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Identity loss

Aug 29, 2021 Scams Conventional-wisdom marketing FUD

Identity Loss It’s a real thing and it can be really bad when it happens. The damage it can cause ranges from annoyance, loosing property all the way to ruining a life. Society has taken steps to minimize the damages and make the crimes punishable, but at this point we each need to protect ourselves more than …

Visual Studio code

Aug 21, 2021 vscode editor

Editors are a religious thing. Many of us spend more time in an editor, or something with an edit feature, than anything else on the keyboard. For an accountant it might be the cell editor in a spreadsheet (which acts like an overgrown typewriter IMHO). For many office workers they have blurred the line between …

It wasn't supposed to be like this

Jun 22, 2021 Ownership

Where did we go wrong? There have been on going jokes about where is my jet pack, flying car, robot, space station vacation, and so on; for years. A lot of views of the future have come and gone and they rarely look like what we have today. Artist and dreamers views aside, there were views of the engineers who set the …

NFT

Jun 18, 2021 Blockchain

Cover photo from Wikipedia WTF is an NFT? Non Fungible Token (NFT) is an assertion of owning a specific copy of a pile of bits, often being a media file (images, audio, video, etc). That has been the crux of what it is and the jokes about still not understanding them. There are a lot of reasons to not understand NFTs. …

Ransomware

Jun 11, 2021 Storage Cybersecurity Ransomware Archiving

[cover image comes from Wikipedia] It’s all about the backups Ransomware is all over the news right now. It has gone from a harassment for payment in cryptocurrency to shutting down medical care and crippling supplies of food and fuel. These attacks are hitting all of us and have become a real problem, but the …

Scams

Dec 29, 2020 Scams Spam Marketing Stopping Bad Practices

Scams, they are all scams. If you have followed any of this blog you will know I’m a advocate for information being extended through time and space. While it is a general good, I’ve been reconsidering if all data should enjoy the same effort. Today I have had one too many cases happen to me where it some …

Quora

Dec 20, 2020 Media Blogging Social Media Blogging

Quora If you know me even a little bit you know I’m not a participant in social media. I don’t have a Facebook account. My presence on Twitter is minimal and I never enjoy reading the feed. For the other social media outlets I may not even be able to tell you what their name is reliably (Instachat and …

Two ideas

Dec 17, 2020 Conventional wisdom Best Practices Unintended Consequences

Autopilot is a convenience not a preferred mode As I have talked about in my last few posts, I’m getting fed up with people not thinking. Basically not using their minds. Just going on autopilot to some degree or another. Walking the dog today I had more reason to think this way. (Not because of the dog as he …

Immortality drive?

Nov 29, 2020 media anticryptography archiving storage

I really don’t like the feeds on social media. I joined Twitter purely for this blog and it is rare that anything there is more than noise to me. That’s why I did not install the app on my phone and I only check it with relation to this blog (which is not really worth it either). Last night I checked for …

Data literacy

Nov 28, 2020 Statistics Media

Facts? Cover photo is from Wikipedia and showed up when I googled “liar” so it must be true [tic]. I really wanted to blog about something else for the last few days, but I’ve been kind of depressed by the state of data literacy and I had to talk about it. We have more information available at our …