Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG

[fribbledom@mastodon.social]

Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.

Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.

[wolf480pl@mstdn.io]

@fribbledom
it's infuriating what they do with all the precious RAM we let them allocate

[lord@pleroma.lord.re]

@fribbledom@mastodon.social Me and my 1320 partners are asking your permission to put a cookie in your browser to grant you the privilege to display 5KB of our precious ai generated content on our 85MB web page.

[dbrgn@chaos.social]

@fribbledom that's what a SOCKS proxy is made for... I think.

[12thrits@mstdn.social]

@fribbledom

[trainguyrom@techhub.social]

@fribbledom the best part is all of this tracking results in useless data that fails to actually target any better than just guessing demographics that would enjoy the given content that the ads gets loaded around (y'know how ads were targeted back in the broadcast TV/Radio days)

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@fribbledom Apparently you can get help for that kind of sock fetish.

If you feel the need for help, that is.

Otherwise just keep enjoying yourself.

You can confuse the analytics companies by looking at other foot related apparel.

Or even branch out into gloves and mittens every now and again.

[megawatt@infosec.exchange]

@fribbledom QEMM

[atleagle@mastodon.online]

@fribbledom I was so proud when I could carry TWO Linux kernels on a single 3 inch floppy. 2 gigs on a tab is so obscene

[pela0ykuza@mastodon.la]

@fribbledom True...

[zero2beach@mstdn.social]

@fribbledom eso sí que es.

[syferdet@toad.social]

@fribbledom

Wool or cotton?
In the future, everyone will be judged by the material used for the socks they wear.

[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.