Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

A Holden Commodore screeches to a halt. The Commodores Greatest Hits blares from within until the car is turned off. I open the door & emerge with a Commodore SX-64 carried like a briefcase. I turn to the camera, smiling & holding up a finger from my free hand. A disembodied voice sings the jingle, "Are you keeping up with the Commodore? Because the Commodore is keeping up with you."

@maple ✨ ✨

Merry Yule, northern hemisphere folks! Merry Litha, southern hemisphere folks!

@climagic [ "`python -V 2>&1|cut -c8`" = "3" ]&&python -m http.server||python -m SimpleHTTPServer # if you're not sure which version of the python binary is installed, this calls the right web server module either way.

@KitsuneAlicia@octodon.social In my case, I don't have much of a choice because my main OS is FreeBSD Unix, and even native Linux apps are incompatible. NoScript lets me contain the allowed JS to just the ones my instance's website need.

@KitsuneAlicia@octodon.social Your complaints about JavaScript's ubiquity & blind trust are spot-on identical to mine, but HTML5 looks like an unrelated improvement that, like XHTML & all the HTMLs before it, quickly turns to mush when any browser-based program script is thrown in.

Unlike the simple on-off switch built into some browsers, NoScript & ScriptSafe are selective & granular JavaScript blockers. That means, with either of them, you can allow JavaScript from a website's domains while blocking & distrusting JavaScript from ad network domains. And that distrust of an ad network's JavaScript (or any domain's JS) follows you across the World Wide Web to every website attempting to use it on you, not just the one site you distrusted it on.

For anti-adblock pop-ups, I usually recommend the more extreme action of blocking JavaScript on that website, either through "Site Settings" behind the info icon in the Chrome address bar, or through an extension such as NoScript for Firefox & ScriptSafe for Chrome/Chromium.

If the page content is completely inaccessible with both ads & JS blocked, then there's nothing for it; I recommend abandoning the site. Like a game of Three-Card Monte in an alley, the only winning move is not to play.

@Tathar For that, I usually recommend the more extreme action of blocking JavaScript on that website, either through "Site Settings" behind the info icon in the Chrome address bar, or through an extension such as NoScript for Firefox & ScriptSafe for Chrome/Chromium.

If the page content is completely inaccessible with both ads & JS blocked, then there's nothing for it; I recommend abandoning the site. Like a game of Three-Card Monte in an alley, the only winning move is not to play.

@Sir_Boops Take a look at her wake. That giant airport can just about turn and drift on a dime. :3

@Saxxon And you would be right. The majority of Web-borne malware gets its foot in the door via ad networks.

Cleaning up a customer's PC, I made the mistake of leaving a tab open on Yahoo's home page. Only 1 minute later: malvertized. Sunuva...

I did it again to pin down the cause, & indeed it's Yahoo's ads breaking out, taking over the page, & loading scary messages that make it difficult to leave.

I can't stress enough, folks, that an ad blocker is Internet SECURITY software.

current status: "This shouldn't take long. Thanks for being patient."

They're out of fresh strawberries. Guess I'll have to get the recycled strawberries instead.

@monorail Ah. Still weird you'd have to memorize any 3-digit number to the 4th power, tho.