What redundancy are we talking about? AWS has proven to the world on multiple occasions that redundancy across geo locations is useless, because if us-east-1 is down, their whole cloud is done, causing a big chunk of the world to be down.

Half sarcasm of course, but it goes to show that the world is not going to fall apart in many cases when it comes to software. Sure, it's not ideal in lots of cases, but we'll survive without redundancy.

I am on Mullvad (at the router), and I am able to connect.

Checks out, it was my preferred exit node.

I had to disconnect Mullvad to load the page.

I've never understood the use-case of Adnauseam. This just, essentially, allows the adbroker (e.g. Google) to get more money from the business putting up the ad. Unless every single person uses it, it's not going to stop business from advertising, it just makes the likes of Google get more revenue.

>> This just, essentially, allows the adbroker (e.g. Google) to get more money from the business putting up the ad.

It lowers the effectiveness of internet advertising. When advertisers feel they're paying too much for the business the ads generate, they'll stop advertising in that way. That's probably the thinking anyway. A less generous stance would be: I hate advertisers so I'm gonna get back at them by making them pay more.

It would just cut the rates they'll pay to account for the erroneous clicks. I guess that might just be limited to defunding the sites popular with the really techy group of people that use Adnauseam and instead shift to niches with better effectiveness.

Assuming it actually works (which I'm not sure about), it increases the cost on the business putting up the ad (presumably targeting you). It acts as a small punishment to the business buying the ads I guess.

It also pollutes the data collection on you by advertisers. If you're seemingly interested in EVERYTHING they have no clue about you.

I mean, you're also telling them almost every site you visit. That's strictly worse from a privacy perspective than blocking ads outright.

>Assuming it actually works (which I'm not sure about),

Which it probably doesn't, given that it uses XHRs to "click" on ads, which is super detectable, and given the proliferation of ad fraud I'd assume all networks already filter out.

Google wouldn't have gone out of their way to block it on Chrome if it didn't work.

The other assumption here is that ad networks want to filter out all clicks but the most legitimate.

I don't think that's a very lucid assessment of how advertisers operate on the Internet. We all agree that they could take these steps. If AdNauseam doesn't look like outright fraud in the logs (which they don't if it's all distinct IPs and browsers), I don't think they want to cut it out from their revenue and viewer analytics.

>If AdNauseam doesn't look like outright fraud in the logs (which they don't if it's all distinct IPs and browsers)

You think ad networks don't have logs more sophisticated than default nginx/apache logs? XHRs are trivially detectable by headers alone.

When the advertiser is paying a bunch of money to Google for ad impressions but not getting increased sales, what will they do?

Raise the price of their product you might have been interested to cover the marketing losses ?

If they could raise the price they already would have

Google is selling their data to advertisers. If you poison their data, you are making the thing they sell less valuable

As a user you still don't have to see the ads but you are also "fighting back" rather than just "hiding from" the advertisers

I think it's great

it's actually the opposite, google adsense and every major ad-network will ban you or put a hold on your account if they think the ad impressions or clicks are automated, so this is a good way to get someone blocked from the ad-network

Please block me from the ad-network.

I view it in the same vein as the thing where people waste scammers' time by pretending to be falling for it and being slow/unhelpful

If that's the case, it makes it all the more curious as to why Google banned the extension[0] on Chrome.

[0] https://adnauseam.io/free-adnauseam.html

Flameshot isn't great on macOS, does anyone know of a good open source alternative they would recommend?

Hard to say without knowing what your needs are. What’s wrong with using macOS’ native tools? They work great not only for capturing but for annotation. What exactly are you looking for?

The app has a constant item on the bar at the bottom. Quitting that quits the whole application, I couldn't find a setting to change this behaviour. But I could live with that if it wasn't for it somehow switching desktops when you start taking a screenshot. It switches desktop, goes back to the main one, then starts the set up. Of course that also means it takes a couple of seconds before the screenshot gets taken.

Funny, I found flameshot years ago looking for a Linux to Skitch. What’s lacking in the built-in tool?

I'm unsure what Flameshot on macOS has to do with Flameshot Linux? I used to use Flameshot on Linux, and it works great, though I've always found the built-in screenshot software for Linux good enough. The application doesn't work as smoothly on macOS and I wouldn't need a tool for screenshots if the built-in tooling was any good. It's like it was designed by someone who had created a screenshot for the first time in their life.

what do you use Flameshot for on macOS? if you want to edit stuff, you can set the screenshot tool to open the screenshot in Preview.app where you can perform basic editing on it (cmd+shift+5 and then click Options and choose "Preview" in "Save to")

The built-in screenshot tool is the thing I'm trying to replace. Editing is less of an issue. I rarely need to edit.

> Flameshot isn't great on macOS

What do you mean? For what it does, it absolutely works nicely on mac.

Not to whataboutism this, but I've barely heard pro-Palestinian crowd talk about the stuff Syria did to the Druze, the Alawites, and now to the Kurds.

Multiple of my friends on Instagram still post daily about the atrocities in Gaza, but haven't posted anything about the atrocities in Aleppo or Kobane. Nor did they post anything when the STG was massacring the Alawites or the Druze last year.

So I find it hard to believe that it's about the sanctions or whatnot.

You are right, I also see less protests and difference in general, when it comes to other issues. I want to be transparent here and share my views (as an immigrant and living in the West, coming from other part of the world)

I personally protested for Sudan, Syria and Venezuela. Of course you might say I am just giving you excuses, but on a personal level I feel different for each one of them when protesting, my expectations also different:

* Sudan - IMO it was funded by UAE, our gov. can sanction them, but they have excuse: "Do you have proof???"

* Syria - Their excuse: "What are you talkin about, we don't cooperate with ex-Al-Qaeda, what can we do there?"

* Venezuela - "Dude, we are doing it, just shut the f... up and watch how awesome we are in conducting these operations"

* Gaza - I think initially we were naive thinking our government will help, but in reality it turned out it was same government, so it resembles more to Venezuela case rather than other cases.

I don't disagree. But still, it's normal to have a higher standard for Israel, a democracy; to assume protest will be more effective at swaying them. Should we not hold Israel to an higher standard?

What a strange response. What would be the reason to tell a respected body to shut up?

Wow! Am I about to live to see the day?! I've been following the releases fairly closely, and looking forward to it.

Sure, but your MAC address is easily spoofed. In fact, all major operating systems do it nowadays for public WiFi systems and you have to explicitly opt-out of randomising your MAC Address when connecting.

Still it's really convenient to be hidden behind NAT not being unique in the constantly-growing list of gathered data

Tmate is not available anymore, and will be fully decommissioned[0]. Use upterm[1] and action-upterm[2] instead.

Honestly, this should be built into GitHub Actions.

[0] https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate/issues/322

[1] https://upterm.dev/

[2] https://github.com/marketplace/actions/debug-with-ssh

Prefacing this with the fact that act is great, however, it has many shortcomings. Too often I've run into roadblocks, and when looking up the issue for it, it seems they are hard to address. Simpler workflows work fine with it, but more complex workflows will be much harder.

Don't put your logic in proprietary tooling. I have started writing all logic into mise tasks since I already manage the tool dependencies with mise. I tend to write them in a way where it can easily take advantage of GHA features such as concurrency, matrixes, etc. But beyond that, it is all running within mise tasks.