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Periodic reminder:

GetFirefox.com/

Once installed:
* Menu button
* Add-ons and themes
* Find more add-ons box: "ublock origin" [Enter]
* uBlock Origin by Raymond Hill
* Add to Firefox

Every Web browser sucks, but at least use one *not* designed to let everyone track you & install malware & fake warnings urging you to call 1-800-FLEECE-ME to remove extended car warranty viruses.

Chrome is designed to let google spy on you in order to serve behavioural ads. So it should be no wonder third parties are using it to inject malware into your devices. The only reason these are "exploits" is because someone other than Google, the world's largest advertising company, is using them.

darkreading.com/vulnerabilitie

it's so funny to me how webp literally got a massive vulnerability in its library and people are still defending it over png and jpeg

daddy google is not going to notice you

@porsupah The thing is, YouTube rewrote my search to take me to a list of 8 relevant results, but when I followed the "search instead for" link, it took me to a list of *more* relevant results, not fewer.

I really miss the Web 1.0 days, when websites assumed you meant exactly what you said or only *offered* corrections for ambiguous potential mistakes.

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No, YouTube. I copied my search terms straight from the Billboard chart. I thought you would've learned by now what your autoco-wreck exceptions should be, but here we are.

Project manager: "What's technical debt? Explain it to me like I'm 6 years old"

Devs:

Today in "stop reinventing HTML poorly & stupidly in JavaScript":

Using the Avast Uninstall Tool | Official Avast Support

support.avast.com/en-us/articl

@dragonmagic We're back. We were gone because I did a stupid; sorry about that.

Speaking of LLMs as the enshittification du jour, the lawyer who had ChatGPT do his homework for him: futurism.com/the-byte/lawyer-c

Depressingly got away with it via a punishment a lot less severe than the disbarment he deserved: futurism.com/the-byte/lawyer-c

All this does is perpetuate the soul-destroying bullshit's appearance as the new hype.

This isn't the future I was promised.

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LLMs, in the context of online and meatspace enshittification, are "large language models." The invisibly-failing & gatekept ripoff ChatGPT is simply the most famous LLM.

if the cyberpunk themed product is not trans as fuck and anticop you aint got punk, you got neonliberalism

Folks, I'm really sorry. Computer Fairies went down because I made a stupid mistake. I gave the site host a CC to hold & draw payment from, but it expired last month, and I forgot to give them a new CC until today. Again, I'm really sorry about the downtime.

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