And how are you going to alter the page without breaking https? One reason Proxomitron and its likes don't work well anymore, is that they would be in effect "man in the middle" changing content, which is the same problem web cache or accelerators (compress, replace bloated pictures, etc) face.
Privoxy IIRC was pretty much superceded by polipo...
BTW "Reworking" a page can still be done at the end side (browser) by the likes of greasemonkey or stylus.
This started in jun 2018. Before that, the censorship was based in simple DNS manipulation, afterwards they implemented some form of deep packet inspection, which also attempts to block TOR (fixed by using obfuscated bridges).
Censorship has been going for a few years. It started with media sites, extended to porn sites, at some point they put pastebin because someone pasted a political message, and now this.
They did back down on pastebin and wikipedia (this is coming to slashdot way late).
If you like Debian, you use Devuan. If you like Arch, you use Artix. Slackware was never tainted, etc...
What are you waiting for? The main idiot is not even Poettering, its the Distro leaders that choose to force you to use it. Of course Fedora is doomed being a Red Hat project...
Is it a coincidence that everything made by Poettering behaves more or less the same buggy and bloated way? You think pulseaudio is an example of excellence? What about avahi and the other crud he made? Just say no to his mindset and rid your system of anything made by him.
Couple those with "ambient" TVs (designed to look like paintings or part of the wall) and you can now have animated backgrounds in your home.
I don't think Disney or Amazon would sit happy, and will find ways to monetize that (or sue you into oblivion); but people recording treks to natural parks or outdoors could be a good source of 4k+ "slow" entertainment.
Install uMatrix or your favorite script/annoyances blocker, among other measures (such as blocking video autoplay, flash, etc).
Use a browser that lets you disable "multi process", I know Waterfox allows this. Others let you change the number of threads, I set those to 1.
Configure it to always start your last open tabs, that way you can close and open the browser periodically (don't leave it open unattended).
The current browser developer mindset is that THEY are the OS, they will eat all your cpu cores and ram because only they matter, they don't behave well to the other running apps...
I'd rather have a slower browser that leaves a lean OS than a fast browser that makes everything else grind to a halt. This is why i tend to use Firefox forks, but not Firefox itself because that has gone too bloated. Chromium is a backup, i keep to very few tabs and close asap, because it WILL eat your resources, like it or not..
I have been playing the past few months with wine staging just fine, before Valve added wine themselves.
Probably at some point wine fixed the issues you were having. About two years ago i found a problem playing the game as well, but did try again some months later and it worked, especially when they changed the launcher and no longer showed that other Heroes game.
This is why I'm using uMatrix with Waterfox. The "modern" web has gone out of control, and you need to filter the crap out of it, starting with tracking, ads, and of course not needed junk like fonts or rogue scripts mining Monero or whatnot.
uMatrix handles everything beautifully, and remembers per site settings.
Sometimes my internet degrades so much that i have needed the old fashioned Netscape block image button, for that i got image-block, another extension that has saved when every little byte counts.
Also Waterfox with the classic theme restorer is an unbeatable combo for a decent classic UI.
My G25 racing wheel works perfectly with all its buttons and pedals. jstest shows a funny LONG line of results, everything is working, except the feedback (rumble thing). And it works out of the box, no downloading of anything. You can use it on games like Euro Truck Simulator 2 from Steam or Speed Dreams just fine.
Manufacturers can support linux or just release the specs if they want. YOU the consumer are supposed to do your homework before purchase, YOU can't blindly buy something that doesn't work with your OS, there are even devices no longer working in modern windows that do work with Linux.
Hint: Most reviews at online shops include people saying if it works with Linux.
BTW The absolute minimum a mouse would work is 5 (not 2) buttons (Left, Right, Middle, wheel up and wheel down). Guess what: the extra buttons in my Logitech gaming mouse also work, i use them all the time as forward/backward in browsers no configuration was needed for those buttons to work. Those would be button 6 and 7. There is also a couple more you can use to change DPI in real time, again, no driver or software needed, they just work, but these can be remapped as well!
FluXuan Is very light on resources. Boot to desktop and its using 68M only. Based on Devuan Ascii, you'll be at home if you are used to how Debian used to be, without the bloat.
Of course you could also just use Devuan with your favorite wm.
If you don't mind being on the leading edge, there is also Void, which not being based on any other distro, doesn't have to share a sudden termination of 32 bit support.
There are still many alternatives suitable for old hardware, perhaps take a look at Distrowatch.
As much as i love Void, and I use it in a netbook, I find the limited amount of packages a problem. Artix uses all the Arch packages, except those that break without systemd and must be recompiled or replaced, and that's what this call for packagers is all about.
Artix linux started with OpenRC, but now also offers Runit, the same init used in Void.
I'm using Waterfox, currently based on Firefox 56, and there is an option "Enable multi-process" you can turn off (and I did), the browser is now lean, fast and more importantly won't eat your memory like chromium does.
