Something to be aware of if you’re an Apple Podcast user. I’m not sure if you can disable the app and use something else, but that might be a good option if you can. Maybe check out apps that support…
This is a good overview of the Amazon trash and what they’re doing. And the Amazon Sidewalk functionality using your internet turned on by default is egregious and should be opt in. The saddest part is that people are paying…
With the UFC moving from ESPN+ to Paramount Plus for the new year, I had cancelled my Hulu, Disney, and ESPN+ bundle effective towards the end of next month after the completion of 2025 UFC events. And they had raised…
It’s interesting that they want you to confirm your identity every few months. Are they anticipating people will buy, borrow or use stolen digital IDs? Behind the promise of safety lies a blueprint for state-verified identity in every click.…
(Video at Bottom) Andreas was a big promoter of the Bitcoin exit from fiat in the early days, but he’s gone off the rails. And this is after some Bitcoiners made him wealthy with donations, but I haven’t followed him…
I guess my days of using KDE are coming to an end, as I’m not using Wayland, the IBM/Red Hat AI layer for agentic AI spying. I’m kind of glad I hadn’t donated, as when I did try they didn’t…
An interesting article on using SSDs for storage. You just might to make sure you power them up a time or two per year. By Tanveer Singh Your SSD data isn’t as permanent as you think Non-volatile with an asterisk…
Given the name of Genesis, and how they want to link and empower industry and national security by linking computing assets in the government together, you’d have to think mark of the beast system inbound. And possibly a platform for…
This is a very good presentation on debanking happening in Germany, and Sam Bent advocates for Monero, though Bitcoin with Lightning or Liquid will work for this as well. And Bitcoin is not being outlawed in the EU like Monero…
It’s a pretty interesting hack to read the screen, letting a malicious app read anything on the screen and even grab 2FA codes, or just any data from other apps. Though they’d have to know what they were going after…
A very important point is made at the beginning of this presentation having to do with opensource, and that’s others reviewing the code. And for this to truly work, you need to allow others to use the code as well,…
(Headline article below) It would seem that Graphene OS is the gold standard for privacy for how they change and lock down the device, also using sandboxing. The other devices are based on Lineage OS per my memory and not…
