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The modern web is incredibly invasive. It sucks.

The best way to get me to not use your website is to have a popup that asks how I want to accept cookies and not give an option to or make it difficult to reject all cookies. Also, I hate those popups that ask for my email when I first visit a site. Secondly, if your site complains that I block ads because you will not receive fractions of a cent by bombarding me with your site tracking irrelevant ads, maybe I should go elsewhere.

Luckily, there are tools to make these sites less of a headache. For instance, I use an extension called "I still don't care about cookies" which is a debloated fork of another extension. It isn't perfect, but it makes a lot of those popups go away. I recommend checking it out. I use it on @librewolf in conjunction with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, and "Terms of Service Didn't Read."

github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Do

Time is rare when you're figuring out how to #CNC the best way, replacing #ip drivers and proprietary software controller with #FreeSoftware like #grbl + #arduino, while finding best #CAD & #CAM alternatives to commercial #fusion365 and #vcarve tools in #extensions for @inkscape like #gcodetools, #addons for @Blender like #fabexCNC and last but not least the universal gcode sender #UGS as perfect post-processor for a free workflow.

That assembled like a clockwork makes a lot of noise, dust, and work, but beautiful sculptures. What would you cut out of wood first?

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Так вот, закончилась история тем, что у меня сломалась видеокарта. На мне кто-то ещё что-то и помайнил (я подозреваю Grass).
Итог: расширения в Chrome, Chrome, и криптопроекты с майнингом я теперь обхожу стороной, и вам советую.
#chrome #youtube #mining #grass #extensions #google #hacked #gpu #crypto

More talk about quantum computers breaking encryption in the near future... and of course there's that thing about nation states, and possibly other bad actors, already hoovering up packet logs to later decrypt.

So, given the Post Quantum Cryptography that's coming online, I'd really love a browser feature/extension to alert me to when a site is using PQC.

Why? Becaus then I can change my password, secure in the knowledge that it can't be fished out of past packet logs and potentially cracked.

There's no use a login being PQC protected if it's the same password as before then !

So, anyone doing that ?

Edit: Of *course* we should all be using strong TOTP 2FA, or a physical key, but not all places we want to login to support that.