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karrotwaltz commented on No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and No Meetings Without an Agenda   switowski.com/blog/no-hel... · Posted by u/tybulewicz
karrotwaltz · a year ago
> There is another possibility - you're lazy and selfish, so you don't care how your interruptions affect others because your questions need to be answered right now with minimal effort on your end. But I'm sure that's not the case.

> So, when I answer your "Quick call?" with "What's the problem?", that's really for your own good :wink face:

Please do not ever write sentences like this in a professional context where you are not friends with the recipients, it's terrible.

It sets the tone to "adult to children discussion where I think that I am smarter than you" which is the last thing you want when you try to solve on of your pain point.

One the other hand if you want me to avoid interacting with you as much as I can that would be spot on.

karrotwaltz commented on Getting around website paywalls with devtools alone   bbarrows.com/posts/how-to... · Posted by u/bebrws
albert_e · 3 years ago
Would you mind sharing the second script as well? Thanks

This is supposed to be saved as a Javascript Bookmarklet?

karrotwaltz · 3 years ago
Javascript killer: https://pastebin.com/utE3275J

Yes, I'm using it as a bookmarklet. I'm using firefox but I think it should work the same for other browsers.

karrotwaltz commented on Getting around website paywalls with devtools alone   bbarrows.com/posts/how-to... · Posted by u/bebrws
karrotwaltz · 3 years ago
I use this JS bookmarklet to remove fixed elements and restore scrolling, it works most of the time:

https://pastebin.com/qBjJHkMv

I also have one to kill all running javascript and remove all event listeners, it works wonders when you are redirected to a paywall / login page after a few seconds.

karrotwaltz commented on User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment   userinyerface.com/... · Posted by u/andyjih_
infogulch · 4 years ago
Love all the little details. Some favorites:

* Clicking 'expand' button on any dialog (T&C) expanded the dialog to cover the page but doesn't expand the contents to match

* Tiny flag icons to select country

* The age slider that went from 0-180 years and didn't update as you slid it (fun on a trackpad)

* number input for house number that required clicking on the arrows to change it one at a time

* utterly ambiguous human verification instructions

karrotwaltz · 4 years ago
Also if you select the first choice for birth date you get April 1st
karrotwaltz commented on What Is the “Mffam” Policy?   faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/... · Posted by u/Tomte
vzaliva · 4 years ago
While this policy is better than nothing, it is, as they admit, is imperfect. They may put their part of the profit to good use, but their service still provides an implicit benefit to an offending site. The damage caused by this second part could far exceed the good they are trying to do donating their profits.
karrotwaltz · 4 years ago
What if the owner has a different opinion than you of what is offending and what is not? They get to remove sites you think are good and keep sites you think are bad.

In the end, the only fair and objective way to filter content is the rule of law, as it applies to everyone equally. Every subjective decision will always offend some people.

I personally think the linked page "the long game" [1] found in this page is more interesting on this topic than the original link.

[1] https://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/q/TheLongGame

karrotwaltz commented on OVH Cloud shuts down Guerrilla Mail   twitter.com/GuerrillaMail... · Posted by u/colesantiago
joosters · 5 years ago
I've been using mailinator.com for years - they have an almost identical service (they don't allow you to send mail, though)

Another helpful use case: Some annoying sites ask you to create an account before you can browse them, but there's a faster way: Click on a 'lost password' link, and enter <website name>@mailinator.com as your email - chances are, someone else has already used mailinator to create an account, and you can re-use theirs :-)

karrotwaltz · 5 years ago
I use bugmenot for websites that require an account to browse or to download stuff (looking at you Qt), it works most of the time
karrotwaltz commented on Windows 10 could start bullying people into using a Microsoft account to install   techradar.com/news/window... · Posted by u/fraqed
saagarjha · 6 years ago
No, you don’t. Local installs are the smallest option on the screen, but they’re still an option.
karrotwaltz · 6 years ago
I think it's possible in professional edition but you have to be offline on home edition. (I messed up and installed pro for a home key, so I did it back to back with same ISO)
karrotwaltz commented on Windows 10 could start bullying people into using a Microsoft account to install   techradar.com/news/window... · Posted by u/fraqed
Izkata · 6 years ago
They're already there. The ThinkPad I bought in December didn't have the local account option available.

It's currently in "trick the user" mode: it has you connect to wifi to download the latest security updates, then remembers the network and automatically tries to have you create an account a step or two later.

I avoided it by rebooting, going into the bios, disabling wifi, and then resuming setup - only when it couldn't connect would it allow a local account. Just rebooting to restart initial setup doesn't work, it remembers the network.

karrotwaltz · 6 years ago
I reinstalled a computer about a month ago, same thing but I didn't have to mess with BIOS settings, going back 2 steps and disconnecting the wifi worked.
karrotwaltz commented on LastPass stores passwords so securely, not even its users can access them   theregister.co.uk/2020/01... · Posted by u/jbredeche
anonymouswacker · 6 years ago
Switched from LastPass to BitWarden over the weekend. I have 1,200+ passwords, and the transition was seamless. I even set up BitWarden on one of my web servers so that I can control my data -- even that took less than 30 minutes, thanks to BitWardenRS docker container.

The only thing I have yet to figure out for BitWarden is how to get a little icon to show up next to user/password fields in forms. I just have to right click and go to BitWarden (FireFox) to get there, which it just slightly more work. Still worth it.

Why would I pay $36/year (LastPass) for something that I can control for free?

karrotwaltz · 6 years ago
With BitWaden FF, you can use Ctrl+Shift+L to auto fill your most recently used account for the current website.

Hope it helps.

karrotwaltz commented on The Classic Tetris World Championships Explained (2018) [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=9RaqV... · Posted by u/snake117
karrotwaltz · 6 years ago
They held a conference at GDC 2019:

Tetris World Championship: Building Explosive Esports on 8-bit Nintendo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC6W2MBXaVo

u/karrotwaltz

KarmaCake day211August 17, 2016View Original