CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
So far #Kagi is working much better than Google has lately. Definitely a permanent change for me.
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@dangoodin To remove the Gemini app, even on devices that do not allow you to disable it in the Apps menu:
𝗦𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗔𝗗𝗕
1. Enable Developer options
- Launch ⚙️Settings
- Go to About phone then Software information
- Tap Build number seven times
2. Enable USB debugging
- Go to Developer options (in ⚙️Settings)
- Enable USB debugging
3. Install Android Debug Bridge (adb) on your computer
4. Connect to phone via adb
- Connect with a good USB cable
- Run adb devices
- Click OK on Allow USB debugging?
5. Disable Gemini app (left
- adb shell pm uninstall com.google.android.apps.bard
6. Disable Developer options (recommended)
- Go to Developer options (in ⚙️Settings)
- Disable by toggling On to Off
Neil BrownSometimes, I receive questions which leave both me, and the person asking, bamboozled.
> Your website loads so quickly! What CDN do you use?
There is no CDN. It is just really small and simple, mostly text.
> Sure, but is that Cloudflare, or...?
None. It is a tiny website, just a few kilobytes per page, on a tiny server, at my home, connected to the Internet via my ISP, Andrews & Arnold.
> But are you / they in the cloud?
No. The webserver is in Newbury, in my garage.
> Neil, please can you pass my questions to your technical person? I don't think you understand, your website cannot be in your home. It must be in the cloud or have a CDN.
*Neil puts on glasses and false nose and moustache*
Kevin BeaumontUltra spicy post claiming to be from UK retailer employee (M&S or Co-op) about their experience with TCS on their security incident. https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1ll1l6c/scattered_spider_tcs_blame_avoidance/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Connect water to the houses puzzle: https://boingboing.net/2025/06/25/fountain-puzzle-connect-water-to-houses-without-crossing-pipes.html
It says something that as an engineer my first thought is to just connect E to B, F to C and G to D. It's just water, it's fungible, why does it matter which source goes to which house?
normy foxyoreos"If you take this marshmallow, it will hurt everyone, *including you* for the rest of your life. You understand? But since you already have so many marshmallows, surely you can wait and -"
Billionares: (already eating the marshmallow) "Sorry, I wasn't listening. Give me another marshmallow or I'll burn down this entire fucking building and everyone inside of it."
I still think the final exam to qualify as a software engineer should involve writing control code for a drop-forge to stop the head 24" above the working surface with an acceptable error of +/- 1/16". Test to be performed with the engineer lying on the working surface. This would rid us of dependence on LLMs tout suite.
paul
Qasim Rashid, Esq.In 2016 MN Police killed a Black man named Philando Castile despite him calmly disclosing he had a legal & registered firearm.
Yesterday MN Police released a white woman named Jenny Boelter despite her car full of cash, firearms, & passports hours after her husband mass murdered people & was on the run from police.
This injustice is what systemic white supremacy enables.
Things are not as they appear.
Suspect in Minnesota political shootings had 'fantasy' career in security : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/15/nx-s1-5434227/food-worker-with-fantasy-of-security-career-sought-in-minnesota-political-shootings