WinAmp, for all the obvious reasons in yonder thread.
AOLpress, which completely ruined me for more-modern HTML editors, because of one singular feature: the ability to behave as a browser *while* editing. This is a huge timesaver when working on a heavily linked site.
WordPerfect 5.1 DOS, need I say why? (tho I understand this source has been lost. And IIRC, it was in assembly!)
Netscape 3.04, so you bloody slow modern browsers can figure out why it did the same job in 1/100th the time (source also probably lost)
Yes! And doesn't leak memory or resources. I can have WinAmp up continuously for months, using it for hours every day (yeah, rebooting is against my religion, and if there's not a black rectangle in one corner, I think my monitor is dead) and it's still under 15mb RAM and something like 0.01% of CPU, and this is an old box.
Never reinstall it either, just drag it from one box to the next.
I use 2.91 and yeah, when you get to a few thousand songs the playlist function gets unwieldy. My solution was crude and simple: multiple playlists. WinAmp can load as many playlists at once as you like, just select multiples like you would files. When you do that, the whole list loads almost instantly, and you can still shuffle, sort, etc.
Oh, and it's playing a shoutcast here too, from an online station that's now 19 years old.
I had the opposite experience. Tried to switch to FooBar and didn't like it much, plus it ate too much. Originally was running it on 128mb RAM and WinAmp didn't use enough to notice (still not much, between 8 and 13mb), but FooBar did. Then again, I never went past WinAmp 2.91, which I still use to this day. Once it got a FLAC plugin I stopped even bothering to install anything else.
Same here. WinAmp 2.91 is sorta permanently glued to my desktop. I've tried other players; nothing else quite replaces it. In fact, nothing comes close.
"If someone decides not to do business with them, that's perfectly fine.
You are entitled to exist free from harm or threats; you are not entitled to publicity, social media, or a platform."
Absolutely. But by the same token, if someone decides to do business with them, that is also perfectly fine; they are still entitled to exist free from harm or threats.
A fundamental problem, yep. But they brought "is that one poisonous? kill them all!" on themselves with their invasive behavior. If it were still just little image banners that can harm no one, I wouldn't bother avoiding them.
Chase Bank's site has been that way since way back -- only worked in the latest and least blocked browser, even in the dawn of online banking. Fortunately I no longer have to deal with Chase Bank (about which I can say nothing good) or its crappy website.
I'm wondering if for minimizing bandwidth, one might call just the first few bytes of the unwanted content.
That's a really good idea. I don't use an adblocker but I do use a HOSTS file, and it has the same effect -- some sites whine at me "Disable your adblocker".
Geez yes, now if only SM would stop adding odd little bugs, like how auto-adding www. and.com no longer works (apparently due to a new deficiency in the FF core they build from).
SeaMonkey is slow, but at least I have normal menus, control, and the add-ons I need. For now, anyway...
If I wanted Chrome, I'd use Chrome. Loathesome thing, but current FF is worse.
Part of the galloping memory usage is the atrocious disk cache structure (seriously, does it need to be 1500 directories with one file apiece?) -- and disk cache doesn't work right anyway; most of the time it re-downloads whatever regardless. I disabled cache entirely, and that decreased memory use by about 30%, and stopped 90% of the ongoing leakage.
Plugin-container.exe is still an issue, tho. One of the odd bugs along the way was that if you copied text from a webpage, it would peg CPU at 100% for ~30 seconds. (The fix was to install Copy As Plain Text. Apparently the bug lies in reparsing the entire webpage as rich text before it can copy any of it.) Might not notice on a cutting-edge system but a problem on a middle-aged box.
But it won't support Prefbar, which I rely on even more than NoScript, as for me Prefbar is what makes the whole Mozilla family usable, vs more of a PITA than it's worth. Thanks to Moz changes, Prefbar is being broken up into individual buttons... yeah, that'll work.
Or, why I froze my SeaMonkey and PaleMoon installs at their current versions.
As a Twitter alternative I use Gab.ai, which is about as free as a wide-open-to-all social network gets. The sort of place where if you don't like someone's opinions, go post your own, anything that's not doxxing, direct threats, or outright illegal.
Alt-video is harder, if only because it's relatively expensive for storage and bandwidth. Notions have come up about distributed content, but I think that might get further with micropayments for hosting it.
I find that more alarming than if Google were only censoring rightwing sites. At least if it were completely skewed, we could tell what's missing and go elsewhere. But when it's all shaved down across the board? then you don't have any point of reference that makes the censorship evident.
What people say or do, outside of the blatantly illegal, should be none of Google's business. Either index it all the same and let ME decide what I want to search for and view, or admit that you're shaping minds and traffic to suit whomever you see as your masters and allies...
Google nuked Dr. Jordan Peterson (not only his Youtube channel but also his GMail account). Restored after an uproar, but I think that tells us all we need to know about their new AI-in-training.
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WinAmp, for all the obvious reasons in yonder thread.
AOLpress, which completely ruined me for more-modern HTML editors, because of one singular feature: the ability to behave as a browser *while* editing. This is a huge timesaver when working on a heavily linked site.
WordPerfect 5.1 DOS, need I say why?
(tho I understand this source has been lost. And IIRC, it was in assembly!)
Netscape 3.04, so you bloody slow modern browsers can figure out why it did the same job in 1/100th the time
(source also probably lost)
RoughDraft, another unique editor
Crap, I still use a lot of antique software...
Yes! And doesn't leak memory or resources. I can have WinAmp up continuously for months, using it for hours every day (yeah, rebooting is against my religion, and if there's not a black rectangle in one corner, I think my monitor is dead) and it's still under 15mb RAM and something like 0.01% of CPU, and this is an old box.
