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Midjourney is unfriendly unless you pay! $$$$

UPDATE: I tried it again today (4/9/23) and I’m getting the same error, then I search the term again and I found an article. While I’m not a big fan of the Verge, they did talk to the guy in charge. AI image generator Midjourney has halted free trials of its service, blaming a sudden influx of new users. Midjourney CEO and founder David Holz announced the change on Tuesday, originally citing “extraordinary demand and…

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March 31, 2023 | by David
Blog, Business, Computing, Web

Scared Cookie! The Consequences of Ignoring GDPR: Why American Businesses Need to Pay Attention

I’ve been on the internet for a long time! The US Air Force sent me to HTML school back in 1995 so you could say I’ve been here a while. I find it irritating and almost insulting that every website I visit requires me to accept some kind of cookie policy. Of course, I accept YOUR cookie policy, because I allow my browser to accept cookies! FOR EVERYONE! I’m tempted to click “no” I don’t…

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March 16, 2023 | by David
Blog, Computing, Web

Getting to know ChatGPT

I’ve spent the last few weeks getting to know this phenomenon known as ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence as it were. (https://chat.openai.com/) So what exactly IS ChatGPT? Well, let’s ask it. Q? What does ChatGPT stand for? Oh-kay… that doesn’t sound interesting at all… but it is! Lately, instead of Google, I’ve been logging onto my “openai.com” account to search for simple answers. For example, if I ask Google, Q? What is the difference between the…

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March 1, 2023 | by David Francis
Computing

My Computer Issues Remain

I posted a blog a while back about how my computer would not start on Christmas Morning. Well, this morning it did it again. I would press the power button on the computer would turn on, then turn off, then turn on, then turn off and it would continue until I either unplug the power or press and hold the power button. Crap! So I disconnected everything and changed the battery on the motherboard… again….

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February 28, 2023 | by David Francis | 2 Comments
Blog, Computing, Web

My Computer Journey

I’ve been working on a computer since I got out of the Air Force in 1987. It was an IBM PS 2 connected to a spectrometer in a metallurgical laboratory in Birmingham Al. I’ve owned a personal computer since 1991. It was handmade by some guy in California and came with a 10mb hard drive. It was state of the art to be sure. I learned about the internet on that computer, which was not…

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February 27, 2023 | by David Francis | 1 Comment
Computing, Web

WordPress Archive Page NoIndex warning from Google

I turned on my phone this morning and was greeted by an ominous email from The “Google Search Console Team,” with the seeming dire warning… They provided me with a link to the console where I was told that the page davidfrancis.org/2023/02/ would not be indexed by Google because it contained the meta tag “noindex.” I brought up the page, looked at the source, and sure enough, it was there. While few people know what…

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February 26, 2023 | by David Francis
Blog, Computing, YouTube

Oldest YouTube Video

I recently did a search for “old YouTube videos and the results came up… it was “Meet me at the Zoo” by YouTube co-founder, jawed aka Jawed Karim on April 23, 2005. That got me to thinking, I uploaded one a long time ago… actually 16 years ago on October 29, 2006. It’s on an old account that I cannot access but it’s me, this website davidfrancis.org is in the about section. Anyway… here it…

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December 28, 2022 | by David Francis
Blog, Computing

My computer won’t turn on, Christmas morning present.

Carrie and I enjoyed a nice Christmas morning, we exchanged gifts and enjoyed our traditional breakfast ham sandwiches. She picked up her phone and I headed to my office to “check the internet.” I pressed the on button and my 2.5-year-old computer tried to turn on, then turned off, then on, then off, on, off, on, off… well dangit. SKIP TO THE CHASE:The motherboard BIOS battery was dead.1) Remove Battery2) Discharge Current3) Replace Battery I…

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December 26, 2022 | by David Francis