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Messages - krake

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Browsers & Technology / Re: Keeping an eye on the Vivaldi Browser
Vivaldi, yet another Chrome fork presented in a new shell as a facelift and enhanced with a few built-in extensions.
And no it's not only the layout and the ECMAScript engine taken from Chrome but the whole construction like networking etc.
Privacy wise it offers even less user control than Chrome.

It's funny/sad to see how many of those people complaining about Google's monopoly and evilness are using their browser/forks helping Google to become even more powerful and hoggish.
As for Tetzchner, he is hypocritical to say the least...
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DnD Central / Re: What's Going on in Europe
Quote from: Belfrager on
It seems Russians are nervous with just 300.000 vehicles and troops a few km of their borders.
300.000 vehicles? Are you kidding or it's just the figment of your imagination?
Quote from: Belfrager on
Maybe we should have sent the double.
You mean 600.000 vehicles?
And who should pay the bill for such silly war games. We? And btw, whom do you mean by we?
How about an extra NATO tax imposed on each EU citizen to finance such upcoming war games?
I'm sure that all Portuguese would be delighted for paying such an extra tax to make the Russians "nervous".
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DnD Central / The Pentagon Bio-weapons
The Pentagon Bio-weapons

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The US Army regularly produces deadly viruses, bacteria and toxins in direct violation of the UN Convention on the prohibition of Biological Weapons. Hundreds of thousands of unwitting people are systematically exposed to dangerous pathogens and other incurable diseases.  Bio warfare scientists using diplomatic cover test man-made viruses at Pentagon bio laboratories in 25 countries across the world. These US bio-laboratories are funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) under a $ 2.1 billion military program– Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP), and are located in former Soviet Union countries such as Georgia and Ukraine, the Middle East, South East Asia and Africa.

US diplomats involved in trafficking of human blood and pathogens for secret military program

- Human blood and pathogens as diplomatic cargo to the US Embassy – leaked documents
- US scientists test viruses under diplomatic immunity
- International law is not applicable
- Drone for releasing of toxic mosquitoes
- Ethnic Bioweapons
- Georgians used as laboratory rabbits
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DnD Central / Re: What's Going on in Europe
What this law wants?
A door opener for mass, automated surveillance and arbitrary censorship of the Internet.
The whole shit gets wrapped into the Copright Directive to make it less visible.
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DnD Central / Re: What's Going on in Europe
Today, Europe Lost The Internet.

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Today, in a vote that split almost every major EU party, Members of the European Parliament adopted every terrible proposal in the new Copyright Directive and rejected every good one, setting the stage for mass, automated surveillance and arbitrary censorship of the internet.
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DnD Central / Re: Everything Trump…
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
International laws never applied to the US. They were merely considered useful instruments to push through US interests and if this didn't work those laws were simply ignored.

As for its allies, the USA always applied the "carrot and stick" policy. Only problem with that, sooner or later the USA may run out of carrots.
For US allies this means, either to get used to sticks without carrots or to reconsider the scope of the alliance.
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Browsers & Technology / Re: StartPage vs Google differences
Quote from: ersi on
Ads in Google search engine are among the top ones. But of course in a browser with adblock I don't get ads, not even the sidebar the way you do.
Using the above search string, I don't get ads (except sometimes one or max two at the top) even if I disable uBlock Origin (which blocks ads too).
No adds on the sidebar as you falsely assume , whether with scripting enabled or disabled and without any ad blocker.
screenshot - no JS
screenshot - JS enabled

Quote from: ersi on
By the way, I found a halfway workaround to the Google Maps problem.
Great but as mentioned before I have little use for GoogleMaps.
The only service offered by Google I use is their search and I do so only on occasions when it outperforms other search engines.
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Browsers & Technology / Re: StartPage vs Google differences
Quote from: ersi on
The result: It shows the same results, you only get the ads in Finnish now. Conclusion: Language-specific searches have stopped working.
The same results, only ads in Finish you say?
I don't get ads in the first place.
Does google.fr throw Finish sites for you? Or does google.fi throw French sites?
If you see similarities among search results for different country domains, that's how Google search is designed to work. It's no much difference how it used to work a decade ago and how it works today.
screenshot google.fi
screenshot google.fr
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Browsers & Technology / Re: StartPage vs Google differences
Quote from: ersi on
You mean something like a language indicator in the url? ...
I mean the language indicator and domain indicator contained in the search plugin located in the browser's profile folder.
in Opera Presto you can simply add the search strings while in Firefox or PaleMoon you will have to add search plugins after you modified them at your like.
I can't tell for other browsers I don't use but the principle should be much alike.
In Firefox and its forks the search plugin is a simple .xml file loaded during browser start and added to a search.json file.
If you have Firefox at hand you can test by typing in the address bar below string and hit ENTER:
Code: [Select]
https://www.google.fr/search?q=lolo+bono&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&num=100&hl=fr
You should get google.fr. You can replace the search term "lolo+bono" with one of your like.
The above is only a test. With the appropriate search plugin you have to enter only the search term in your browser's address bar.

Quote from: ersi on
Edit: Please bear in mind that I have professional needs. I have a professional need, for example, to see Maps in Swedish, with place names in Swedish, like Ryssland instead of Russia or Venemaa, ...
Sorry, I don't use Google maps and can't be of help.
However, a first search revealed that with some programming skills it would be possible.
GoogleMaps-JavaScript-localization
Testing their demo: Screenshot
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Browsers & Technology / Re: StartPage vs Google differences
Quote from: ersi on
To "go into settings to select the [wanted] country service" means to go into the settings of the relevant Google website, not into the settings of your browser or whatever. To make the wanted setting permanent, you have to be logged in to Google, of course.
Nope.
You only need different search plug-ins for the respective countries.
Therefore you'll have to edit the search plug-in and add the edited search plug-ins to your browser, like Google-US, Google-DE or Google-FR.
I've done so with all my browsers and it worked in the past as it works now.
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DnD Central / Re: What's Going on in Europe
The actual prime minister would veto a Scottish EU membership too. For the same reason.
Franco's legacy is well alive in Spain. There is still a long way to go till democracy, even a guided one like most European countries (including mine) have.
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DnD Central / Re: What's Going on in Europe
Good news first.
Pablo Llarena did withdraw (again) the European detention order against Puigdemont. :)
source

Now the bad news.
Not exactly news but rather rumors coming from supposedly well informed sources.
Julian Assange might get handed over to the UK soon.