cobbaut - Slashdot User

Comment Re:A tricky area. (Score 1) 6

by cobbaut on Saturday February 06, 2021 @08:38AM (#61033862) Attached to: Eliminate all third party browser ads and tracking ?

It's tricky since some services are owned by a corporation. E.g. some newspapers are owned by a corporation

I would still prefer this browser, as long as only *some* websites suffer. For those the toggle 'allow all domains' can be used.

Submission + - Eliminate all third party browser ads and tracking ? 6

Submitted by cobbaut on Saturday February 06, 2021 @07:33AM

cobbaut writes: Would it be possible to build a browser that when visiting a website, only allows connections to the domain name of the website itself? This would eliminate all third party ads, all third party tracking, all third party auto-playing video and all third party web beacons on every website.

I mean Chrome and Firefox are open source, and they both allow add-ons, so could it be done ? Would websites still work if the only content they can serve comes from their own domain name ?

This would require any payment system to be opened in a new tab, or by temporarily allowing a second domain name from Visa or Paypal to process the payment.

Or it could be made a toggle option "Allow only the parent domain to load when visiting a website" which can be disabled or enabled per tab. Or it could allow certain domains, for example allow Youtube for embedded video.

Comment Re:Transcript of the Tweet (Score 0) 583

by cobbaut on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:04AM (#60906074) Attached to: Twitter Locks President Trump's Account For 12 Hours, Warns of Permanent Suspension

Religion and Democracy are incompatible, because Democracy requires Informed Consent, where Religion requires complete obedience and the rejection of critical thinking and self awareness.

This deserves a +25 insightful!

Comment Civ IV 64-bit ? (Score 3, Interesting) 115

by cobbaut on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @07:27AM (#60027724) Attached to: MicroProse, Legendary Creators of Civilization, XCOM, and Falcon 4.0 Is Back

Dear Microprose, please make a patch to upgrade Civilization IV to 64-bit, the modding community would greatly benefit from this.

Comment Re:It's time to stop doing any business with China (Score 4, Interesting) 58

by cobbaut on Thursday November 07, 2019 @05:25AM (#59390036) Attached to: Vast Dragnet Targets Theft of Biomedical Secrets For China

We need to stop doing any business with China. They just can't seem to play by the rules so we should take our ball and send them home.

What happened to all universities sharing scientific findings with each other ? Is this now considered 'stealing' ??

Comment Re:April first is a blight, need to be stopped!! (Score 1) 154

by cobbaut on Monday April 01, 2019 @10:26AM (#58365756) Attached to: OS/2 Warp Community Announces It's Merging With the Flat Earth Society

Nope, April Fool's is a nice tradition.

I fired up Kerbal Space Program today and almost fell from my chair laughing ;-)

Comment so is Drupal (Score 1) 85

by cobbaut on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @04:39PM (#57973920) Attached to: Happy 18th Birthday, Wikipedia

Ha Wikipedia is the same age as Drupal.
https://dri.es/happy-eighteent...

Comment Re:news reader recommendations? (Score 2) 108

by cobbaut on Monday September 11, 2017 @12:50PM (#55174913) Attached to: Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News

Could someone recommend to me a newsreader that will integrate several news feeds into a single one? I do not want to use a web site that I have to log into. I just want an app or browser plugin. Thanks.

Try liferea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Debian (Score 1, Insightful) 224

by cobbaut on Saturday January 07, 2017 @12:37PM (#53623621) Attached to: Linux.com Announces The Best Linux Distros for 2017

Parrot Linux and *buntu are based on Debian, so why not use the original ?

Submission + - China Launches Second Space Lab (space.com)

Submitted by hackingbear on Thursday September 15, 2016 @12:42PM

hackingbear writes: China's next space laboratory, Tiangong-2 launched from the country's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center today at 10:04 a.m. EDT (1404 GMT) on a Long March 2F carrier rocket. Like its predecessor Tiangong-1, Tiangong-2 is an orbiting space lab – but this latest model has made several improvements in the series. Among the advances: astronauts can remain on the station up to 30 days; New systems allow in orbit refueling of propellant; and 14 new experiments in a wide range of sciences including composite material fabrication, advanced-plant cultivation, gamma ray burst polarization, fluid physics, space-to-earth quantum communications. The space lab is also equipped with a cold atom space clock, that has an estimated precision of 10 to the power of minus 16 seconds, or a one-second error every 30 million years, enhancing accuracy of time-keeping in space by one to two orders of magnitudes. This exactitude will help measure previously undetectable fluctuations for experiments conducted in zero-gravity.

Submission + - China Launches Tiangong-2 Space Lab to Prep for 2020s Space Station (space.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 15, 2016 @11:33AM

An anonymous reader writes: China has launched its second-ever space lab, a key part of the nation's plan to have a permanently staffed space station up and running by the early 2020s.

Submission + - The 50th Anniversary of "Star Trek"

Submitted by Dave Knott on Thursday September 08, 2016 @11:07AM

Dave Knott writes: Today marks the 50th anniversary of the first television broadcast of Star Trek. The first episode of the science fiction series was aired on September 8, 1966. From its humble beginnings, Star Trek has gone on to become one of the best-loved and most successful television concepts of all time, an enduring pop culture touchstone that changed science fiction forever and spawned multiple series and movies that continue to this day.
What does Star Trek mean to you? Are you a trekkie/trekker? What are your best memories of the series, and how has it affected your life?

Comment 15-inch Macbook Pro Retina with Debian Sid (Score 2) 326

by cobbaut on Monday July 18, 2016 @08:06AM (#52532553) Attached to: Slashdot Asks: What's Your Computer Set-Up Look Like?

Laugh all you want, but at the time of release the 15-inch retina Macbook Pro was not that expensive.

I prefer 16:10 displays to 16:9 !
After three years, it still runs 8+ hours on its battery.

root@retinad:~# lshw -short (EDITED) /0/0 memory 7895MiB System memory /0/1 processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4750HQ CPU @ 2.00GHz /0/100 bridge Crystal Well DRAM Controller /0/100/1 bridge Crystal Well PCI Express x16 Controller /0/2/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk 251GB APPLE SSD SM0256 root@retinad:~# uname -a Linux retinad 4.6.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.6.2-2 (2016-06-25) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Comment ipv6 and open ports (Score 3, Interesting) 35

by cobbaut on Thursday June 09, 2016 @05:41AM (#52280131) Attached to: Belgium Tops List Of Nations Most Vulnerable To Hacking

More than half of Belgium is on ipv6, the test only includes ipv4 hosts.

And since when does 'open port' equal 'vulnerability' ?

Comment Re:why is this on slashdot? (Score 1) 1011

by cobbaut on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @10:32AM (#51752375) Attached to: Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead

Would you just shut up with your pathetic bleating.

It's stuff that matters and slashdot has never ever ever been nothing but tech.

What's is with all the whiners about topicality recently?

Well, maybe because Slashdot used to be a tech site ? (with the exception of 9/11 because all other news sites were not handling their massive web visitors)

We used to get news about hackers doing really nice tricks with hardware or software, about kernel releases, driver updates, mp3 or decss legal stuff, SCO vs IBM, space elevators, etcetera...
Now get off my lawn ;-)

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