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Carole Cadwalladr: Facebook's role in Brexit and the threat to democracy

https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_facebook_s_role_in_brexit_and_the_threat_to_democracy

@wetdryvac @thegibson
The dystopia is already here  –  and it’s globally distributed...
https://futurism.com/japanese-taxis-facial-recognition-target-ads-riders/
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If you are using Firefox and YouTube seems slow to load you can speed it up (up to 5x) with this tweak in about:config.
-Open new tab and enter about:config (accept if prompted for warranty risk)
-Right click on any preference and go New>String
>As preference name copy/paste:
general.useragent.override.youtube.com
As preference value copy/paste:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0
For darkmode you can install Stylus addon and pick theme you like.

Friendly reminder: #BOINC is a great project to contribute your otherwise idle computing power.

https://boinc.berkeley.edu

You can set complex scheduling options, either by time of day, battery level, non-BOINC CPU usage, mouse and keyboard activity and so on. This way, it won't take up all your resources when you're compiling or playing videogames.

You can also configure it to only take a percentage of the CPU, a specific core count, or only allow it to run in bursts.

Contribute today!

Google intentionally slows down YouTube on Firefox by 80% by using old libraries that are unsupported by Firefox because they were deprecated.

https://9to5google.com/2018/07/25/youtube-chrome-firefox-edge-speed-mozilla/