They mention anubis, cloudflare, robots.txt – does anyone have experiences with how much any of them help?
Readit Newsinternet_points commented on An IRC-Enabled Lawn Mower (2021) jotunheimr.idlerpg.net/us... · Posted by u/rickcarlino
IRC in 2021? Is IRC still a thing?
Slack is basically IRC-as-a-service, complete with modern (janky) web UI and gifs (since they haven't yet figured out how to sell a tiktok-style feed)
internet_points commented on Lab-grown salmon hits the menu smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/bookmtn
I might be able to figure out how to grind wheat into flour for bread. Maybe I can squint hard enough to consider baking yeast to be a "whole ingredient". But cheese? I assume I can probably figure it out with the internet, but it is not at all obvious what goes into that. And the milk I would use almost certainly went through an industrial sterilization process that I know I am not equipped to so.
You can make ricotta in <1h with whole milk, vinegar and a bit of salt. And it's good on pizza!
But most "regular" cheeses like Swiss cheese also need rennet, ie. you need to slaughter a calf and scrape its stomach lining. You may want to make sure your downstairs neighbor is OK with the procedure before you start (offer them a veal dinner to make up for the noise?). Other than that, it's basically (unpasteurized) milk, salt and water. And time.
Yeast: take a sourdough baking class. You just need air, water and (organic) flour.
internet_points commented on Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team annas-archive.org/blog/an... · Posted by u/jerheinze
If there's a book that only has e-book versions on amazon, what is the best way to ensure the author gets money? I'd rather not fill my little apartment with paperbacks, and ordering a paperback and then returning it sounds kind of wasteful. Although I guess I could buy a paperback downtown and drop it off at the used book shop .. What do other people do, when they want to pay authors and read e-books without aiding and abetting Bezos?
internet_points commented on Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels scrollguard.app/... · Posted by u/adrianhacar
I would love to build a small physical device at my home wifi router level that detects these network patterns (certain IP addresses and data patterns). Then blocks those network streams. I think the correct fix is to intermittently block them so that the user gets a small drip and don't realize its broken so they don't try to find a workaround like turning off wifi.
I would definitely `opkg install slow_drip_instagram` on my router :-D
internet_points commented on Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels scrollguard.app/... · Posted by u/adrianhacar
This might be useful for you: https://pi-hole.net/. You can set your own DNS server at home and block specific domains
it's kind of either-or though, I don't think you can block only suggested crap without blocking your friends' posts (and without blocking the ability for yourself to use IG for journalling or whatever)
internet_points commented on Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels scrollguard.app/... · Posted by u/adrianhacar
Don't know about reels, but there's "Unhook" for Firefox which will hide Shorts and recommendations on YouTube.
OMG thank you, unhook solves my biggest issue with youtube: whenever I would click pause to look closely at a slide, there's a bunch of huge recommendations that block the screen (I mean what kind of depraved mind comes up with something as user-unfriendly as that "oh you wanted to pause the video it's probably because you wanted to be distracted into watching something else in the middle of it, not because you actually had your own reason for pausing it, let me throw up these unrelated links at your face")
internet_points commented on Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels scrollguard.app/... · Posted by u/adrianhacar
This approach is not possible on iOS. Instead, I built a safari extension to block shorts from the feed https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/shorts-stopper/id6745517488?l=...
which sites does this work with?
internet_points commented on Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels scrollguard.app/... · Posted by u/adrianhacar
So I only use Instagram for the DMs with friends. I don’t follow anyone at all, so my feed should be empty. For years it was.
Then at some point Instagram decided I must not know what I want, they should show me recommended posts from random accounts.
There’s a setting to turn this off … but instead of being a normal toggle I can only “snooze” the posts for 30 days. 30 days of peace and then the spam comes back.
No matter how many times I make it clear what I want, they don’t care. Just gross.
Is there any account that just shows boring stuff every day? Because now it says when I snooze that I won't see recommended posts unless I've scrolled past my friends' posts. So it seems I need to follow something that I'm totally uninterested in (I'm thinking gray boxes of unvarying sizes would be good), and that posts quite often.
OOh I found a use for AI slop! Getting me off instagram!
(1) tech support that actually reads your messages and replies with a solution demonstrating comprehension of the message that you wrote. Amazing. I've emailed them twice and gotten a great response both times.
(2) it is the best UI I've seen outside gmail;
(3) They have continued actively developing their UI, with nice updates released perhaps in the last 6 weeks.
(4) keyboard shortcuts that work
(5) Instead of inbox 0, I practice inbox 50k and it handles it fine.
(6) I just had a decade-anniversary there and I've never regretted it.
I'd say it's better (maybe gmail has features it doesn't, but fastmail does everything I need and loads much much faster than gmail)