countries.
Anyway, I knew it was cheap shit and would only last a few years but that's all it had to last for in order to provide shade and shelter from the hot & dry north wind for some creeping roses to establish themselves.
Any creeping or vine plant would do. jasmine, honeysuckle, passionfruit, whatever.
For example, the morning glory that came and completely took over the back fence, killing most of the roses. but now i have a back fence that's completely covered in morning glory with occasional roses popping out.
Yes. Steam can run in "offline" mode. Also, many (most?) games on steam can be run directly, without using the steam client as a launcher.
If steam went out of business, the only games that would stop working would be the ones that had 3rd-party "always-online" DRM (like some of the rockstar and ea games) - not steam, 3rd-party shit.
You'd probably also lose any saved games in the steam cloud, but you can disable that and store saved games locally.
The big problem with Google Docs is that google has your docs.