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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Here is a nice summary from https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/o28yi4/comment/h26mguk/?context=3 :

    Privacy Badger is also redundant. It’s useless at best and can do a disservice:

    Its local learning is disabled by default. Since they turned off the heuristic, PB just blocks third-party cookies from the yellowlist. Keeping a separate extension to block cookies from ≈800 domains makes no sense when you have uBlock Origin with tens of thousands of domains in filter lists. It’s detectable, that is, it adds extra info to your fingerprint. Even despite the disabled local learning, some of its methods of work are still detectable (function code: API tampering detected). And if you enable local learning, PB can become even more detectable.

    Also it sends Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track headers (which even one of its creators called “a failed experiment”) by default, which is useless and only gives an extra bits for fingerprinting.

    Basically how privacy badger works is noticeable, but you can turn on local learning to get bespoke ad blocking at the cost of your device being much more easily identifiable. Maybe half-n-half and have privacy badger off on private browsing so you can shop in that mode without Amazon knowing your life’s history as easily






  • One drive does suck nards, but for your double clicking; logitech has been using shitass switches to detect clicks for a while now. They sooner rather than later fail to click once. Only solution I’ve found is to replace the switches (hard mode), or keep using the logitech mouse I have from 2009.

    It’s sucks, but you just gotta go for another brand. Even razer doesn’t have such a rampant double click problem.

    Logitech enshitified their dominant market position by cheaping on switches - works for them, they sell more mice (if you don’t put together they’re the source of the problem and it’s not a one-off issue).


  • From my lookin Black Speech and Khuzdul are not fully fleshed out. The GitHub near the bottom in “black speech resources” has links to all the black speech words there are. Sindarin (new elvish) and Quenya (old elvish) are pretty filled out, though. This site is good for words but is pretty verbose https://www.elfdict.com/

    There’s a Khuzdul dictionary online but it’s extrapolated words to try and make the language usable, not pulled from direct sources.

    Edit: the black speech in the movies is hobbled by the lack of black speech words, they make those few words that have been created work