I have zero desire to own an Internet-connected car wherein I can't "own" it without abiding by the rules set forth by the auto manufacturer. BMW recently killed their subscription seat heaters but who knows what Egon Smells is cooking up at Tesla.

https://mozilla.org/firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

Problem solved, except for the sites that still refuse to work properly with established web standards.

boom

Oblig. XKCD:

I kid, I kid - very sweet and adorable.

https://www.techdirt.com/2017/01/04/confirmed-horrible-person-james-woods-continues-being-horrible-winning-awful-lawsuit-to-unmask-deceased-online-critic/

Total stand-up guy, can't imagine why karma would have kicked his angry ass out of paradise....

I'm an instance owner and mod. I'll describe what we see.

Like anyone else, I can check a post or comment and see the upvote and downvote counts. If I click on a specific menu item by a post or comment I can also see who voted which way.

I check it often and to date have only banned two users, out of thousands, who were consistently downvoting posts. These bot accounts were literally voting within seconds of the post going federated.

It's a useful feature on my end and I think others should be able to see it.

tar --help

It'll be unavailable on Sundays.

TSA doesn't provide protection. It provides security theater.

Protection implies some sort of attention designed to safeguard something of value.

Security theater is the purchasing of ineffective and expensive machines from corporations in key senate districts to win voting influence and campaign donations.

I taught my pet rock to "stay" in 1988.

It hasn't moved since.

Reminds me of a comment I once came across in a work application's code: "This function took forever to write correctly. It was hard work. I didn't document it. Figure it out."

Of course the variables were not defined properly and were named esoterically.

https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/cfpb_health-savings-account-issue-spotlight_2024-04.pdf

CFPB is aware of the issue. I'm guessing that the incoming administration is not going to care about fees.

Worked at a place where our CIO was completely unqualified to be a leader, much less a leader in IT. She was a micromanager who took the position of "telling stakeholders" instead of "working with stakeholders" so any project she was on was really her pushing through whatever agenda she had at the time. Meanwhile her deputy CIO was stealing computer equipment from the server room but I digress....

April fools one year and I decide to prank it up. I moved the hinges (not the door handles) of the freezer/fridge in the breakroom so that the handle and hinges were on the same side. It's a fifteen minute job to move everything so I did it the night before the 1st.

The next morning our hungover CIO stumbles into the breakroom and cannot get the fridge to open. After a few seconds of futile tugging on the handle, she gave up and took her lunch to her office.

Others in the office figured it out pretty quickly and had a good chuckle.

Later on that day CIO sends out a nastygram about pranks being unprofessional, property damage, someone was going to be in huge trouble, yadda yadda....

But she's not the director. The director tells her to basically fuck off, it was a funny prank, and perhaps she needed to lighten up.

She never found out it was me.

https://favicon.io/favicon-converter/ - Convert an image to a favicon file in many formats.

https://ninite.com/ - Easiest way to set up a new Windows PC with the latest common applications without toolbars, prompts, or anything like that. Not necessarily obscure but I like to peddle it.

https://www.printablepaper.net/ - Need a check register? Graph paper? Lined paper? College ruled or wide ruled? Dot paper? Calendars? If it's on paper, chances are you can find it and print it here.

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/ - Need a good bedtime story? This site is best read right before falling asleep.

Why do they censor 'aubsive'?

YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS FREE TRAVEL HACK coming to TikTok soon

Walz puts his cart back. Vance leaves it sitting in the parking spot next to him.

I figured we're not going to have much choice in the future. We'll be driving cars under End User License Agreements that already send tons and tons of data about us back to the manufacturers.