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Wingless wrote

Reply to Time to End Patent Monopolies - CounterPunch.org by Rambler

"Intellectual property" is an outgrowth of the old slave system, one which declares certain activities people do to be property rather than certain people. It needs to be abolished entirely. It would be almost infinitely more efficient to do so in technical terms, allowing all technology to everyone and just pay producers according to a tax system that lets the users select where they want their money to go. However, such a system would not benefit the few who own the world, so we must destroy it first.

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Wingless wrote

Reply to [A good, quick read] CAPTCHA: A brief history by Rambler

What this article describes but fails to comment on is that "CAPTCHA" is a word that started off meaning "a test for humans versus bots" and ended up meaning "Google AND ONLY GOOGLE Rummaging Through Everything You Do On The Web To See If They Like It".

Nowadays, CAPTCHA can only serve as a means for the user to screen out fake forums like 4chan that look like they're independent companies when they're really just Google spy franchises. After you rule out everything bogus ... maybe you come here.

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Wingless wrote

Reply to [Oldie but goodie] I Turned Off JavaScript in My Web Browser for a Whole Week and It Was Glorious by Rambler

This is a fairly naive approach that tolerates having a lot of sites not work. To be sure, the sites that do work without Javascript are the best sites, the least spy-industrial-complex afflicted of what is out there.

But, that said, there is a more modest approach which is to run NoScript on Firefox and authorize Javascript on one site at a time as needed. Now NoScript and Firefox both come with big crooked "whitelists" but at least for the moment you can still disable what you see there.

A notable advantage of disabling scripts is that a LOT of news websites are really, really dumb. They have come up with something so stupid I couldn't believe the first time they did it and now everybody of course wants to copy it. Namely, the sites seem to rely on cookies to let people read one article from a web search, then start pretending they can't find any other article you click on. But I guess they use a script to check if you're accepting their cookies? So I just block all cookies from nyt, sanluisobispo, usnews, bostonglobe, kansascity, idahostatesman, miamiherald ... whatever dot com, and then they are as readable as in the glory days of the web before this script nonsense and the third party spy ads it was meant to propagate had ever been introduced, despite putting on a pretense of not being readable at all. I wonder if subscribers have as good an experience.

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Coder wrote

Reply to by !deleted152

these are the ones I know:

also Bibliogram doesn't work anymore :(
does anyone know an alternative ?

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Wahaha wrote

Reply to comment by burnerben in In Spain a "register" for those who refuse the vaccine: "It will be shared with EU countries" by Rambler

Calling other names isn't a very convincing argument. The most difficult thing about conversations is that most people have trouble to consider that they could be wrong.

I may be wrong and you might be right, but nothing that was said thus far has been convincing me. So I maintain my position that I will not take this untested vaccine this year. Feel free to take it yourself, though. Willing guinea pigs are always welcome, as far as I am concerned.

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