I am attempting to delete the contents of a Gmail account that I created and began using in 2008.

I have already downloaded the entire mail file, and imported it into Thunderbird, so I won't lose anything relevant.

However, deleting the messages from Gmail is proving to be a challenge. You can select everything and "send it to the trash" but only 100 messages get dumped in at a time, and Gmail throws this unusual error message that seems to indicate they will continue doing this work in the background, but in 24 hours of doing this, none of the work appears to be getting done in the background. The message count remains the same.

So does anyone know how to actually trick Gmail into letting me completely empty this inbox other than 100 messages at a time?

#DeGoogleify #DeGooglification #enshittifcation

Photos of the #aurora glow earlier this morning from #Boulder - not much to look at because I overslept.

#COWx #SpaceWeather

This is just to say (Spike's version)

I have removed
the Ramune marble
that was imprisoned
in the bottle

and which
you thought was
irretrievable

I used the Dremel
with the cutting wheel
and the bent needle-nose
pliers

it was so delicious
to remove this from my desk
after eight months
so sweet
and so cold

🚨🚨 The CFP for Malware Village @defcon is closing tomorrow, May 24th!

The form: http://bit.ly/MV2025CFP

Now is the time to apply if you haven't already! 🥳

#MalwareVillage #DC33

Even Trader Joe's is getting in on the #Andor craze, printing expiration dates in "before the Battle of Yavin" notation.

Wait, are my tortillas telling me the completion of the Death Star is only five years away? I don't even have a podracer, yet 😿

What a time to be alive, amid a technological renaissance, a breakthrough in human and machine knowledge collaboration to bring us to a greater plane of existence.

(Maybe I should have written 'flame of existence')

(hat tip to https://transfem.social/notes/a7t06xoc1jrv5ixz)

#AI #AIslop #sarcasm #Google #Gemini #StopForcingAIIntoEverything

Better late than never: The government of #France attributes a wide range of #cyberattacks dating back ten years, targeting the French-hosted 2024 Olympics, prior elections, and against entities like television networks, to Russia's GRU (#APT28), and condemns them, officially, in a statement posted to their website.

A machine-translated-to-English screenshot of the statement is shown below.

"Together with its partners, France is determined to use all the means at its disposal to anticipate, deter and respond to Russia’s malicious behaviour in cyberspace where appropriate."

Someone has to.

https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/dossiers-pays/russie/evenements/evenements-de-l-annee-2025/article/russie-attribution-de-cyberattaques-contre-la-france-au-service-de

#cyberattaque #APT #malware #cybercrime #attribution