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I took a glance at the list in BadBlock+ and there are a ton of things I’m glad they’re blocking, and a few that I am not. They have grafana.com in there, e.g. I intend to allow sites when needed but will keep the file in use.

So, tried again in my phone and its unlock in Ironfox that’s complaining. Odd, because I have the same extension in my desktop PC.

Thanks. It goes in just fine on my desktop, so there’s something else on my phone that didn’t like it. Not sure what, all good for now in any case.

(My ad blocker doesn’t like *.techspot.com. Is it OK or are they shady?)

IMO, I think my answer here is really the same for all of my self-hosted apps: I want to control the flow of the data myself and not be upset when an app we use every day is retired or changed or just enshittifies over time. And this way, I know nobody is in between me and the news publisher. They can see what I read but nobody else is watching over that process in the middle.

I was a loyal Inoreader fan for many years before switching to FreshRSS on my server and I won’t go back. That’s a great service but self hosting any app is just better.

The FDA’s leader right now:

Thanks for the heads up

Sigh. Why you gotta ruin my Friday night like that?

Exactly. I’m not sure why we’re even discussing this as a possibility. Duck that dude.

To fund the rapid expansion, Oracle took aggressive efficiency measures and enacted a sweeping wave of layoffs. By the end of fiscal year 2026, the company’s workforce was slashed by about 21,000 employees, a decline of roughly 13%, from 162,000 to 141,000 workers. The deep cuts followed an operational restructuring driven in part by the internal adoption of AI technologies.

If I read this new article right, they’re just talking about the layoffs from ORCL’s March/April 2026, which was their last fiscal year, which ended May 31 2026. I think this is just repeating old news. Anyone else read it that way?

As a result, Oracle is now required to provide cash collateral or a letter of credit in the astronomical sum of over $7 billion just to connect the building to the power grid, a setup whose ongoing maintenance will cost the company more than $100 million annually.

That seems to be what this article really has for news and that’s really funny, IMO. Go get ‘em, Wisconsin.

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