and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus snarkboost or absurdo or esoterica, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-shitposting ...

... were getting ready to perform a little of the old ingroup-outgroup, ingroup-outgroup on a weepy young devotchka they had there...

My lawyers are collecting a database of usernames that infringe my shitposting patent; pay your royalties now - isn't peace of mind worth it?

Just 500 satoshis per shitpost to 1CGkmyCH9AzJEhzxg4irkHWT8AY5S95E5N and we're even.

Chrome to implement an adblocker

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/04/report-google-will-add-an-ad-blocker-to-all-versions-of-chrome-web-browser/

Kind of a dilution of the term, though - what they're essentially doing here is blocking -other- people's ads that are "below the standard" - e.g. the ads that cause most people to install adblockers - while leaving their own alone.

So, thanks to @Mudge's birdsite post I now have a huge list of ideas of varying degree of nastiness.

For example using the EICAR test string to protect this post and thereby rendering it unreadable behind all those SSL MITM company proxies!

You know what the -really- nice part about mastodon is?

All the resources load from the same A record. There is only one DNS lookup required to access a mastodon site.

This matters a lot, and it's something that a lot of websites get horribly wrong.