mh, family
on Wednesday my stepmom was sent to the hospital. She's been feeling weak for a while. We don't know what's wrong with her, but we hope it's something curable.
I've been feeling depressed ever since. I've gone through this before with my birth mom, her being constantly in and out of hospitals in the later years of her life.
I don't know if I have the strength to go through this yet again.
I've now reached the period in my Price is Right binge watch where I'm at Season 11, where The Price is Right: The Barker Era started their run.
These next few seasons will go by *really* quickly, as there's only a handful of episodes of that season on Youtube now, the rest got DMCA'd when they hit the streaming service.
Since I've already watched most of the Barker Era episodes, I'm okay with this as we'll get to the good stuff faster (1986 onward).
We are currently witnessing the fallout from monopolization in the browser space. Back in 2007, Internet Explorer received much criticism for its phishing protection mechanism which transmitted all visited websites to Microsoft servers. Mozilla paired up with Google and designed a different system which performed most checks locally and preserved users’ privacy. That’s what healthy competition looks like.
Fast forward to 2023. Almost all web browsers in use are either Chrome or based on the Chromium browser engine. With the competition pretty much eliminated, Google is now pushing its “Enhanced Safe Browsing” down everyone’s throats – which is a nice sounding name for “every website you visit is sent to our servers.” The Internet Explorer approach from 2007 all over again, only that now it’s Google getting all this data. And they certainly won’t do anything evil with it. Yeah, sure.
Reminder: Firefox and Safari are the only remaining browsers worth noting which are not using Google’s browser engine.
Usually I'm not into the older, pre-1970s quiz/panel shows, but I think the unusual nature of some of these shows warrants giving them a second look.
More tape converting and I've found some interesting stuff that's not on the Youtubes (from a cursory glance):
- A partial episode of The Name's the Same from 1954-55, with Dennis James
- An episode of the short-lived What's Going On?, a panel show that had panelists asks questions of someone who's doing something remotely (a common thing nowadays, unheard of in 1954!)
I anticipate what's on this tape next
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