Deebster

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[–] Deebster@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm curious to know the impact of ad-blockers - I didn't see you it mention in your post or blog, so I'm assuming you tested with stock browsers. Also, did you clear history and data from your Android install since it sounds like you'd normally use that?

I'm assuming that ad-blockers would be a net benefit to both battery and performance, given that in a way it's an optimisation. The boost from removing data and computation (that the user doesn't want anyway) must be far higher than the overhead of the plugin, right?

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

I thought Jurassic World Dominion was the final one? Wasn't that why they brought back so many of the original cast? And it was pretty terrible, and dragged heavily towards the end.

Hollywood is addicted to established IPs, find some courage and be inventive again, please.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

You're forgetting about security updates, which would also be blocked. It's definitely more of a problem if the whole of Mozilla gets blocked than some plugins that have workarounds and alternatives.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

If Russia blocks security updates, that's worse for Russian users than having to go to GitHub to install a plugin.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I know how federation works, but look at the network inspector and you'll see you're pulling a lot of images from Cloudflare-proxied sites (or you're missing a lot, if you've blacklisted them).

Anyway, I only meant that even Lemmy, with its anti-corporate culture, is still heavily using Cloudflare. "Only" 22% is still a lot in my book.

I'm interested as to your motives - are you doing this as a boycott, and/or to protect your privacy (or similar)? Also, are you blocking domains one-by-one, or are doing something like using firewall rules?

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you're blocking everything that's proxied via Cloudflare or hosted on Google, the internet must be a very small place for you. I think even a third of Lemmy is behind Cloudflare.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess my argument would be that you can choose/configure Linux to use many of the Windows conventions, whereas Mac has its own way of doing things that need learning.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 18 points 1 year ago

The article uses the word modified, but it sounds like it's just talking about configuring it and using it as normal.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sitting here trying to replicate what that sounds like from your description and I've only succeeding in sounding like a madman.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You pronounce the t in hot and then pronounce the p of potato?

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 82 points 1 year ago (3 children)

VFX artist explains why CGI in films is worse now

Article includes screenshot from The Mummy Returns which is from 2001 and is therefore old enough to watch any of the other films mentioned.

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