I might be a little crazy, but I like to browse news sites in a virtual machine, without a script or ad blocker. I've started doing this just to be reminded of how the other half lives.
E.g, when was the last time you visited Yahoo News without a script or ad blocker installed? Or MSNBC or WaPo or virtually any major news site w/out these things? It's a full frontal assault of loud videos that launch and play on their own, and pop-ups and pop-unders and 97 pieces of third-party Javascript.
So not only are they typically aiming a firehose of extraneous and distracting stuff at you, each one of those ad relationships offers the possibility of malicious ads running on your machine.
It kind of seems like we don't talk enough about how this aspect of news websites really does turn people off of reading the news from the original source.
https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/113526930319399955 briankrebs@infosec.exchange - I might be a little crazy, but I like to browse news sites in a virtual machine, without a script or ad blocker. I've started doing this just to be reminded of how the other half lives.
E.g, when was the last time you visited Yahoo News without a script or ad blocker installed? Or MSNBC or WaPo or virtually any major news site w/out these things? It's full frontal assault of loud videos that launch and play on their own, and pop-ups and pop-unders and 97 piece of third-party Javascript.
So not only are they typically aiming a firehose of extraneous and distracting stuff at you, each one of those ad relationships offers the possibility of malicious ads running on your machine.
It kind of seems like we don't talk enough about how this aspect of news websites really does turn people off of reading the news from the original source.
I might be a little crazy, but I like to browse news sites in a virtual machine, without a script or ad blocker. I've started doing this just to be reminded of how the other half lives. E.Infosec Exchange
I disable JavaScript by default as I just want to read the text and maybe a picture or two.
No one should have to play a video game of whack a mole pop ups and animations to read a page. Mozilla and Google are designing their browsers with the absolute maximum of these marketing "features" that are best not implemented.
Those who require JavaScript to read are doing so with extreme maliciousness.
Endre Ady was born #OTD in 1877.
Some of his notable poetry collections include "Új versek" (New Poems, 1906), "A Holnap" (Tomorrow, 1908), and "A halottak élén" (At the Head of the Dead, 1918).
Books by Endre Ady at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39489
Project Gutenberg offers 74,604 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg
Via author Piper Huguley: a searchable list of over 160 Black-owned bookstores in the U.S.!
The list is created and maintained by the African American Literature Book Club.
https://aalbc.com/bookstores/list.php
Explore 165 Black-owned independent bookstores across the U.S. Find your nearest store and support local businesses today!AALBC.com, the African American Literature Book Club
The first election of Donald Trump fueled major protests, including the Women’s March. This time around, the self-dubbed “resistance” movement looks less energized. #politics #WhiteHouse #trump #women
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The first election of Donald Trump fueled major protests, including the Women’s March. This time around, the self-dubbed “resistance” movement appears less energized.Simon Montlake (The Christian Science Monitor)
L'OTAN est régulièrement présentée comme une alliance défensive, composée de pays démocratiques attachés aux droits humains. Autant de mensonges démontrés par l'histoire de cette organisation clé de l'impérialisme américain.Sevim Dagdelen (Le vent se lève)
'FINALLY: a novel with an estate agent as its hero!'
Breaking news from, um, estate agent trade magazine The Negotiator.
#books #reading #writing #publishing #finally #bookstodon @bookstodon
The Time Travelling Estate Agent is a new book by Dale Bradford and unusually it has a high-street estate agent as its hero. Magazine editor Bradford has written three books, including From Sex ShopsSimon Cairnes (The Negotiator)
Mooi stuk weer, @Chris Klomp fileert Raisa #Blommestijn.
Wie is nou de echte Raisa Blommestijn? Is dat de vrouw die online en bij Ongehoord Nederland ongegeneerd racistische taal uitslaat en daar ook trots op is?Of is het de vrouw die – toen ze eenmaal verantwoordelijkheid moest nemen zonder het geklater van het applaus– subiet en als bij toverslag de nuanceknop wist te vinden?
https://chrisklomp.nl/open-brief-aan-raisa-blommestijn/
#Racisme #ON #OngehoordNederland #AalmoesFascisme
Daar zat je dan. Als producent van een eindeloze stroom aan giftige tweets. Over ‘negers’ die zich schuldig maken aan zwart racisme, over ‘negroïde primaten’ die door de linkse elite bij bosjes binnen worden gehaald en gruwelijk geweld plegen.Chris Klomp
She kept her Überfrau smirk till the end
She kept her Überfrau smirk till the end No one lives forever, but it's fair to suppose that the nonstop persecution of Ursula by the kike-obsessed government of US-occupied Germany didn't do anythingSnake Baker (Daily Stormer)
In the late 80’s, as a teenager… finding BBS’s was like sci-fi came to life without warning.
It created a lot of dreamers.
If you're a P+P fan, I know what most of you will say. I, however, will argue that it's not about being faithful, rather, it's about presenting Austen (or Brontës) to a new generation. P+P 2005 is the most enjoyable to me. I'll stand on this hill.
#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon
#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten @romancelandia
Trump's chaos:
Gaetz withdrew from AG consideration after just 8 days.
A 2017 police report released: graphic sexual assault allegations against P Hegseth, Trump's nominee for DEF Sec. Hegseth, who met with senators Thurs: denied wrongdoing.
RFK Jr, Trump's nominee for HHS Sec, apologized after CNN unearthed comments from a 2016 radio show in which Kennedy compared Trump to Hitler & insulted his supporters...
Some R Senators are disillusioned with T's picks.
#USPol https://www.axios.com/2024/11/22/trump-matt-gaetz-attorney-general-cabinet
Les scandales qui touchent tour à tour les principaux partis politiques et le discrédit général qui les frappe ne sauraient faire oublier leur rôle, indispensable, dans notre système représentatif.Bertrand Renouvin (Le blog de Bertrand Renouvin)
World’s Oldest Alphabet Discovered
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/worlds-oldest-alphabet-discovered/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet rather than hieroglyphs or cuneiformStephanie Pappas (Scientific American)
Mathematicians’ Newest Assistants Are Artificially Intelligent
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-newest-assistants-are-artificially-intelligent/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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AI-human collaboration could possibly achieve superhuman greatness in mathematicsConor Purcell (Scientific American)