Remember when the web didn’t suck?
Why are they quoting a wolf? They didn’t talk the last time I checked.
Check again, it’s getting crazy out there.
oh shit
So I think the idea of the tinfoil is that somebody grabbing the knob will make noise.
Therefore altering you.
You’d be better off with an alarm system and a deadbolt lock, though.
That’s what I figured - pretty much any alarm system would be better, but could technically help you in a pinch
Alternatively the intruder will just be so confused they’ll decide to break into another house instead of figuring out what the foil does
Probably assume they ran out of socks.
I just saw this but with a toilet paper roll under the toilet seat when alone.
“be reminded that you forgot to get tp when you really need it with this one weird trick!”
Use an adblocker in your browser and an ad-blocking DNS server like Mullvad DNS (it’s super easy on Android, just search for Private DNS in the settings and set it to
base.dns.mullvad.net), AdGuard DNS (same thing, super easy, just set it todns.adguard-dns.com) or NextDNS on your phone (and ideally on all your other devices). There’s also an app called AdAway, but it takes up the VPN slot so you can’t use it together with a VPN.I wanna know who did the financing for the ad. A tinfoil company? Big
ToughSofty Iron? A Goog guy worn off yoga?(I aim to not say the fifthglyph for all days to promote !avoid5@sh.itjust.works)
It’s an ad in your post, fittingly (although yours isn’t particularly ironic).
Do you know of oulipo.social? No fifth symbols found on all of that domain.
(btw i wanted to somehow word in “at least once per day”, but found using “per”, “every”, “for each” etc challenging to translate)
thought it fit! >:)
ooh, kinda wonky of los oulipos to call that thing just cuz of that only work which had this gimmick
also i think that the original book allows using “the”, in fact it also allows “me” and forms of “be”. so los oulipos gonna <this is hard>, huh?
The web back then didn’t have AdBlock. Now it does. So not really lol.
Lemmy likes to pretend it makes more sense than this
Actually the ad matches the article. To me the ad is “fringe” and it has infested the “mainstream” (CNN).
What? That is gold, not Mildly Infuriating at all.
Remember when the web didn’t suck?
No, I don’t. Not since 2000, when I logged on from home for the first time. The majority of it has always sucked. Then the web can suddenly do new things… and finds new ways to suck.
It has, however, always had excellent little areas and corners.Right? Do you remember going to websites and your computer would yell out that you were watching porn? Ads would burst forth like you just won fucking Solitaire. Shit took forever to download, and if you lost connection in the middle, start over!
I guess if you started using the Internet after like 2008, when things really started to take off, you saw a golden hour. But it was a dangerous place in the early 2000s, although I learned a lot about how to unfuck computers in my quest for boobs as a teenager.
Knowing about “Temporary Internet Files” while my family was unaware made me feel like some sort of God of knowledge.
Oh and yeah I think I found porn there hooray!
I miss early YouTube that had full episodes of just about any TV show illegally uploaded without any sort of copyright enforcement.
I also miss reddit, but what it used to be is gone forever.
I’m so frustrated with the internet right now. My wife started making Castile soap and I’m trying to find out if its some fu-fu-berry-bullshit or like an actual decent soap. Google is feeding me momfluencers (which range from ‘fine but there is no accountability’ to blatant grifters) and sites that are simply trying to sell this stuff. I’m going to try again with kagi tonight, but it’s still very frustrating that I never know what to trust anymore. The bullshit is coming faster than I’m able to handle it
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/castile-soap
That’s a reputable org.
You beautiful bastard, that’s exactly the kind of thing I was looking for.
I’m bookmarking that page. Thank you!
It was literally the first result on DuckDuckGo for me FWIW.
A good way to make your own soap without artificial fragrances in them. My wife has skin sensitive to fragrances, and most commercial soaps have fragrance (even unscented Yeesh)
Remember when the web didn’t suck?
Was there ever a time? In the late 80s and early 90s when it was mostly text only, there really wasn’t a whole lot of content, and bandwidth sucked massively.
Once connection speeds improved, we got banner ads, popups, and noisy flash animations, all of which were vectors to install viruses.
Then came google, facebook and amazon, and monopolized the web.
Every era sucked in its own right. But I’m rather using it now where plenty of other educated people develop countermeasures that work out of the box, rather than having to fiddle around with browser configurations to block ads and malware myself.
TL;DR: Use adblock.
There’s less info now than a few years ago and it’s harder to find. Web 2.0 has put most of the data and traffic into just a few hands. And as we can see with Twitter that can lead to a significant part of the Internet going to shit overnight.
Hell, most of us are here because of what reddit did overnight. It’s certainly better than the age of web rings but we’ve entered a downturn.
Agree, especially with the getting harder to find part. I’ve followed some other user’s recommendation and have been using kagi.com for the last 2 weeks as my search engine of choice, and it’s really way ahead of google these days. I’m still in the free tier but about to hit the ceiling this week, and I’m rather certain I’ll end up paying for it before I go back to google.
The results are about on par with Goolge ~2022. No ads, no trackers, and most of the SEO garbage that’s targeting google (and maybe bing?) is by and large disregarded. Worth a try for sure.
At least now I can watch porn without it turning out to be that middle eastern dude getting his head cut off
In the late 80s and early 90s
Hold up there… HTLM wasn’t even invented until 1991 by Timothy Berners-Lee who then made the first web server, web browser, and web page. It was another two or three years before browsing the web became more common. Before then, the internet was very basic, consisted of a few simple services, and was typically only accessible via universities and large corporations.
Regular people often only had access to regional online services until national services like CompuServe, Prodigy, and AOL came along.
Yep, ARPAnet and some messaging boards pre-90’s. Slow as hell and limited content, that’s what I mean.
The internet existed pre-web. Email, Usenet, IRC, Archie, etc. the real difference between ARPANET and the Internet was the introduction of TCP/IP packet handling and CIX which unified ISPs, but those both came pre-1991.
The only thing infecting me reading this is cringe.
The MSM tries to act like the voice of reason when they’re the biggest purveyors of disinfo by a wide margin.
If you mean via ads like this, I would agree. They could do more to filter out the garbage.
But if you mean in their content, I’m not seeing that, beyond the usual (long history) leaning to one side or another.
But these are two very different things and shouldn’t be equated.
I only had to play an hour of “Thief” to thank myself I don’t have door knobs.
