Often streaming sites are filled with adverts and trackers, and the videos can be problematic or just inconvenient to play in a web browser.
It is possible to stream many media sources with a separate desktop player in most Operating Systems and avoid the trackers and advertising.
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“Doctor, I think I have a spam problem. It keeps coming back”

The first signs of spam often go unnoticed and untreated until eventually a plague is visible and difficult to deal with.
The symptoms can include sleepless nights, head-aches, teeth-grinding, swearing and an increased resentment to other humans.
Sit down and let the Doctor write a prescription.
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Recently Mozilla decided their testing of DoH with Cloudflare is now ready for regular users and it can be enabled for those that want it.
Are you feeling jealous of your Firefox friends and DNS over HTTPS ?
Don’t worry Cinderella you can go to the ball.
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General greynoise stats – 12th June 2019

As we seem to be eternally blue about the Windows network access vulnerabilities, and the latest botnet threat, I thought before I take cover I will have a look over the battlefield.
Spotting the new GoldBrute botnet is not as easy as with other activity so I thought I would look at related activity and current big spikes, seen by the GreyNoise site to see if there is a correlation https://viz.greynoise.io/stats
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github.com/searx/searx

Many people online are trapped inside the Googlenet, trapped by the weighted, personalised and censored list.
Mostly they are trapped by using the word “Google” instead of “Search“, and from not remembering a time before Google bought its way to the top.
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The Paradox of Nature
https://www.etymonline.com/word/nature

There is a long standing common misuse of the word Nature as the name of some sort of entity, as in pointing at the outside world and calling it “Nature” like it is a thing.
This is an unhelpful misunderstanding of the nature of the word “nature” and its use.
It started in the late 14th century when we still thought of the wilderness as a chaotic untamed place with no self-aware creatures, communities, social-status, or tool-users.
We now realise that we are not alone in being sentient, living in ordered communities with ranks and status, and importantly in feeling emotions.
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A breakdown of the performance of AntiVirus over the past year, based on the Real World Protection Test results from
AV-Comparatives
The top 5 have been marked in green in each image, and the baseline of Microsoft AV is selected in each for comparison.
I have broken it down into how often each package from the monthly top 5 features in the top 5, and how many times a package from this group has the worst hit rate for false positives (marked with *).
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Shock-horror, a regular blog type post from me !

Take vs. Have

Over the years the UK becomes more and more Americanised, rather than just absorbing the cultural references.

There are many aspects that encourage this, such as the UK market being saturated by “educational” toys and TV shows that teach US culture and vocabulary.

To quote a well worn phrase, “Personally I blame the parents”, as it used to be the parents that taught the basics instead of machines.

There is nothing stopping them still doing so, but the TV and toys are easier.

Underneath all the obvious stuff is something more subtle and worrying for a cultural psyche.

The unassuming swap from using the word “have” to the word “take”.

They are of a different context, and often the swap makes a sentence make no grammatical sense.

However the comedy of wondering why and where Americans are taking a poo, when the rest of us leave it where we deposit it, is not my point.
…and as for why Americans keep breaking their food and having to fix it, is beyond me.

My concern is about the negative and selfish connotation of “taking” everything from life, or a given situation, rather than “receiving” or experiencing what it is to “have” rather than “take”.
I am sure that Buddhists and Pagans understand this clearly.

People don’t register it in conversation as it is so common and minor, but I think it has more of an impact in the long-term, as all expressions of doing anything or engaging in something are referred to in a one-way and always inward direction.

We are a greedy bunch of no-tail-monkeys with high expectations of what life owes us.
It does not need constant reinforcement with the way we speak.

I see it as an “echo-chamber” effect, and so live by this principal;

“Speak positively about your life and experiences, and your life will be more positive. Speak negatively and your life will be more negative”.

Dr.Flay™

Cybernetics Apothecary

COVID-19

Streaming media without the trackers

How to deal with a wall of SPAM

DoH and DoT for Vivaldi and other browsers

if a GoldBrute BlueKeep[s] probing my R[s]DP, will it be EternalBlue ?

Is Google holding you back ?

The Paradox of Nature

2018 Anti-Virus comparison

Cyber-Threat Maps

Malware, Hacking and Botnet Visualisation

To have, or to take ?

Take vs. Have