A cheap and dirty alternative to this excellent effort is to use an old VCR. Run your content into its input jacks, but instead of cabling the VCR directly to an analogue TV, use its RF output fed into an antenna, and use the analogue TV's tuner to receive. On most North American VCRs, that would mean selecting either output channel 3 or 4. For larger coverage areas, cut two dipole antennas to the appropriate size for the selected channel (one antenna for TX, one for RX). If you were to put a low noise VHF-LO amp inline between the VCR output and the TX antenna, you'd be able to cover a much larger area, but would probably have legal issues with governmental authorities in charge of telecommunication spectrum.
F-Droid itself is great, but I find that the NeoStore front end to F-Droid is superior because it has multi-repository capability, offering a long list of alternative apk sources that can readily be verified for quality.
Usenet had the Cancelmoose, so message sanitization has always been part of the Internet. In this case, I see this browser extension as purely a tool of the end user and not a blanket threat to the peer community at large.
Usenet kill file, IRC ignore list, email spam filters, web browser adblockers, disabling JavaScript, using Archive.org/.today to read content, using plain text and a remote host to parse URLs to forward the content to email, RSS readers, converting content based on CSS selectors or json (e.g. jq) to XML/RSS.
The internet has and will always be about increasibg the signal te noise ratio for the user. The fact someone resorts to blacklisting entire comment section tells us something about how they view the quality of these in general; subpar.
It isn't just LLMs which contribute to that. Troll farms do, too.
>The internet has and will always be about increasibg the signal te noise ratio for the user.
And my point is that the signal used to primarily originate from peer interactions, not broadcasting. Look at Usenet, AOL's structure, or Web 1.0. There's an inversion in the modern era, where broadcast messaging is perceived as the signal, and peer interactions the noise.
Odd comparison. Admin cancels on Usenet were focused specifically and totally on individual, service-abusing or commercial "spam". While this is a tool that wipes out comment sections from view entirely.
I've found this extension to be highly valuable on sports and movie/tv sites at thwarting spoilers and blabbermouths. Its value on political sites is much appreciated.
The article says in the title how that won't solve the problem. Their chief solution is guarding against invisible tracking pixels all over the web, and how using a properly equipped browser and extensions can hopefully mitigate them. I found the article's recommendation of suitable browsers to be quite poor: a brush off to Firefox and no mention of LibreWolf, IronFox, etc al.
Very cool to see one comment linking to an old Sears magazine from the 1920s, showing some of the equipment people would have constructed these networks from:
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