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Actually, I am much more pissed off by those sites pretending to accept that I reject cookies, but when I check after I have left the site, there is a whole bunch of new cookies, both from the site I visited and from a bunch of companies advertising on that site.
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Gluups wrote: it is the first time I see it would be so long to reject all and I renounce. Oh, there are several, many of which are very popular sites in the tech field.Gluups wrote: A hosts file can be a solution, but then I first have to compile the list "partners" to verify they all are on my hosts file I don't bother with that; I 127.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.0 the sites that make me go to multiple sites to block their cookies (even though I've probably already blocked most of the third-party cookies).
What these sites don't seem to realise is that they need us more than we need them. For every site on the Interwebs, there are dozens of alternatives we can visit instead, but the number of people willing to visit each site is finite.
Every site you block, every clickbait link you don't click, is a lesson to them.
I even have this line in my hosts file:
0.0.0.0 google.com www.google.com subdomain1.google.com And you know what? The Internet works just fine, for me -- and is really fast, without all their ubiquitous "analytics".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Well, I have to look at that nearer ...
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Quote: It's what I use my hosts file for. Yup!
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A hosts file doesn't stop cookies; it just blocks the URL from loading.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: A hosts file doesn't stop cookies; it just blocks the URL from loading. ... And stops your computer downloading any files from that domain.
If a site is blocked, you can't get any cookies from that site, and that site can't access your machine to read any cookies.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Easier way is simply to not open the webpage, or disallow cookies in the browser. Blocking access to a site just for "cookies" is a little bit weird.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I don't block sites "for cookies", I block sites because they break the law.
I don't knowingly associate with, or give profit or succour to, criminals.
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Gluups wrote: So, the logical conclusion should be we all have to install Unix. Will this be the year of Linux on the desktop?
Gluups wrote: So, I search for the usual button to "reject all", but there is none There is; I used it. And checked in Private mode to be sure, and yes, there is; at the top of the list. Want a screenshot?
Gluups wrote: So, what is your idea : is not the sum up of this article "hypocrisy" ? So are you using Linux or Windows to write this post and reply to it?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Will this be the year of Linux on the desktop?
Quite possible : we have to listen to Microsoft's messages.
Any difficulty to use Visual Studio on it ?
Eddy Vluggen wrote: There is; I used it. And checked in Private mode to be sure, and yes, there is; at the top of the list. Want a screenshot?
Well, why not, I do not see it ...
How do I send a screen copy, do I host it on cjoint.com ?
Eddy Vluggen wrote: So are you using Linux or Windows to write this post and reply to it?
I use Windows 10. I have next to see the vendor about a few problems, and then make some place for a Unix partition.
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It was fun; didn't seem to make sense to get a mail with "quote selected text", and could almost feel your frustration after.
Gluups Quite possible : we have to listen Microsoft's messages. If you work with their product, you'd better.
Gluups wrote: Well, why not, I do not see it ...
How do I send a screen copy, do I host it on cjoint.com ? Host is anywhere and include a link here.
Gluups wrote: I use Windows 10. I have next to see the vendor about a few problems, and then make some place for a Unix partition. You don't have to; install any pendrivelinux-supported distribution on a USB stick and give it a try.
As for MS forcing you to login to use your OS; it is their product. If you don't like it, then don't use it. Won't make major companies suddenly switch to Linux; your own choice.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: If you work with their product, you'd better.
For sure. And if their message is "hurry up to install another system", it is somewhat destabilizing.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: Host is anywhere and include a link here.
Here it is
Eddy Vluggen wrote: You don't have to; install any pendrivelinux-supported distribution on a USB stick and give it a try.
That is also a possibility. But maybe I have to change my machine next, and so that is the occasion to reserve some place on the disk.
Eddy Vluggen wrote: As for MS forcing you to login to use your OS; it is their product. If you don't like it, then don't use it. Won't make major companies suddenly switch to Linux; your own choice.
Sure. I also have a magnifying glass I bought by the optician, but I feel this is not a normal way to access a key part of the system.
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Gluups wrote: Here it is Green button at the top toggles all.
Gluups wrote: Sure. I also have a magnifying glass I bought by the optician, but I feel this is not a normal way to access a key part of the system. You haven't bought a product, but a software-license.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Who cares about cookies? Why all the crying over cookies?
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Its not the cookies - its the spilled milk that they are crying over.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Milk and cookies. Mmmmmm.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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A movie from 1929 that shows the launch of a three stage rocket to fly to the moon. Earlier in the movie they even showed the flight path of the rocket through the Lagrangian point[^]. And the movie uses a countdown for the first time.
Rollout[^]
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It's more a self fulfilling prophecy. The advisor for the movie was Hermann Oberth, rocket scientist and Wernher von Braun's teacher.
Here we have the decoration on an A4 rocket from 1942, which references the title of the movie: Woman in the moon[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
modified 24-Feb-20 12:46pm.
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Sure he did, but he shot them there with a cannon. What was his plan to get back home, assuming there was no cannon conveniently parked on the moon?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Well, I never read the book, but it seems the plan was to land on the moon but instead they got into an orbit around the moon and landed in the Pacific Ocean.
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This seems apropos to the day, since we learned that Katherine Johnson, one of the NASA mathematicians depicted in "Hidden Figures" passed away today at age 101
NY Times Obit for Katherine Johnson
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What, there are people who have a clue what they're talking about, when they write Sci-Fi?
That's just cheating!
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It featured a mouse travelling to the moon. There wouldn't be a movie about that in English until 1963!
I don't remember the part about using a divining rod to search for water on the moon. Now I'll need to watch it again.
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One of my childhood books was the 1963 vintage "The NEW Junior Book" from the Readers Diggable. It might be something published by the Norwegian publishers of the Diggable, but I assume that it was published all over the US dominated world, in different translations (like most books in this class were, in those days).
One of the digests in this book is "Summary of 'First Men to the Moon', (c) Werner von Braun 1958, 1959, 1960", filling no less than 14 large-format pages. I was immensely disappointed when I first discovered that this was a made up history - noone had ever been on the moon! And then, people did land on the moon, but it wasn't at all like the story from Readers Diggable! ...
Then, with Apollo 13, history took revenge! The Werner von Braun story of the meteorite punctuatinhg the space ship created a drama not that different from Apollo 13!
The Diggable book says nothing about where the Werner von Braun story had been published earlier. Maybe it was created for this book alone, 3-5 years earlier, and never published anywhere else.
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