bigpEE @bigpEE@qoto.org

Some outstanding conceptual judo in the opening paragraph of this proposal. “Often depend … may assume … certain aspects of”… therefore we would like to propose killing non-chrome user agents in general ad blockers in particular.

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md

The failure of the Internet to deliver its promise is particularly noticeable when you hunt for repair manuals for a product from the 90s. Used to be, the information would either be there or not there, finable or unfindable.

Now, there are hundreds of algorithmically generated sites claiming to have it just because it appeared in their search logs, generating potemkin village content traps with endless paging, broken-thumbnail named-like-the-file-you-want but actually-just-ebay-photos bullshit

me waiting in line for the New Republic of America to purge me for being an academic: This line is sillymoded. Honestly this is very applestorecoded. Hey you have to listen to me, I can't post this stuff, they threw my phone in the thought incinerator. The thought incinerator is honestly sillycoded

There's hardly anyone on here from my university, so searching for #UTAustin just returns a ton of insects as if what UT does is just 100% bugs all the time.