I’m BobFrankston on Facebook. Note that I usually post publicly, so there isn’t a strong need to friend me. So, I apologize in advance for my backlog of requests I haven’t responded to. Typically, nothing personal – just one more thing to think about.

Note that I list more polished posts and my columns as “Further Reading”.

It’s easier to post simple thoughts on Facebook than to create a formal posting. Eventually, I hope to consolidate these thoughts into formal essays. In the meantime, I’m providing a list of Facebook posts that might be of interest to others. Please forgive the typos and consider them mulls-in-progress.

Facebook does have the advantage of providing an opportunity for a conversation – something I haven’t implemented on my site.

I’ve done very little posting on Quora but plan to list any new postings here.

I’ll attempt to list these in reverse chronological order, and, at times, any summary may be longer than the original post. I’m going to try to use * or † for posts I do want to follow up on in a longer essay or a column. But probably won’t bother.

Direct pointers to Gripes, Fails

(Note some of these links aren’t getting properly converted – at some point I’ll figure out the bug)

Miscellaneous Posts

• The naïve failure of Project Loon.
• Scripts instead of instructions.
• RTFM Not.
• Local certs.
• Failing by doing everything right. Trying to figure out why my closet light wasn’t turning on. †
• ATT #FailureFirst device. †
• The Authoritarians.
• Terms and Conditions to use a stove.
• In praise of the command line!
• 278 Home devices.
• Security for hhs.gov vs. 3rd party links.
• Wiz anti-marketing.
• Hubitat to Alexa.
• Bold font tool.
• Roper on why NASA.
• Technology Connections
• The mechanical Jukebox.
• Online vs. Offline.
• Default to not autoplay.
• Josh Bernoff and the fairness doctrine.
• Brooklyn Bridge elevated train.
• DNS fail First.
• AI and I – Purpose vs. Use
• Mis-explaining the Internet /wo Best Efforts.
• Internet as a regressive tax.
• After TV.
• Minitel and 5G.
• Long battery life for phones.
• CSS4 / LCH.
• America – a theocracy. Belief over reality.
• Dehumidifier warning.
• Zigbee et al and IP Convergence.
• The religious right marches on.
• CSS as symbolic pictures.
• Connectivity and QR.
• Bosch UX from hell.
• Binging CSS.
• Southern Railroad gauge change.
• Where did the rules of the road come from?
• Abdicating Governance to Google et al.
• Skyline elevated in NYC and much more.
• The power of Red/Green and more.
• How can we talk about the Internet?
• Obvious to the meanest intelligence.
• T-Mobile outage and resilience.
• VisiCalc on Jeopardy.
• Tesla in perspective.
• David Weekly: OOB.
• The IEEE aids and abets 5G.
• Pisanty Market vs. State.
• HK MTR conflicts.
• The history of CED and RCA.
• Amazon Sidewalk?
• Defunctland EPCOT.
• Why thing work – VC edition.
• Against my religion.
• E911 and Magic Jack.
• Brown!
• Wi-Fi and best signal.
• Legacy LG TV.
• Cronkite – 21st Century.
• Site for conversations.
• Bar on Militant Secularists.
• Speak Biblical to the SC.
• In the land of the blind.
As-a-service and Right to repair.
Our algorithms and our legal system.
A SIM per device.
No zero rating.
My telehealth appt.
(Chris Herot) DIY Telco.
The DNS and typos.
Twisty passages again – Duo Edition.
Duo – First Post.
Duo Take Two.
230 Extra History.
ISOC Internet Assessment.
Geeking on C# and beyond.
Poles and hanging phone wiring.
Vacation unlearning a myth?
V6 over V4.
US Taliban in pick up trucks.
TV has a YouTube display surface.
Format Wars: 45s vs 33s.
Tesla is software.
836 Keypunch, the 940 and more.
Common carrier vs. Cellular. (V2)
Using Gl.Inet for LTE.
Blockchain is the answer.
Zeynep Tufekci
Netgear MR1100 DNS bug.
