some way to call a custom or ‘third party’ (not compiled into the program) extractor would probably be enough. then let other people work on ones for the, um, ‘problem sites’.

frequency (the time between them) of station id are mandated, i don’t think the exact times of them are.

the real reason they all seem to go on ‘break’ at the same time is there’s only a few companies that own most the radio stations. they aren’t dummies. they know if they all go on breaks at about the same time, then people switching stations still land on ads… and it might still be theirs.

and most every cpanel (and every other web host panel) box on the planet.

web, ftp, database, mail, dns, and more. all on one machine.

that is the white portion of the diagram.

i thought i was the only one. i use one occasionally to keep downloads (ahem, updates) or streaming from sucking the internet connection dry… so i have some left for more important things, like doom scrolling and games. other times (or when the hub’s being used elsewhere) i just manually configure the os (in windows, ‘speed and duplex’ via device manager) to use a slower connection on the lan port. either method comes in handy here where the internet speeds range from “kinda sucks” to “at least it’s faster than dialup”

hardly something ‘new’, it’s been going on for years and years.

could just be the countries with the most users or where they’ve seen a recent trend, up or down, in local market share.

you opt out of all, they send crap a year later–presumably without you conducting other business with them in the meantime, correct? hell yea, that’s spam.

had someone call the other day that nearly got scammed after clicking the top ‘result’ (it was an ad) on a google search for amazon.

‘shitboxes’ often don’t have comprehensive or collision coverage, just liability–the cost of which is mostly based on who is driving, not what.

this is the way. easy. no install. no extra steps. update when you want.

or you can add the ppa that’s listed in the yt-dlp install instructions (scroll down to third-party package managers > apt) and use apt to install it like any other package.

if a president and vice president on the same winning ticket hailed from the same state, and it was a close election–things would get messy. really messy. like, even worse than they are now.

an elector’s votes (at that stage of the process, there are two: one for president, one for vice president) in the electoral college cannot both be for a candidate from their own (the elector’s) home state.

i’ve been down that road before. three part time jobs means no benefits and no employer-sponsored health coverage. it’s also extremely difficult to schedule multiple part time jobs so they don’t conflict with each other while still giving you something resembling ‘weekend’ off.

the thing is, i don’t trust google. they’re an ad company. now that they have the marketshare, they’ve been leveraging it, hard. they’re changing the game for their own selfish, profit-driven purposes–not for users or users privacy and security, not for the health of the web, or anything else they may try to claim. it’s all about them making as much money as they can off you, your eyeballs, and your data.

i think the goal is to come up with a ‘better’ solution than what google has already rolled-out to the majority of web users… but with firefox’s too-low adoption rate, it won’t do anything significant.

user friendly ‘self installs’ in many places…

there really is an xkcd for everything.

all the more reason to use an adblocker… and a script blocker if you don’t mind the extra clicks to get a whitelist going or to temporarily allow them somewhere.

biden stammers twice, but otherwise is impeccable.

cnn lobs nothing but softballs to the orange one. still screws 'em up, goes off on tangents, spouts nothing but lies, rages about everything. declared the ‘winner’.

‘optimizations’ and fixes targeting specific games that nvidia does are in the drivers themselves.

what geforce experience does is mess with game config files–and it really isn’t that great at it, either.

gfe is basically just a data gathering and marketing tool. i’ve never seen a point or purpose for the user. it benefits them far more than you, and can mess up your own game settings.

leave it uninstalled.