Much as I like to declare myself a cell phone free zone, the less dogmatic truth is that I actually have continually owned cell phones since 1998. But I seldom use them, and I really did decide to leave the stupid things turned off at all times back in 2002.
My current phone is a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 that I bought second hand in 2019. I take it out of the house about once a week, usually keep it in a different room to the one I'm in, nearly always leave it turned off, and pretty much only use it to receive login confirmations a couple of times a week.
It's my sixth cell phone and despite being seven years old, it's in mint condition. When it eventually stops working I'll probably replace it with a newer refurbished phone that I won't use either.
Which brings me to AI. Right now I'm looking at AI a bit like I was looking at cell phones in 2002. Yes AI is going to be the next big thing, but I think it sucks, and I want as little to do with it as possible. So I'm saying right now, as far as possible, I refuse to use or interact with AI.
It's now estimated that around 50% of all internet activity is AI. The worst social media platform for AI is said to be Twitter ("X"), with around 75% of all content and activity being AI. I never look at Twatter myself because it's all utter crap, but I do look at Youtube (which is mostly utter crap as well). On YouTube it's glaringly obvious that the majority of the content, comments, and hits are AI. I suspect that it's actually more than 75% AI now, and climbing rapidly.
On Facebook which is the only social media platform I still use, the AI is rampant as well. But I don't think I'm interacting with it much, I mainly just get friend requests from women with huge boobs, no posts, and only about five friends. So really obvious fakes. I suspect a few of my "friends" are scammers, but I think those are dodgy real people rather than AI.
This may well turn out to be delusional and I could be getting conned by dozens of AI accounts, happily up-voting their fake content, or cheerfully commenting that they are lame and gay without realising I'm talking to a cell phone bot in some giant bot farm warehouse.
Delusional or not, I'm keeping an eye out for anything that has signs of being AI. And if it looks like it might be, I'm out of there. I suspect that there may come a time when I sound like a Luddite, but that is probably a good thing!
Facebook
has long had a reputation for censoring all non approved content.
During the covidhoax (2020-2024) this censorship was particularly bad,
and if you wanted to post anything that questioned the deep state
narratives, you had to misspell key words, blur parts of images, and run
multiple accounts to work around the constant 30 day account
suspensions.
But
in 2025 (essentially since Trump was selected), FB seems to have
reprogrammed their censorship AI, and told it to back off. Most people
on FB are now used to the old censorship restrictions, and like sheep
avoiding an electric fence, they have no idea the power to the fence is
no longer turned on.
We
can now post all sorts of stuff that would have caused an account
suspension in 2024 - vaccinations, eugenics, trannies, jews, globalist
pedos - most of this stuff is no longer a problem on FB. There are still
a few things that can trigger the censors, but they are often quite
hard to anticipate.
For
example any deep reveals on jewish ownership and control of
"alternative" gatekeeper shill influencers may be deleted, while
discussing butthole sex practise manuals written for children's school
sex education classes may be fine. It's hard to pick, but in general you
can get away with a lot more stuff now than you could at any time over
the previous decade.
Rather
than suspending your account, now the bots are more likely to just grey
list it so everything you post comes up low in the AI algorithms. By
always remembering to click on "Feeds" rather than just looking at a
timeline of whatever approved popular shit the FB AI chooses for you,
can see a chronological feed and bypass the effects of most of the grey
listings anyway.
This
uncertainty about censorship led me to do an "AUGUST EXPERIMENT".
Throughout August I'm aiming to test what we can get away with on
Facebook, and what, if anything, we can't. Fingers crossed my account
doesn't get suspended, because that would hinder the experiment. But I
have other accounts...
The joke is always on the ratepayers - Throughout it's incompetent history the Wellington city council has been constantly mocking us...
We got a close up view of one of their scams in action when some workmen did a repair to the footpath over the road from us - there was one guy doing all the work, with 7 other guys standing there watching, and 52 road cones - for real, I counted them!
They even had a wheelchair ramp on both sides of the road just in case, with an extra dozen road cones and a guy in charge of managing the two ramps!
Road cones are breeding and taking over the country...
After another month of not doing any blog posts I'm back and ready to let rip. Just like when I did no posts back in May, I'm again amazed at how little difference it seems to make whether I actually do any new posts or not.
How to choose images for your blog that could bore the legs off a donkey...
Basically my little blog gets roughly the same amount of hits if I add any new posts or not. I last did a post on July 6 and then none for the rest of the month, but the traffic pretty much went on unchanged until July 29 before showing any real signs of decline, so if I only did one post every three weeks I'd probably get about the same amount of hits.
Some pages & posts do get more hits than others. Often these more popular posts are just quickies with bugger all content, and I have no idea why they attract any traffic. For example why on earth is this post extra popular? Is it because it because it includes the words "huge penis"?