Legacy telecom vs. Google Voice.
Robbing Hood.
The world has changed—tech vs. QAnon.
Spectrum can waylay their competitors.
Allwinner STB
Common Carriage for Apple?
Shopping for TV Bundles.
More #5G
Lou Covey Interview
5G gets weird (Spectrum).
Verge 5G paid-for paean.
Cellular as rent-seeking.
Ayyadurai campaign and Email.
Common Language or not.
Apple and Common Carriage.
Old Movies and Birth of a Nation.
Animated History of Japan.
US Cyber Maginot Line.
Verizon Stream and other STBs.
Axios Interview.
Download All.
HBO Go and the Roku silo.
The Girl from Ipanema.
RockNRolla.
Kass and anti-Semitic tropes.
Apple Demands a Cut of all value created.
Boxer: DHS was a mistake.
华为 5G the Anti-Internet.
Coffee Mug – Green Mountain like.
Scrabble vs. WWF.
Kristallnacht?
Implications of 100% Connectivity.
Explaining connectivity as a resource.
Picture Changed.
The fall of GE Predix.
NY Times Ed Broadband 2020.07.
Laura Ingraham’s Descent.
Banning the Communist Party.
Living Computer Group Photo 2013.
Car disconnectivity (Mini Cooper edition).
Fax-based healthcare.
WTEForum 50th talk.
Quora on Damage of COVID-19.
Feet in the room quiz.
• Paying for subways etc.
• Amtrak and value in the whole.
• Terms of art.
• OneWeb Brexit GPS Debacle.
• On being wrong.
• Being part of society vs. the Vaxxers.
• Scott Adams – You’re gonna die?
• FB🡺Twitter efforts.
• Philosophy of Science / Connectivity Subthread.
• Third reboot on connectivity.
• An attempt at Internet Native.
• Example of terrible translation.
• What if a city got bids for broadband capacity.
• Time vs. XYZ.
• Mike Hawley.
• Guns and Law Enforcement Inc.
• Colbert / Bolton.
• How far back English.
• Telecom and the Klaxon (CLID).
• Skill is what you make of luck.
• T-Mobile outage tied to Telecom?
• Robinhood trading porn.
• PPI Doty.
• Going back in time.
• Fantasy Investing.
• Trump Racism.
• Chokeholds for Trump.
• More poles.
• Sprinkler Control.
• TED / Procrastination.
• Zoom and Tiananmen event.
• Verizon Lifeline Service Rules.
• ConTV and the content rush.
• OneDrive problem.
• T-Mobile drops account.
• From policing to social services.
• Poles and earbuds.
• Trump racist quotes.
• Complementing FB?
• Xfinity Flex.
• More on Flex and beyond
• FB Trump Flag?
• XT2 Birdcam first try.
• Squirrel Eating Apple.
• Color chomping cardinal.
• Cardinal among the sparrows.
• Messy starling.
• Turkey in the snow.
Hungry birds in the snow.
Blue Jays vs sparrows.
• Lots of sparrows and a Carolina Wren.
• Chickadees et al.
• Goldfinches.
• Red-Bellied Woodpecker.
• Woodpeckers vs. Starlings.
• A Cardinal, Blue Jay etc.
• Cardinal Vs. Blue Jay.
• Squirrels.
• Night Life.
• Rabbits of the night.
• Apple theft.
• More Critters.
• More critters and new setup.
• Baltimore Oriole.
• Rabbit Eating.
• Animals Behaving Badly.
• Cardinal
• CSI Squirrel.
• Blue jay Billiards.
• Cute Squirrel.
• Hungry Possum.
• Turkey up close.
• Grand Theft Squirrel.
More Birds and Scenery.
New Robin
And then there were three.
• Scarlet Tanager.
• Tanager in flight
• Female Tanager, Rabbit etc.
• Nature Edenic.
• Hamond Pond and Poults
• Cutler Pond and Goslings.
• Turkey at the birdfeeder.
• COVID / Austin.
• Power Brokers
• Leonard Nimoy and Yiddish.
