Oh Boy! A more modern look and feel! Don't worry, Beta-Testing a resounding success. Passed with flying colors. No glitches. No redesigns that impact the current simplicity of it.
If you dislike the changes, will they allow you to revert to the legacy mode?
"Vat do you mean you don't like ze chang-zes? You vill like ze chang-zes und you vill use them!"
Originally published Thursday, March 23, 2017. And it has been re-published below and on March 23, 2017.
I attempted to remove the blogs and sites listed HERE.
They are the sites that aren't bumping up the link list when they update.
The links to them work, they just don't bump up. I know the four sites I attempted to delete, your site will be added back after "a cycle", please don't think I deleted your site for anything other than this tech gremlin.
I'm not sure they are deleted as they still show up, at least for me. Maybe it takes a "cycle" for them to be removed.
After a +/-24 hour cycle, I will add them back to the blogroll (if they do delete) and we'll see if their feed is detected.
Five minutes later ... Well that's interesting. I deleted the below sites, clicked "SAVE." Reloaded the page and they're still at the bottom of the Blog Roll. Did it again, same thing, not "removed." So - another glitch to play with. UFReal.
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* The Daley Gator (New Home),
* JPFO,
* GunBlogger,
* The Religion of Peace.
The links to the sites work. The problem is, Blogger isn't detected their feed when they're updated and bumping them up as "most recently updated".
I'll add them back after +/- 24 hours. Maybe that will get Blogger to recognize the feed and return them to the "bump up" when updated.
I don't know what the deal is and why this is happening. Maybe by removing them, waiting a day and adding them back will fix the problem.
Thank you for your patience.
Working pretty much. Irish has a post that is so helpful. THANK YOU, IRISH!
There are a couple sites whose feeds aren't yet in the "recently updated" flow and I'm working on that.
Everyone that's been on my BRoll is still there. I had changed it to list alphabetically for a little over a day and then I read Irish's post, fiddled around and flipped back to "show most recently updated atop." I'm workin' on it. 👍
"So, here we are, because we are here. And we are here because we are not there. There is not here. There is there, not here. Here is here, and here is where we are."
- Vice President Kamala Harris, September 20, 2022 commenting on the current Blog Roll technical difficulties experienced by some blogs and sites.
But I can comment again on my own blog!
Some of the other blogs and sites still aren't rolling up as showing the most recently updated, while others are. I don't know if I need to eliminate the "/feeds/posts/default" suffix on the URLs or not. Still going to let it sit a couple days and see if it resolves itself.
If not, then maybe I'll have to go through my Blog & Site Roll and eliminate the "/feeds/posts/default". That involves work and motivation. ICK!!
Another option would be to deselect the option of those most recently updated roll up as such and instead select the method of listing the blogs and sites alphabetically, which is a preference I don't like. So...bear with it all. We'll see if the gremlins go away.
As Irish mentioned on August September 10, there's some gremlins around. I just noticed while I have the settings "on", that all blogs and sites should update with the most recently updated at the top of the list, that's not happening. Not just Blogger platform either. The Daley Gator (New site) is listed near the bottom. So it's [dot] other domains, including WP. Go figure.
I can't comment on my blog either. 🤣🤣🤣 I don't know why this is happening.
Just going to give it a couple days and see what happens. Maybe it's Teh Habbening or Climate Change?
Some comments are landing in the SPAM-eater filter, which, in the past, I checked maybe twice a year. Some recent comments from Bear Claw and Irish were in the SPAM folder, I don't know why this is happening. Those comments are published. Sorry guys.
I've noticed a few other folks on the Blooger platform mentioning they're having a glitch here and there with comments.
MORTON, I appreciate the kind words and that you enjoy this blog. Thank you! Your comment landed in SPAM because it contained an active link/hypertext.
Comments containing active links bounce right into the SPAM folder. As the comment box caveat, "if you wish to leave a link it HAS TO BE IN TEXT format only". If you want to leave another comment with a link to your business in plain text, you're most welcome to it.
I'll try to check the SPAM filter more often, but no guarantees. If your comment doesn't appear right away or not at all, don't take it personally. It's Putin's fault.
Publish comment from others.
Enter a reply. Click Publish. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Watch the reload circle spin and spin.
Error message: Please verify you're not a robot. Repeat process. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Watch the reload circle spin and spin.
4,5,6 tries later, Huzzah, my reply gets publish.
Fucking Bloooooger. If it wasn't free they should pay users who use their platform.
