Just installed my replacement car stereo. Buttons on the front work now. Had a scare when there was no sound for a bit. Seems to be good now.
Android Auto still doing a weird thing though. Phone will show charging, then not charging, and repeat that for 30 seconds to a minute. Sometimes removing and reinserting the cable works, but not other times. I might try it without the intermediate cable and plug my phone's cable directly in.
Ad-blocking didn't cause pop-ups and interstitials. Those things predated ad-blockers, and were caused by the abysmally low response rates (click-through) of online ads.
Ad-blocking didn't cause the ads that expand to cover the content of a page or the dashed green underlines within a page's text that pop up small ads when you mouseover them. They are merely a continuation of the trend that started with pop-ups.
Ad-blocking didn't cause tracking. Tracking was caused by the idea that "making ads relevant" would improve click-through rates. It happened independently of ad-blocking.
Now, ad-blocking supposedly caused the rise of surreptitious #JavaScript cryptocoin miners? Does that also explain the existenence of mobile (and desktop) software that contains hidden cryptocurrency miners? Because the two are likely closely related.
3D-printed objects fit perfectly together
#NetNeutrality is NOT DEAD YET. Congress has stopped FCC votes before. Do NOT give up!
1) BOOST this to help spread the word that we can still stop this.
2) CALL your lawmakers: battleforthenet.com
3) PROTEST at Verizon stores on Dec 7: VerizonProtests.com
/Via @fightfortheftr@twitter.com
Not that I think in a million years that any kind of user strike activity would get FB, G or T to change anything significant. Because their entire business model from the ground up is based on selling ads.
Mostly I'm keen to drive people to user-supported social media, like Mastodon, Dreamwidth, Wordpress, even NeoCities.org (which is so cool).
All I am saying here isis, if you want a non-toxic user experience: make sure you're the customer, not the product / worker.
a random discussion on the differences and similarities of kobolds and goblins while I'm cooking dinner is why I have been married to my husband for 7 years 😍
Retoot if you hate Daylight Savings Time.
So yesterday I mildly grumped at our sysadmin for being rather critical of a user who was having computer trouble. There's much nicer ways he could have said "you're doing it wrong".
He took it gracefully and nodded and agreed that, he was not in a great mood and he should not talk down to (l)users.
Then he thought for a moment, and said, (you must imagine a thick slavic accent) "Now I know why you are #debian user, you have soft heart. I am #openbsd user, so I am very cruel."
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So the largest mass shooting in American history. But no one on the right is outraged? I just do not get it. If in fact, the terrorist used 332 calibur ammo, which has been reported, it leaves horrific injuries in the human body. And somehow the NRA, and our government is okay with people being slaughtered? I feel as though I am living gin some distant reality.
50 dead in Las Vegas! Will we finally get sensible gun control? No.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/10/02/just-another-american-with-guns/
