Benign is always good news.
I have so much ad-blocking installed on every browser I’ve ever had that I have no idea what the internet might look like without it; I’ve never seen it that way. Sorry I can’t directly help. Are you sure you didn’t have some sort of ad- or script-blocking turned on FF and forgot about that 5 years ago?
Good news! You were worried before, and now its beaten. Only Dopers could get what I did there.
My FIL.
“Blah blah blah I’m not saying Wee Weasel is or isn’t autistic but kids are so overdiagnosed these days he seems fine to me you just need to give him more independence his motor coordination problems are all in his head blah blah blah.”
Like I give a flying fuck what your deadbeat ass thinks of my parenting. Yeah we’re just going through an endless gauntlet of evaluations and insurance battles and hitting our yearly out of pocket max for the hell of it. Yes you are magically able to see what countless psychologists, physical, occupational and speech therapists could not. Even though you couldn’t be assed to call or visit your grandchild for three fucking years while we spend time with our son around the clock, trying exhaustively to teach him basic skills, you have amazing special insight into what’s going on with him based your handful of three-hour weekend visits.
And when you’re not making arrogant proclamations about our parenting, you’re trash talking your nieces’ parenting. You gossip about overwhelmed cousin M yelling at her kids but never once did you offer to help her or ease her burden in any way.
You weren’t exactly a gold star father yourself, pal. Your daughter didn’t speak to you for ten years and your son, my husband, has been perpetually pissed at you for the bulk of our 21 year relationship.
Now I have to listen to you talk about what South American countries you plan to live in for the next year and how exasperated you are that your pushover girlfriend talks to her adult son every day. I realize you go months without bothering to call and check up on your children or even tell them what country you’re in, but that’s not how it works with many people.
You arrogant, presumptuous ass. You idiot fuck. I am so fucking tired of your shit.
Glad to hear. Sorry for the pain.
And why exactly are you spending a single precious breath of yours in the presence of this gigantic pile of human excrement?
Some things deserve to be called what they are and walked away from. Stomped away from actually. If hubby won’t grow a pair perhaps you can on his behalf.
That is just so doggone Microsoft. They never get rid of old stuff; they just build over it. That’s a pretty insane amount of memory to be using.
In the past several months I’ve made several attempts to sign up for online statements with one of my credit cards, the only one where I don’t have online access. The other day I tried again, prompted by a self-serving email telling me how “great” it would be for me (meaning, for them) if I got all my statements online. And once again it failed with the same message: “We’re sorry but we can’t identify you based on the information you entered”. It even helpfully offered suggestions as to what might be wrong: (a) I might have forgotten my correct birth date, (b) I might be under 18, (c) I might not be in Canada – perhaps I was residing in Zimbabwe.
So I finally called the support number provided, and was put through the longest telephone menu I have ever experienced (“press 6 if you were born in Zimbabwe; press 7 if you don’t know exactly when” etc.). It didn’t help that instead of a pleasant female voice I was guided through it by a raspy voice that sounded like it belonged to some guy who’d had too much coffee. It finally seemed to be ending (“press 2 if you’re still there”) and the raspy voice informed me that I would soon have the privilege of speaking with an “agent”. And then it hung up. I sat there listening to a dial tone.
After a bit of Googling I got the impression that although their banking help line was open 24/7, help with their useless online system was not considered “banking” but something else, and whoever handled that sort of thing didn’t like to get out of bed until around 9:00 AM, and I had naively inflicted myself on them too early, in one of my rare early-morning bursts of enthusiasm. Their telephone system apparently handles that by letting you spend an hour with Mr. Coffee pushing buttons and then hanging up on you in a hearty “fuck you”.
I called back later at a time more convenient for them, and got connected with some kid who sounded like he might be the underachieving son of the guy with the raspy voice. The kid knew enough to inform me that the reason the system was refusing to allow me to sign up was that the credit card was the only product I had with them, and the message that “we don’t know you” was just code for that fact. I admitted that, yes, I did all my actual banking elsewhere, and was tempted to add that this whole experience would be a good example of why.