• Birdcam Woes.
• HTML history.
• Urban Travels.
• Simple home control example.
• Words of Art.
• Grammarly and parts of speech.
• History of Typography.
• T would’ve bungled WWII.
• T-Mobile Wi-Fi Devices.
• Luck dominates (Globe).
Schools as Welfare.
Scam buster call.
On the Florida reopening.
The worm doesn’t see the garden.
Wireless Count 233.
Bluetooth and Alex fails.
Squirrel Cam.
Plandemic Debunking.
Tonga kids are not Lords of Flies.
GOP: poverty is a moral disease.
Language for the Whitehouse
Henchperson
Consiglieri
Winking out.
FFL.
Jews control Corona Lab.
Fauci, Chiefs – COVID not from a lab.
Globe – Up means Down
UPnP concerns.
Price on Life.
Other COVID damage.
Internet Vs. Telephony.
Globe and Digital Divide.
Windows 95 video.
VR not happening.
Fisk and finance.
Vernacular Writing.
The truth will get you fired.
Grammarly vs native speakers.
Leap Millimeter.
Immigration ban?
Science vs. prediction.
#Rathole – bits in a pause.
Rathole2 .
Information, Broadband as words.
Verizon buys BlueJeans for 5G.
IEEE CE/CT Webinar Invite.
Eric Lee on the flattened curve.
War on the Post Office.
Star Wars and narratives.
Farber on time.
Supermarionation.
Outbreaks traced to religion.
Fixer Upper 1600 Penn Ave.
Why ask for email servers?
Being rich is about luck.
Column and Rewriting and Q about Best Efforts.
Column – Communities of Things.
Chinese reinventing the Internet.
Chinese 5G anti-Internet.
Social Distancing vs. Economy.
ADVChina – Corona edition.
The story of the Petro.
Looking for porch light screw.
Turkeys looking for love.
Harold Feld and basic broadband.
T-Mobile billing and warning.
Zoom scaling vs Emergency networks.
Home network to private range.
SharePoint at Home and beyond.
Toilet Paper hoarding?
Abuser in Chief.
Seneca Village.
Corona; CAQ.
Corona: Virus Expert: this is war.
HuffPost Warren.
Strawman.
Of chickens and markets.
Helium Peer to Peer.
New hardware but old software thinking.
Onboarding my Wiz Bulb.
Doty and Physics of Communications.
Corona Virus by the Numbers.
Population density as a limit?
Meaning of “Communications”.
Comic strip that assumes you have a TV dial.
Eric Schmidt Op Ed.
Device Connect Protocol for Wi-Fi.
End-to-End vs USB.
Bangle.js
Batteries in Bulbs.
Isolated Wi-Fi blocks cellular connectivity.
Apple, Foundation and the Mule.
Trump driven by Revenge.
911 Failure and the Flu.
Iowa Caucuses.
Press without reading.
Reagan on a velociraptor.
Keyboard for the road?
Reflections on Sierra Vista.
Airline websites not PWAs.
Hotel Internet quirkiness.
Off-roading with Ethan.
Catch-22 of connecting in flight.
Force password changing.
Rental car systemic failure?
Positive example of linking via GUID.
Remote Controller for Browser?
GPS Outages.
Visual Studio Versions.
Live ID problems.
Saudis vs. Bezos.
Getting a URL for an Email Message.
Spectrum Residential Gateway shuts down.
National Archives altered photos.
Ticwatch is not restoring.
Upward Mobility – not.
Murdoch son vs Fox.
ALG - computing in Cars.
Adam Ruins Everything / Games.
Stop obsolete tweaking.
USB-C Cars.
Adam Ruins Everything S3.
Young Frankenstein Musical.
Body Freezers.
London Faux Trees.
Alleged Facts WRT to T.
ICCE 2020 Photos.
Nokia bloat.
DNS “Sale”.
Invanka at CES.
Florida Man/Women tickets to heaven.
FiOS toggle signaling conflict.
Apple using satellites to bypass telcos.
