Blockstream Jade Plus is Trash
I watched this video to learn about the product, and I’m blown away by what a trash product this is. It has no secure element, so to unlock the device you need to access their server for an extra element…
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Alaska Plots AI-Driven Digital Identity, Payments, and Biometric Data System
(Headline article below) This move to agentic AI modules for interacting with the government is problematic, and this has to do with revenue sharing with residents in Alaska from the oil, minerals, fund investments… As agentic AI is a spying…
74% Have Less Trust in Software from Leftist Activists
An interesting X poll result. And I had no idea that the app.image developer was conservative minded. And it’s peculiar how these irrational sexual deviants call a Jew a Nazi, or advocate for Palestine where they could be killed for…
How Employers Spy on You Completely Undetected
Having come from megacorp AT&T, they were rolling out bossware to our computers just before I left. And it really says something about your work relationship with your employer. Their mismanagement always led to them trying to implore you to…
Why Walmart is Replacing Its Own Workforce with Robots
It appears impressive as you watch the video, but pay close attention to the fact that when considering wages, the equipment becomes affordable over many years as it’s a significant investment. And smaller businesses won’t be able to afford this…
Privacy Search Proxies: SearXNG and Whoogle
I’ve previously wrote articles on SearXNG and Whoogle with how to run them with Docker, and I’ve setup a Docker server with a SearXNG and Whoogle instance with SSL certificate via NgingxProxyManager and Let’s Encrypt (same server as this blog).…
Which Desktop Environment Do Arch Linux Users Prefer
And we can put a +3 for our computers all running KDE on Arch as well (technically Endeavor OS but basically vanilla Arch underneath). And with KDE saying they’ll drop X.Org support by version 6.8, SonicDE has forked KDE to…
India Weighs Greater Phone-Location Surveillance; Apple, Google and Samsung Protest
India after having to backtrack on the government app that can’t be disabled is putting forth another dystopian proposal. And you have to think they want to do this everywhere eventually. The time for having to move to a Graphene…
The Galaxy TriFold is… Sad
These are pretty hilarious. But the biggest weakness with these soft foldable screens is that you can actually damage them with a fingernail. And I just don’t trust the hinge mechanism or screen to handle a lifetime of folding, and…
Trump’s Next National Strategy Will Center On Humanoid Robots
After the Genesis Mission, Trump may next promote R&D into humanoid robots. And this takes me back to the Image of the Beast that is given breath, or an AI God setup in the temple in Jerusalem. By Tyler…
India Blinks: Won’t Require Apple To Preinstall a State App on iPhone
It’s interesting that they pulled back, but perhaps just a test to see how much backlash they received. But it does show their intention. And they already have biometric ID. By Malcolm Owen India’s government has backtracked on its…
AI Chatbots Can Sway Voters Better Than Political Advertisements
(Headline article below) This one statement below sums up AI for the trash that it is. The chatbots swayed opinions by citing facts and evidence, but they were not always accurate—in fact, the researchers found, the most persuasive models said…