iamjanco

1 hour ago, Kaz said:

Google kept this open while they developed market share.  Now they will use that market share to stifle competition.  They no longer need 3rd party cookies to collect their data.  The manifest v3 change is a lot more than just 3rd party cookies

Yup, and it might be interesting percentage-wise to know just how many web site owners--whether developers or not--are aware of the potential impact to their SERP because of that; as well as how many of those are actually trying to do something about it. I'm retired now and don't have to worry about it, but all sites that market what they're vested in--especially smaller sites like this one (EHW)--will have to deal with those possibilities (or not, but we both probably understand the implications associated with that).

Additional info for the laypeople ( source: )

Multiple versions, including a cover by Sina et al. 

Bouncing Souls - Stoked for the Summer (Documentary) - Full Movie

* Sparrer - Here We Stand 

https://youtu.be/mYNK6i9rAeE?si=_Vv1i1bqiRM_r8eJ

* Sparrer - Because You're Young

https://youtu.be/SNMjgBQVf8M?si=R86cuHGDtLk7c9Sl

the toy dolls story

I decided to pick up some stuff that should allow me to make a video of the total eclipse on April 8th; needed some eclipse rated protective glasses, an ND5 filter (100000x +16.5 Stop) rated for solar, and an adapter ring for the filter (105mm-112mm Magnetic Step Up Ring Filter Adapter; allows me to mount the filter on my 150-600mm Sigma Sport OS). 

My location is scheduled to be in the path of totality for ~2 minutes; and if the weather holds up, I should be able to shoot the video from my balcony.

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Many people are hyper-aware that the internet they experience is based on what various providers think they want to see. For marketers and businesses, that ability to infer what a user might want generates value. As targeting gets more precise, advertising can become more relevant to the audience.

 

Without the third-party cookie, however, businesses have less of an idea of who their audience is. That can degrade their ability to make money from advertising, making it harder to publish content for free without forcing users to hand over their emails or phone numbers.

 

Chrome, which commands 60% of global internet traffic, is the last major browser to allow third-party cookies. For years Apple's (AAPL) Safari and Mozilla's Firefox have blocked third-party cookies by default. But their share of the market is dwarfed by Google's. And while additional ad dollars flowed to Chrome after Safari and Mozilla enabled greater privacy protections, there will not be another browser for the ad market to fall back on once Chrome says farewell to the cookie.

The push to get rid of third party cookies follows shifting sentiment on the need for more robust consumer privacy. 

As a result, websites that rely on advertising on the open internet may struggle to exist. And users may be confronted with even more ads that they are less interested in as sites try to make up for the loss in value by churning out more ad volume.

 

Karsten Weide, the chief analyst at W Media Research, said some publishers could suffer revenue losses of 20% to 40% as the deprecation of third-party cookies diminishes the effectiveness of ads. "In a general sense, all sorts of websites will shut down or will be diminished in what they can provide," he said. "Ironically, although this is designed to protect users, at the end of the day this will be worse for users."

 

The end of third-party cookies could also in some ways worsen consumer privacy, experts contend, by further normalizing granular data collection. As more businesses steer people to log in to replace the data gathering that the cookie enabled, user profiles will become more detailed and centralized, essentially trading one paradigm of monitoring for another.

Source.

Note: I've been using the paid versions of Malwarebytes and Bitdefender, as well as Adblock Plus, to block first and third party cookies in sites I attempt to access, regardless of which browser I'm using. If a site offers me little in the way of what I'm after and requires me to provide additional info about myself (e.g, by way of mandating the need to establish an account for access; paid or not), I simply close that browser tab/window and go elsewhere.  Where access to my data is absolutely necessary for me to conduct my business (and/or to fulfill a desire to view specific content), I grant access to that data on a case by case basis.

Added:

Still...

