My updated #introduction: I worked as a #news reporter and writer for 25 years, specializing in #crime and #justice. I'm currently #disabled ( SLE + stroke survivor) but not receiving benefits due to the miserly US welfare system. I love #electronics, #StarTrek, and #politics. I'm a nonpartisan #antiauthoritarian#leftist, in the lower left corner of the Political Compass. Despite living in poverty, I blog about the #humor in everyday life.
Welcome to China’s Cat Island, where lucky strays wait for a new home https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/26/china-shanghai-cat-island-rescue/ 'The happiest place on Earth for cats might just be here, on Cat Island, a feline playground just a few miles from Shanghai Disneyland.[where] 400-plus kitties ... rest in the shade of specially constructed grass-covered play tunnels or loll about [lol] in pagodas.' 😀 #cats#catsofmastodon#China
What's up with #Pixelfed |? I tried to create an account on 3 different instances, only to have all 3 blocked for spam on the first post. This is one of the images that they labelled spam ("In presence of Harry Truman, LBJ signed bill creating Medicare and Medicaid, Truman Library, Independence, Mo., 1965" via historian Michael Beschloss. #history#uspol
Commentary: Will #Firefox rise like phoenix from the ashes in 2024? https://www.ghacks.net/2024/01/07/will-firefox-rise-like-phoenix-from-the-ashes-in-2024/ "The unlocking of full add-ons support in Firefox for Android may be the fire-starter that Mozilla needed." I wonder how many users will notice Manifest v3. I've used Firefox on PC for 20 years, but on Android I use Kiwi, a Chromium browser that blocks ads and supports many add-ons. #Android#Chromium
Vulnerability in #Microsoft#Edge allows code smuggling (but there's more) https://stackdiary.com/vulnerability-in-microsoft-edge-allows-code-smuggling/ "Also, Microsoft snuck in a change in their release notes that turns on a feature to share your search history with outside sites by default. You've got to manually turn it off if you don't want it." What fun. Printing is also broken for me in the latest Edge. #privacy
The #Windows 11 problem https://www.spacebar.news/p/the-windows-11-problem 'The widget panel was one of the major new features in Windows 11. However, it’s now almost exclusively a tool for Microsoft to shove clickbait “news”, sponsored articles, and auto-playing videos in your face. I do not want my operating system to show videos and headlines from Fox News and Daily Mail when I hover over part of the taskbar.'
#WinRAR#security issue more wide-reaching than thought https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/24/winrar-security-issue-more-wide-reaching-than-thought/ The unrar.dll and unrar64.dll files, which are widely used by 3rd-party software, may or may not also be affected. I found extremely old versions of unrar.dll in settings or system folders from Sumatra, Balabolka, and Free Commander. It's also used in book editor Calibre, but Igor says 7-zip is not affected. #CVE-2023-40477
We can leave the Solar System, but arriving anywhere is not happening soon (long, fascinating article) https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/get-comfortable-in-the-solar-system-well-be-here-for-a-while/ "On August 25th, 2012, humanity became an interstellar species. There was no fanfare or galactic welcome party as a humble robotic probe, the Voyager 1 spacecraft, crossed an invisible threshold. It slipped between the region dominated by the physics of the Sun and into the thin milieu of plasma between the stars." #space#science#interstellar#solarsystem
