Anyone can commit to a git repo, they don't need a github account. They could be doing their development on a different git host, and mirroring it to github.
Noscript has 100k users on chrome, 240k on Firefox, according to their respective stores. I don't know if thats total downloads or active installations though.
Ublock origin lite is 19M on chrome.
There are ~6B global internet users. So definitely more than 1:100k, but still very unique.
So they are very different scales.
Adblock, incognito tabs, VPN. Probably other good alternatives as well.
If they can't sell you ads, fingerprinting you doesnt gain them much.
And if you can reset/perturb your fingerprint enough via incognito/vpn, they can't track you for dynamic pricing shenanigans.
Blocking JS is a fingerprint, and a pretty unique one. If you care about your privacy, forget about fingerprinting and instead mitigate its impacts instead.
This is offensive to leeches.
When shaking their hand, a little tongue will go a long way to show them that you're a team player. /j
Relax, deep breath, and take your time answering questions.
Good luck!
I agree thats how it should be, but the licencing here in Aus doesnt line up with that.
The knowledge involved in the actual licencing isnt actually that useful for actually operating the radio. It was mostly tailored to designing radios from the ground up, and it was basically late highschool electronics.
The knowledge you need to operate the radios properly is all available online.
In my case, I am using handheld radios on the CB bands. I have limited the power correctly, but because they are capable of more power than allowed, that makes them require a licence, even when used in normal CB bands. It doesnt make sense for me to waste multiple Sundays to get a licence I am not actually going to take advantage of.
So here in Aus, it is just beaurocratic bullshit. And like I said, if it were online, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
I don't count forums the same as modern social media. The are social places of course, but much more tight-knit, much less algorithmically ratfucked. Even 2003 Myspace and 2004 FB were much better places than what they have metastasized into.
Maybe around, but I don't think it was ubiquitous? Even then, ADSL was pretty bad, and I wouldn't call it broadband by today's standards. But that could just be Australia lagging the world :)
I believe the internet was much smaller then. It existed, but most social hadn't really begun yet. I still only had dialup.
9/11 was 2001, Facebook was 2004. So definitely a different place.
Plenty of people do are still doing ham radio.
~~There isnt much risk being unlicenced, enforcement seems sporadic and unreliable.~~ I own a bunch of handheld radios that ideally I should have a licence for, but for road trips it hardly matters.
But at the same time, getting licenced isnt expensive or difficult, so you may as well just do it. The only reason I haven't is that I don't want to waste a bunch of Sundays going to a class to listen to year 10 electronics.
They usually also have emails and other IDs, might have to wait a while for them to add it.