I am glad I finally retired my older Asus router last year, even though it was running a reflash, and installed a Unifi gateway at home. They seem to be very good with updates. I even turned on the Threat Detection and Blocking (Intrusion Prevention). Then also GeoBlocking (yes, I know they can work around that, but why make it easy?) The nice thing is this little box does everything I had before and TONS more, including running cameras, with no cloud-dependencies and no recurring fees.

Alas, my contribution to security will be fairly meaningless when there are countless other non-secured routers out there.

Maybe. I doubt it: Intel seems to have figured out that x86 is not it's exclusive future, a change in corporate mentality that long overdue.

Also, this story must be fake news: Tariffs Don't Work! member?

Well, we didn't have childcare provisions or maternity leave laws forty years ago when things were booming, so those aren't likely to have any causal bearing. It's also the same healthcare system; the difference is that there have been 30 years of legislative attempts to make it "more affordable". Interestingly, the only sector of the economy where costs have increased at a similar rate to healthcare is higher education, which has seen over forty years of "affordability" action. And please note the distinction between legal and illegal immigration.

Wish I had mod points....spot on everything.

Be a doctor....they're will ALWAYS be sick people.

This is the real answer. A lot of people are afraid of the speech Nazi's that ruin the lives of anyone committing wrongthink. They know the social media companies are moderated by privileged tech weirdos that are protected and immune, and readily bury the people they hate with no consequence. Sane people don't engage with stuff like that.

You mean, the people who are willing to ride a piece of driftwood across the freakin' ocean because they'd rather live here than in their communist hellhole? Okay.

Time for some C.S. Lewis.

The big problem of our civilization and age right now isn't that we are going to get too harsh or guard too much against people who rip off stores.

Guess they never saw that movie eh? LOL

Who do you think it funneling all of the anti AI Data center movement? Hey, I'm not 100% against them...they need to have their own power/water so as to not impact the population, but China wants NO AI data centers built in the USA for a reason. The tech companies want them, but if they can't have them in America, I'm sure China would be MORE THAN WILLING to let them build them in China. If you look at Google Earth, China has built a TON of solar, hydro power out in the middle of nowhere. That power has to be for something other than people. Once China gets the handle on AI data centers, they can pretty much dictate whatever they want. The only upside would be if the AI bubble bursts!

Brave is what I use. Along with AdGuard, it pretty much shuts down the ads on YT.

>"A simple data-entry error, magnified and broadcast nationwide by a growing surveillance network operated through an opaque partnership between a private company and public agencies"

With a large-enough data set (and so many humans involved as well) even the very improbable becomes probable. When you are invading the privacy of drivers many millions of times a day, just the slightest error rate can mean lots of people affected by false positives. And the more they add additional sensors, additional cameras, additional databases and interfaces into other systems, the more dystopian this will become...

Use to be an awesome plugin called FBP (Facebook Purity) that you could customize to block the stuff you didn't want. But, it seems like the coder has gone MIA. Haven't had any updates in about six months. Either Facebook bought him out, he died, or just gave up.

Did you report it to your bank? It is almost certainly just a coding stupidity on their part, perhaps looking for a specific user agent.

Try: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... and set it to lie to that domain about what you are using. I would absolutely leave my bank (or any service) for another one if I couldn't use Firefox... and they would know why as well, because I would have already reported it to them way before I left, and then would let them know why I left if it wasn't fixed.

In fact, I go to hundreds of web sites using Firefox exclusively, on many systems, all Linux, and very, very, very rarely have any problems. And 90% of the time, it is because some stupid ass-hat is looking at the user agent and throwing up an irrelevant error message.

There are really only two multiplatform "browsers" left. It is inexcusable that any site can't "support" two.

... a waldo?