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Ariel Millennium Thornton

One of my customers got completely turned off to ad blockers in general because the ad blocker that came up when they looked for one to install was Total Adblock.

Total Adblock promises to block all ads, but it allows the sweetest malvertising targets in the free edition & nags for payment more often than ads themselves.

I won them back on side by removing it, installing uBlock Origin by Raymond Hill, & showing them how to use it, getting their fully informed consent at each step of the way.

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Jess (Blobun Sale)🌺:itsfree: :eggbug: :therian:&

🐿skull guide:
💀 = I'm dead
💀💀 = sans and papyrus
💀💀💀 = DOOM II Map 19 "The Citadel" (only 2 needed to win)
💀💀💀💀 = the lift you use to cross lava in Super Mario World

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Block ads, even in your go-to search engine.

Block ads, *especially* in your go-to search engine.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Today in "ad blockers are Internet security software":

Ars Technica, "Address bar shows hp.com. Browser displays scammers’ malicious text anyway.": arstechnica.com/security/2025/

Malwarebytes, "Scammers hijack websites of Bank of America, Netflix, Microsoft, and more to insert fake phone number": malwarebytes.com/blog/news/202

TL;DR: Scammers buy search engine ads linking to legit websites' help pages with a pre-filled help query, but the query bar text is a message to call the fake-support phone number.

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scmbradley

The Addams family meet up with a Navy officer.

The daughter says "hello Commodore".

Wednesday, it's Captain.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

My office has a color duplex laser printer.

Getting it to print duplex pages and pages in color using LPR was kind of hard. I had to write my own ghostscript command as printer filters for separate simplex and duplex mode (virtual) printers.

Getting it to do the same using CUPS was and still is impossible. Since I don't use x86 Linux, let alone a major distro, I can't use the manufacturer's driver, and compatible drivers are simplex B/W only.

Yet LPR is a relic to leave behind?

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Nope, slow hardware failure.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Periodic reminder: Give Windows 11 a proper reboot once every other week or so, or whenever it starts doing strange things. I talk my customers through that as a first troubleshooting step, & 99 times out of 100, it fixes the reason they called.

Click the Start (Windows logo) button, click the power icon, then click on "Restart".
--or--
Press [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Del], press [Tab] until the power icon is selected, press [Enter], use the arrow keys to select "Restart", then press [Enter].

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Well, that's a first. A customer's Linksys E5600 router spontaneously forgot how to wifi. I don't think it's a hardware fault because a factory reset made it remember how to wifi normally. But nothing short of factory reset worked. Botched automatic firmware update?

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Ninji

I went into the big Iceland today and for some reason there was an entire display of Ukrainian cereal with extremely furry mascots

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Bunny Jane Can Draw Sometimes

I was feeling patriotic so I made this. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Bunny Jane Can Draw Sometimes

#DiggerEngine

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ultracompetent

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65325148

An Akkadian (Ancient Babylonian) translation of the YMCA song. As written by Gilgamesh's exasperated tourism minister trying to attract more gay guys to Uruk to keep Gil distracted from politics.

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Tom Morris

Good news: GitHub Copilot is scared shitless of the concept of gender.

Instead of foo, bar and baz, use “genderqueer”, “demisexual” and “leather_daddy” and you’ll reduce the likelihood of getting a spammy PR from a sad robot.

github.com/orgs/community/disc

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Baldur Bjarnason

“But I’d notice if the LLM started censoring my work!”

Really? Did you notice this? github.com/orgs/community/disc

The point of cognitive automation is NOT to enhance thinking. The point of it is to avoid thinking in the first place. That’s the job it does. You won’t notice when the censorship kicks in

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Baldur Bjarnason

I’d like to reiterate what I said a while back: integrating LLM-based tools into all corporate and personal workflows is outright dangerous. Even when run locally, most LLMs in use are trained and tuned by corporations that are now deeply in bed with a lawless authoritarian takeover of the US

People who are removing all references to minorities, women, and equality from your public spheres will not hesitate to ask corporations to tune centrally-controlled LLMs to censor the same from your work

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Natasha Jay

I've asked so many people what LGBTQ stands for.

So far no one has given me a straight answer ...

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The Iconolog

DEBUG00A.ICO - System, Utilities

.....Compress, Copy, Debug, View

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~ Ｍａｃｉｎｔｏｓｈ　Ｍｉｎｕｓ ~

“You shoot on Sony? *pfft* That’s cute, I shoot on Nintendo”

#N64 #64DD

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Lynnesbæn :bune_ylw:

no no, not a teams meeting, it's a meet meeting. on google meet. it might be called duo for you? i sent you a hangouts to the drive link on messages. no no not your gmail inbox, it's under "all mail", not every email goes to the inbox, haha. or if you're using the classic mode it might be under meetups or promotions. yeah where the chats used to be, before they made google voice an RCS thing. have you got it from google play? no not the green one, the new one with the multicoloured icon. you can only use the green one with legacy members. ok so the problem is you're on workspace for business, it's under google one basic now. did you try quick sharing it? no see you can't use it on a tablet, only a phone or laptop, unless you want the plus features, that only works on phones of course. honestly the easiest way from here is through the docs plugin, unless you wanna family share if you can do vowifi

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