Emoticons and Spoken English.
RIAA tries to kill the Internet.
Reversing On/Off.
Global Entry Shutdown?
Windows Commands
Teaching math and more.
Quadratics.
Lots of WiFi at home.
T Defines Jews a a Nation?
Great students play.
LED Lights in the snow.
Bulbs as endpoints simplifies wiring.
Geeking out Termux on Android.
Disconnectivity at VZ Innovation Center.
Fblicd to FB pointer?
Business card scanning is getting worse!
The Road to Maxwell’s Equations.
A Date with Your Family MST3K.
Amazon Video Surveillance maps
Here comes the School Bus.
Death of Free Markets (Globe).
Criminal Silicon Valley.
Postings while on the road at Nov 25th IGF
White House aids abets 5G.
IMS, the 5G of 2006.
Oops on Uber tip.
Visited Stasi and DDR Museums.
C vs F etc in Canada.
Televangelist invite.
Hotspot 2.0 twisty passages.
Scrolling to 1949.
Why don’t people look at out window?
Sunrise on way to Berlin.
Sunset on way to Boston.
Performance and FB.
Berlin Black Monday.
Problems with the Electoral College.
Ghost image on display.
Bluetooth scanners for theft.
Banking data bundles.
Flat Earthers.
Convervative Magical Capitalism.
TC53 in Tokyo.
Old tapes.
Tossing old stuff.
Best-Efforts and talking-past.
Verizon privacy settings.
Different Realities.
Paying to print stamps.
Impossible Burger et al.
What is this connector called?
Why still futzing with serial?
Mulling Surveillence and fitbit.
IFTTT is too user fawning.
Package delivery tying up cities.
Open WiFi Now.
My Pixel 4XL.
Brother Printer Kvetch DHCP etc.
Unicornitis.
Why so many airline bankruptcies.
Koala DNA.
Hitler and failure.
Mazzucato on Capitalism.
• Questions about Amazon Sidewalk.
• Verizon Protocols vs. The Future.
• Meritocracy and Antitrust.
• History of Consumer Internet.
• Rethinking China.
• Quora Ukraine Transcript.
• Die by the cloud.
• Schools don’t teach about money.
• UWB vs Spectrum.
• Capitalism and incentives.
• DHCP Option 43 and hidden problems.
• Ofcom on frequency.
• Trump demand car pollute.
• Genetically Modified super-Mosquitos.
• I can see profiles again.
• Unstoppable Code.
• Pluto TV.
• QRCodes for TV.
• Einstein Genius.
• Saga of 185.82.148.10.
• Caller-ID Mortgage Info.
• NOAA wanted by Hurricane T.
• Myth of a Free Speech Crisis.
• The Morality Fallacy.
• JSON Web Tokens?
• Rokuten VIKI closed captions.
• Bits Vs Things.
• Dave no-interest loan?
• Automatic GPS info on a 911 call?
• Portable Email Addresses
• Browser File System.
• Agility.
• Anti-Vaxxers and Lyme Disease.
• BlockChain and Buzzword.
• On Privilege.
• 5G and BRICS (Luca).
• Why do cell phone batteries overcharge?
• Spurious Precision in Reporting.
• Democrats and the war of words
• A taxonomy of lies and BS.
• Feld on anti-Israel.
• The Family (on Netflix).
• Origins of political polarization (Quora).
• How Spreadsheets unleashed Wall St.
• Origins of the Fax Machine.
• T-Mobile roaming warning.
• Telephone Museum.
• Parle-Vous Anglais? Of course.
• Bitrot and Originalism.
• Wolfram on the history of math.
• Perverse connectivity in Audi, LH etc.
• Jonathan Zittrain on ML magic.
• The Great Hack (Trailer)
• Russia election targeting.
• Need a passport to use WiFi in China.
• NYT Crossword email clue error.
• Americans die due to fight against healthcare.
• Chinese false sense of security,
• GOP and dead pimps.
• Tour of my hotel room in Shenzhen.
• Shenzhen train station
• Jobs response smooth response to critic.
