It’s always irritated me when I talk about retaining my privacy by avoiding spyware, online ads, phone tracking, etc., and people respond by saying they don’t care because they have nothing to hide. I always saw that as a really shortsighted and ignorant way of viewing it but I couldn’t concisely articulate why. This quote… Read More »
For many years I have played around with a home lab server. I tinkered around with self-hosting my own cloud storage, blog, password management, etc., but I have always abandoned the idea for fear that I might end up losing everything. Absent from my solutions has always been a good… actually, make that any… backup… Read More »
There’s a worldwide disagreement going on right now. This controversy spans the entire world and has the potential to spark the next nuclear war. I am here to bring sanity to the situation. Of course, I’m referring to date formatting. Why must we argue about this topic when we can all step back and discuss… Read More »
What is it? Here’s a little pet-project I put together just for fun. It’s called CIPH-R.com (pronounced like “cipher”) It is for when you want to say a certain thing online but you know the word will get flagged and get your comment deleted. The solution is to create a ciph-r for it. Each ciph-r has… Read More »
I use Bing to search from time to time. It’s a decent alternative to Google, which I avoid entirely. Overall, I appreciate Bing’s results but the everchanging page drives me insane. Things are constantly moving. If I click a link and then press “back” to return to the Bing page, then Bing adds something underneath… Read More »
If you plug in your headphones and nothing happens, and you need to reboot your computer to get your headphones working, this post might be just for you! The problem is with the Realtek service that runs on your computer. No, don’t try to update the driver, like all the other sites say. We all… Read More »
Right now, artificial intelligence a mysterious realm that lawmakers think is magic and when murderers leverage it to kill people, they will prey on the ignorance of the courts to exonerate themselves. They’ll say “we could not have known”, “it wasn’t our fault”, “it had a mind of its own”, and other nonsense diversions. They’ll… Read More »
Artificial intelligence is totally fake. A computer cannot do anything except what it was programmed to do. Sure, there are variables in code, and different actions can be taken based on values of variables, but it cannot have a mind of its own. If a computer system “runs off” and blows up a building, or… Read More »
