freitasm

The grift. It never stops.

I wonder how many bugs will be introduced with these fixes...

The corruption is everywhere, small and large. You can't trust the game is not fixed now and you can't trust the government either.

This is the New Zealand model. Multiple ISPs but only a few fibre providers - the largest one is Chorus, with a few that are very localised, but follow the same rules.

The ONT is accessible to all ISPs, and you can provision both available ports with different ISPs if wanted. Usually, a change from one ISP to another happens within the day, like number portability.

I run a forum site. It's been going on for 23 years now, and over that time, it has reflected the country's technology adoption history.

We still have new signups every day and a community that helps others when needed - not only online but in real life too.

The structured discussions and the focus on topics make this type of site a lot easier for some people when compared to platforms like Discord.

Sounds cool. Couldn't see it though. "Rate limited" on my first visit. Using a static IPv4 and IPv6.

Unless your host is limiting number of requests, indiscriminately.

Meanwhile, the Epstein files continue to be ignored.

So much winning.

So you get a file. Any file. Not necessarily the file you want, unless you already know its contents and how to traverse the folder hierarchy to get to that specific point.

So in theory you could have War and Peace somewhere.

Each folder represents the file content so far. So how to find a specific file without knowing its contents - by its title for example?

Well, rather him and family go to Argentina, than come to New Zealand, where he's got his citizenship for doing... nothing.

I joined AdSense in 2003. At peak it was generating US$15k a month.

Nowadays it will be a miracle if it passes of US$800 a month.

I think the shift to a more localised audience (NZ), diversion of ad spend to large social networks are responsible. Our traffic is similar in volume but nowhere near as "valuable" apparently.

Another annoying thing: very few apps are copied from old device to new devices and bring their settings and most importantly login. Of about 80 apps on my device, only five or so are ready to use after a migration.

Going through dozens of apps, doing logins, 2FAcand changing settings is a PITA.

Devs do a poor job on that front.

Another thing that annoys me on Android is the setup experience itself. All my recent device presentcthe same behaviour: login with a Google account, transfer data, setup voice assistant and some other defaults,done.

Then after the first app updates is done, a notification comes with "let's finish setting up your phone" and again asks to setup voice assistant, check defaults and whatever else is in the flow.

Has no one noticed that the setup flow seems to run twice?

And it's not one specific device. I do it with eight to ten devices a year, from different OEM, writing reviews and testing. They all have the same behaviour.

Subscribers can share the link as a gift, so readers can see the original, not the proxied version.

Their consitution says elections can't be hold in times of war.

"Portal team includes former DOGE member Coristine"

"...user activity on the site will not be tracked."

Ok, stopped reading right there.

And the original is gone.

The rates are so low that they don't need to measure anymore. That's what they were told, probably.

No, it's not, as there are ads that pay per impression, not click.

Opera Mobile.

But this government was just collecting the worst of the worst from the streets.

Or were they lying all along?

(Narrator's voice: they have been lying all along).

Can't read because someone on that website thinks Opera is "not acceptable":

"Not acceptable. Your browser is not supported. Please upgrade your browser to continue."

"-> Publisher is not harmed"

How? Publishers do need revenue and this can deprive them of this income.

Ads pay in different forms. Some pay per click (PPC), some pay per thousand impressions (CPM).

Clicking with the intention of helping doesn't help. Only clicking with genuine interest helps.

The writeup says it right there:

"The security exper’s analysis indicates the attack ceased on November 10, 2025, while the hosting provider’s statement shows potential attacker access until December 2, 2025. Based on both assessment, I estimate the overall compromise period spanned from June through December 2, 2025, when all attacker access was definitively terminated."

Using whataboutism doesn't negate the fact that the first amendment is being trampled over by the US administration.

Buying TikTok to censor it is the move of a fascist government.

Narrator's voice: "Unfortunatelly, they will be waiting forever, becase that help will never come."

There are few, Spain's King Juan Carlos I being crowned king after Francisco Franco's death, and Chile's Pinochet leaving power after the 1988 referendum for example.

If only the directors didn't make everything so dark and hard to see. Also stopped messing with sound, making it impossible to hear dialogues.