• No black coffee (黑咖啡) in (惠州)
• China Push/Pull doors backward.
• QR Codes everywhere in China.
• Got VPN working and PRC/HKG borderline.
• VPN Challenges in China.
• GoGo inflight meddling.
• 5G deserves its own list
• The 5G Rev that isn’t (TheOutline).
• 5G Wired not.
• 5G vs WiFi.
5G history of telco fails.
5G Bubble vs reality.
Real Remote Surgery.
5G FCC and IEEE.
DigitalTrends 5G.
NYT as 5G Shill.
#5G is Fast Lanes.
• NYT 5G Panel.
• Telerati (Zigard).
• 5G Legeredemain in Hackathon.
• 5G the battery eater
• WSJ tested 5G
• 5G nonissue – health hazard.
• IEEE Future Networks as 5G.
• Broadband Breakfast and 5G Shills.
#5G Cometh
Tech Review 5G, AI, BC (and IEEE).
• Pushing back on 5G hype.
• 5G Summit.
• Hiawatha 5G Hype.
• Covering 5G et al.
• 5G vs. VR.
• YouTube spectrum mongering.
• Spectrum and language
• Climate Change
• YouTubes denial narratives.
• Climate change references removed.
• American’s unaware of climate change consensus.
• Trump’s failure WRT Humanity
• Chinese Denialism.
• The Internet and My 53 Years Online.
• Net@50 event
• Corby dies.
• Why can’t WinWord translate.
• Understanding Hai and active listening.
• ECG research beyond Apple?
• Did you know – God added later.
• Maya without tenses.
• ATT ToS for vehicles.
• A Marshall plan for Central America?
• 2ality for JavaScript.
• Cars and CO2 detection.
• Fighting Desertification.
• Unbanning Facebook in Japan etc.
• USDA Stealth Purge.
• NYT Tax Billionaires.
• JavaScript vs. C++ thinking.
• Cloud dependency.
• Seth w/Apple in 1984.
• WiFi in flight.
• Mt Washington Connectivity.
CE Column Suggestions.
Mercer conspiracy theories.
Thinking as a job skill in an AI World.
Helicopter tour of Boston.
The CO2 cost of AI.
Astrology / Brooks.
Zigbee hell.
911 and no architecture
Pompeo vs. Climate.
A binding lesson.
Installing WF-7110 vs. WF-7710.
• US 5th shouldn’t be just for citizens.
• David Reed on Time and Physics
• Trump threatens Mexican tariffs.
• “Operators monetizing IoT”.
• How Fox News disinforms (Feld).
• Pole Foolishness.
• (Dave Crocker) No Free Speech Crisis.
• Geek GIT question.
• Huawei and Rural threats.
• https for IoT/PWA. (dev.to)
Mysteries at the Museum; DDE Highways.
Mole #1 continues to wreak havoc.
TCP Port closing query.
Micronovelty USB.
Phone Systems of Yore.
Article on Alabama Abortion Bill.
The Looting of Sears.
Volvo V60 UX Fail.
• Soullessness of anti-abortion.
• Anti-fax and weaponized ignorance.
• Next no longer plays with others.
• Binary Blobs vs JSON saving.
• The Oligarch problem.
• Buffer Bloat and Beyond.
• Rosenthal Bitcoin.
• Trump vs. Protecting Elections.
• What is a Terrorist in a headline?
• T-Mobile vs 5G.
• Discreet Online?
• Virtual Window.
• Third Wave Experiment.
• Air maps in flight.
• Just in Mice.
• NYC Special Network and the GPS excuse.
• I am a Robot.
• Google reminding me they own me.
• Extra History – Cuban Missile Crisis.
• Extra history – Triangle Fire.
• Response to EW market survey.
• Structure messages.
• Citing via the DNS.
• Sheep and airlines.
• The Boston Globe on Facebook danger.
• Telecom – like being limited by the gold standard.
• Quote people not papers.
• Extra History Money.
• Extra History – How Republics Fall.
