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  1. Spotify streaming on Best Buy Stops Selling Music CDs (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's pretty trivial to activate Spotify for a month and rip all the albums you want at the bitrate you want through Audacity.

  2. Re:Foodborne shmoodborne on US Government Study Concludes: You're Probably Washing Your Hands Wrong (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    119 reviews on Zomato say you've no idea what you're talking about.

  3. Foodborne shmoodborne on US Government Study Concludes: You're Probably Washing Your Hands Wrong (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I've had probable food poisoning once in 40 years. As it was Mexican, it's probable it was salmonella. This germophobia is completely an overreaction and puts the immune system on hold with no real defense for something real.

  4. Re:News? Really? on GNOME Web Browser is Adding a Reader Mode (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    There's a page-like button at the right side of the address bar which displays for sites that have a document tag. Try Wikipedia first to find it. I didn't have to do anything special, but if not there it should be in your toolbar buttons to select. I'm running under Windows and Android, can't speak for other distributions.

  5. Re:Need a Windows version on GNOME Web Browser is Adding a Reader Mode (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Chrome does as well, though I've only tried it once or twice, but it seems to work well. As I recall, it depends on a document tag to decide what to present so it's not foolproof.

  6. Re:News? Really? on GNOME Web Browser is Adding a Reader Mode (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I use document mode in Firefox routinely. If I get shut out for running Adblock, I refresh and load the document before the block loads. Annoying video that loads that my settings can't block, same thing. Like many, I prefer the text over the presentation much of the time.

  7. Re: I still get emails on Facebook Will Harass You Mercilessly If You Try To Break Up (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like someone who never receives emails from Facebook.

  8. Re:I still get emails on Facebook Will Harass You Mercilessly If You Try To Break Up (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    It's trivial to do this in settings. Unfortunate you can't figure this out.

  9. Re:Analytics/Telemetry on Gaming Companies Remove Analytics App After Massive User Outcry (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    That hat looks crazy on you.

  10. My Spanish is still pretty good, but I think I read a 3.5 earthquake detected. My BS meter says a million people couldn't do that.

  11. Both are absolutely essential for spotting 1) problems in the software and 2) identifying features not used. I've consulted across Australia and not one company allowed PID to leak into the logs. I was an expert implementer but not beyond that. It may have been PCI compliance which was under the whole thing. It's not as nefarious as the tin foil hats would would lead you to believe.

  12. Re:He doesn't deserve it back on After a Decade, 77-Year-Old Gets Back $110,000 Lost In 'Nigerian Prince' Scam (kansascity.com) · · Score: 1

    My brother and I broke our folks of this nonsense. It came down to don't forward attachments via email, period. After maybe a decade of unrelenting refusal to open them, it eventually sunk in. Myself, I have a "triage" folder where emails from people I don't know or have never sent to land, and it is extremely effective.

  13. Re:VPN Required? on Apple Jams Facebook's Web-Tracking Tools (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Astute. I rotate between Argentina and Albania which results in me being completely untrackable.

  14. Re:Best flying game ever on 'Descent' Creators Reunite For a New Game Called 'Overload' (steampowered.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, Doom to me became a big snooze. I'd grab the chainsaw and roll through the game. Descent was glorious in its intensity.

  15. Re:Best flying game ever on 'Descent' Creators Reunite For a New Game Called 'Overload' (steampowered.com) · · Score: 1

    Amen. The learning curve was huge, disorientation a huge problem, and finding the exit even when I knew where it was pure adrenaline rush. Plus figuring out to win the level of hell.

  16. I should have been more clear. Its Javascript and debugging were behind the curve and it was keeping me from things I needed to do.

  17. Re: The question is... on 'Why I'm Switching From Chrome To Firefox and You Should Too' (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    A nice workaround - and Chrome has an equivalent - is to click into document mode before the ass-hat adblock detected pops up. It usually works and hey ma, no ads!

  18. My search engine is Duck Duck Go with multiple layers of anonymizers and ad strippers. A brilliant man in my past said the best thing to do is go with the option that sucks least.

  19. As an enterprise web developer, Pale Moon completely collapsed under me. I was forced to remove it unfortunately. I continued to develop under FF, and verify under Chrome. And Edge (UGH lol).

  20. Re:A great argument... on German Spy Agency Can Keep Tabs On Internet Hubs, Federal Court Rules (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    I've been using vpn based in a country immune from snooping, so my traffic is tunneled, essentially double encryption. Good luck decrypting my xkcd visits suckers.

  21. Re:Why would you expose the admin interface to WAN on Backdoor Account Found in D-Link DIR-620 Routers (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuck off. And while you're fucking off, shave that stupid neck.

  22. Re:Why would you expose the admin interface to WAN on Backdoor Account Found in D-Link DIR-620 Routers (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Holy Messiah, it's not complicated. Mum connects to a hosted service, I connect to same hosted service. The security of this hosted service is orders of magnitude beyond what I could do on my own. And, again, 30 minutes later we're DISCONNECTED.

  23. Um, thepiratebay + dht is quite resiliant through a vpn. On occasion when tpb gets dds, tbp asia still works. The overall infrastructure is remarkably robust. The only clog in the works is if I vpn through a US address, some torrents get poisoned. Good luck poisoning Armenia lads. Or if so, I only have about 180 other endpoints to use. Pro tip: Hong Kong is criminally immune.

  24. I won't name the product because neckbeards annoy me, but I've been alternating between Argentina and Armenia for several months.

  25. Re:I'm not a shill :) on Elon Musk To Fight Fake News, Rate Journalists' Credibility Via a Site Called 'Pravda' · · Score: 1

    Fine. I'm guessing about 3". Who is more impartial?