The good news is that the kid was able to give me access, and after a few hiccups signing in, I now have access to all my credit card statements. It’s actually pretty cool – I can view either a transaction list or PDF statement images going back seven years.
So I guess that last bit is an anti-rant, but I just want all you USAians to know that you’re not the only ones having to deal with incompetent corporations. And aside from banks, I commiserate with your grief in dealing with cable companies.
Problem solved! Apparently the ads at the start of those CNN video clips are what the biz refers to as pre-roll videos which CNN represents to advertisers as “unstoppable”. Which is true – when they play, you can’t stop them or fast-forward. My problem in Edge was that Adblock by default enabled a category called “allow some non-intrusive ads”. Turning that off made those video ads go away. I checked Firefox where Adblock had a similar configuration feature and it had already been turned off there. So basically you were right.
Not clear why the ads don’t show up in Chrome, but it may be that Chrome has its own built-in protections.
Sorry for the misdirection … problem NOT solved! Absence of ads was apparently a time-of-day issue – like maybe no ads late at night. The video associated with the article below still shows an obnoxious ad at the beginning with Edge, but not with Firefox or Chrome. The research continues!
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/27/weather/us-heat-wave-thursday/index.html
The data center that our project servers are in does weekly vulnerability scans to make sure everything is up to date. A couple of months ago one server showed an issue with the installed version of SQL Server Management Studio on one of the servers. We don’t normally use SSMS on that server, so instead of trying to update it, I just uninstalled it. And the next week, the issue was still there on the report. Apparently there was a registry entry that was causing the issue to appear on the report, even though the software was gone.
I thought that Microsoft, of all people, ought to be cleaning up their shit better than that. But then on the other hand, I figured I really ought to know better.
Because my kid loves him. They definitely get on well together. But I do need to stop expecting anything better.
Find somebody you like to be his “uncle”. Then cut FIL out of your/ his life w no regrets. Your kid is 3yo & with challenges. He’ll probablt switch allegiance easily.
Lots of registry entries are deliberately left behind on uninstall to facilitate reinstall. Which happens lots and customers expect their settings to be persistent.
The problem is a lousy vulnerability scanner that mistakes a reg entry for an installed app.
Agreed. If a registry entry is showing a path that doesn’t even exist, a vulnerability scan shouldn’t be flagging it as an outdated app.
However, in an attempt to make it go away I went ahead and reinstalled an updated version of SSMS, thinking it would update the registry and the issue would go away. Nope, it’s still there.
Thank you! (Sorry if I’ve been rude lately…)
Also, best wishes for your child…!
It’s not that simple. FIL going to be gone for the next year anyway. He is selling his house in this area and living abroad in various places for the next year. He wants to feel like a grandfather for a couple months and then take off again. It will be like effectively cutting him out 10 months out the year anyway. Whenever he’s gone he drops off the face of the planet.
Rant: On this beautiful, clear day, we just lost power for no apparent reason. The incompetence of our local power company knows no bounds. They’ve already been yelled at by the government several times. And they were just given state money to fix this shit. But in the meantime we have to deal with this ridiculously unstable power grid. I was actually thinking about working, you know!
Thank you!
Good news update: my son is doing so well in speech therapy, the therapist says that they will need to re-evaluate him and set new goals!
Congratulations! Every step up those stairs gets you one step further towards your goal…
That is great news! I did a happy dance when we finally transitioned to just articulation goals for my daughter. It meant she was finally caught up to her peers when it came to language acquisition.
While this is more of a work rant I’m putting it here. We just rolled out a new program for handling capital projects at work at my site is a pilot site and it is so far a complete disaster. I have no idea what I am supposed to be doing. And I have an emergency project to ram through this process… this is fine. Everything thing is just FINE. I’m going to grind my molars to dust if I’m not careful.