Price your goods right up to what the market can bear. Business sense.

graphviz

Just allowing sites to deliver and execute js by default is insane. This is why every pirate should have a javascript blocking tool in their tool set.

Schneider Electric APC Back-UPS 1500VA, 900W.

They power on self-test okay, but go on to just fail to switchover during outages. I’m still trying to figure out if it is a factor of cumulative time, running hours, or they’re only good for a fixed number of power failures. And whether its the battery or the UPS device itself.

It feels like crashing your car, and then the airbags go off after you’re already mangled and bleeding out.

Amazon, Apple, Comcast, Disney, Fox, HBO, Hulu, MGM, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, and Warner Bros.

Joke’s on you MPA, I don’t watch any modern trash produced by these “entertainment” companies.

Retail UPS batteries don’t even last a single year, in my experience. The weekly brownouts and momentary blackouts probably aren’t helping.

At this point, I’m just thinking of building my own with a charge controller, inverter and a bank of car batteries.

Consider running some kind of file integrity monitoring. samhain, tiger, tripwire, to name a few.

considering containerization, but so far, I find it not worth foregoing the benefits I get of a single package manager for the entire server

Just do MAC with either AppArmor or SELinux.

Shortest answer: Agenda2030

You won’t even recognize the internet in a few years

What can we do to stop it?

But apparently people don’t care? They just keep paying for this?

Is your goal to attempt to stop other people from falling for subscriptions? You would be setting yourself up for disappointment.

Or do you mean “what can we do to stop it [from harassing us personally]”?

It’s not so much about what hardware you use, but in how it is configured.

Pretty much any system hardening, privacy and anonymity resources will help here.

And with computer literacy on the decline, I wouldn’t be shocked to see in our lifetime a generation of people who conceptually cannot understand a local video file.

I’m so glad I grew up when I did and got to experience video games before they began injecting overt political messaging into games.

The New Yorker launched a redesigned home page in late 2023, having reached a similar conclusion.

Oh boy let’s check it out.

newyorker.com attempts to load js and frames from eight third party domains. Among them;

“conde.digital” – I am assuming that means conde as in conde nast AKA reddit DNA… and we all know what happens to anything reddit touches.

“condenast.digital” above confirmed. I can almost feel the bile welling in my throat.

“cookielaw.org” - probably to serve cookie consent notices to the plebs who fail to block cookies and other trash.

“doubleclick.net” - known malware

“googletagmanager.com” - so that google can keep track of all their cattle.

And yet all of their articles are perfectly readable in plain HTML formatting, as expected. Not that I would ever spend any time reading articles from whatever this place is.

Block both javascript and CSS. Most of those nags are implemented via some combination of the two.

Google workspace

Dystopia is real

Only a few more steps until “Google Government”

What legal ramifications might follow taking such a role and intentionally doing it poorly?

The loss of generational knowledge is a very real concern (in tech, not just piracy) that nobody talks about. I am genuinely concerned for the future of major Linux distros, for example.

There are four lights

This would accelerate the fediverse to becoming a monoculture of thought.

Docker

There’s your first mistake.

Oh, hi, I’m just stopping by from the ‘compile from source and create a systemd unit file’ tribe.