those “morons” represent the vast majority of internet users.

bad actors use shorteners to mask the actual url of their pages so their potential victims don’t know where they’re going until it is, perhaps, ‘too late’

Opening the shortened URL in your browser will instantly redirect you to the correct long URL. (So no stupid redirection pages.)

an interstitial or redirect page would be a security feature, especially for a shortener open to the public.

one of their earliest acquisitions, way tf back in '98

i had one back in the earliest of days and used to add missing data to credits. i still occasionally catch myself trying to use ‘us.imdb.com’ as its address.

They’re doing it so other people can stream their media

and they went to a subscription model, in part, so they could get their ‘cut’ from plex shares.

keep the server–so much possibility there. swap the fans out for quiet ones.

once upon a time that’s how headlines and news were written–so you could get the gist of the news by skimming headlines (of your printed newspaper) and perhaps the first short paragraph of an article.

adguard home is foss (gpl3)

as long as you’re still a mac user the icloud space and sub isn’t really going to waste. can you do what you want to do on your android phone by just using a browser? i know you can’t do ‘everything’ that way, but basic file and email access should be accessible from pretty much any device’s browser.

we were looking awhile back for one, but none of the tplink models at walmart (the only retailer with routers within 50 miles) supported flashing with a third-party firmware and i didn’t want to shop online for one.

we sorta lucked-out, though… ended up just using the one from our old provider since they never asked for it back or charged us for it. it’s dual band, has wpa3, guest ssid and vlan. enough for us for now. all we had to do is flip a setting from dsl uplink to wan uplink.

not difficult at all, snapraid’s online documentation is very good.

i have three snapraids here. one with (what was at the time) new disks, and two made up of old salvaged disks like you’ve got–pulled from systems and laptops headed for the recycle bin.

twitter (or rather, a bunch of little mini-twitters that can talk to each other), but without the billionaire poop-stain in charge of it.

same. only because it was the only one i could remember the name of when i was setting up the ‘mini tablet’ (which is just someone’s old phone. has no sim or service). it’s an old and slow phone, so it doesn’t get used often. i’d much rather be on a desktop.

yup. once it reaches the threshold, the congressional and legal battles that follow will likely keep it from ever actually taking effect without a constitutional amendment.

leftovers. breakfast taco, fish sandwich, reheated french fries from friday’s lunch, maybe part of a burrito.

i remember “playing” typer shark a long time ago. i think it still exists somewhere today.

i suck with the number row, too, because i was ill and in the hospital during that part of the term i took a typing class during high school. text i can do at ~ 100wpm and i’m a monster on 10-key, standard or inverted. while i am getting better in the decades since, the number row and the symbols on it still slow me down.

so the new magat plan is to try to buy the midterms using cash borrowed from our great-grandkids after they ‘save’ the country from the ‘democrat shutdown’?