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Fairburnon Google Antigravity

You ok?

Fairburnon How to turn off Copilot and protect your data from Microsoft's AI

Update your PC then shut them down. Many many ways to do this. Cant procreate if you rip its nuts off.

Fairburnon Dissecting Flock Safety: The Cameras Tracking You Are a Security Nightmare [video]

And..?

Fairburnon Anti-Consumer Ad Block and Online Ordering

Apparently, I had the issue on my end. Not theirs.. MODS, please remove this post, please. I was the dumbass..

Fairburnon Anti-Consumer Ad Block and Online Ordering

Went to order a pizza for lunch as I was hungry and lazy to make anything upstairs.. apparently Dominoes (and I assume others) are playing with user experience regarding the browser and plugins such as adblock (FF + uBlock lite & reg).

I couldnt order anything on that menu page as no images. Hmm, maybe their site is having issues. Tried Chrome, worked fine. So I went and turned my adblock off & on and rechecked. Yup. Thats the deal.

But wait, there is more. I installed ublock in Chrome and reran the web page. The page rendered fine.. Back to FF with ublock.. no images of the food.

Try for yourself. Try and order a pizza on Dominoes with FF and an ad blocker.

I understand the reasons but they don't sit right with me.

Add'l Context: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/dam9v2/ublock...

https://www.eater.com/2019/7/25/8930669/dominos-supreme-cour...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/25/dominos-asks-supreme-court-t...

https://ialabs.ie/the-robles-versus-dominos-pizza-case/

..and yes, hardly Hacker news but it annoyed me enough to throw caution to the wind.

Fairburnon YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'

Have you?

Fairburnon I’m worried that they put co-pilot in Excel

Dont use Excel? Unless you cant remove it or disable it assume this is the new normal. Act accordingly.

Fairburnon Ask HN: Would you trust an AI that sees and hears everything you do?

Build a POC for yourself and use it. Go from there.

Fairburnon Micro Center and iFixit Team Up to Make Tech Repair More Accessible

Torrance, CA for the win. Its what Frys USED to be.

Fairburnon Google Changes AI Health Policy After Employee Backlash

Stay classy, Googie.

Fairburnon Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account

Let them try. 30 yr sysadmin with no patience for that kind of behavior. Ill install a turd and make it run before I let MS dictate how I use my equip.

Fairburnon One to two Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day

No, not because of Elon. But I can see how you think so.

Fairburnon YouTube caves to Trump with $24.5M settlement

Knowing about and having to hear his lies are two diff things.

Fairburnon YouTube caves to Trump with $24.5M settlement

Kick rocks. Pres. Bonespurs was a civi at the time and a full-on pos that deserved to be kicked off.

Fairburnon YouTube caves to Trump with $24.5M settlement

Weak as water

Fairburnon Fred Dibnah shows how to erect a chimney scaffold at 200 feet (1982) [video]

Very much enjoyed that. Thanks

Fairburnon I wish my web server were in the corner of my room (2022)

Truman Capote would like a word /s

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4rrNKu5qp38

Fairburnon Microsoft Favors Anthropic over OpenAI for Visual Studio Code

o.0 interesting.

Fairburnon Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)

Facinating!

Fairburnon Steam, Discord, Twitch, Reddit to testify before Congress over 'radicalization'

The stupid just doesnt stop. A little McCarthyism here, a little there.

Fairburnon Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch

And who is to know? Seems a bit withouth teeth.

Fairburnon We hacked Burger King: How auth bypass led to drive-thru audio surveillance

Since way back has it, repost that shit. Burger King, get bent.

Fairburnon House to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias

Just another attempt to vilify a public source of information to keep the masses stupid. As usual. Pol Pot would be proud.

Fairburnon Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes

Jody Foster would like a word..

Fairburnon NASA's acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency

So much stupid. So much.

Fairburnon Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt data

If your rig is stable and dont care about features, block all updates and turn the service off. If you have a prod. rig that is stable, leave it to MS to frack it up. /s

Fairburnon Microsoft no longer allows turning off app updates in the Microsoft Store

Simple. Dont use MS products. Also, turn off win updates and block them. It is your machine, not thiers.

Fairburnon Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's 1958 Cessna

I am starting lessons here at EMT next week. My instructor's partner saw someone messing with this plane today. she drove up on the line to see if they needed help. she didnt know who they were. Her partner got a pic of the plane. Funny thing is my instructor is about my age.. so she kinda fit the desc. Now she's prefacing this news with, Im not her! lol Funny and madd3ning.

Fairburnon Disney, NBCU sue Midjourney over copyright infringement

Lame. Anyone with compute power at home can make as much copyright-breaking content till the cows come home. Like, castigating MJ is going to do anything meaningful..

Fairburnon Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traffic for some publishers

Google, Bing etal.. are fast becoming irrelevant. At least as a search engine