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History of (extremely predictable) failures catching up to you? Quick, write a book! (thebaffler.com)

submitted 8 months ago by froztbyte@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Too tired to sneer at the book myself right now but the article doesn’t pull punches either

Figured it’s worth posting since the book author has featured here more than once recently and has definitely been an enabler to The Shit

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[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 8 months ago (10 children)

archive link since the baffler was so fond of telling me I had only 1 free article left, meaning refreshing the tab would most likely lock me out of reading the page

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 8 months ago (9 children)

that really is a fucking annoying banner, yeah. also, lifehack: open these fuckers in temp containers or priv sessions of $browserflavour. counter cookies can't do shit when they always die.

[–] AcausalRobotGod@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Temp containers in Firefox is the greatest extension ever.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago

it's so good

and it just goddamn works

on my workstation I have that + Choosy (there are other-OS alternatives to Choosy as well), and I profile-route things as needed along with fallthroughs into complete memoryholes for things I want as little state as possible on

(I hate the modern web so fucking much)

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