An illegal actor could still

and that’s all legality on the internet can achieve: calling these illegal actors. just like if I would be called an illegal actor if I kept using Matrix and Signal after (and if) chat control has passed.

but they would be taking on risk,

have you seen this article by Proton, showing how much big tech pays in penalties for their illegal acts?

it does not matter.

paying substantial infratstructure costs,

piece of cake for those who already have it. I’m but only talking about traditional big tech, but also other large companies like clearview ai.

would not be able to make it widely available for fear of being caught, and would have limited options for actually making any real money from it.

Except if they are

• in a non-EU country, because EU has no power outside it
• having business with police forces and such, because then it can easily get an exception or get hidden or handwaved away

It would completely prevent say, your average stalker, or jilted ex, or non techy weirdo from.being able to access it, and it would prevent corporations from spending all their time building business around privacy invasion.

only if it gets found out, and if the person doing it does nothing to hide itself. I don’t think this would be effective.

what I think though that this could be used as another reason to support chat control, and automated surveillance with it, but maybe not even at the chat system, but at the camera software or operating system level

I agree with you, I think there might have been a misunderstanding.

Well you said:

but that’s the best that can be done on chrome

that’s true. what I wanted to mean is that I don’t think gorhill really wants to develop that addon (uBO Lite), as I can imagine he’s fed up with the limitations and how little he can do there. I don’t know he’s reason for developing it, though. Maybe as an experiment on what it could still accomplish.

And I think the best use of such a plugin is actually to use it on Firefox. Since Firefox (or Firefox forks) still support Manifest v2.

I’m a little confused here. we don’t need that plugin on Firefox, because we have the full capability version.

SO please do not use Google Chrome

I totally agree. That would be a huge downgrade. Not looking back, only forward, for FF forks and whatever the future may bring us.

It’s possible to run multiple services on the same machine, and actually it’s most often done that way, yes. To keep it all more portable and maintainable, people often use containerization software (like docker with docker compose). It has lower overhead than running VMs.

If you start hosting multiple services that have a web interface, you will probably want to look into a reverse proxy software, which is basically a web server that handles TLS uniformly and sorts your HTTP services to subdomains. The Apache web server is agood example.

Prepare yourself to the need of editing text files and using the linux shell, often through SSH. Most often the text files will not need to change after having it set up properly. These text files and tge linux terminal are much more friendly in my opinion than the windows registry and the windows cmd terminal, so don’t let that discourage you.

it does not discourage anything. illegally designed cookie notices? the dozen tracking providers on all the websites? digital public passport passes that track your habits, but never told you about it, not even at purchase?

the law wont save you. laws will prevent no one from doing this, just like outlawing encryption couldn’t prevent decentralized encrypted messengers from being used.

as a European, I don’t think EU laws have helped anything in this. if anything they have only helped to make websites a little more honest in what they do. but even their cookie notices and tracking agreement questions are most often illegal, filled with dark patterns prohibited by GDPR. and who the fuck cares?

I figured that every node would need to scrap the site, in order to validate the content. If there are thousands of nodes, that would ddos the site.

with cryptocurrencies the blockchain is distributed, its not stored centrally. your idea could work similarly

have a look at the community sidebar

I fear just the same will happen to all the other encrypted messengers too, to discourage everyone from using it. it’s a bit like if this was connected to the same gang that so much wants to outlaw secure encryption

Besides the caveats about disks living longer if they are kept spinning,

I think that’s not necessarily true. I think spinning 24/7/365 has its downsides too, higher temperatures and others I’m less certain about.

are there reasons why I shouldn’t setup a cron job (well, a systemd timer) that runs hdparm -Y every 10 minutes? (for example, could hdparm -y cause errors if run while the drive is being backed up?)

because you’ll often shut it down while someone would be using it. and then it can spin up immediately. the processes accessing it would probably hang for half a minute or such.

there is a better solution, hd-idle, as said in the other response

hd-idle is the solution. it’s strictly better than the HDDs own feature, because if you have some system monitoring software that queries your disk stats every minute, that will always reset that timer. hd-idle is smarter than that.

how do you remote control HTPC?

wireless keyboard and mouse is not a real solution. all other such devices that you mentioned used a handheld remote controller

that is exactly what the parents will not accept, as stated by OP

it says “games that was made in the city”

at that point we could just flip the switch for the case insensitive mode

I don’t understand, could you reword it?

yes, it was made for Firefox too. did I say it wasn’t? but I think there was no real reason for anyone to use it on Firefox.

I thought they have lost that a few months ago. Firefox though claimed that

• they will keep Mv2 support for some time
• their version of Mv3 will keep the superior network filtering API

I can’t think of a reason why it wouldn’t be possible

I was in the impression that the protocol was designed with that in mind that the server can do certain things in response to certain other things happening. I think the room membership management part of the client spec writes about this.

But yeah, this can probably change, especially that they are now doing versioning

yeah, on Firefox it’s not really useful, other than for very underpowered mobile devices. it was only made because of chrome.

because of the lack of capabilities I think regular uBO with only the default lists would be the same as uBOL performance wise, and more effectivein cleaning up websites in all aspects

that too, but not just that. how does access control work, how is memory safety around the receiving and authenticating code, is the traffic encrypted and how…because keystrokes, and I think mouse actions are also sensitive