Which leads me to wonder, WOULD MORE BE MORE?. It would be an interesting experiment to do 100 posts in a month. I'm not really likely to ever do that many, but I'd be curious to see if it made my blog get more traffic. Although I suspect it wouldn't make much difference, which is another reason why I probably won't ever do it.
And trying to do masses of posts probably soon become lame and gay.
Normies are a strange bunch - whatever they are told is "fashionable", they all want to mindlessly copy it ("aping" - to copy something or someone badly and unsuccessfully).
Even if it's totally lame and gay and makes them look retarded. Like "distressed" jeans.
For some inexplicable reason it is now fashionable on computers to have a minimalist desktop with no taskbar, to hide the menus, and the really galling one, to either hide the scrollbars or make them so narrow they are unusable. Maybe this is another part of the agenda to make people less productive when working.
On Linux this sort of stuff can be customised, but even on Linux the default settings for all the browsers are fashionably lame, with unusable narrow scrollbars.
What I’m after myself is wide (30px) high contrast colourful scroll bars, but that is against the current fashion.
In Chromium browsers I can get the look I want by using the extension "Custom Scrollbars" and setting it up with custom width and colours. But that doesn't work for Firefox based browsers like Floorp or Waterfox.
I prefer option #4 (Windows 10) which has the biggest scrollbar button - it's a workable compromise, but this is one of the reasons I stopped using Floorp as my default and went back to Brave.
So it's not a very exciting look on Firefox based browsers like Floorp with a grey coloured scrollbar and square shaped button, but at least it's as wide as I want, and the button is visible. So it's boring but usable.
On Chromium based browsers like Brave everything to do with scrollbars is much easier, the Custom Scrollbars extension works fine, so I can have a rounded button and also match the colours to my browser theme.
Here is a copy of the instructions from the website link above in case you have problems with the github site not loading:
How to enable wide scrollbars on Firefox
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Note - this help page only applies to Firefox users.
Due to technical limitations in the Firefox browser, wide scrollbars
cannot be enabled using the Custom Scrollbars add-on in Firefox. For a
more detailed explaination behind this, please refer to What is the platform default width.
However, using some advanced settings within Firefox, you can
manually adjust the size and other appearance settings of your
scrollbars. This help page will walk you through the process.
Important
Changing these settings will impact all saved scrollbars that are using the Platform Default width.
How to enable wide scrollbars
1. Opening the configuration editor
The
configuration editor is a Firefox tool that can be used to modify every
setting, including settings that are not visible on the regular
settings screen. This is a very powerful tool for advanced users, but
novice computer users may feel intimidated at first. Don't worry because
this help will walk you through everything.
If you are interest in learning more about the configuration editor, please refer to the Configuration Editor for Firefox page on the Firefox support website.
To open the configuration editor, open a new tab and type about:config
in the address bar. If this is your first time using the configuration
editor, you may be greeted by a scary message warning you about the
potential risks of using this tool. No worries! None of the settings we
will be change will impact the security of Firefox. You can safely press
the "Accept Risk and Continue" button to enter the configuraiton
editor.
2. Disabling the default scrollbars
The
first thing we need to do in the configuration editor is disable
Firefox's builtin scrollbar settings. This will allow use to modify
additional settings that can change the appearance and size of the
scrollbar.
Search for the widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled setting. Double-click on the setting or press the toggle button on the right side of the screen to change this setting to false.
3. Changing the scrollbar style (Optional)
Next,
we can change the style of scrollbar that we are using. This step is
not required if you only want to change the width of your scrollbar. If
you don't want to change the style of the scrollbar, you can move to the
next section.
Search for the widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.style
setting. Double-click on the setting or press the edit button on the
right side of the screen to change this setting to a number between 0 and 5.
But what do these numbers mean? Each number represents a type of computer operating system:
0 is the default value for your computer
1 is macOS
2 is Linux
3 is Android
4 is Windows 10
5 is Windows 11
Changing this setting will have an immediate effect on Firefox, so
you can easily open a new tab to test out the settings to see which
style you prefer.
Important
Some styles may behave differently. The Automatically hide scrollbar setting in the Custom Scrollbars add-on may not work properly with all styles.
4. Changing the scrollbar size
Finally, you can control the size of your scrollbar.
Search for the widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override
setting. Double-click on the setting or press the edit button on the
right side of the screen to change this setting to a number. Each
scrollbar style may resize differently, so you will want to play around
with the width to find number works best for you. A number between 10 and 30 is usually the desired size. Since the settings are applied immediately in Firefox, you can easily experiment.
If your scrollbar is not changing size, you may need to disable an
additional setting. By default, Firefox will use the size setting
provided by the Windows operating system. This feature can be turned off
easily.
Search for the widget.non-native-theme.win.scrollbar.use-system-size setting. Double-click on the setting or press the toggle button on the right side of the screen to change this setting to false.
If your scrollbar is still not changing size or if that setting does
not exist, try using a different scrollbar style, as described in the
previous section.
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