Category: Technology
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Pixel 6 update: Buy my Pixel 6!
That’s right. For the low low price of whatever it auctions for on Ebay you too can have your very own Pixel 6. I’m setting the starting price at $400.00. That’s a little over half of what it cost me new. If it ends up being higher than that fantastic. If not and it only…
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The proper way to handle a carjacker
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Why don’t electric shavers charge via USB?
I have this curse. It’s the curse of the half-Asian man. I have an average white-man’s build but almost no body hair. I have just enough facial hair where if I let it grow it would turn into a fu manchu. The kind you see in Korean historical dramas. It looks odd to have this…
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Simple fix to protect your Windows machine from Russian ransomware hackers
I was reading Brian Krebs’ blog, krebsonsecurity.com, and came across this odd little trick you can use if you’re a Windows user and are deathly afraid of Russian ransomware hackers. In a Twitter discussion last week on ransomware attacks, KrebsOnSecurity noted that virtually all ransomware strains have a built-in failsafe designed to cover the backsides…
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Tech behemoths battle to wall off podcasting
Aside from the news up in Minnesota other things are happening in the world and what happened today that has implications for free speech. Apple announced Apple Podcast Subscriptions. The purpose is to compete with Spotify and some of the latest upstarts in the podcast space. This has free speech implications because Apple controls the…
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Intel pulls a T-Mobile
This smacks of desperation. I’m not an Apple user. I’m an old school Apple hater. I don’t like their locked down ecosystem and can’t stand their operating systems. But I am a fan of some of their hardware and I wish I could use it with other software. Intel must really be feeling the pressure…