Category Archives: Technology

Should programmers be held personally liable for the outcome of “a.i” that they code?

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 »

Weather Modification Attempts, From http://noaa.gov

These are the published weather modification attempts, from http://noaa.gov. According to US Code Title 15 Section 9a: The Secretary shall maintain a record of weather modification activities, including attempts, which take place in the United States and shall publish summaries thereof from time to time as he determines. https://library.noaa.gov/Collections/Digital-Collections/Weather-Modification-Project-Reports https://library.noaa.gov/weather-climate/weather-modification-project-reports        

No Password Login Is Impossible

I’m not too keen on this creepy idea. It’s bad enough that your phone has to “look at you”, but then to tie it to your logins makes it worse. That makes your phone the controlling device of any login, even on your computer. People mistake this for security because there are no more passwords,… Read More »

Nextcloud – Removing Duplicate Contacts

Unfortunately, Nextcloud has no built-in ability to merge and/or remove duplicate contacts. Over the years, I have accumulated over 1000 contacts, some of which are only email addresses and some of which are phone numbers. I don’t have over 1000 friends, just to be clear. Not yet, anyway. To remove duplicates from Nextcloud, the best… Read More »