Or click on the link on their Wikipedia page

And it was IA’s increased activity during the pandemic that spurred the current trouble. Brewster Kahle is a saint.

I’ve had a Twitter acct for a long time, and I still use it. I’ve curated my feed to contain virology/epidemiology specialists, independent journalists, and eye candy. I have 2 ways of finding people to follow. 1. When I’m reading on the internet and find something I like, I look to see whether they’ve got a Twitter acct. 2. If someone comments intelligently on a good post, I check their profile. If they post stuff worth reading, I follow them. As for eye candy, I’m attracted to ancient stuff. There are several archaeologists who post.

I’ve “followed” several people from Twitter on Mastodon. I can’t see them in my feed, but I can view the list of people I’ve followed and click on them. For now, their Mastodon posts come from bots that echo their Twitter posts. It looks like everyone’s hedging their bets. If I need to leave Twitter, I can still access most of the info I’m used to getting from there.

Twitter’s not completely a cesspool yet.

Tried Nostr. Mostly crypto.

I’d love to know how it works out for you. There’s no cell signal where I live, so calling & messaging is all over internet, anyway.

Try adding YT enhancer. I’ve got UBlock Origin and that installed. IDK which one is still blocking ads, but they’re still blocked.

No trouble for me using Yandex and AdGuard AdBlocker, either, fwiw.

Thanks! Freetube works great. Here are directions for importing YT subscriptions. https://docs.freetubeapp.io/usage/importing-subscriptions/

I got it once on Chrome. Haven’t used Chrome for YT since. No trouble with FF and UBlock Origin.

A ct vi d dot o r g uses a server called netu, based in Romania. It seldom goes down.

I watch UK TV with a VPN–BBC, UKTV, Channel 4, ITV. You have to find a UK address for iplayer, but that’s not too hard with a search engine. I started doing it with Surfshark, then BBC got better at recognizing VPNs. You need to do some homework around that, and don’t believe most online advice, as it tends to be paid advertising.

Had to reinstall browser today. Looked for donation button when I re-downloaded. Found a whole bunch of contributors, but no donation button.

I came to ask whether there’s a way to thank or otherwise appreciate a github team for something very useful.

No evangelism of any kind–rather dirtbag leftism. Chapo Trap House is defined on Wikipedia. They’ve been around for a while. They’ve got podcasts. They write books. They’re smart, well-informed, and take no prisoners. They’re also comradely toward honest, curious newcomers. If one were, say, proudly liberal and sure in their understanding of history and politics, it probably wouldn’t be a good fit.

Chapo Trap House lemmy.

‘nerd shit’

On Star Trek? Imagine that! (I’ve been nerding over there, off and on, all day) 🤣

Incidentally, when I looked up that user earlier in the day, they account was 8 hours old.

Me too. I just found hexbear.net. Much better.

@Bungiefan_ak@lemm.ee joined 8 hours ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH/comments/15qfjh8/we_removed_filecr_as_we_found_malware/

Everyone wants us to subscribe. This a.m. I listened to some guy on the internet rant about HP shutting down his printer remotely b/c he’d bought a subscription, when he bought the printer (didn’t read fine print in contract/TOS–that’s another rant), to a certain number of pages/month. His credit card number changed, HP didn’t get their tithe, so they remotely disabled his printer. Entertainment moguls suck up all the money in that industry, leaving little for artists–to wit, the strikes–and streaming subscriptions are expensive. Cable prices are ridiculous. Corporate greed and having every subscriber subsidize sports channels probably account for that. Everything costs too much, and my budget is small. Original Star Trek and original Doctor Who were broadcast over the air. In exchange for commercials, we got to watch for free. If I could subscribe to iplayer, that would satisfy my needs. Alas, I don’t live in UK, and BBC’s arrangements with multinational entertainment corps preclude my subscription. So I pay for a good VPN. That’s still more than it used to cost to watch. Tropicana OJ used to have a commercial showing people sticking straws right into an orange to suck its juice. I often feel like the orange. Piracy is ethical.

That dog looks like Loukanikos, the beloved riot dog from Greece.