joshchandra

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[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

*Not Bitcoin.

Why not? Otherwise, there are CBDCs purportedly under way, but I haven't read about them in probably half a year or longer, come to think of it...

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I have still quite literally found no other tool, even paid products, that can interior-crop the way IrfanView can (select row/column Y in XYZ if the entire image was XYZ, and crop out that inner part and auto-tuck X and Z directly against each other). And it's had this feature for decades, I think.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 52 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Since it's already a Pandora's box as it is, at least open-source is the least-worst way to go. All closed-source models are evil(er).

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 42 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It wasn't her phone that did it:

"Some sort of recording software was used in the car — that in itself is a breach of my privacy," she said.

The lesson is to avoid these services if possible or communicate sensitive info silently/by text when you're not in a trusted vehicle.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

True, there's no way to do a clean merge like we can with multiple KeePass password databases... or can we?

By the way, I now use AdNauseam, which is a uBO fork, but I can't find how to access the color grid in your screenshots. Would you happen to know how to get to it?

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Are you willing to share what any of these "custom additions" means?

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago

Interesting. Is there a way to port NoScript settings into uBO?

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

I'm too ~~stupid~~ impatient to understand complex coding concepts...

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Interesting, then this is better than NoScript. I'm just a bit rattled by the uBO soft-takedown by Manifest v3 or whatever it was that had happened last year and am concerned about uBO, like, dying or something. What do you think is its future? If it still seems stable enough then I guess I'll drop NoScript for it.

And then on that note, would you be willing to share your settings of the scripts you've deemed comfortable, as a shortcut for other newbs like me who are just getting on board with all this? It'd be much appreciated if so! Either way, thanks for sharing.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah, it's getting addicting! I just found so much JS that is totally unneeded to watch Paramount+:

What the hell is all this crap? Man... so much tracking going on. All the DEFAULTs are blocked and the TV I'm watching still loads perfectly fine. And if you try to go to the stepcattle.com one out of pure curiosity, uBlock warns you against it, yet robots prevent any info on it from appearing in search engines... capitalist bastards...

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 6 points 1 week ago

Wow, incredible! Thanks, I had no idea.

 

This comment encouraging me to try out NoScript Security Suite (Firefox) changed my life. googletagmanager is used everywhere!

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

Gmail, Google Voice, Google Calendar, and WhatsApp Web are always pinned. Everything else is contextual!

 

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/25718777

I just can't find any!

 

Edit: Thanks, everyone!

I know an incredibly smart senior here near Milwaukee County, WI who's disabled by MS and has been restricted to using a scooter for years. He'd love to walk again, but I but I don't know how he can get involved in studies like this: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00863-0

All I could find was the ISSCR (Int'l Society for Stem Cell Research), but I don't think reaching them directly would be fruitful, would it?

 

It garbles advertisers' data as a result, but you must disable uBlock Origin to run it; they can't work simultaneously. I recently moved to it and, so far, am never looking back!

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