But how does it know I am a robot?
Thanks for that notification, Bloooooger. I wouldn't have concluded that without the message.
Friday the 13th? Since Biden's has F'ed Up everything he touches, I suppose it's a matter of time until he shats on the web. I've seen other blogs and sites (Blooooger, WP and other independently hosted sites), all having problems today. Pages won't load or if they do it's a half-assed load. Tried to leave a few comments at Blooooger and WP sites, all of which failed.
Oh...wait, I know what's causing this. It's climate change.
The comedian’s landmark shift away from the Google-owned streaming service could signal the start of a wave of creators moving away from the site – as it bafflingly attempts to pander to legacy media.You Tube, where your films will last forever. Or, until the Tube Gestapo deletes them.
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... it is perhaps not surprising that Spotify have just wooed the former Fear Factor presenter away from YouTube after writing him a cheque for a rumoured $100 million.
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...the Joe Rogan Experience’s home has been YouTube. His channel, “PowerfulJRE”, has more than eight million subscribers and he pulls in around 400 million views a month. But despite these outrageous numbers and his ludicrous success on the medium, Rogan has decided to leave the platform.
The original video ran approximately 55 minutes. I found a 4-minute clip at Stand Up 911:Doctors Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi, both licensed California physicians and co-owners of Accelerated Urgent Care in Bakersfield, were praised in a tweet by Elon Musk on Sunday for making "good points" and will appear on "The Ingraham Angle" with Laura Ingraham on Fox News tonight.
The clip just vanished. Maybe the clip found a nice home along with Hillary's missing emails.The 1993 episode of CNN's "Larry King Live" featuring an anonymous caller who was later identified as the mother of Biden accuser Tara Reade was no longer listed in Google Play's catalog late Saturday.
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Neither CNN nor Google immediately responded to Fox News' requests for comment. Fox News also reached out to the representation of Larry King and have not heard a response.
Find an alternative video host other than You Tube. There are many choices.Two conservative outlets have complained that their livestreams of the Senate impeachment trial have been taken down —for no apparent reason.
Judicial Watch’s president, Tom Fitton, noted that the organization’s livestream of the impeachment trial was halted mid-stream. YouTube claimed that the stream was “violating ‘community standards,’” according to Fitton’s Jan. 21 tweet. While the stream still remains on Judicial Watch’s feed, it was not allowed to continue.
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Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) also tweeted that its livestream had been interrupted as well. At 3:54:41 in the video, the content ceased to stream.
Both of these streams simply followed the Jan. 21 Senate Impeachment Trial as it was happening.
YouTube’s “Restrictions on live streaming” states that “live streaming ability” would be shut off if a channel had a “Community Guidelines” strike, if the content had been blocked around the world, if there was a copyright takedown notice, or if it matched another copyrighted live broadcast. But none of these rules appear to have applied to the simple livestream of impeachment.
MarketWatch: Facebook tops Amazon and Google in 2Q lobbying spending.It’s promoted as a ‘safe kids’ chat app’, but new findings may put you off letting your children use the Facebook Messenger Kids app.
A design flaw has been discovered within the app, that allowed thousands of children to chat to strangers online.
A report by The Verge revealed that Facebook has quietly been closing down these group chats and alerting users, but did not make a public statement about the issue.
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...the flaw meant that children could be added to group chats with strangers, as long as one of their trusted contacts had added them.
Facebook Inc. shelled out $4.1 million on lobbying Washington in the second quarter, topping the outlays by other so-called FAANG companies and keeping the tech giant on pace for another record year of spending to influence lawmakers and regulators.
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Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -1.00% wasn’t far behind with $4 million[.]
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Google business spent $2.9 million from April through June[.]
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Netflix Inc.,...spent a relatively modest $200,000.
Make sure to read the whole News Target story....it can’t be emphasized enough that the very same fake news outlets and tech monopolies that have been screaming “Russian collusion!” nonstop for the past three years are now the ones actively colluding with each other to try to steal the next election from President Trump, as well as silence all online free speech.
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...there’s a war being waged against the First Amendment, as the tech overlords crack down on all independent thought in the name of fighting “hate speech” and “offensive” content. Ironically, these entities claim to be fighting “fascism,” while they themselves employ fascist tactics in an effort to silence all deviating thoughts and beliefs.