Never reinstall it either, just drag it from one box to the next.
I use 2.91 and yeah, when you get to a few thousand songs the playlist function gets unwieldy. My solution was crude and simple: multiple playlists. WinAmp can load as many playlists at once as you like, just select multiples like you would files. When you do that, the whole list loads almost instantly, and you can still shuffle, sort, etc.
Oh, and it's playing a shoutcast here too, from an online station that's now 19 years old.
I had the opposite experience. Tried to switch to FooBar and didn't like it much, plus it ate too much. Originally was running it on 128mb RAM and WinAmp didn't use enough to notice (still not much, between 8 and 13mb), but FooBar did. Then again, I never went past WinAmp 2.91, which I still use to this day. Once it got a FLAC plugin I stopped even bothering to install anything else.
Same here. WinAmp 2.91 is sorta permanently glued to my desktop. I've tried other players; nothing else quite replaces it. In fact, nothing comes close.
How can you keep an eye on them if they've been silenced and driven underground??
Me, I would face that all-seeing eye the other way.
So put me on the list.
"If someone decides not to do business with them, that's perfectly fine.
You are entitled to exist free from harm or threats; you are not entitled to publicity, social media, or a platform."
Absolutely. But by the same token, if someone decides to do business with them, that is also perfectly fine; they are still entitled to exist free from harm or threats.
"Ok. If you're being discriminated against in a country in which you're the minority, that sounds reasonable."
One should perhaps take note of what's happening in South Africa.
Or, why Win8/10 made me go seeking menu'd pastures, and why when KDE5 came on the scene, I promptly left for Trinity.
Stop flattening shit out to where it's all a featureless blur, and give me back my damned menus!!
But it doesn't take up visual real estate while driving -- because the dash is (at least usually) below the hoodline.
Admittedly there was a spasm of dashes that stuck up into the field of vision for anyone less than 6 feet tall.
Worldwide, whites are 12-14% of the population, and shrinking fast. (Projected to be around 8% in another couple generations.)
So... whites are being asked to share America and Europe. Okay, how about whites ask Africa and Asia to share too??
What? That's colonization??!
So why is it not colonization when whites are "asked to share" America and Europe??
Suggestion to all the white males: QUIT, and start your own companies. See how long the companies you left last without you.
A fundamental problem, yep. But they brought "is that one poisonous? kill them all!" on themselves with their invasive behavior. If it were still just little image banners that can harm no one, I wouldn't bother avoiding them.
That's probably easier, yeah.
Maybe if browsers were more user-centric and less busy trying to be all things to every website, we wouldn't have the problem!
Worth a try as an intermediate step.
I suppose given the hostile content of some 3rd party ads, even if they're downloaded they should be shunted to a sandbox.
Chase Bank's site has been that way since way back -- only worked in the latest and least blocked browser, even in the dawn of online banking. Fortunately I no longer have to deal with Chase Bank (about which I can say nothing good) or its crappy website.
I'm wondering if for minimizing bandwidth, one might call just the first few bytes of the unwanted content.
That's a really good idea. I don't use an adblocker but I do use a HOSTS file, and it has the same effect -- some sites whine at me "Disable your adblocker".
Geez yes, now if only SM would stop adding odd little bugs, like how auto-adding www. and .com no longer works (apparently due to a new deficiency in the FF core they build from).
SeaMonkey is slow, but at least I have normal menus, control, and the add-ons I need. For now, anyway...
If I wanted Chrome, I'd use Chrome. Loathesome thing, but current FF is worse.
Part of the galloping memory usage is the atrocious disk cache structure (seriously, does it need to be 1500 directories with one file apiece?) -- and disk cache doesn't work right anyway; most of the time it re-downloads whatever regardless. I disabled cache entirely, and that decreased memory use by about 30%, and stopped 90% of the ongoing leakage.
Plugin-container.exe is still an issue, tho. One of the odd bugs along the way was that if you copied text from a webpage, it would peg CPU at 100% for ~30 seconds. (The fix was to install Copy As Plain Text. Apparently the bug lies in reparsing the entire webpage as rich text before it can copy any of it.) Might not notice on a cutting-edge system but a problem on a middle-aged box.
But it won't support Prefbar, which I rely on even more than NoScript, as for me Prefbar is what makes the whole Mozilla family usable, vs more of a PITA than it's worth. Thanks to Moz changes, Prefbar is being broken up into individual buttons ... yeah, that'll work.
Or, why I froze my SeaMonkey and PaleMoon installs at their current versions.
http://prefbar.tuxfamily.org/
As a Twitter alternative I use Gab.ai, which is about as free as a wide-open-to-all social network gets. The sort of place where if you don't like someone's opinions, go post your own, anything that's not doxxing, direct threats, or outright illegal.
Alt-video is harder, if only because it's relatively expensive for storage and bandwidth. Notions have come up about distributed content, but I think that might get further with micropayments for hosting it.
I find that more alarming than if Google were only censoring rightwing sites. At least if it were completely skewed, we could tell what's missing and go elsewhere. But when it's all shaved down across the board? then you don't have any point of reference that makes the censorship evident.
What people say or do, outside of the blatantly illegal, should be none of Google's business. Either index it all the same and let ME decide what I want to search for and view, or admit that you're shaping minds and traffic to suit whomever you see as your masters and allies...
Google nuked Dr. Jordan Peterson (not only his Youtube channel but also his GMail account). Restored after an uproar, but I think that tells us all we need to know about their new AI-in-training.
Translation: Google is working really hard to boost alternative video networks.