We’re mainly waiting for you to say “Yes, I was wrong, Hexbear doesn’t shill for Russia/China/DPRK and call them communist utopias, and I guess tankies is kind of a meaningless term.”. I think that was the point.
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SootyChimney [any]@hexbear.netto Firefox@lemmy.ml•What are your favourite add-ons/extensions on Firefox?English18·2 years agoublock obviously should be installed on Firefox by default. But I seem to have a host of privacy add-ons that break few-to-no websites.
- Privacy Possum , which blocks certain tracking headers/js. Privacy Badger by the EFF is an acceptable alternative but I’ve personally found it doesn’t block quite as much.
- NoScript Honestly my favourite addon of all time. You can operate in block-everything mode and just allow javascript/HTML5 from sites you trust, or if you’re lazy then just operate in allow-everything mode and every now and then set crummy sites to untrusted (looking at you google tag manager). In block-everything-by-default mode, this add-on will break some sites, but the UI is so easy it’s a couple of clicks to trust all the sites in a tab and auto-refresh.
Be warned - If you’re not privacy conscious, you might cry from seeing the hundreds of sites that are running javascript on your machine without asking.
- User-Agent Switcher Really easy add-on to just leave on and misdirect sites. Never caused me a single problem, and in fact is useful when sites (looking at you Microsoft Teams) claim they don’t work in Firefox and refuse to load but actually work fine if you use this addon and pretend to be Chrome.
- Sponsorblock kicks ass. 30 hours of ads skipped in half a year.
And my personal silly couple ones:
- Wikipedia Vector Skin because I’m an old fuddy duddy and I like old Wikipedia.
- Cat-In-Tab because I’m also an old fuddy-duddy that likes whimsy sometimes. This is just silly but I like it.
SootyChimney [any]@hexbear.netto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How often do you get existential dread?English3·2 years agoI suspect I’ve undiagnosed manic-depressive disorder, but either way I get heavy existential dread for 1-4 weeks straight, then reoccurring again in 1-3 months. I also get similar pressure from my industry. So I do feel you :(
SootyChimney [any]@hexbear.netto Firefox@lemmy.ml•In case you're mad at yourself for closing your precious window with all the right tabs opened, note that Firefox allows to reopen recently closed windowsEnglish8·2 years agoAs someone who frequently has windows with 1000+ tabs, this feature has saved my bacon countless times.
SootyChimney [any]@hexbear.netto Gaming@lemmy.ml•If the same game is available and on sale on GOG and Steam, on which platform you rather buy it?English4·2 years agoI’ve got to say, Steam’s native Wine/Proton implementation works decently well, and really entices me to buy games without native Linux support on Steam.
SootyChimney [any]@hexbear.netto Linux@lemmy.ml•No route to host until I ping and then it works fine?English11·2 years agoI want to say ARP. Can I say ARP?
SootyChimney [any]@hexbear.netto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What’s one word to prove you lived trough the 90’s?English3·2 years agoFollowed by brrrrrrBRRRRRRRaaaaAAaAAaAKRrrrRKrrrKRrrkrKRrKrrKrRkrrrrrrrrrrr, in my experience.
SootyChimney [any]@hexbear.netto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•For you, does "pretty good" mean something is better or worse than just "good"?English2·2 years agoThis seems like the right take. It’s based on expectations.
SootyChimney [any]@hexbear.netto Linux@lemmy.ml•Patch submitted to the Linux kernel by a 4 year old.English42·2 years agoThough slightly cliche, this just feels right. That niece has learned a great lesson about how collaborating to improve things is always possible, and that open-source relies on everyone doing their bit.
SootyChimney [any]@hexbear.netto Technology@lemmy.ml•ChatGPT Tests Into Top 1% for Original Creative ThinkingEnglish291·2 years agoThey used the “Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking”, a pseudo-scientific test that measures and evaluates absolutely nothing of any objective measure or value.
I suspect pissing about copying a mass of text into an AI to have a 70% chance of getting an actually correct answer is probably harder than pressing Ctrl+F