Tag: technology
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Back to RSS
We need to get away from the social media platforms and get back to RSS. The web and the Internet are the platforms. RSS is the protocol for the decentralization everyone craves.
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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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Senators to introduce legislation to access your social media data
Let’s file this under, “What could go wrong?” The bill, to be announced Thursday by Sens. Chris Coons (D., Del.) Rob Portman (R., Ohio) and Amy Klobuchar (D.,Minn.), would allow researchers to submit proposals to the National Science Foundation. If the NSF supports a proposal, social-media platforms would be required to furnish the needed data,…
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Pixel 6 update: I wish I returned it in time
I’m well past the two week return period and I wish I wasn’t. The behind the screen fingerprint sensor is so bad that I disabled it and will now go security free on the lock screen. I’ve grown accustomed to using the fingerprint sensor on the back of my Pixel 3 and going back to…
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Windows 11 Widgets Won’t Work
Right outta the box! Well… more like right off the upgrade. I just installed the Windows 11 upgrade on my Dell XPS13 and took it for a test drive and right off the bat the Widgets pane won’t open. Yes, I rebooted. I don’t know if I’ll even use the Widgets but I’ll never know…
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Facebook advertises against its own vision for the future
Facebook sees a world where you’ll make great friends in the virtual world but hate those same people in the real world. Not only that but Facebook will be the source of that rift. For those that dive in wish you all the misery Facebook wishes to provide.