What's up with ads on Slashdot getting past uBlock in Firefox? 'Block Element' isn't working. If this keeps up, I'm done

It's the scourge of a new breed of mal/adware from html-load.com. More and more sites are using it, and it very much is malware, integrating like a virus into the page loading using javascript. It uses deceptive practices such as the domains html-load and css-load.

If you don't use chrome, I find the following filters added to ublock origin seem to block it completely on slashdot and most other sites:

||html-load.com^$all
 
||css-load.com^$all
 
||content-loader.com^$all
 
||07c225f3.online/loader.min.js
 
||error-report.com^$all

Don't see too many cars on walking paths and sidewalks. The number of e-bikes on walking paths and sidewalks has skyrocketed. It's almost as if someone decided being a pedestrian is a sinful activity, and that every walkway must now be infested with morons on wheels.

Then let me get started on mobility scooters.

I'd just like them banned from walking paths. At least once a day I'm getting some crazy asshole ringing his bell as he comes flying up behind me. I'm not a fan of any kind of bike on walking paths, but at least the people on regular bikes have more control. The worst are probably older riders who often seem like they're barely in control. And the three wheeled ones take up outrageous amounts of space on smaller paths, regularly forcing other users on some of the narrower paths I frequent to get to the side of the road.

It's hard to imagine, short of motor vehicles, anything more hazardous to a pedestrian than some stupid prick on an e-bike.

In both the US and Canada, this sort of non-discrimination rule was thrown out a few years ago, and rightly so. With fancy credit card fees being over 3%, it makes sense to not force other consumers and businesses to subsidize the users of those expensive credit cards. Business owners have long complained about these high fees that credit card companies expected the business owners would simply eat. So now many business can and do charge extra for credit cards.

In Canada, many people still use cash, but for a lot of things e-transfers are now done, although they do have a several dollar per transaction fee.

Well it's blatantly obvious. Any news outlet that doesn't openly praise the dear leader is liberal. Critical stories are unpatriotic and unamerican. It's quite a different world, especially looking at it from the outside. So really Fox and Newsmax are the only news outlets that are "unbiased" if you can say that with straight face. I wouldn't call them conservative. Very little about the right wing is conservative these days.

Honestly I see little difference between Putin, Xi, and Trump. They are all sides of the same coin (yes a three-sided coin. haha). Now that the GOP no longer cares about the constitution at all, have relinquished all congressional power to the president, and kicked out anyone that had the gall to stand up for what was right, they are no different than the CCP or Putin's party, even if their preferred economic system varies. Putin and Trump are happy to let the oligarchs own things provided they pay tribute. Xi of course wants his fingers in all the pies. But in the end it's the same thing. Companies pay their tributes to the king.

To put all this in another way, what you would you think and say if the exact same things Trump is doing (flouting the constitution and the law, ruling by fiat executive orders) were done by Biden or Obama? Surely you would protest would you not? Whoever my guy happens to be I do not want him doing things that I would never want my adversary to do if they were in power.

That is why I say what I say.

A good chunk of that $100 is inflation, some of which predates tariffs.

And it may prove to be the most prophetic of all ST:TOS episodes. Unfortunately, the C-suite is currently jacking off to it. "No, don't let that pointy-eared freak control the guard's mind! And pass my cocaine!"

Let's compare, shall we?

Little Bobby Tables:

• No framework required: conventional database entry + payload only
• Wreaks havoc in an instant
• Total size: 32 bytes

This:

• Downloads ollama (672 MB, on Windows)
• Downloads a 14 GB data file for the model itself
• Requires a bare minimum of 16 GB of VRAM—and still runs like absolute molasses, eating up all resources
• Total size: 15 GB

Personally, I'm on Team Tables here. Maybe in a decade or three this will be practical.

Interesting points. I had not thought of that before. In my experience, people on the "left" and the politicians in the Democrat party come by their positions honestly. I may disagree with them viahamently, but I cannot doubt their sincerity. They really do want people to be treated equally and really do feel that the rights of certain segments of society are being trampled on. All the woke stuff they really deeply believe, including systemic racism etc. In general they want to make things better for these people and are not actively out to demonize others who don't share their views. Most of them aren't really trying to drag the white man down, even if many policies would have that effect (reverse racism as it were).

Contrast that with the right wing and far right. They *are* trying to actively demonize others. They are trying to remove rights from others. They are knowingly acting as hypocrites. As a very conservative person I reserve my harshest criticisms for those that claim to be conservative. I feel like most GOP politicians these days are just lying to me all of the time. They berate the meek and humble. And when a GOP governor stands up in public and says he was praying about how to gerrymander his state, I have to wonder what Bible he's reading because I sure don't see anything Christian going on there. They've got more in common with the Pharisees than with Christ.

Oh and lest you bring up the judges who refused to unseal the grand jury testimony, two things. First one of the judges was a republican-appointed judge. Second the judges have no authority to release the transcripts by law. It's pure hypocrisy Trump even asked the judges to release the transcripts when he and the DOJ knew all along they couldn't be unsealed. They did it just to cloud the issue of them releasing their files that contain actual evidence.

You mean the activist Democrat-appointed judges who are upholding the constitution and checking Trump's power and illegal and unconstitutional actions?

The bizarre thing about this child abuser stuff is that for years right-wingers have been asking for Epstein files to be released because they were sure these files would indict many prominent Democrats of horrific child abuse. Possibly the Clintons, hopefully Obama, etc. Trump pandered to those people and promised he would release the files. But he lied now calls it all a Democrat hoax. And many of his MAGA supporters are okay with that. It's like, wat? Release the dang files and people on both sides of the aisle will be named and shamed (and hopefully prosecuted). No party has a monopoly on child abuse. Bring it all out in the open and deal with it. Come on MAGA people. Get some spine and call Trump on it.

For 20 years, plus or minus, personal computers reversed that idea.

Climate change will render all of that moot. It is the one thing that not even bloviating halfwits can alter. You see, people are morons.

Just remember that the laws of physics don't give a fuck, and will crush us with as much ease and as little concern as a tidal wave crushing an ant.

That we imagine we can alter physics by denial is a sign of what an utterly idiotic species we are.