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I'm rather more disengaged from social media in general, than I have been in the last two decades. Not that I've left completely, but... well, I just don't feel the *urge* much any more.
Believe it or not: I also have a website, which I haven't touched in a few years. I'm thinking of migrating some of it, to a new Web "home" run from Obsidian Publish. If I do: it'll be a more "quixotic" place than the cobweb-strewn hovel that currently bears my domain name.
Let's see.
In the UK, we are simply not used to temperatures like the low-30s C, at the end of May.
As I type: our house (early-1990s) is stifling-hot upstairs, and a bit more tolerable on the ground floor. Am seriously contemplating spending the night in the lounge⌠or even out in the garden.
I can almost hear the Aussies laughing out thereâŚ
RE: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116526581698174258
And after that date, anyone still around, would have a few weeks to wait, until BBC GaZornonPlaT* screens that yearâs âMrs Brownâs Boys Christmas SpecialââŚ
(If youâre a Brit: youâll know đ¤Śđťââď¸)
* or whatever iPlayer would be called by then
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
> No consent dialog. No opt-out UI. Re-installs itself if the user removes it manually.
That is the true definition of malware.
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.
Iâm probably far from the first to note this, but it strikes me that Max Richterâs eight-hour album âSleepâ - in more than one way - is tailor-made for the audio-streaming age.
Not only would it be spread over seven CDs (how many of us have auto-changer CD players with that many discs?)âŚ
âŚbut âSleepâ is divided into *204* tracks. If you play the album regularly, itâs going to seriously skew your âartist playedâ stats⌠Max was my âmost-playedâ Spotify artist in 2025. https://www.maxrichter-sleep.com/en/
ADDENDUM (from the Red Faces All Round Dept.): I finally discovered why the Deco app was losing connectivity to our system⌠it turns out I hadnât deleted our *previous* Deco network (when we upgraded some months ago), and the app was switching to the old one (with the same name as the new one). So, of *course* the app couldnât see the systemâŚ
All good now (I think)!
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