If it helps anyone, this Chrome extension has worked every time I've tried it:

https://github.com/jswanner/DontFuckWithPaste

(I usually keep it disabled, but enable it when I'm about to use a site that has paste disabled on any fields.)

"If it helps anyone, this Chrome extension has worked every time I've tried it: https://github.com/jswanner/DontFuckWithPaste"

Shouldn't chrome itself be a "don't fuck with paste" tool ?

As the world moves to the browser as the OS (essentially) it's imperative that the browser respect end user wishes and behave as a sentry against malicious websites and malicious website behavior.

Most of the time websites disable paste by registering "onPaste" events. How do you allow websites to keep doing that when necessary, but not allow the websites that break the paste?

> when necessary

When would I ever want a website to know the difference between me pasting and me typing some text?

Kudos +3

Edit: Does anyone else feel... increasingly... trapped?

Awesome, is there a similar one for selecting text and copying?

Very possibly, but I don't know of one to recommend, sorry.

(Temporarily disabling JavaScript is sometimes an option.)

"America will be about the last place to attempt this..."

I'm not sure how relevant this is, but I believe it's related to the topic of basic income, and hopefully it's at least slightly interesting! :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund

(Coincidentally, I only heard about it last weekend, at what you could describe as an "alternative economics" conference.)

Yeah, the APF was mentioned in the Medium article, and I'm familiar with it as I have family both who live in Alaska, and who have worked in the oil industry. Also, I've been to deadhorse myself, but I'm not sure that qualifies me for anything other than glancing at the pipeline now and again for hours and hours and hours on the Dalton.

If anyone is wondering how he got the ladders up the side of the chimney in the first place:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e0C57orM1s&t=10m25s

I rediscovered Fred on YouTube a couple of years ago, and spent far too much time watching pretty much everything I could find.

As the title suggests, watching the overhang climb in this is enough to make you feel dizzy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R3-YwDZrzg

Wow. Can't believe I've never seen that overhang climb video before. Found it hard to watch - I just can't imagine doing anything like that. But extremely impressive.

And 50 years old as well. He just looks like a tubby little fellow but I bet he's hard as nails under the overall.

I'm a little surprised that there weren't permanent ladders, or at least the gear to attach ladders, as a feature of the chimney. The cost of a dozen ladders and some bolts would be a few hundred pounds (in modern terms) compared to the thousands you'd pay a person to 'ladder up' a chimney before it could be worked on.

I wonder if they'd degrade to the point where they were no longer trustworthy? If we're talking about decades and decades which it seems like we are then at some point you'd maybe end up having to repair/maintain the ladder/access bolts as well as the tower itself.

There are steps on telegraph poles above a certain point - the wooden ones at least. Modern metal ones have signs that forbid the use of ladders and they end up using cherry pickers - which seems a bit backwards in an odd sort of a way.

If you don't mind saying, was that GZ by any chance? :)

Yup! :)