---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <bc460178-ea66-2f3c-17eb-a4aa8e768244@att.net> Date: 9 May 2020 17:35:10 -0700 From: "John David Galt" <jdgalt@att.net> Subject: Re: Incognito Mode Unmasked: What It Does and What It Doesn't Do > ***** Moderator's Note ***** > > I have to use "incognito" mode on Chrome quite often, to see websites > that demand I disable Chrome's ad-blocker. Some sites have now been > coded to demand that I use neither an ad-blocker nor Incognito mode, > and I'd like to know if there's a way (short of disabling Javascript) > to avoid the demands. Try other browsers. I recommend Dissenter (on Windows, Mac, or Linux) and DuckDuckGo (on Android) browsers. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200509183826.GA30636@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 18:38:26 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Mom Working At Home AT&T Fernanda Martínez: Mom working at home By: Diana Ellis Payán R. Fernanda Martínez, in charge of the relationship with the Media at AT&T Mexico , is one of so many brave people that she faced quarantine and working at home in the company of a four-year-old daughter who, on many occasions, proved to have twice as much energy as she. However, and as a good mother, she invented a set of colors to assertively request spaces of silence in order to have her meetings. https://www.infochannel.info/fernanda-martinez-de-att-mama-trabajando-en-casa -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ***** Moderator's Note ***** Note: This article is in Spanish, but online translators are easy to fnd, and Chrome has one built-in. I'm posting it because it has some practical tips for controlling your environment while working at home. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <aadcf5fe60ff414a3ff36b0db9e97805.squirrel@mai.hallikainen.org> Date: 10 May 2020 11:28:49 -0700 From: "Harold Hallikainen" <harold@mai.hallikainen.org> Subject: Re: Incognito Mode You wrote: > I have to use "incognito" mode on Chrome quite often, to see > websites that demand I disable Chrome's ad-blocker. Some sites have > now been coded to demand that I use neither an ad-blocker nor > Incognito mode, and I'd like to know if there's a way (short of > disabling Javascript) to avoid the demands. I use the "Edit This Cookie" extension on Chrome. It lets you delete cookies and set the expiration date on cookies to something reasonable (a few days instead of a few centuries). Also, I have Chrome blocking third party cookies so the cookies are only available to the site that actually set them instead of being able to track me across the galaxy. --- FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com Not sent from an iPhone. ***** Moderator's Note ***** A. Because it disrupts the normal top-to-bottom flow of a written conversation. Q. Why is top-posting a bad idea? Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200509194001.GA6045@alphanet.ch> Date: 9 May 2020 21:40:01 +0200 From: "Marc SCHAEFER" <schaefer@alphanet.ch> Subject: Re: Why Did Dial-Up Modems Make So Much Noise? In article <20200509182454.GA30612@telecom.csail.mit.edu> you wrote: > especially noisy late at night. Have you ever wondered why all that > noise was neacessary? And did you know you could have muted your noisy > modem? Of course we knew how to use ATMx[1], where x could be used to mute the modem (0), let it speak while establishing the connection (1), and all the time on (2). I was usually using it with x=1 during the day, and I had a script to mute it during the night, especially since I received automated calls during the night in the eighties and early nighties (UUCP on AmigaOS, then on UNIX). Fixed IP networking came to me in 1996 (cable modem), and I abandonned UUCP and FTN (ifmail) over TCP in 2003. I think I disconnected my last fax modem and UNIX login in 2012 or so, as I abandonned analog and ISDN telephony for 100% voice-over-IP. You can find audio and explanation about what the modem noises were here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckc6XSSh52w [1] https://www.lammertbies.nl/comm/info/hayes-at-commands#at0m ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Mon, 11 May 2020