And I will only subscribe to Disney Plus for one month out of the year because that's how long it'll take for me to watch all of that content. No need to be a persistent annual subscriber at all. Hopefully one of them figures out before much longer that this isn't a problem with superhero fatigue this is a problem with bad superhero movie fatigue.

Not a bad screed, excepting the personal attack.

Until "cancel culture". In my experience, so-called cancel culture is what we used to call "the predictable outcome of my poor decision making" and/or "I ran my mouth on something that I don't actually know anything about, and actual experts disagreed".

I've done networking for a really long time, but we can always learn something.

I use a vpn. With my own pihole that uses DNSSEC to a rotating variety of DNS providers (I think 5 of them right now), with about half of DNS requests blocked and about 70% of the remaining being served from the piholes dns cache.

I run several ad blockers covering 3rd party cookies, and anything malware related, to block what might leak from my browser.

I'm not looking to protect myself and my information from State actors, or even "big tech". I'd just like to skip that oddball sysadmin that decided that they like or don't like me and wants to figure out where I live and who I am. I'd prefer that things like my email, phone #, IP address with location and what I browse for and read is hard enough for any one person or smaller entity like a social media company to see and collect as annoying and as hard as possible, at a low cost and low PITA factor.

So far this has been a problem with just two online businesses. Chewy decided somewhere to throw a security "concern" flag when placing an order, requiring their equally mystified customer service people to wonder why they had to call me to approve an order. And Instacart does the same thing. Let's you log in, shop and after you order your order is canceled. They wanted me to upload my drivers license and a photo of my credit card to unlock the account, and that's a big fat nope.

Other than those two, everything works fine with the thing where google asks you to prove that you're a person. It doesn't do that with every search as described elsewhere. Just once or so a day.

I use a method espoused by a white house staffer to prevent my microwave from spying on me. Piece of tape. Works wonders.

Came here to say the same thing. In fact, pretty sure any future tv purchases I make will either be dumb ones or never ever see a connection to the internet.

And never received a single message from them, then or since.

How people feel about Jared and Ivanka using their own private server since before the campaign, and continuing to do so today?

Or trump using an unsecured phone after the inauguration, with rumors of that still happening?

Or Mike Pence using his AOL account email to discuss matters of homeland security while Governor and during the campaign?

I hope that wasn't your maximum effort.

Its time we contemplated the possibility of and our reaction to...gay coal.

First off, I ran many, many studies in my career. I paid for them, they always said exactly what I wanted them to, and the folks at various consulting firms and universities knew that's how it'd roll if they wanted to keep getting paid on a regular basis.

Always find out who paid for a study, and that'll tell you why the study says what it says. I'm pretty sure nobody ever woke up one morning free or even remotely free of bias and just decided to spend a few months of their time just to see what they came up with.

Next, can we dismiss the idea that our body works like a furnace, or that a calorie is a calorie? Our bodies react differently to different foods. It pays to look at how foods affect blood sugar. If you eat 500 calories of steak, your blood sugar isn't going to budge much. Eat 500 calories of carbohydrates...and it almost doesn't matter how "whole grain" or "unprocessed" they are, at least when it comes to the american diet...and your blood sugar goes up. You feel energized, you'll get an insulin release and that tells your body to store that extra blood sugar as fat. Over time you can become insulin resistant and develop diabetes. After the insulin release, you "crash" and your brain screams "More glucose please!!!"

Studying metabolic syndrome a bit and you'll see that some of the fundamental aspects of how we view food and diets is simply wrong.

Lastly, saying that eating three 1/2 cup portions of pasta will positively or negatively effect your health or weight is a big steaming pile of crap. Nobody in the US eats a half cup of pasta. Three and a half cups of anything over a week will have almost zero effect on your health. Well, perhaps not a cup and a half of mercury or hot molten lava.

Not to mention that the government had a server in the tor network where it was able to hoover up whatever came by.

I gave your same explanation to my elementary school age whiz kid son. You're probably just enjoying an illusion of safety, while making everyone wonder what it is you have to hide.

I just made a facebook account with a fake name, address and no friends/likes. Works fine to view social media and for logins.

I also save at least an hour a day not seeing what my high school girlfriends sister did today, or what my friends had for lunch.

AFAIK, these microcode updates need to be incorporated into a bios update.

Is Dell or HP going to release a new bios/mcode update for 5 year old systems? I doubt it.

And most of these cpu's are 8-10 years old.

Cue the AMD fanboys who aren't getting updates for 8 year old AMD cpu flaws either.

As a boy in Eastern Massachusetts we tried not going back to standard time and stayed on DST. I think Nixon was president?

With a group of other elementary school age children we waited for the school bus in the pitch dark. A car came by and badly made the corner we were standing on. Looking back on it, probably somebody doing the Drive of Shame home, still half in the bag.

There were lots of complaints and we went back to the spring/fall change.

Apparently jokes and/or sarcasm fly right over some folks heads.

Seems the English are particularly inclined to miss it. Perhaps I needed a dead parrot or a can of spam, or a lumberjack involved.