Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

For anti-adblock pop-ups, I usually recommend the more extreme action of blocking JavaScript on that website, either through "Site Settings" behind the info icon in the Chrome address bar, or through an extension such as NoScript for Firefox & ScriptSafe for Chrome/Chromium.

If the page content is completely inaccessible with both ads & JS blocked, then there's nothing for it; I recommend abandoning the site. Like a game of Three-Card Monte in an alley, the only winning move is not to play.

Cleaning up a customer's PC, I made the mistake of leaving a tab open on Yahoo's home page. Only 1 minute later: malvertized. Sunuva...

I did it again to pin down the cause, & indeed it's Yahoo's ads breaking out, taking over the page, & loading scary messages that make it difficult to leave.

I can't stress enough, folks, that an ad blocker is Internet SECURITY software.

current status: "This shouldn't take long. Thanks for being patient."

They're out of fresh strawberries. Guess I'll have to get the recycled strawberries instead.

It's been an age since I installed Microsoft Office. I've been sitting at Office 365's "We'll be done in just a moment" prompt for the last half hour plus. It's on-site for a customer, so it's billed time I've been waiting, but staring at the progress bar & experiencing Microsoft's idea of "just a moment" is boring.

When you're writing code, don't forget that one of the people who might end up using it, one of the people you need to write docs for, is you. Specifically, a version of you 3-5 years from now who has no memory or idea of what you were thinking when you wrote it.

I just found out how to easily test every single byte of swap space I have: All I have to do is leave Firefox alone but running for most of a week.

Don't you just wish your Rubik's Cube would solve itself?
https://boingboing.net/2018/09/24/self-solving-rubiks-cube.html -
https://media.dmm-make.com/item/4462/ -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCoH2AORcEQ

box(){ t="$1xxxx";l="";c=${2:-=};i=${#t};until [ $i = 0 ]; do l="$l$c";i=$((i-1));done;printf "$l\n$c $1 $c\n$l\n"; }

# A slightly longer but more portable (& BSD-friendly) version of the bash box function in https://mastodon.social/@climagic/100792670341617316

There are legit privacy & security concerns regarding bills & email.

But these same companies have no problem with sending actual payment confirmations by email, though. They tell me what I paid & when in email, but not what I owe & when.

Dear companies: If you say you send bills by email, & those email messages are just "log in to our website to view your bill," then you DON'T send bills by email, & you're LYING when you say you do.