Life with Eb
Over a decade ago I used to watch a repo guy out of Utah, and he was using license plate scanners, looking for vehicles in a commercial database his scanner populated along with others… And he did a lot of…
Category Tech
FSF Urges Moving Off Microsoft’s GitHub to Protest Windows 11’s Requiring TPM 2.0
These foundations so easily get corrupted with money and requisite board seats. The Free Software Foundation should be pushing people to just leave Windows, not their GitHub property because of TPM chip requirements pertaining to Win11. I will give credit…
What Do You Think of Highway.com?
You might not be aware of the whole Electronic Logging Devices mandate for truckers, where they’re required to have ELDs connected to their vehicle computer that automatically logs their time, and where they can provide data to DOT representatives on…
Just Like Clockwork, The Propaganda Push For Digital ID Kicks Into Gear In The UK
We’re a member of Five Eyes with the crown properties of the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, so what they try to do is usually planned here as well. In the states they’re trying to frame it as protecting…
Exposing the PayPal Honey Influencer Scam – PayPal is Stealing Commissions
Update: Class action lawsuit video added at bottom. PayPal started as a great company, providing a safe way to transact on the internet during the shaky time of questionable credit card security. But in typical megacorp fashion, they grew too…
Apple Settles Siri Eavesdropping Lawsuit for $95M
Consequently this is misleading, as Apple, Amazon and Google have this ability to send triggered voice command data to developers if there was an error. I don’t use Apple or Amazon’s voice assistants, but Google has a setting to disable…
Bitcoin ETFs approach $110B as analyst calls $200K BTC in 2025
I highlight this article for the numbers of these OCGFC, Owners and Controllers of Global Financialized Capital, ETF funds and how much they hold of Bitcoin‘s total available tokens. I don’t get caught up too much in day trader theories,…
DEI Megacorps Trashing Themselves
I just wanted to tie in a couple YouTube videos that actually relate to each other. First is Chris Titus going over what a shell of its predecessor the new Outlook is. And this was our main email client in…
Deleting Google Ads
Interesting look into Google Ads, and it appears they make a lot of money with trash ads. Kudos to websites that pass on the money and delete Google Ads. Consequently, you can see where they prioritize money over responsibility regarding…
Telecom Providers Say Networks Are Secure Following Chinese Salt Typhoon Hack
I’m firmly convinced this was a psyop to move people to encrypted platforms where they could more easily be spied on by the government through backdoors or broken encryption. The telecom networks have had inferior security for decades with the…
EPIC CFPB Complaint: Rocket Money
Rocket Money is advertising hard on Disney+, which I only have because it was cheaper to get the package instead of Hulu and ESPN+ alone, mainly for UFC events. Rocket Money is connected to Rocket Mortgage which are spin offs…
SearXNG and Brave Web Crawlers
I have a previous post on a couple privacy search proxies I run, but I wanted to highlight that you can configure the search engines used with SearXNG. And duckduckgo already uses Bing, so you don’t need that one, but…