My wife and I use Firefox for banking, Amazon, and other companies. Any site that doesn't work under Firefox, I use Chrome or Microsoft Edge. Looks like I need to switch to Chromium instead?
Edit: I researched a little more. For typical users and use cases, Firefox works ok (better with privacy extensions). What the article describes is more like browser-engine-based targeted attacks.
It is a good movie to watch if you are too young to see it when it came out. David Lightman hacks on his Altair 8800 computer, his grades at high school, and war dials until he finds Protovision's BBS instead, and he finds a mysterious computer prompt that asks for a Password. If you get it wrong, it hangs up on you. Little does he know it is the WOPR federal government computer that uses an AI program to chat with him after he guesses the right password.
The Left-Wing people are more likely to go to college, and the Right-wing people are more likely to go to a trade school and learn skills. I think this is a factor, you don't call a college-educated person to fix your house, you call a trade school skilled person to fix your house.
I am 57 years old, and I figure I was 7 when the Apple Computer company was founded. I remember from documentaries that nobody wanted to carry the Apple I computer in their computer stores, so Apple took out an ad in a magazine for $666.66 for an Apple I computer. They sold out and paid off their loan with money left over.
“The two Steves made a last trip to the Homebrew Computer Club and demonstrated the Apple I (AKA: The Apple Computer). Paul Terrell, who operated the computer store chain Byte Shop, was impressed, and gave the two Steves his card, asking them to keep in touch. The next day, Jobs visited Terrell at the Mountain View Byte Shop store, and tried to sell him the bare circuit boards for the Apple I. Terrell said he was only interested in purchasing the machine fully assembled, and that he would order 50 assembled computers and pay US$500 each on delivery (equivalent to $2,800 in 2024). Jobs took the purchase order from the Byte Shop to national electronic parts distributor Cramer Electronics, and ordered the components needed. When asked by the credit manager how he would pay for the parts, Jobs replied, "I have this purchase order from the Byte Shop chain of computer stores for 50 of my computers and the payment terms are COD. If you give me the parts on net 30-day terms I can build and deliver the computers in that time frame, collect my money from Terrell at the Byte Shop and pay you." To verify the purchase order, the credit manager called Paul Terrell, who assured him if the computers showed up, Jobs would have more than enough money for the parts order. The two Steves and their small crew spent day and night building and testing the computers, and delivered to Terrell on time. Terrell was surprised to receive a batch of assembled circuit boards, as he had expected complete computers with a case, monitor and keyboard. Nonetheless, he kept his word and paid the two Steves the money promised.”
I guess you were thinking of Steve Wozniak trying his earlier design to HP and got rejected (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc.#Pre-foun...: “Wozniak originally offered the design to Hewlett-Packard (HP), where he worked at the time, but was denied by the company on five occasions”)
So, Wozniak got rejected trying to see his design to a computer company, but the two Steve’s did manage to sell machines via a computer shop (possibly the only computer shop in the world, at that time).
These were the techniques taught to me in college in 1989 when I learned how to debug. We didn't have git back then. Sometimes taking a break helps if you get stressed out and stuck. I worked with a Marine in 1996-1997 at the ATCOM Army base who taught me that going to the snack bar and buying a soda and a bag of chips is the best way to refocus your brain on the problem. Take a walk as well.
Maybe the “go buy a bag of chips” is a way to force the walk to happen.
I tend to do the same though, walk away for a bit and then return to the problem. Sometimes longer breaks are needed though so I might pivot to a different problem for a while.
Have you read what you wrote? Is it factual? Is it kind? Is it respectful? I had my stuff deleted and I deserved it. I didn't pay attention to what I wrote and edit it.
I see so many people on the Internet who claim they can fix AI VIBE Code. Nothing new I've been Super Debugging crappy code for 30 years to make it work.
