Category: internet

  • 1Blocker Stops YouTube Ads on Mac, iPad, and iPhone

    Soon after Apple allowed “content blockers” to block advertisements (six years ago! ?) the 1Blocker app became my favorite tool to do so. With iOS 15 and iPad OS 15, as well as Safari 15 on the Mac, that usefulness expands to allow blocking ads on YouTube via the newly supported Web Extensions in Safari.…

  • Freenode is Dead

    The freenode internet relay chat network has been a staple of open-source and free software projects for decades and it has been taken over: Developers of the open source organization Freenode are quitting en masse after Andrew Lee, a tech entrepreneur and the Crown Prince of Korea, has taken control of the network in what…

  • Radio Garden

    A lot of things about the internet are sad these days. With the internet people can find their kind of people and that is how you end up with good things like people who like mechanical keyboards developing their own keyboard projects but you also get groups of white supremacists organizing to storm the U.S.…

  • What Happens When The Publisher is a Casino

    Last year I was happy to receive a gifted subscription to The Athletic, a subscription-based sports outlet. It has some fine writers. Now they’ve partnered with a sports gambling company, BetMGM. Nando Di Fino: From the day we started the fantasy sports section, I’ve gotten one question, repeatedly:“Why Chris Vaccaro?”But a close second is, “When…