My dad is turning 50 next month. (May 18th.)
I’m 17 and a half and I refuse to call emoticons: “emojis”.
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His is three days after mine. Although I’m not turning 50 on my birthday.
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I respect that Chrome likes to be hip and user friendly.
But from a support standpoint, entering a ticket with the error text “Aw, Snap” is just… devastating.
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Oh no Ars, us poor end users couldn’t possibly do our own troubleshooting. We are helpless lambs, incapable of such difficult tasks. Clearly this is a feature.
More seriously I could swear I got a more useful error message last time something happened on Chrome, I mostly use Firefox though.
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It depends on what exactly happens, I think. This appears to be a botched install that is affecting the computer’s ability to access certain web stuff on the network.
Injuries, four (iirc); deaths, thankfully none… besides the shooter.
Like “Jurassic Park”…but not. Don’t give the dinosaurs guns.
Ironically, that doesn’t apply to the political tools in office.
In other news, HONK:
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I’m not going to get into the mechanics, but a key portion of my theorem is that women have an easier time than men with the hypothetical that I’ve put together. The above is just one of the advantages.
That being said, I get the distinct impression that an amount more on the topic will not be good for anyone involved.
My friend’s dad just got arrested.
■■■■. Everything ok?
Yeah.
Luckily their grandparents have custody of them.
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Hey, have you (or @TemetNosce) run into issues with bitcoin miners being smuggled on to a computer via Chrome extensions? I was just reading that Google is upping their store defences against this kind of stuff for a second time. Seems like it could potentially be a source of FPS issues on PC if someone plays while they have their Chrome browser open, though.
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Not I. I block all 3rd party scripts, trackers, adsense, and every other form of tracking they try to steal my info with. And my programs tell me when they try, if when the website doesn’t and i just tell it to deny it.
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Define run into I suppose, I’m aware that it happens, and even vaguely recall a site that got caught doing it, but I use Firefox and NoScript in most cases, so my situation is similar to PB’s.
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I come across them on various websites during my webcrawls. My blocking is…extensive. Some would say paranoid.
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I just only whitelist things that I have a reason to, no need to give them the chance.
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Oh no i rarely whitelist
Eh, I don’t use AdBlockers or NoScripts.
I’m good.
True. Allow the ad owners absolutely no footholds to create a profile.
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The ones I’m referring to are actual browser extensions that were in the app store, and took advantage of security “loopholes” originally created for assistive device apps. I’m aware of the other type that do drive-by installs or sneakily run in the background even when you close the tab - which is why I also run NoScript in paranoia mode.
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