...a lot of that will soon start being moot though as Google begins deprecating Manifest V2 web browser extensions in favor of Manifest V3 extensions. Browser extensions like those I already mentioned and others like uBlock Origin might stop working in Chrome as early as June this year. For more information, see Google Chrome's  Manifest V2 support timeline.

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The company (Cerebras) has never officially disclosed the price of its chips, but they are believed to cost around $2-3 million. Hock said that a single CS-3 uses 23kW.

source

@speed_demon

...the bare die version, just for you 

3 hours ago, speed_demon said:

I'm still over here waiting for the 12900KFC edition we were promised way back when.

hmmm...

...such a meme might be considered ( fill in this blank ) these days

choose one: {  xenophobe, chauvinist, fascist, racist, discriminatory, prejudiced, bigoted, intolerant  }

(or submit one of your own)

12 hours ago, LabRat said:

Just got done spending over 4 hours troubleshooting GPU, Power, fTPM, NVME HMB, etc.

I was having major stuttering in games like Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and HBS'BattleTech. 'thought it was a bad PCI-E 8-pin power cable (again) but, no.

So, After a bunch of (mostly pointless) troubleshooting, I uninstalled the Update that installed earlier today.
Suddenly 'all better'.

KB in question:

March 12, 2024—KB5035853 (OS Builds 22621.3296 and 22631.3296) - Microsoft Support

SUPPORT.MICROSOFT.COM

Another person w/ (suspecting) same issue:

Anyone noticing U41 FPS issues? Unstable frame rates? Stuttering? (Possibly due to Windows patch...)

FORUMS.ELDERSCROLLSONLINE.COM

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Is anyone else experiencing stuttering or general instability in frame rates with Update 41?

My sys specs:

 

yeah, I had to back out of that as well; killed my mutli-monitor setup. 

The piano has been drinking, my necktie is asleep
And the combo went back to new york, the jukebox has to take a leak
And the carpet needs a haircut, and the spotlight looks like a prison break
And the telephone's out of cigarettes, and the balcony is on the make
And the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking

And the menus are all freezing, and the light man's blind in one eye
And he can't see out of the other
And the piano-tuner's got a hearing aid, and he showed up with his mother
And the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking

As the bouncer is a sumo wrestler cream-puff Casper milktoast
And the owner is a mental midget with the i.q. of a fence post
Cause the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking

And you can't find your waitress with a Geiger counter
And she hates you and your friends and you just can't get served without her
And the box-office is drooling, and the bar stools are on fire
And the newspapers were fooling, and the ash-trays have retired
Cause the piano has been drinking, the piano has been drinking
The piano has been drinking, not me, not me, not me, not me, not me

Old news these days, but likely even more relevant today than when it was published seven years ago:

Valve is not your friend, and Steam is not healthy for gaming

WWW.POLYGON.COM

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The illusion behind the "Good Guy Valve" reputation

Valve is... (source^)

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A company which will spend what has to be millions on legal fees to avoid having to pay you $15 in refunds, but which isn't “evil.” A company which exploits, underpays, deceives, obfuscates and refuses to cooperate at nearly every turn, but would never be caught dead doing “evil.”

 

This is the Good Guy everyone seems too afraid to call out, the toxic friend who is so popular that upsetting him will just make things worse for you, so you convince yourself he's really not that bad and that everyone else is over-reacting. Once the Good Guy illusion has disappeared, we're left with the uncomfortable truth: Valve is nothing more than one of the new breed of digital rentiers, an unapologetic platform monopolist growing rich on its 30 percent cut of every purchase — and all the while abrogating every shred of corporate or moral responsibility under the Uber-esque pretense of simply being a "platform that connects gamers to creators.”

 

The imaginary Gabe, the one in our memes, is a cultural defense mechanism, a happy fiction we all invented to make us feel better about the fact that we were, and remain, willing partners in installing PC gaming's biggest, most opaque, exploitative monopoly — one which we know deep down doesn't care about us at all.

 

Maybe it's time for all of us to wake up.

