It's less a matter of anonymity as wanting to maintain some basic privacy. If you want to tell someone where you learned about something, that's great, go ahead and tell them. To have them extract the info from you without your knowledge is dystopian. Referers should have been banned as soon as the web became commercial.
I didn't see the movie but semi remember that scene from the book. Pippin saw Sauron, and seeing Minas Tirith would have revealed Sauron's location, always good intellligence. I don't remember what Pippin reported about it though.
The book is a momumental classic and I highly recommend it if you like reading fiction. I saw the first of the three LOTR movies and thought it was ok considering what it was trying to do. It could have been lots worse. But still, I didn't feel particularly interested in seeing the other two movies. Maybe I'll re-read the books sometime. It's been ages. These days, lots of fanfics are longer than the LOTR books, since they no longer have the limitations of printing on paper.
Yeah, browser vendors think the same thing, since they are part of the commercial web. Anyway, at minimum, sending referer should be opt-in rather than opt-out.
I'm not personally affected since I don't use Mastodon. That doesn't make it a good idea.
That doesn't sound good? They are privacy invasive.
Article says it asked the bot to write a poem about denying a claim, and then it doesn't print the poem? Psssshhhhh.... :)
That guy was a Pennsylvania state judge and must have broken a zillion Pennsylvania laws with that scheme. Why was he only taken in on Federal charges? Biden can't pardon state charges, apparently. So if he had been locked up under state law, he'd still be locked up.
Thanks, I have that too I think. It's great for sharing from my phone. On my laptop I have a python script that is a lot fancier that I'd like to rewrite as a browser extension someday.
I just drink the tap water. It's ok. Letting it sit for a few hours to let the chlorine escape helps the taste. I haven't thought those pitchers to be any good but who knows. If I really wanted to filter the water, I'd look at an MSR gravity filter or similar.
Thanks! I saw the GH issue about that but didn't figure out that it had been deployed.
Hmm, I thought ublock origin could only block links, not rewrite them. Am I missing something? I just looked through the docs and only see block/allow/noop rules, and I remember reading something a while back about how the devs didn't want to rewrite. I'd love to have a pointer to the docs about how to do this if I'm wrong. Thanks ;)
Added: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/b9tdky/rule_for_redirecting_urls_to_cleaner_ones/ points to some github issues related to this.
Thanks, that's good info, though I was never really interested in the movies to begin with. I saw the first one mostly through getting dragged along by some friends. I don't have that big a problem with deviating from the finer details of the book's plot lines. It's mostly that the movies couldn't (or anyway didn't) capture the books' sense of grandness.
I liked this a lot, a fanfiction where Harry Potter finds himself transported to Middle Earth. There are actually quite a lot of those but this one is particularly good. Warning, it's unfinished, though it doesn't stop on a cliffhanger or anything like that. It captures Tolkien's writing style and sweep pretty well.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/23628394/chapters/56706448
This one is also complete and is one of my favorites, but in a totally different style from Tolkien. It says LOTR is revisionist history / elf propaganda, and that Sauron and Mordor were actually the good side of the war. The main character is an orc:
https://archive.org/details/TheLastRingbearerSecondEdition