Wasn’t saying that was your intent just that most suggestions on here involve running unauthorized software or visiting sketchy websites. There is an alternative though.

When it comes to decisions that could impact your livelihood, $10-ish/mo is a small price to pay.

I hate to break it to you but it may be time to pony up for a subscription to YouTube, Spotify, or whatever music service scratches that itch for you… Probably better than trying to fuck with HIPAA.

can’t install anything, or add extensions, etc.

Can you install user apps (which don’t require admin elevation) or is it truly nothing?

Firefox, for example can be installed as a user by just declining the admin prompt.

Otherwise you can snag a portable version.

May also be worth checking if the company maintains a list of approved software anywhere. Firefox probably won’t even raise an eyebrow, but other software might, depending on your use.

Author: Anna Betts in New York

Y’all just gonna let that one slide?

Forgive me, I’m not a Brave power user, so I don’t recall. Does Brave have anything resembling uBlock’s “Element picker mode” and “User rules” to make it easier to build and test blocking rules?

I maintain my own block list on codeberg and it would be a pain in the ass to have to work outside the browser, push to git, and force sync the browser just to refresh and find out if something worked.

Just for clarification, but do you mean you can automate that stuff?

Yes.

uBlock at its core is really just a scripting system for replacing CSS content using certain rules.

The most common usage is to remove content you don’t like, but really it can manipulate things in a zillion different ways, many of the more advanced features are only available to the user and not larger block lists for security reasons.

At worst, it’s just fine (Mozilla just uses it internally to replace or supplement its old and incomplete Tracker Blocking system, which never gets the same scrutiny).

I think you’re right but I’m sure they can fuck it up a lot worse than that if they really want to. AI ad detection? Sponsored blocking? New RCE pathways?

I think its much more likely than not a step forward, and I welcome the change, but recent Mozilla decisions have me watching closely.

There appears to be no legitimate end to this one, which is wild

As long as DNS blocking stops some subset of users from reaching pirate sites, the court ruled, it’s “proportionate.” Under that line of thinking, any measure that inconveniences even a fraction of would-be pirates is legally justified, no matter how much collateral damage it causes for everyone else.

The court’s core reasoning — that any entity technically capable of blocking must do so, that circumvention doesn’t make blocking disproportionate, and that the “neutral and passive” function of an intermediary is irrelevant — creates a legal framework that can reach basically anything. If a DNS resolver can be conscripted because it’s “in a position to help,” what about browsers? What about operating systems? What about CDNs, or cloud hosting providers, or certificate authorities? The logic has no brake pedal. Every layer of the internet stack is, in some sense, “in a position to help” block access to content. The question the court’s reasoning cannot answer is: where does it end?

Left off their list is hardware, should your router and modem deny IP requests to known servers? Even if they’re on shared hardware? What about the networking card in your PC?

More like 1/3 the size of a zambonie. Or 11/3 the size of two penguins on a foosball table.

IE if it is imported their going to pay a tariff on that

Only when big company is the importer of record.

There are probably many tariffs paid to 3rd parties just like me paying UPS for a package shipped overseas, which just like me, big company can’t claim. Unlike me, however, big company is probably gearing up to send the lawyers to UPS/FedEx instead of Washington, because that’s who is getting some of their tariff dollars.

So it wouldn’t be hard to figure out

You’d be amazed how hard it is to figure something like that out. Hundreds or even thousands of people inputting data means nothing is filed correctly. The total costs are tracked closely because banks, but the below the line tariff amount could be buried in a phone camera photo of a receipt on someone’s computer screen.

Best case scenario you can filter directly for payments made to the government, but even that is prone to failure if they use a separate payment processor (e.g., for things paid via credit card).

Big company guy here. I have no involvement in tariffs, but I suspect:

• no one team paid the tariffs
• tariff related expenses were not consistently cataloged
• no one team has an “official company tariff refunder” role and no one wants the tedious one-time responsibility

Big company = big bureaucracy. Theres probably an intern somewhere combing through hundreds of thousands of documents labeled “tax” and trying to guess what is a border tariff, while their leader feeds the same document into ChatGPT and says “ChatGPT says we’re owed 5 quintillion dollars, can you validate that?”

He went on: "They’re doing so badly, we’ve killed hundreds of them, thousands. And we’re not only killing the men, but also the women and the children. Man I love children. We’ve bombed their schools, hospitals, churches, and all they’ve attacked is boring military bases. Not even the pretty ones.

Some are saying these are some of the biggest war crimes they’ve ever seen. Can you imagine that folks? Biggest ever. When we’re done bombing their schools I’m going to give myself a metal, I deserve it."

Either they didn’t pay, they found an exploit, or, more likely, someone at Claude was reviewing their conversations. Take note, any business that cares about IP or confidentiality.

do I now have to pay for MGM+ so I can watch all the movies?

Have to?.. No…

Because it’s not actually reducing any overhead. What you get is fewer high-fidelity “real” frames each second, in exchange for roughly 2x (or more) low-fidelity “fake” frames

So a 60 FPS game before may run at 100 FPS after, which is really only 50 real FPS + 50 fake FPS.

Also some of the frame generation algorithms are tied to upscaling, so textures and everything are loaded in lower res, and an algorithm guesses what’s missing.

The more you let the computer guess what’s supposed to be there the faster it runs but the less accurate it gets.

I feel like an old kermudgen - IPv6 and I do not get along.

I just haven’t taken the time to understand the numbering system & don’t trust it enough to use on anything that might at some point want to route through a VPN. Which is like 75% of my LAN. Easier to just keep it off.

Anna’s Archive: The New One

The adapter I shared has no solder except that which you put into it. It solders into place just fine with a little flux, I’ve had 0 issues in ~20 games from this.

Be sure to clean your iron tip, I had a little bit of difficulty on the first one I did because I have had the same iron tip for like 10 years. A $2 replacement made life much easier. Probably also could have just hit it with sand paper. And double-check polarity on the connection points - watch a couple of YouTube videos to confirm you’ve got +/- right. I think it’s wonky on some carts.

The ones that are soldered and often suck are the ones OP posted. Be sure to check the battery voltage before you install those ones because they use cheap batteries and duds are common.

I’ve also seen people go the cave man approach and just un-solder/pry off only the battery (from the attached “arms” that connect to the board) on old carts and just tape a new battery in place but that’s an approach for monsters and psychopaths.

I’m a bit foggy on the details but I think Pokémon Silver / Gold were a little trickier because the RTC changes the PCB layout and the battery is actually mounted on top of a chip, so space gets a little tight and you have to build a bit of a solder bridge up to the connectors.

FYI on the next one - they make CR1616 battery holders (like this) which allow future you to swap in new batteries whenever you want without additional soldering

I figure if I’m gonna do it, may as well just do it once

Enjoy having your old games back!!

Oh I love a good bolt plug.