I figured if I read the comments on this post, I'd find all the incels and rednecks whining about Fark. The truth is, it hasn't really changed much, other than the fact that the people running the site grew up, and the site grew up with them and shed that frat-boy mentality.

They also had to get rid of adult content due to Google becoming the morality police of the internet when it comes to sites that they will allow ads to be run against. They are in turn pressured by various right wing lobby groups in the United States, who also pressure credit card payment systems not to support adult content. Blame the religious right for that. A legacy of our puritan origins. (Fark tried moving all the Boobies links to foobies.com, and that experiment ultimately did not work.) They have to police comment photos as well for that reason.

Fark is still a terrific link aggregator with funny headlines, and no AI or algorithms to filter it. The traffic has fallen off a good amount from its peak years, but it's still very lively.

I also find it funny that people here are complaining that fark is 'woke' or whatever, when I see plenty of borderline socialist ideology on display in posts every day on Slashdot. If you are complaining about that, why are you here? Yea, Fark is certainly anti-fascist, and I'm great with that.

I'd say Slashdot is in a much more degraded state than Fark. The original sense of community on Slashdot is long gone, though it still provides a useful aggregation of privacy and security focused tech news, which I appreciate. The comment sections here are far nastier on average. Fark is still fairly civil other than a few trolls here and there, and it's easy to block them.

Free speech includes lying.

I learned from here on Slashdot the two best tools to deal with Win11 at the moment you get the first windows setup screen. Used the shell trick to create a local-account-only, then installed O&O Shutup10+++ and Winhance. I used those two tools to remove every single piece of telemetry, junk software, spam, spyware, AI and forced updates from the OS. All of this before ever connecting it to the internet. (I loaded those two pieces of software from a thumbdrive.) The result is a super clean install that just does what I want. This is an older Microsoft Surface so it needed to be clean to run well with limited RAM. It's my throwaway lightweight laptop for international travel. No personal information on it. This register article is also handy.

On my main machine I'm still happily running Win10. My browsing habits are pretty boring and I run Ublock Origin, AdblockPlus etc. in Firefox to keep anything unruly out. I used to run noscript but pretty much no sites work with JS disabled these days.

Merit should always consider strictly value.

The $5K a year just gives you a $300 per person per visit discount. So pays itself back in 15 visits or so.

...that it's just New York City. Hopefully the idea will spread.

Laissez faire capitalism is great if everyone is honest. But in this reality there are a lot of incredibly dishonest people who will do anything for a buck. A modicum of base regulation is desirable to keep consumers from getting swindled at every turn. I applaud efforts like these.

Plenty of us nerds can afford this and want to see news about this.

Another good reason to use third party software to disable all windows telemetry from first install.

I'm unclear on the exact mechanism for how the device ID was extracted by a website. Is this something available as a piece of data a site can request via edge?

Is this part of telemetry data sent back to microsoft if you leave all that enabled, at the windows level?

Use a privacy-safe brower with blocking plugins (ublock origin) and completely disable all telemetry to microsoft using O&OShutUp and WinHance to turn off every single reporting mechanism that goes back to Microsoft. And use the shell access on the first windows config screen to create a local account only. Do all of this before ever connecting the machine to the internet.

I just did a clean install of 11 (all should work with 11 as well), did the shift+F10 command prompt on setup to create a local account only and used O&OShutUp10, WinHance before I ever connected the machine to the internet and disabled all telemetry and involuntary communication with M$'s servers. Those two pieces of software are really handy.

kWh battery. Knew I'd miss that at some point.

Okay, that's amazing.

Here (Australia, all AUD) I pay 28 cents per kWh and get paid 5 cents per kWh. I have 12kW solar which was great when they paid 12cents, but now it's not so I got a 30kW battery and it's paying for itself pretty quickly. Battery was $6k AUD installed.

For at least a year (maybe more) I thought that it was go-dot, kind of a play on dotnet. Especially with the work on adding c# support.

I so dumb!

I can't find any reference to this. Not saying it hasn't happened, I just don't see it on the internet. A link would be useful.

I've had Linux kill a motherboard (would boot, but fans and sensors didn't work so it would overheat and crash pretty quickly) setting up lm_sensors.

No, of course a broken spar is A Very Bad Thing when it happens in midair.

Is this changing-the-timing-chains-in-an-Audi difficult, or is this replacing-your-spinal-cord-without-killing-you impossible?

Are these planes repairable? I think it's a reasonable question.

(Of course, with the Audi, if has anything more than a loose gas cap it's not economically feasible to repair, but that's what you get with European engineering.)