One thing the Chrome crowd doesn't get is that Chrome is not the only program you want running, so it shouldn't be hogging resources from everything else in the name of "speed", which is ironic because in Linux (across distros) my experience with chromium/chrome is always the same: Fine the first minutes but then it starts swapping and making the desktop unusable if you open/load 10+ tabs or so.
I still use chromium but only for couple of tabs, mostly youtube or anything requiring audio playback (as chromium lets you pick the ALSA device you want), but for heavy browsing Waterfox it is.
No it doesn't. Vorbis was surpassed by Opus, there is simply no better lossy audio compression at this point, so everything went Opus instead of Vorbis, and for lossless Flac is still preferred.
Also the parent is correct, you can't mix containers with codecs, Matroska (.mkv) is very widely used with all sort of proprietary codecs, such as h265 and aac. You can do that with ogg as well, but people tend to prefer mkv for a variety of reasons.
Unlike other coins (and fiat), Bitcoin actually leaves more traces for authorities to track. Darkcoin (renamed Dash) and a few others are trying to address that.
These could be important if a government, such as China, becomes hostile to cryptocurrencies.
Never leave coins online, period. Run your own wallet with the seed words written manually (not copy pasted or printed) on paper, make a copy of that paper also manually (pen & paper) and store them in different (secure) places, delete the wallet.
You can still deposit all you want to it. When you want to use the coins, boot a live iso and regenerate the wallet using the words written in the paper and spend the funds, shutdown/reboot afterwards.
Using a lite wallet like Electrum this process takes no time at all. You can also run a full node/electrum server in your LAN if you want.
The 7xx were Celeron M, and starting with the 900a, they used atoms.
I moved my 701 to Voidlinux, which is not a derivative of any other distro. Hopefully Void will keep 32 bit supported longer than the debian/arch derivatives.
I also happen to dislike systemd, and Void boots very quickly.
What if there are batteries also in (under) the semi-trailer? Then when you pick it up, its already charged! Of course you need some in the tractor-unit to move it alone as well...
You have to be careful with media, once you start seeing signs of obsolescence, to copy the data to whatever is new and repeat doing this before you lose the ability to read the old media anymore (even if you keep it well stored).
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And how are you going to alter the page without breaking https? One reason Proxomitron and its likes don't work well anymore, is that they would be in effect "man in the middle" changing content, which is the same problem web cache or accelerators (compress, replace bloated pictures, etc) face.
Privoxy IIRC was pretty much superceded by polipo...
BTW "Reworking" a page can still be done at the end side (browser) by the likes of greasemonkey or stylus.
This started in jun 2018. Before that, the censorship was based in simple DNS manipulation, afterwards they implemented some form of deep packet inspection, which also attempts to block TOR (fixed by using obfuscated bridges).
Censorship has been going for a few years. It started with media sites, extended to porn sites, at some point they put pastebin because someone pasted a political message, and now this.
They did back down on pastebin and wikipedia (this is coming to slashdot way late).
Distrowatch says there are 113 alternative distros you can use without systemd
If you like Debian, you use Devuan.
If you like Arch, you use Artix.
Slackware was never tainted, etc...
What are you waiting for? The main idiot is not even Poettering, its the Distro leaders that choose to force you to use it. Of course Fedora is doomed being a Red Hat project...
Is it a coincidence that everything made by Poettering behaves more or less the same buggy and bloated way? You think pulseaudio is an example of excellence? What about avahi and the other crud he made? Just say no to his mindset and rid your system of anything made by him.
http://without-systemd.org/ Take a stand against systemd!
Couple those with "ambient" TVs (designed to look like paintings or part of the wall) and you can now have animated backgrounds in your home.
I don't think Disney or Amazon would sit happy, and will find ways to monetize that (or sue you into oblivion); but people recording treks to natural parks or outdoors could be a good source of 4k+ "slow" entertainment.
So, abandon systemd? There is nearly a hundred distros NOT using it, what are you waiting for? http://without-systemd.org/
If they remove Poettering, i'd take a look!
Try Waterfox and you won't regret it. Its a clean Firefox, also for Android.
Install uMatrix or your favorite script/annoyances blocker, among other measures (such as blocking video autoplay, flash, etc).
Use a browser that lets you disable "multi process", I know Waterfox allows this. Others let you change the number of threads, I set those to 1.
Configure it to always start your last open tabs, that way you can close and open the browser periodically (don't leave it open unattended).
The current browser developer mindset is that THEY are the OS, they will eat all your cpu cores and ram because only they matter, they don't behave well to the other running apps...
I'd rather have a slower browser that leaves a lean OS than a fast browser that makes everything else grind to a halt. This is why i tend to use Firefox forks, but not Firefox itself because that has gone too bloated. Chromium is a backup, i keep to very few tabs and close asap, because it WILL eat your resources, like it or not..
I have been playing the past few months with wine staging just fine, before Valve added wine themselves.
Probably at some point wine fixed the issues you were having. About two years ago i found a problem playing the game as well, but did try again some months later and it worked, especially when they changed the launcher and no longer showed that other Heroes game.
Tobin treats Tor users like garbage, no thanks.
Waterfox it is.
Waterfox the developer mentioned somewhere that he made a backup of the addons.
