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Did you opt out of Alexa sending your every word back to
Amazon? Better bin those devices, because Amazon is ditching
the option (assuming they ever really honoured it).
600 Million Passwords
Facebook and Instagram stored your passwords in plain text, and now they’ve been leaked. Always use a password vault and different passwords for every service.
Update your WinRAR
It has been a long running joke that so many people have been using
WinRAR for free past the 40 day trial period. Now the joke is
on you, if you haven't updated your copy already. Hackers in Russia and China are
using a serious exploit in WinRAR to run malicious scripts on
victim's computers.
Zellers Coming Back!
In this day of high inflation and mass layoffs, it will be
refreshing to have another discount department store other than
just Walmart. HBC, who owns the Zellers brand, has announced
they're
opening new stores, including one in Cambridge! After
Target lost $5.4
Billion trying to replace Zellers in Canada, I really hope the
original is able to come back strong. I actually liked their
little in-store restaurant, and it was always the first store I'd
visit for new every-day-wear clothes. The price was
right.
Toots
Let's face it. Twitter is done. Elon Musk has killed it
by
laying off half the employees,
banning remote work,
adding a monthly subscription cost, and even considering
putting content behind a paywall.
Twitter users are looking for a new home, and many of them are flocking to Mastodon. This is a distributed social media that's been around for several years, and lets you host your own server. Darkshade even has an instance!
It's like twitter, but tweets are called toots (following the elephant theme) and accounts are named @user@server. You can follow me @diddly@darkshade.social
Twitter users are looking for a new home, and many of them are flocking to Mastodon. This is a distributed social media that's been around for several years, and lets you host your own server. Darkshade even has an instance!
It's like twitter, but tweets are called toots (following the elephant theme) and accounts are named @user@server. You can follow me @diddly@darkshade.social
Old Message Forum
Time marches on, and the ability to run our old message forum has
been lost with recent system updates. If there were posts you
want to revisit, there does exist a snapshot on the
wayback machine at archive.org.
The current message forum is still fine though since it's much more recent software.
The current message forum is still fine though since it's much more recent software.
Stable Diffusion
You might have heard recently of an AI called Stable
Diffusion that can generate images from text prompts. I
just installed it on my M1 Mac Mini tonight using a tool called
DiffusionBee
and put it to work.
Among the images I had it create were "The Predator steps through The Stargate", "Two Galleons battling at sea during sunset", and "a woman walking her dog, in the style of Monet".
It takes a while to run, since I have only 8GB of RAM instead of the recommended 16GB. It does still work though, as you can see.
Among the images I had it create were "The Predator steps through The Stargate", "Two Galleons battling at sea during sunset", and "a woman walking her dog, in the style of Monet".
It takes a while to run, since I have only 8GB of RAM instead of the recommended 16GB. It does still work though, as you can see.
Netflix Considering Ads
Due to a
dramatic drop in their stock price, Netflix is considering
adding Ads to lower level subscriptions. If you're concerned
about 200,000 subscribers suddenly leaving, adding advertisements
doesn't sound to me like a way to entice others to stay.
Two Year Ban on Foreign Buyers
In an effort to calm soaring house prices,
Canada has banned foreign buyers for two years. Now,
apparently
foreign purchases account for only 3.4% of property buyers, so
will this change make much difference?
Dodge to Drop Muscle Cars
The Dodge Challenger and Charger will both be
discontinued in 2024 in favour of hybrids and electric
cars. I guess it wasn't going to be long after Ford bastardized the
Mustang into a hybrid SUV crossover that the competition would
follow suit. It's sad to see cars with character reaching the
end of their line.
Burger Priest coming to Waterloo
One of the things I miss about living and working in Toronto is the
food. There are so many great restaurants in / around
downtown. One of those places is The Burger Priest, and it's
coming to Waterloo!
Crash Recovery
I'm slowly getting the services back up. Luckily nothing was
lost. Turned out to be some bad ram after upgrading the
server memory, caused a whole mess of issues. I've learned my
lesson and tested the ram in the server now before setting it back
up.