It's funny how you cited sources and rather than be given information you were just told that you were very wrong without any attempt to distill knowledge.

For someone in the field, teaching is work, while telling people they are wrong isn't. Unless you are paying good money, you don't have a right to the former instead of the latter. In any event, the GP (note: not the same as the OP) could just look for himself on the shadow libraries, which now have pretty much everything.

I didn’t cite sources. You’re confusing me with someone else.

Yep, I have come to believe that as complex adaptive systems made of complex adaptive systems the part of us that experience music do so through being able to predict new information.

If there is no ability to predict it’s random and just noise.

If there is no uncertainty and it’s just purely repetitive then there’s also no new information and it loses the music (see what happens with overplayed pre-recorded songs).

The sweet spot is when we can to some degree predict what’s coming and thus understand it to be information while not being sure of what’s coming so we get the reward of encoding it.

I think this works for pretty much all genres and contexts. Even listening to techno in a dark warehouse while off ones face: the altered state makes most things seem novel no matter how repetitive and your mind doesn’t tune the information out.

But that’s IMO why octave harmonies largely don’t work: the mind perceives no information in the pure octave, and so little joy is gained from it.

Stupidly terse code is fun and a good laugh to show to people as a puzzle… it is the opposite in an application that relies on it.

Since they nixed uBlock Origin Safari has not been a serious web browser to me. No amount of technology can make up for it.

I've been using uBlock Origin Lite on Safari with no issues.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ublock-origin-lite/id674534269...

I use Adguard/wipr to great success. Why's uBlock Origin better? Also, wipr now has filtr, which provides URL filtering at the macOS level, so it's as efficient as it gets.

I think the limitations are similar to the manifest v3 issues that the Chrome version has. Specifically, you (the ad blocker) send the browser a list of sites to block, instead you blocking them yourself. That means it's way harder to do clever things like scriptlet injection to find ads and get around adblock detection.

Not true in Safari. uBlock Origin Lite doesn't have those problems.

Seconded for Wipr. It's my favorite adblocker I've tried yet (although 1Blocker is also really nice). And if the author sells it to some creepy company, the Safari API means that the new owner can't spy on my viewing. I'm not sure how it could be materially improved by using less privacy-respecting APIs.

> the new owner can't spy on my viewing

Quick question: how do you distinguish content blocker extensions from regular extensions? All the Adblockers I know have to use both to be effective at hiding ads, especially on YouTube.

In that case, the new owner can still do the spying.

In iOS at least, it tells you in Settings > Safari > Extensions. E.g. if I tap into one of the AdGuard ones I see:

“"AdGuard — General" does not have permission to read or transmit content from any web pages.”

Ones that have more permissions will say so.

I use AdGuard, Wipr, and uBlock Origin Lite on my iPhone, and uBlock Origin on desktop.

I swear there are little gaps in each that the others get, but they're very minor. When uBlock Origin Lote recently released on iOS (within the last year), I noticed a few more things blocked. I also prefer the custom element removal or uBlock and can reuse my desktop filters.

It's free, so I'd recommend adding it as an addition to the bunch.

1Blocker has been rock solid for me. Got it after reading about it on Daring Fireball and now I can’t use a Mac without it.

Agree. I've never seen any single ads so far.

Even the ads on the Youtube are block by default. It's quite buggy though.

This doesn't solve the problem. The whole point of uBO is that it plays the cat and mouse game between adblocking and anti-adblocking.

If you are OK with sites blocking you when you use an adblocker then there's a multitude of other options.

wblock ftw https://github.com/0xCUB3/wBlock

I still have the last cd I was ever given. Incredible mix.

I was thinking the same thing.

I think what it describes is about right too: computers programs should have a REPL and we should have agents that can input them for us if we don't want to get into the weeds and wish to automate tasks, in some ways anticipating the browser too.

These are all great nominations.

Crazy to add complexity like this.

I had people who had been writing Tabs on paper for a very long time. I would wager that ascii is just a representation

My Apple Watch has 3 days of battery tops.

You don’t buy an Apple Watch for its battery life, you buy it for its many other features.

If battery life is important there are other much better options.

Garmin venu series has 10 days which I love.

So, aside from nothing to hide domestic/family violence and stalking, the fact that they can and will build an inference about you to attempt to influence your choices is fundamentally menacing to every person.

Corporate stalking has become so normalised (and provides so many livings) that we are through the other side.

Half a millennium ago they tried to control us by restricting our access to information to control what we think, now they bombard us with it to control what we think.