Sunday, February 17
Daily News Stuff 17 February 2019
Tech News
- Intel's 9th generation mobile CPUs have peeked out from under the covers. (AnandTech)
Looks like two four core models and four eight core models. No six core; instead they have eight cores without hyperthreading, which is about the same performance as six cores with.
- Google is planning changes to the Chrome APIs used by ad blocking extensions that will break most of those extensions.
Google claimed these changes were for performance reasons.
Developers of tracker blocker Ghostery investigated Google's claims and found that they were a load of crap. (ZDNet)
Google then "clarified" its plans.
- A Guide to Chaos Monkey: Making systems more reliable by fucking everything up.
- Cygwin 3.0 is out.
This version no longer supports Windows XP.
Elsewhere
- Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time is 64% off at Humble Bundle this weekend.
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Posted by: J Greely at Sunday, February 17 2019 02:59 PM (tgyIO)
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Thanks, fixed!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, February 17 2019 04:19 PM (PiXy!)
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"Google then "clarified" its plans."
What a shock, right?
What's going to happen, probably, is that people who are knowledgeable will go back to a model of using external proxies like Proxomitron, which is actually probably better, as doing it that way you can block a lot of requests from even making it to the browser.
What a shock, right?
What's going to happen, probably, is that people who are knowledgeable will go back to a model of using external proxies like Proxomitron, which is actually probably better, as doing it that way you can block a lot of requests from even making it to the browser.
Posted by: Rick C at Monday, February 18 2019 03:20 AM (Iwkd4)
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"A May 2018 study from the same Ghostery team found that pages tend to load up to twice as fast when using an ad blocker."
Yeah. When a page loads in 3 seconds with an ad blocker enabled, vs 20+ seconds without the ad blocker, because there's so many trackers and ads and autoplay videos and so on, people will not care in the slightest about a little performance hit to the adblocker, because it's vastly overwhelmed by the perf gain from not running all that crap.
Yeah. When a page loads in 3 seconds with an ad blocker enabled, vs 20+ seconds without the ad blocker, because there's so many trackers and ads and autoplay videos and so on, people will not care in the slightest about a little performance hit to the adblocker, because it's vastly overwhelmed by the perf gain from not running all that crap.
Posted by: Rick C at Monday, February 18 2019 03:25 AM (Iwkd4)
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I just switched my router to hand out a Pihole server for DNS (which, being an actual Raspberry Pi, will soon also be a stratum 1 NTP server). I still need an on-device ad blocker for when I'm not home, but blocking crap before it reaches the browser speeds everything up.
I do kind of miss some of the old Privoxy features like de-animating GIFs, but maybe someday the browser makers will treat them the same way they're starting to prevent video autoplay.
-j
I do kind of miss some of the old Privoxy features like de-animating GIFs, but maybe someday the browser makers will treat them the same way they're starting to prevent video autoplay.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Monday, February 18 2019 06:55 AM (tgyIO)
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All that's happened with autoplay is all the sites switched to starting their videos muted. I've seen it happen on a bunch of sites recently, including (most annoyingly) Anandtech, who got bought out a while back (IIRC) by the people who own Tom's Hardware and added the same "insert a video into the middle of each page of a story" thing that made me adblock TH in the first place. (I was letting TH play ads until they added that video.)
Posted by: Rick C at Monday, February 18 2019 09:02 AM (Iwkd4)
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I adblock by default these days. Many sites are unusable otherwise.
I was giving a couple of bucks a month to a bunch of sites I value, but then Patreon screwed that up, so right now they get nothing.
I was giving a couple of bucks a month to a bunch of sites I value, but then Patreon screwed that up, so right now they get nothing.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, February 18 2019 09:45 AM (PiXy!)
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Every once in a while I see the browser of someone who's not using a blocker. Holy crap, what a nightmare! Once I get my ntp/pihole combo working, I'm thinking of buying a few for the office and making them the name servers for our desktop/wireless vlans.
-j
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Monday, February 18 2019 10:32 AM (tgyIO)
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I adblock by default, too. I whitelist a (very) few sites, like HardOCP, and I run one browser without any adblockers, for compatibility issues. A few sites, like Anandtech, I used to read in the nonblocking browser...until they put that video in.
I'm thinking Google won't change their video-block policy to block all autoplay videos, so in the end it will be effectively useless.
I'm thinking Google won't change their video-block policy to block all autoplay videos, so in the end it will be effectively useless.
Posted by: Rick C at Monday, February 18 2019 02:54 PM (Iwkd4)
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I should try out Firefox again, they've got a new autoplay blocking feature.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, February 18 2019 09:06 PM (PiXy!)
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