• RCA TV Eye from 1953.
• Roger McNamee Podcast,
• CHM Origin and Impact of VisiCalc.
• Abramson on Trump/Barr.
• MAGA hats and a micro-aggression lesson.
• Largest “cities” over time.
• Keyless entry vs. tracking.
• Loop tiling – programming performance.
• The MIT quadruped robot and lessons in 5G
• Payday loans and clueless Trumpocrats.
• Problems with HER (Andy Oram).
• Airplane Movie parody.
• Trump’s craziest day on Twitter (CNN).
• Smart Cities 1939 (via Lynn Wheeler)
• Internet as English (via Robin Bradbeer)
• Freeze away fat.
• Mozilla and TV remotes.
• Zipcar outage,
• Eat Dirt – the risks of cleanliness.
• Thinking of reposting on Medium.
• Layers are Turtles.
• Local Computing – Google’s Corel.
• Boston Globe 5G op-ed.
• Can’t subscribe to MS if I have a VoIP line.
• Ernst: debate of Chromecast/DNS.
• Texas corruption.
• Why LTE is not the answer.
• HP Printers and a lack of binding.
• Why Facebook Still Seems to Spy on You.
• WiFi direct and wider connections
• Looking for Chromebook printer.
• Samsung S10 Crypto Locker.
• The power of File System Semantics. †
• BellNet vs connected devices. †
• Nest camera rent-seeking.
• 312 Friend Requests.
• TC53 at the LBJ Library.
• UX Fail. OneDrive – I deleted what?
• Machine learning and what’s not there.
• David Reed on 5G. †
• Our First Computers.
• Newton Maker Space.
• NY Charging Manafort.
• Trump Climate Czar is a CO2 breather.
• Chinese collect DNA for tracking.
• Angular and unreachable elements.
• Sonoff’s annual fee for an API key.
• When your foreign policy is to make enemies.
• 4K TV.
• One click short of a full order.
• Nest Hello or Goodbye.
• IEEE CE 5G Radios.
• Seeing the Light – my March 2013 column.
• AI Text Generation.
• Russian henchmen fucking with your mind.
• Greg Osler and Trump Mafia history.
• David Reed on 5G with comments.
• Comments on AI.
• More reasons for vaccinations.
• HDMI again. More on ARC, EARC etc.
• Geeking out on Hubitat.
• JPG Rotation flag ignored.
• DJT admin will let adoption agencies turn away Jews and gays.
• The risk of YouTube links.
• Thiel anti-science mag.
• May dump FiOS.
• HDMI – ugh.
• Trump and the Wall.
• Technicolor!
• Outlook still uses IE.
• Connecting to access points.
• Expiring Smartthings.
• Hiawatha on Covington.
• Outlook buries alerts.
• IoT Device Identity.
• Ignore glowing reviews. (see mention of meta review sites https://reviewmeta.com/ and https://www.fakespot.com).
• Kids and their Clouds.
• Are Trump supporters stupid [Vixie].
• Trump doesn’t understand negotiation.
• China to boycott foreign brands.
• Brands living on Motorola, GE.
• Silicon Labs – Zigbee etc.
• PM2 Problems.
• Warning against wall environment cost.
• CES 2019 has left the room.
• British Sarcasm.
• Portuguese decriminalization.
• Border Wall cut through.
• With Larry Magid at Redrock Canyon.
• Foxconn owns Belkin.
• International Dateline – Why.
• Social web, Sesame and worse.
• Tech that died in 2018.
• Chase limits downloads to 5 months.
• MIT Alum cascading failures.
• Cambridge Monorail.
• Samsung Foldables.
• Trying to sign up for Fortunate Wings Club (Hainan).
• AMA on Trump’s latest abortion.
• CNN: Trump Lies.
• Germany 1934 Football ban.
• Trump to pardon D’Souza.
HP Printer – so close yet so far. †
• NPM audit.
Exploring “Identity”.
All turns to dreck.
Above the fold unraveling.
Grammarly annoyance.
