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  Possible sighting of Marakopa kids
Posted by: Lilith7 - 18-02-2025, 02:48 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - Replies (3)

Seen on state highway 4  on Sunday about 8.30

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5422...s-and-kids

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  The state of our health system, and NZ in general
Posted by: harm_less - 18-02-2025, 11:13 AM - Forum: Opinion and Politics - Replies (8)

Bernard Hickey's daily podcast. Right on the button as usual
https://thekaka.substack.com/p/the-ambul...tom-of-our

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  Is this a scam?
Posted by: brucem - 18-02-2025, 06:50 AM - Forum: PressF1 - Replies (8)

Last night I was about to start my backup when there were several pings and messages in the bottom right corner of the screen.  They said that I had been hacked, had several viruses (3, 5 or 7), that my computer subscription to Norton, and to McAfee had expired, and wanting me to pay them.  I have not used McAfee for at least 10 years, and Norton is on auto payment.  I scanned using Malwarebytes, and Norton: both were clear.

A message has just popped up telling me that McAfee payment has failed!

Th originating site is: "cupf1v0hubcc73bffrhg.mergechainsolutions.co.in"

How do I get rid of this?

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  Luxon and his self-help books
Posted by: Olive - 16-02-2025, 01:21 PM - Forum: Opinion and Politics - Replies (4)

Hanif Kureishi (not writing about Luxon but spot on nonetheless): 

"We've replaced the search for knowledge with the pursuit of metric-driven self-optimisation. The power of the narcissist is always based on exclusion, oppression and humiliation, sucking the life out of others and using it for their enhancement."

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  Destiny Church Thuggery
Posted by: Olive - 16-02-2025, 09:39 AM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - Replies (31)

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/desiny-chu...DGJ4BTE2U/

I have a great memory of the first ever Hero Parade in Queen Street, Auckland.  The Topps were singing on the back of a small truck, and when some random lout started yelling abuse they jumped off and chased him down the street until he disappeared into the crowd.   They returned to the truck and started singing again.

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  Chrome mmrtb.com redirect
Posted by: Excalibur - 15-02-2025, 10:00 PM - Forum: PressF1 - Replies (7)

Having trouble getting rid of mmrtb.com. I believe its called a browser redirect. Lost a few hours chasing this over some weeks already, but it keeps coming back.
Defender overheats CPU so I've been reluctant to complete a full scan. Online ESET didn't find anything either as did Malwarebytes.
Deleted all extensions.
Is Spyhunter safe enough? It has a free trial.
Scanned registry for mmrtb: nothing.
Searched "This PC" :nothing
Thanks.

Chrome is up to date
Version 133.0.6943.99 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Windows 10 22h2

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  Red seaweed cuts methane emissions
Posted by: Lilith7 - 15-02-2025, 02:34 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - No Replies

This may be a step forward to help pollution, being fed to cattle helps cut down on methane emissions.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5419...ntists-say

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  Ben Elton, human stupidity
Posted by: Lilith7 - 15-02-2025, 02:28 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - Replies (4)

"The greatest threat to humanity is not artificial intelligence, it's the same one its always been, authentic stupidity." Big Grin

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5419...omohalfwit

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Exclamation Russia strikes Chernobyl reactor
Posted by: nzoomed - 15-02-2025, 10:06 AM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - Replies (20)

This is getting ridiculous now.
I suspect Putin is trying to provoke Ukraine into giving up, does not appear to have had any explosives onboard the drone.

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  On this day 35 years ago, Voyager 1 looked back and saw us
Posted by: zqwerty - 14-02-2025, 04:59 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - Replies (8)

On this day 35 years ago, Voyager 1 looked back and saw us - a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam 

https://i.redd.it/1btkan6l21je1.jpeg

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