On 06/03/2024 at 18:40, neurotix said:

What kind of issues does not having a spleen cause? I am also disheartened to hear you had a hospital stay recently, but if you'd rather not share I can understand why.

Thanks,  but up until very recently I've actually been a fairly private fellow. For decades.

I also don't like to dwell publicly on state of mind, body, and/or feelings (pretty much the moral of my story here/lesson to be learned). 

From my POV, such thoughts are something one typically shares only with very close friends and loved ones, if ever.

One of my stand by me/sandlot misadventures:

We used to walk everywhere in Oceanside (Long Island)...

Back in the day when I was a young kid--the first half of the '60s, I was 7 or 8, not sure these days--my younger brother and I used to walk to the local candy store/soda fountain we called Merry's. Often barefoot, but not always, we'd pick up discarded pop bottles along the way and turn them in for either two or five cents a piece at Henry's delicatessen, just across the street from Merry's. Along the way, we'd pass by Camp Bauman's, which occupied a long stretch of our journey, with OJC (a synagogue) just across the street.

Anyway, right about that time, the folks at OJC decided to expand their premises, setting up a construction project, one of the larger ones of the day locally. During one phase of the project while on our way to Merry's, my brother and I decided to investigate the goings on's there and crossed the street into the construction area. There were a few other kids we somewhat knew there and we got together with them and decided to play a game of war (mostly involving throwing stones).

Kids in those days could be like that...

So my brother and I, comprising one of the teams, decided to climb up to the top of the roof of the expansions under construction and figured we'd have the advantage from above. We were already well-trained for the task given how much we climbed anything back then, school roofs, trees, etc., whatever seemed to pose similar challenges.

Up we went, climbing to the top of the first floor, using bricks that jutted out from one of the corners as hand- and footholds. Once on the top of the first floor, we  found and used a wooden ladder there that would allow us to gain access to the top of the second floor; and further up we went.  

Up top, I took casual note of a large circular hole in the upper roof, which these days I assume was there to facilitate adding some kind of dome. I didn't pay attention to that hole for long though, nor did I carefully evaluate my further surroundings for danger. I just knew that as the 'leader of my team,' I had to try to prevent the opposing forces from reaching our position and decided I would haul the ladder we used up to the top of the upper floor. Grabbing hold of the top of it, I began pulling it up, walking backwards. I got far enough to trip over what I think was a cinder block, and fell through the hole. 

56 feet down to a concrete floor adorned with quite a few set rebar pointing skyward. Missed the rebar by inches I'm told, and I only have flashing glimps of memories of what happened next.

Ruptured my spleen, broke my pelvis in two places, my left wrist, and suffered internal hemorrhaging. Three days after they took the spleen out, I woke up briefly in a hospital corridor, passed out, and when I did wake up again, there was a cast on my left arm, and tubes shoved in every orifice I had and a few extras they had to make in me along the way. 

Didn't do my mom any good, of course, she was recovering in the same hospital from coronary failure. I spent the next two and a half months in that bed, and was schooled from home the rest of the year. Eventually I healed as far as healing goes after one experiences a splenectomy, and life went on.

Little did we know back then just how much not having a spleen as you get older might adversely affect you, especially if you're not careful. It can, it certainly did, and still does. 

I don't b.... and moan about it though and learned to live with whatever ensued long ago. I don't burden others with my problems, or at least I try not to do so. I will say that I'm thankful for certain folks that stuck with me along the way during my more recent stay in the hospital, and those who continue to. You really are good people, whether you want to admit that or not.

'x' marks the approximate spot of the hole I fell through

cheers.

33 minutes ago, Cerberus said:

in, Cerberus

In, ExtremeHWCFP

In, Iamjanco

TY 

bit of musical trivia: long before Kill Bill's The 5.6.7.8's  (and definitely long before today's kids), you had:

https://youtu.be/M2UPIzGZrSA?si=z-83x1_oVfnFl32o