Phoenix [she/they]

My guess: People who can be as competent with security as they need are very expensive.

Does the Remarkable do stuff if you touch the screen with your fingers? Or can I make it not do that, and only react to the pen?

Is there anything that still has side buttons and no touch screen? I’m still holding on to my old kindle 3rd gen (kindle keyboard) because I abhor touchscreens on my books.

Ideally also with no backlight, or the ability to turn the backlight off.

They also “pay” an absolute pittance if you have them enabled — something like 2 cents per ad, if I remember my calculations correctly. Literally nobody should be considering that trade worth it.

But with more walls around the garden

Just to help me understand: Why is it that when I try the same search on different instances of this, I get very different search results?

Russian, but yeah

More discussion here: https://tildes.net/~comp/18h8/web_environment_integrity_a_google_proposal_for_general_web_drm

This shit keeps radicalizing me about the internet more and more. Ughh.

I mean, Google does index and cache most webpages internally already. So yeah, maybe. But after reading the article it doesn’t sound like they’re doing that.

We see the “cloud” as some bulletproof storage but long term it’s up in the air really.

A+ pun, intended or not

I even found an old diary entry of mine today that linked to one of my own facebook posts, and that link had already rotted. Ugh.

Hm. I wonder if you could write a browser extension to just kill gifs in their tracks and only show the first frame without hover or whatever. Maybe. Didn’t find a solution after a cursory look (only malware called Gif Jam) but this certainly seems possible in principle…

Someone on StackOverflow found a thing that accomplished it; maybe this can be converted into a userscript. If this would be really valuable to you, and you aren’t up for doing it yourself, let me know — I might make this just for fun. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5818003/stop-a-gif-animation-onload-on-mouseover-start-the-activation

EDIT: I made one. Weirdly it works on all sites except beehaw, though, and it just breaks gifs on beehaw. Probably some content security policy on beehaw preventing the images from loading for the JS? https://gist.github.com/phoenixeliot/45f0c6a04fffd84998ac8bc526c901fe

But it does successfully replace gifs with broken images, so maybe still net positive for people for whom gifs are a health hazard?

Some parts that can be configured:

Which sites it applies to:

// @match        https://beehaw.org/*
// @match        https://*

How to select which elements are considered gifs:

  var gifElements = document.querySelectorAll(
    'img[src$="gif"], img[alt*=animated]'
  );