[-] mvilain@kbin.social 5 points 6 months ago

As of tomorrow, she'd be arrested the moment she steps into any public locale in California.

[-] mvilain@kbin.social 16 points 6 months ago

If I found out a TV required internet access to function, I'd return it to wherever I bought it next day.

Luckily I have a old-ish flatscreen that doesn't require internet but does have a netflix and other channels I can setup if I want. The Netflix client is so old it won't connect to their servers any more. That's OK. My Roku still works.

[-] mvilain@kbin.social 7 points 6 months ago

I thought it was Euler that did this. But I can imagine Gauss doing it too.

[-] mvilain@kbin.social 42 points 7 months ago

My great Aunt had a terrific joke about Henry:

Nixon is walking outside the Whitehouse near an area of freshly fallen snow.

He sees NIXON SUCKS in yellow snow and asks the Secret Service (and the FBI) to investigate who did it.

A couple days go by and someone from the FBI Forensics Lab comes into the Oval Office to report.

"Well?" Nixon asked.

"You're not gonna like this."

"Just tell me."

"It's Henry's."

"I knew it!"

"Ah. That's not all Mr. President."

"What else?"

"It's Pat's handwriting."

[-] mvilain@kbin.social 28 points 7 months ago

This is why you have so many Russians being thrown out of windows in high buildings. They're testing the local value of g.

[-] mvilain@kbin.social 6 points 7 months ago

If I'm Nancy's Secret Santa, I'm getting her gift cards to PetSmart and Dunkin Donuts.

[-] mvilain@kbin.social 11 points 7 months ago

During 45's badministration, the Voodoo supply shop kept running out of pins. Once he was out, I transferred a bunch to other dolls.

The hard part is getting hair or nail clippings for all those Election Deniers in Congress.

[-] mvilain@kbin.social 21 points 7 months ago

A variation of Carl Reiner's joke: How do you make God laugh?

Tell her your plan.

[-] mvilain@kbin.social 11 points 8 months ago

I stopped tipping the grocery clerks when they stopped asking to see my ID when I purchased alcohol.

I mentioned this when the woman ahead of me bought a bottle of wine. The clerk said "She looks under 35. You don't."

Definitely no tip.

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submitted 9 months ago by mvilain@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social

Youtube let the other shoe drop in their end-stage enshittification this week. Last month, they required you to turn on Youtube History to view the feed of youtube videos recommendations. That seems reasonable, so I did it. But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don't get much from my choices. It still did a pretty good job of showing me stuff I was interested in watching.

Then on Oct 1, they threw up a "You're using an Ad Blocker" overlay on videos. I'd use my trusty Overlay Remover plugin to remove the annoying javascript graphic and watch what I wanted. I didn't have to click the X to dismiss the obnoxious page.

Last week, they started placing a timer with the X so you had to wait 5 seconds for the X to appear so you could dismiss blocking graphic.

Today, there was a new graphic. It allowed you to view three videos before you had to turn off your Ad Blocker. I viewed a video 3 times just to see what happens.

Now all I see is this page.

Google has out and out made it a violation of their ToS to have an ad blocker to view Youtube. Or you can pay them $$$.

I ban such sites from my systems by replacing their DNS name in my hosts file routed to 127.0.0.1 which means I can't view the site. I have quite a few banned sites now.

#tech

[-] mvilain@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago

While I can't be sure, but I'll pretty certain that someone saying the same thing about the Police Union Leader's family would be met with a visit from a SWAT team. I wonder where when Anonymous will start doing takedowns of such people. I'm sure there's plenty of dirt underneath this guy's carpets.

[-] mvilain@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Time to upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 or Debian 12

[-] mvilain@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

This cat has the same suspicious look my old cat had growing up every time I pulled out my film SLR with an attached flash. He didn't like the flash and would run after I snapped a couple pics of him. These days, I doubt he'd blink at phone snapping a pic w/o flash.

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