“The very existence of Google is incompatible with free society,” warns Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, about where all of this is headed. “Google must be shut down and permanently removed from society. Its engineers should be arrested, indicted and imprisoned for life to prevent them from repeating their evil schemes against humanity.”
A new study by researchers at Northwestern University “presents an algorithm audit of the Google Top Stories box,” examining the results’ variety and ideological leanings, the Daily Mail reports. The researchers looked at the 6,302 articles that appeared in Google’s Top Stories box in November 2017, and found that CNN had the largest percentage of articles at 10%, followed by the New York Times at 6.5% and the Washington Post at 5.6%. From there, Fox News was fourth at just 3%.This new Northwestern University pdf is located here. If the direct link to the pdf goes glitchy, here's the link to the ACM Digital Library and after "Full Text" select either HTML or PDF version for the study.
The rest of the top twenty sources were all left-leaning organizations or publications, such as Politico, NPR, ABC News, NBC News, and the Huffington Post. No openly conservative news publisher, such as the Daily Caller, made the list.
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The findings are only the latest revelations to undermine Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s repeated insistence that the company’s ubiquitous services are ideologically neutral. In April, documents revealed that Google manually manipulates search results and even maintains a blcaklist of conservative sites including The American Spectator and Conservative Tribune.
“When people see typos right now, they don’t think it’s a security issue. But in the near future, it might be something we will have to contend with,” Stephen Merity, AI researcher and expert on machine learning–based language models, told me in a call last week.- - -
And there’s ample reason to take his warnings seriously. In recent findings, scientists at IBM Research, Amazon and the University of Texas have proven that small modifications to text content can alter the behavior of AI algorithms while remaining unnoticeable to human readers.
Keen Security researchers reverse-engineered the software Tesla uses to see how easy it would be to fool those sensors. They didn’t need to make any changes to the car’s software — this is not a hack. They simply used three small reflective stickers on the roadway to trick Autopilot into thinking the lane had merged when it hadn’t.I'd imagine covering exterior sensors on the car with duct tape would also put a big dent into Tesla's "autonomy".
[Burger King] is staking its reputation on [a no beef patty], saying that the taste is identical to its beef patty.It's not a real Whopper, then.
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It’s a protein that’s cultivated from soybean roots that can mimic the texture of meat.
[S]cientist David Nutt’s...synthetic alcohol can allow drinkers to experience everything they enjoy about having a drink but not worry about getting a hangover. Nutt told the Guardian that he can design his synthetic alcohol molecule to interact with the body in a way that doesn’t induce any of the negative side effects.
Scientists are beginning to unlock the scientific secrets of what makes so-called "Tennessee whiskey" so distinct from other whiskeys, bourbons, and similar spirits[.]The success of Tennessee Whiskey has to have something to do with this guy, if only for his guile and name.
We are 91 days into the year, and so far, Google is racking up an unprecedented body count. If we just take the official shutdown dates that have already occurred in 2019, a Google-branded product, feature, or service has died, on average, about every nine days.Engadget: After eight years, Google+ is dead.
- - -Where previous soft robots have still required components like metal valves, this latest soft robot can function using only rubber and air — with pressurized air replacing the need for electronic innards. In doing so, it integrates memory and decision-making directly into its soft materials, using a kind of digital logic-based soft computer.
You might gain the peace of mind that comes with knowing who's at the door, but it could come at the cost of compromising your loved ones' privacy by sending their biometric data back to manufacturers or even hackers.Tech Talks: Law firms, the digital age and the impact of Tech.
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Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) is the oldest legislation and the strictest. It regulates how biometric information is collected, stored, used and even destroyed. Texas followed a year later with the Texas Biometric Privacy Law, while Washington signed its own state House Bill 1493 two years ago.
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When a homeowner adds facial recognition technology, multiple relationships come into play.
"There are deep ethical questions," [said Betsy Cooper, director of the Aspen Policy Hub]. "Because while the relationship between the individual and the person crossing their threshold is clear, the relationship between the person crossing the threshold and all those other companies and actors is less clear."
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Algorithms shape how people interact with news and entertainment media and how they research civic issues on the internet, and there are new questions arising about citizens’ “digital civil rights.”
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What happens when a city decides to ban facial recognition technology?
Fedora is the best overall Linux distribution.As someone commented at the above link, it is unfortunate that Beta News didn't include any screenshots of Fedora 30. So, here's some. It's hot!
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While Fedora maybe isn't the best distro for beginners, it should be the eventual choice for those that "level up" to being an experienced Linux user later.