Xiaomi Mijia Lamp
Threading a needle.
Judge Invalidates ACA – a GOP Cancer in ur legal system.
The Corruption of the Republican Party.
Iranians beat two-factor authentication.
Springmaid Fabric Calendar 1950.
Another lesson in car rental UX.
Lessons in bitrot – Dropbox growth.
UX Fail – blocked app.
Lack of a comment field for deposits.
Smartphone as amulet.
5G BS from The Hill.
Maureen Dowd on Bush 41.
The Hypocrisy of Hanukkah.
Click and you’re a terrorist.
What is “intelligence” in an Octopus?
Want “Referred by” for FB articles.
Why is Norway so wealthy and influential.
Globe – Part warning headline vs traffic jam headline.
Downloading a OneDrive File NOT.
Cashless societies and more …
Procrustean speed limits.
Crow or Cat?
Scanning Business Cards vs. OneNote.
Switch phones and loss settings.
CP1252 and more.
Mobile Schmobile
Heisenberg – reviewing changes the reviewed.
Visiting the Eiffel Tower.
Lufthansa, Aeromobile and preying on passengers.
Using FB to post after Paris.
Why so many wooden buildings in US.
Flight number madness UA913.
Facebook et al and semi-connectivity.
Sloppy signatures and voter suppression.
With Larry Magid at IGF.
New Yorkers and the “worse” subway map.
Adam Ruins Immigration
Progressive reading of the Constitution.
Why Senate sucks – 40 million reasons.
Why are the elections so close?
Beta for President?
Business cards vs art.
Secret Customer Score.
Amazon Fire TV Cube HDMI exploit.
Lazowska – AI and Ethics.
Amazon Fire cast.
Mongolian.
5G The Opiate Of Telecom.
IBM/Red Hat via Dean.
Stamp.com vs Wireless Dymo … again
Fatal Font.
Warren on corporations and externalities
Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture.
Stable Cryptocurrencies?
HVAC Lack of monitoring.
Transgender Denialism.
Birth control pills are about more than sex.
Whither Microsoft as it focuses on the Enterprise.
Schulmeisters on the EC and 2nd Amendment and the Civil War.
Verizon 5G is FiOS.
Weaponizing anti-abortion.
Kavanaugh vs Women (re Godwin).
Identity and personae across realms .
Rich Privilege..
Delayed Investigation. (New Yorker)
Nuanced on Kavanaugh from Quora.
Rachel Maddow on Ford/Kavanaugh.
Browser as TV controller.
Your algorithm may work but be wrong.
Brother update nonsense.
Radio/Connectivity Policy.
20,000 Nazis in NYC.
From Yuval Harari and the Myth of Freedom
Nothing fixed (Lynn Wheeler)
Collapse Feature in Word.
A myriad of special purpose cables.
ATT and the loan I can never pay off.
McConnell keeps Senate open in October.
Obama Resistance.
Companies failing to make transitions to the NBT.
Beware off-brand Androids.
Uconnect Follies.
Java vs JavaScript (Quora)
Learn to Program in 3 Months (Quora)
Dymo nonsupport?
On operating systems and IBM’s FS.
Kavanaugh Parkland.
Social nonsupport.
Warren Ethnicity not a factor.
In praise of free-range childhood.
Don’t use email accounts from providers.
Waze through Newton Corner.
Uconnect fail.
Jade Helm: Russian fueled.
Blaming McCain for being discourteous.
Questioning native American about being here illegally.
Debate Trolls Not.
Lime Bike Newton (now electric).
Manafort and the Warlocks.
Door Lock: Please try again at another time.
State site requires IE.
Bunnie Huang on tariffs.
Russian trolls and vaxxers.
Electricity is a terrible metaphor for rural broadband [sic]
Anti-Vaxxers kill.
James Mickens on ML and security and worse! †
Friends?
Warren on Seth Meyer’s.
Saudi Beheads Activist.
Energy Cost of Bitcoin.
Boston’s Stygian River.
How American Jews learned to be Liberal.
IBM succumbs to curing cancer.
