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28 votes
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The Internet Archive is under attack, with a popup claiming a ‘catastrophic’ breach
71 votes -
Big changes are coming to ArchiveBox!
10 votes -
Your chatbot transcripts may be a gold mine for AI companies
25 votes -
Paypal opted you into sharing data without your knowledge
90 votes -
This is [my dead grandmother]’s special day!
15 votes -
Prison inmates in Finland are being employed as data labellers to improve accuracy of AI models
22 votes -
Does anyone have experience with tools for locally archiving the web, like Archivebox for example?
I found myself on the Archivebox website earlier today. After reading some of it, that's the kind of program I could use. The ephemerous nature of the web is bothersome, so much content is lost...
I found myself on the Archivebox website earlier today. After reading some of it, that's the kind of program I could use. The ephemerous nature of the web is bothersome, so much content is lost for one reason or another. Archivebox seems to be one of the most popular tools, and it can automatically mirror my locally downloaded website to archive.org, which is great. It seems complex though, maybe more complex than I usually tolerate these days. Which is why I am asking if anyone has personal experience with Archivebox or other similar programs. Do you find them useful and reliable? Have you ever found in your local storage a webpage that you really liked, which was gone from the web? How's your setup?
Thank ;)
19 votes -
Tapedeck.org is a digital archive that features hundreds of cassette tape designs
13 votes -
Google will now link to The Internet Archive to add more context to Search results
37 votes -
How I built an NFC movie library for my kids
22 votes -
US Department of Justice attorneys claim Google has “trifecta of monopolies” on day one of ad tech trial
30 votes -
The Internet Archive lost their latest appeal. Here’s what that means for you.
27 votes -
Internet Archive loses appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive
69 votes -
Recommend me a digital clock?
I have been having a lot of trouble finding a digital clock. I don't even know where to ask for recs, I tried a couple subreddits but there is no /r/digitalclocks so I'm trying a more general...
I have been having a lot of trouble finding a digital clock. I don't even know where to ask for recs, I tried a couple subreddits but there is no /r/digitalclocks so I'm trying a more general place here and maybe someone can help?
My requirements (I'm in the USA so that's where the time finding needs to happen):
- It autosets the time based on the radio signal
- It automatically detects DST
- Backup battery so if I get a power failure it doesn't lose the time
- The time is the only thing on the display. (Although, this seems to be the hardest one to find, so, if it also shows the temperature or something, that's ok, as long as the time is a lot bigger than anything else)
- Not willing to spend more than $50 on a clock
- Needs to be LED not LCD, i.e. I want to be able to see the time in a dark room without pressing a light-up button or anything
Additional bonuses:
- If it has a rainbow display
- If it has a USB charging port
- Big numbers, like at least 1.5" tall
I don't care about the alarm or any overhead projection features.
If you have a digital clock that you love that meets these requirements (or at least mostly does) I would like to hear about it!! Thanks!!
11 votes -
In leak, Facebook partner brags about listening to your phone’s microphone to serve ads for stuff you mention
48 votes -
End of the road: An AnandTech farewell
53 votes -
Elon Musk’s lawyers quietly subpoena public interest groups
38 votes -
Sweden and Denmark will summon tech companies over ads on their platforms that are posted by gangs to recruit young Swedes to commit violent crimes in the Nordics
17 votes -
US FTC bans fake online reviews, inflated social media influence; rule takes effect in October
52 votes -
Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers
61 votes -
YouTube without a working ad blocker
I liked ( past tense ) watching YouTube with the latest Firefox on my Mint Linux box. No more. The ad blocker I use ( latest version ) has stopped working for removing YouTube commercials. The...
I liked ( past tense ) watching YouTube with the latest Firefox on my Mint Linux box.
No more.
The ad blocker I use ( latest version ) has stopped working for removing YouTube commercials.
The commercials are obnoxious.
I think I will quit until the ad blocker I use updates again with a fix.
Sorry YouTube, you are far from being worth $14.00 USD a month.
Edit:
Mint Linux 21.2
Cinnamon 5.8
Firefox 128.0.3
Ublock Origin 1.59.0
- I completely removed UBlock Origin
- I completely emptied my Firefox cache and other data
- I signed out of Google completely
- I reinstalled UBlock Origin
- I signed back into Google
- I tried using YouTube with my VPN turned on.
No joy.
I can watch YouTube ad free via a private window in Firefox.
I can watch YouTube ad free if I log out of my Google/YouTube account
My add blocker works in other browsers when I am not logged into my Google/YouTube account.
49 votes -
Elon Musk’s X sues Unilever, Mars and CVS over ‘massive advertiser boycott’
50 votes -
Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled
82 votes -
Google to charge new fee on ads in response to Canada’s digital services tax
12 votes -
PSA: Internet Archive “glitch” deletes years of user data and accounts
34 votes -
Everlasting jobstoppers: How an AI bot-war destroyed the online job market
40 votes -
Google halts its four-plus-year plan to turn off tracking cookies by default in Chrome
36 votes -
Google dropping plan to remove ad-tracking cookies on Chrome
22 votes -
"Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla disappoints us yet again
68 votes -
YouTube is testing "Premium Jump Ahead" (built-in sponsorblock)
43 votes -
Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win
59 votes -
YouTube tests harder-to-block server-side ad injection in videos
72 votes -
How influencer cartels manipulate social media: Fraudulent behaviour hidden in plain sight
19 votes -
How makers of nonconsensual AI porn make a living on Patreon
15 votes -
Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed
61 votes -
Instagram's Nudify [non-consensual fake nude photo generator] ads
45 votes -
Two popular Danish television presenters have reported Meta to the police after finding their images and words had been manipulated and misused in thousands of Facebook ads
29 votes -
Sweden's public sector has ditched Big Tech in the name of privacy as a major telecom provider unveiled a new secure collaboration hub
14 votes -
Discord to start showing ads for gamers to boost revenue
62 votes -
Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy
37 votes -
A university librarian asks: How do we rescue the past?
14 votes -
Has anyone here received any benefit as a consumer from algorithmic ad targeting?
I always get ads for items I have already purchased and won't need again for years if ever.
40 votes -
How the Pentagon learned to use targeted ads to find its targets—and Vladimir Putin
29 votes -
Google’s retiring of Internet archiving tool draws ire of China researchers
18 votes -
The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests
50 votes -
An archive of Wikipedia from Thursday, December 20, 2001
18 votes -
How Quora died - The site used to be a thriving community that worked to answer our most specific questions. But users are fleeing.
37 votes -
Is fandom.com actually getting worse?
I have been a frequent visitor of the various websites that are now under the Fandom.com umbrella, going back to when it was called Wikia. And if there's one thing that's been a consistent...
I have been a frequent visitor of the various websites that are now under the Fandom.com umbrella, going back to when it was called Wikia. And if there's one thing that's been a consistent irritation with the platform, it's just how intrusive and annoying the advertising is. (For a sense of how long this has been a problem, see here.)
But worse than the intrusiveness of the sites' ads, their biggest problem is their performance. They can bring Firefox to a crawl.
For a while, it seemed like Fandom had been making some improvements. I could visit, say, Memory Alpha without the CPU on my computer spiking like crazy. But I just tried to look something up on the Forgotten Realms Wiki and, good god, it was terrible.
(And before anyone says anything, no, I have no intention of using an ad blocker to deal with it.)
Am I imagining it or is the platform actually getting worse again?
57 votes -
Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware, researchers say
28 votes