naaaaaah… upstanding corporate global citizens such as google and adobe? no, never. no chance in hell. they’d never collude to do such an evil thing…

maybe. but also could be that they never learned how to pump their own gas.

one moron musta heard the word in a movie or something, and then it spread like stupid.

even the userscript i had for this, which used a fallback proxy if needed, hasn’t worked in awhile.

if you don’t mind the login requirement and the target video isn’t drm-‘protected’, you might be able to pass the login credentials or browser cookies–whatever’s needed, to yt-dlp and download the video for later viewing in the media player of your choosing.

possible. theirs might just become ‘third party’ cookies.

but i think they’re confident that they will not have to give up anything tangible in the current proceedings. toss a little more money into the diaper pail, case is mysteriously dropped or government remedy neutered to a “try not to do that again”.

muskrat still has that hallucination that everybody’s gonna be riding around in fully-autonomous self-driving teslas, right? so that’d mean this case will be ‘‘allowed’’ to proceed.

to infinity and beyond.

JustRepublicanThings

thought i missed the klingon…

went back…

ohhhhhhhhh…

the new app-flavoured notepad sucks.

go into its settings, turn off everything.

the ability to produce a never-ending supply of highly-contagious stupid is donvict’s superpower.

mitre also has some prime real estate adjacent to mclean metro at tysons east. probably enough for a golf course/country club if you razed everything and took the adjacent park lands.

2000 is when they started the serp ads. that wasn’t ‘enough’ so they started selling ads on other sites launching adsense in 2003, which fueled their ipo 14 months later.

higher prices lead to lower sales volume. yea, that’s normally how it works. but amazon’s cut is based on price. if prices go up, so does what they earnsteal from each marketplace sale–they’ll make more from less business.

“tada.wav” as the startup sound for win3 was the best.

“hey lookie here, i actually booted up without a config.sys error… tada!!!”

i haven’t seen it since it was ‘new’ in the video store… on betamax it would’ve been, even.

where ‘both sides’ probably means the maga nutcases and the more extreme farther-to-the-right nutcases.

alternatively: “we haven’t figured out how to make ridiculous profits off this shit”

i don’t change the power levels, but i have a couple routers (one at home, one at the office) that i’ve disconnected the (external) antennas to reduce their reach. they’re only needed occasionally, and only in the rooms they’re located in. the signal that’s left is enough.

our ‘price for life’ plan was killed by the telephone company with increases each of the last several months. we’re now at $190 for a basic landline (needed) and pretty slow dsl; nearly double the cost from six months ago. welcome to small town america.