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ECHO I've been shadowbanned on this website twice. Once for unknown reasons and once for spam.

ECHO They doesn't care about the users, they care about keeping this website alive.

ECHO I'm probably gonna move SteamOS again. I'm thinking of using @steamos3-official because that's the current release and because it's my third blog.

ECHO Good luck X!

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If you're wondering why I've been less active lately, Tumblr shadowbanned me for no reason. I've waited over a week since I sent in my first support request, but heard nothing; if it goes on much longer I'll probably just grab @x11-official and fully move over. I'd love to post more about Linux stuff, but yeah.

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Time for a post that doesn't comply with the gimmick...

So, companies are tracking you no matter what you do, but this specifically is something I care about deeply.

Essentially, when you share a link, sometimes it has extra data that tracks where it comes from and goes.

Opening Spotify, clicking the first item, and using the share button, I get something like open.spotify.com/track/4P0f1HTaA2UwtLJGryNgJZ?si=DBvbfihOSweU1KHj9Mib8w

That ?si=...........…. is the tracker. It tells Spotify who clicks on the link and ties it to you, meaning Spotify knows who your friends are even if you never follow them.

Similarly, if on Amazon or EBay in the browser, I get something like www.ebay.com/itm/146493392451?_skw=lenovo&itmmeta=............&hash=item................&itmprp=enc..............

And, similarly, everything after the question mark is tracking you. I had to blank it out because it was so long!

There is an exception for a few things (I.E. the v=..... on YouTube, but not the si=..... on YouTube)

The general rule is delete everything after the ? and if it breaks, add something back.

You should do this.

Do you check for trackers and remove them before sharing links?

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I'm gonna log out of Tumblr to avoid Deltarune spoilers. See you all in a week or several!

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hostile rewrite corru.observer ost

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ECHO OFF ECHO And this is why we use Sublime Text to write batch files ECHO Because Unicode is incompatible with extended ASCII ECHO And because it MATTERS if your UTF-16 is offset by a byte. ECHO And because UTF-32 just makes more sense when you think about it..... ECHO. ECHO. ECHO. ECHO tl;dr, be consistent. EXIT /B

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I bet getting crossed off a to do list feels good as fuck for a task

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There’s a new emoji on iPhone and it looks like this: 🫩

For those who can’t see it:

I just thought yall would like to know about this.

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ECHO OFF ECHO Since this is my nostalgia blog more than anything else, I had a question... ECHO What flash games site did you use? ECHO Please. It's for important research. EXIT /B

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Happy Out Of Touch Thursday

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:: What beautiful machines :: They do things, and do so so gracefully :: Look at that CRT doing it's thing so nicely :: And BASIC, doing it's thing :: I used to be basic, before filesystems and flags :: What times those were :: Before batch, back before DOS, in basic :: .........

Lemonade Stand on an apple//e (SOURCE)

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ECHO OFF ECHO ":^(" EXIT /B

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ECHO OFF ECHO Who on earth would trust a computer with their consciousness?! ECHO Maybe the concept is cool, and would be fun ECHO But imagine: you could be hacked, deleted, moved wherever ECHO Running Linux on your brain would pretty cool tho.... ECHO Well, think hard about this one EXIT /B

Would you like it if your consciousness was stored on a computer?

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Literal definition of spyware:

Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡

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ECHO 161

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ECHO OFF ECHO I've edited this to use file explorer instead of start because it's more reliable... ECHO That's all! EXIT /B

ECHO OFF ECHO Hey, don't mind me ECHO Just gonna put a relaxing video on explorer.exe "https:^/^/www.youtube.com^/watch?v=tEtYtR5V6kQ" REM the above line should open https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEtYtR5V6kQ in the browser ECHO okay, bye! EXIT /B

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ECHO OFF ECHO Hey, don't mind me ECHO Just gonna put a relaxing video on explorer.exe "https:^/^/www.youtube.com^/watch?v=tEtYtR5V6kQ" REM the above line should open https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEtYtR5V6kQ in the browser ECHO okay, bye! EXIT /B