Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG

[seacow@mastodon.art]

@fribbledom https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8FRyAh6a9zc

[katchwreck@mastodon.social]

@fribbledom Wing Commander was tough to load

[dazzr@social.tchncs.de]

@fribbledom Adblocking is both a matter of resistance and personal internet hygiene. There is no right to surveillance capitalism, you can ban who you dislike. Period. Doctor recommended (OK, a Ph.D., but you can take my word for it).

A thorough multilayer approach is recommended to poop in the AdTech teapot:
1) Network-wide DNS filtering w/ Pi-hole, explicitly banning all Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and other notorious enshittification actors.
2) Linux OS instead of Microsoft/Apple. Linux does not track, the others do.
3) Firefox w/privacy extensions uBlock Origin and EFF Privacy Badger, Ungoogled Chromium.
4) On Smartphones: Use AdGuard Pro (iOS) or Rethink DNS (Android), but be aware that tracking is a built-in feature of mobile OS and is more difficult to suppress.

[d1@autistics.life]

@fribbledom what has this world come to?

[isol@mastodon.au]

@fribbledom

You do know that the UCI has banned all Tour de France fans from searching for ice socks?

[renardboy@mastodon.social]

@fribbledom For a while before I had to pay bills using online services I had a "pure" CLI setup, running barebones distros without X installed. Was pretty cool, had a command line application for just about anything. Even wrote a novel using a text-based word processor called wordgrinder.

It was surprising how much you could still see of the web using elinks, I could even use facebook Unsurprisingly banking was out of the picture though, I had to borrow my mom's windows laptop to do that.

[mtnrbq65@social.vivaldi.net]

@Megawatt @fribbledom

himem.sys

[bitterseeds@fosstodon.org]

@fribbledom NoScript helps.

[geepawhill@mastodon.social]

@fribbledom Sure, but think about how very much more surveillance that tab can do!

[brouhaha@mastodon.social]

@fribbledom
Given how much money I just paid for 64 GiB of DDR5 ECC RDIMMs, I'm going to start billing all web sites that run JavaScript on my computer.

[artemis@climatejustice.social]

@fribbledom I hated that the guy in the electronics shop thought he had to explain usb stick sizes to me because I was a clueless old lady, not because my first computer had 16K of RAM and a cassette tape. 128 gig of storage the size of a car key blows my mind.

[alesroubicek@indieweb.social]

@fribbledom just starting Firefox on a Ubuntu machine with 4GB RAM mostly ends up with a crash. I remember times when I cherished the Firebird browser on my thumbstick and used it on whatever computer I was sitting on.

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@fribbledom

what kinda socks we talkin about here

[popekingjoe@mastodon.social]

@fribbledom relevant

[brahvim@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@fribbledom ...More like 1,700 companies these days...

[roadskater@mastodon.social]

@syferdet @fribbledom In the future?

[deepfryed@fosstodon.org]

@fribbledom best part is the ads they show you won't be anything related to socks.

[scott@sfba.social]

@fribbledom ah! A happy childhood!

[yurkshirelad@mastodon.social]

@lord @fribbledom We care about your privacy. Here’s a list of our 970 partners.

[viharm@twit.social]

@fribbledom

well said