Win 11 is one of the ‘bad’ releases for sure (cf ME, Vista, 8 vs XP, 7, possibly 10)

Beyond the title, Louis eloquently talks about this dynamic here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXRo-wbFyIY

Can’t help but notice a lack of the ‘smash successfully’ (or equivalently, ‘fail at contraception’) dimension.

Couldn’t immediately find that one. First two pages of hits for “Behind The Overlay” are for Chrome/Edge, I’m looking for a solution on mobile though, ie Firefox/Fennec - seems to be this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/behind_the_overlay/

… which does not work on mobile unfortunately, because it only offers a toolbar button, not an extension entry/menu.

It stays smaller then, but is still there. However, I’ve found (out) that reader mode works quite OK on that site.

Possibly even use Tasker or such to automate waking up to an isolated phone.

Or any of the countless “digital health”/screen time management apps, to block social media in the mornings. (?)

Sounds like bunnie would have got you, but that was half a generation ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumby?wprov=sfla1

Is there a way to get rid of the huge distracting “Swipe for next article” overlay on the-independent.com?

It’s not so much about forcing to contribute, but rather keeping companies from selling commercial forks/having checks against profiting from work that happens to be freely available.

Also on that topic, very interesting read:

https://lemmy.world/post/38825320

Isn’t that a question for Steam support/forums?

Which virtualization implementation? QEMU/KVM?

They sure would like that.

Never thought I’d hail the GEMA for what they’re doing…

How is it an “undisclosed [amount of] damages” - aren’t court rulings supposed to be public [records]?

I know stuff like the rulings of me going to court with the driver and insurance companies involved in a car accident certainly was public (in Germany).

Anyone in the know please ELI5 and/or point me at the relevant laws, how/what/in which cases (parts of) rulings can be “undisclosed”.

Looks scammy / requires ‘hoops’ that lead to invalid SSL certificates

Looks scammy / requires ‘hoops’ that lead to invalid SSL certificates

It’s got 'lectrolytes!!

Which adblocker can block Facebook ad posts?

Doctorow’s as usual excellent take also touches on this:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/01/redistribution-vs-predistribution/#elbows-up-eurostack

TL;DR: it’s not so much only the US, it’s corporate (quasi-)monopolies, and those operate in a lot of countries.

Therac always makes me think of this…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25?wprov=sfla1

How old were you when you realized that asking for a reward/recognition doesn’t exactly work out either?