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My only gripe, it only seems to apply to the macOS items. The ones put there by apps still seem to be spaced out the same as before. The macOS ones are definitely closer.

It's odd the platform is never mentioned. I have LR and CC installed (the latter is impossible to remove, IIUC) and no /etc/hosts mods. I'm on macOS.

I’m up to more than 1,500 spam emails a month, with my email on the corp website.

The number of redirects while using ms properties is just insane. It makes white listing them in uBO impossible because they redirect so fast, through multiple domains. The White listing is needed to sometimes make them work.

It's a thing with google and facebook too. If you login to youtube or go to facebook account settings, at least 3 redirects through very random places. I guess 3 is not a lot compared to microsoft's 15.

My dad googled “amex phone number” and called the first result. I spent most of a Saturday cleaning up after the scammers.

I told him, next time call the number on the back of your card.


Any chance the first result was an ad? Those are definitely a popular phishing distribution mechanism, so getting your parents an adblocker could help

Likely. I had him setup with uBO but sometimes it would bork a website so he disabled it, I think. Then, one day I screen shared with him and he's using Safari! He claims he had always used Safari. :/ He doesn't really even understand what a browser is. Or a tab. Once I screen shared and he had like 30 gmail tabs in Safari. :o

I just got a family member to install one after they Google'd a hotel name and accidentally clicked the first ad instead of the hotel site.

Or make a local backup from your phone.

Let’s not forget Benn Jordan’s work identifying sonic pollution that is making people sick.

https://youtu.be/_bP80DEAbuo?si=d8ZZCMVa9txyopRs


At least there you might be asked to stand in front of a canon if you don’t kiss ass hard enough.

Imagine telling those North Koreans that there are millions of people in the US that do it all for free.

Hell, some will even pay extra for access to the highest levels of ass kissing.


I remember the top tech bros sitting at white house dinner for some serious asskissing, followed by paying zillions for the new golden extension.

Wow such integrity, much win.


"What's the point of having fuck you money if you never say fuck you."

They are all horrible. If there is ever a reckoning, I hope this entire class of spineless shits get destroyed.


What if the whole world population would have F-Y money enough for subsistence and would not have to perform the act of asskissing or complying? Not luxury but basic needs met alright, something like the basic income the democrats blocked during Nixon era(twice actually).

How fast we'd fix this shit?


Incompetence is the forte of this administration.

Followed closely by malice

Recycling an old post:

> We had the first 4+ years to learn that "malice or incompetence" is not the right question. There's been more than enough pathological input to show it becomes a denial-of-service attack on observers.

> The correct answer is both, until and unless the perpetrators wish to come forward and defend themselves as just malicious or just incompetent.

One might also view it as a kind politically-flavored nerd-sniping. [0] Sometimes the only winning move is not to play.

[0] https://xkcd.com/356/


Malicious incompetence. The inbred kissing cousin of malicious compliance.

IMHO incompetent malice is as much likely.

Does jj write to the .git directory or use git’s libraries (I assume they exist)?

JJ doesn't directly touch the `.git` directory, it uses gitoxide¹ to perform git operations.

¹https://github.com/GitoxideLabs/gitoxide


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