This is why I'm using uMatrix with Waterfox. The "modern" web has gone out of control, and you need to filter the crap out of it, starting with tracking, ads, and of course not needed junk like fonts or rogue scripts mining Monero or whatnot.
uMatrix handles everything beautifully, and remembers per site settings.
Sometimes my internet degrades so much that i have needed the old fashioned Netscape block image button, for that i got image-block, another extension that has saved when every little byte counts.
Also Waterfox with the classic theme restorer is an unbeatable combo for a decent classic UI.
My G25 racing wheel works perfectly with all its buttons and pedals. jstest shows a funny LONG line of results, everything is working, except the feedback (rumble thing). And it works out of the box, no downloading of anything. You can use it on games like Euro Truck Simulator 2 from Steam or Speed Dreams just fine.
Manufacturers can support linux or just release the specs if they want. YOU the consumer are supposed to do your homework before purchase, YOU can't blindly buy something that doesn't work with your OS, there are even devices no longer working in modern windows that do work with Linux.
Hint: Most reviews at online shops include people saying if it works with Linux.
BTW The absolute minimum a mouse would work is 5 (not 2) buttons (Left, Right, Middle, wheel up and wheel down). Guess what: the extra buttons in my Logitech gaming mouse also work, i use them all the time as forward/backward in browsers no configuration was needed for those buttons to work. Those would be button 6 and 7. There is also a couple more you can use to change DPI in real time, again, no driver or software needed, they just work, but these can be remapped as well!
FluXuan Is very light on resources. Boot to desktop and its using 68M only.
Based on Devuan Ascii, you'll be at home if you are used to how Debian used to be, without the bloat.
Of course you could also just use Devuan with your favorite wm.
If you don't mind being on the leading edge, there is also Void, which not being based on any other distro, doesn't have to share a sudden termination of 32 bit support.
There are still many alternatives suitable for old hardware, perhaps take a look at Distrowatch.
As much as i love Void, and I use it in a netbook, I find the limited amount of packages a problem. Artix uses all the Arch packages, except those that break without systemd and must be recompiled or replaced, and that's what this call for packagers is all about.
Artix linux started with OpenRC, but now also offers Runit, the same init used in Void.
If you like Arch but hate systemd, go Artix.
Artix Linux is an Arch Linux derivative, and it uses the same package system as Arch does. If you want the Debian derivative, that's called Devuan.
Thankfully some other distros have ignored that and the dreaded systemd disease.
I'm using Waterfox, currently based on Firefox 56, and there is an option "Enable multi-process" you can turn off (and I did), the browser is now lean, fast and more importantly won't eat your memory like chromium does.
One thing the Chrome crowd doesn't get is that Chrome is not the only program you want running, so it shouldn't be hogging resources from everything else in the name of "speed", which is ironic because in Linux (across distros) my experience with chromium/chrome is always the same: Fine the first minutes but then it starts swapping and making the desktop unusable if you open/load 10+ tabs or so.
I still use chromium but only for couple of tabs, mostly youtube or anything requiring audio playback (as chromium lets you pick the ALSA device you want), but for heavy browsing Waterfox it is.
No it doesn't. Vorbis was surpassed by Opus, there is simply no better lossy audio compression at this point, so everything went Opus instead of Vorbis, and for lossless Flac is still preferred.
Also the parent is correct, you can't mix containers with codecs, Matroska (.mkv) is very widely used with all sort of proprietary codecs, such as h265 and aac. You can do that with ogg as well, but people tend to prefer mkv for a variety of reasons.
Funny you made that comment just when the fees went back down, and soon Lighning.Network will put a definitive end to the problem.
Unlike other coins (and fiat), Bitcoin actually leaves more traces for authorities to track. Darkcoin (renamed Dash) and a few others are trying to address that.
These could be important if a government, such as China, becomes hostile to cryptocurrencies.
Never leave coins online, period. Run your own wallet with the seed words written manually (not copy pasted or printed) on paper, make a copy of that paper also manually (pen & paper) and store them in different (secure) places, delete the wallet.
You can still deposit all you want to it. When you want to use the coins, boot a live iso and regenerate the wallet using the words written in the paper and spend the funds, shutdown/reboot afterwards.
Using a lite wallet like Electrum this process takes no time at all. You can also run a full node/electrum server in your LAN if you want.
The 7xx were Celeron M, and starting with the 900a, they used atoms.
I moved my 701 to Voidlinux, which is not a derivative of any other distro. Hopefully Void will keep 32 bit supported longer than the debian/arch derivatives.
I also happen to dislike systemd, and Void boots very quickly.
This post was written using said 701 (4g surf).
What if there are batteries also in (under) the semi-trailer? Then when you pick it up, its already charged! Of course you need some in the tractor-unit to move it alone as well...
This was in chromium but got removed, you have to use an addon (Disable Autoplay) to achieve the same.
You have to be careful with media, once you start seeing signs of obsolescence, to copy the data to whatever is new and repeat doing this before you lose the ability to read the old media anymore (even if you keep it well stored).