More on corporations and limited liability.
The problem of Bimbo Videos
Stamps.com nonsupport. Resolved … Not
National Review piece on Warren and business.
LG Repair Fail.
Religious Vouchers vs. Priest Abuse
Pixel Delivery problems
USB-C Charging.
USB Fail to recognize.
Windows keeps resetting the lock screen.
Bruni on learning to type.
Oldest OS used. (via Quora)
SIMply terrible.
Strong typing (via Quora)
Captcha gone wild.
Surface Go first impressions.
Is Java over?
Ecological cost of the Trump Wall.
Via Quora – liberal vs conservative economies.
DirecTV Now UX Terrible.
Criminalizing Voting while on parole.
Google maps no longer flat earth
A lack of critical thinking.
China Hustle.
Unpaid family leave.
Question – Programming languages for CE – why C++ (Became a CLI discussion)?
• Useful https://image.online-convert.com/convert-to-svg
The Control Plane for self-driving cars.
NYT – The decade we almost stopped climate change.
Postal Neglect. (Infrastructure)
TD Bank was nice about currency exchange error.
Brian Valentine on Unbridled Capitalism.
Motherhood in the Age of Fear.
Kavanaugh on the separation of Church and State.
Schlitterbahn – no physics, no science.
How the press coverage of AI is unhinged.
• Colorado GOP Billboard
Tokyo Subways.
JAL 8 return flight.
Cat feces – the new wonder drug – gives you courage!
Agriculture Subsidies.
Temperature sensitive routing.
Google in Japanese?
Will Facebook steal my pictures?
T-Mobile in Japan and Google …
Flying JAL 7 to Japan.
Siberian Captured Supreme Court.
Law to hide Russian/NRA collusion.
Tax Returns?
Collins and Stephens on Trump etc.
Karl Schulmeisters on need to repudiate Trump.
In 30 years, 8 states will have the majority of the population. Put that in your electoral college.
Al Franken on Kavanaugh.
Verizon 1Gbps offer.
Science by Jury?
Alex Beam on Nomenklatura.
SIMs and T-Mobile in Japan.
Kavanaugh – Censorship is Free Speech.
Scotus Question.
Camera phone suggestions?
An operational approach to teaching math.
Russians using Republican email for blackmail?
JAL and technology.
Collins and Murkowski should leave the GOP.
Kristof: We are Bambi to Hackers.
Chinese targeting trump base.
Trump’s Unamerican meeting.
Japan visit.
Weaponized speech and religion.
Spider.
Google Cloud point of failure.
TypeScript and fear of nulls.
You can’t ban abortions, you can only make them terrible
The story of sex.com.
Unevaluated expressions in JavaScript.
History of computer passwords.
The need to teach critical thinking.
The tainted reconstructionist court.
ICE Tweaks AI to recommend detention.
Civility and Nazis.
Weaponizing the First Amendment.
Cartoons form Trumpistan
Facebook made a video of me.
ML and the new “not a robot”.
I took a cab.
Boston Seaport growth.
John Oliver on China.
Man Fired by Machine
Thoughts, prayers and a space force!
What the airlines know
• danah boyd on the messy fourth estate.
• Romans 13
• Ingraham summer camp comment.
• Response on preppers.
• Google Pixel Nonsupport.
• Koch Brothers against public transit.
• Lands end unsubscribe.
• FB needs a subject line.
• Bork on Antitrust
• ATT gets CNN.
• Mission Accomplished (Trump/Un).
• Outfoxed in Singapore.
• Russian Airspace.
• Stupid Watergate.
• Brother can’t be bothered to update apps. †
• Web Assembly – the promise and the risk. †
• Schlage and product registration †
• Trump calls for Russia to rejoin G7.
• Credit card companies should offer subscription management.
• Why did think Vehicle should be spell-checked in French?
• QR code on Mass Vehicle Inspection Report.
• CSS Variables.
• Schlage API?
• Glacial legacy in NYC.
• Hubs API Outage.
• Supreme Court on no gay cakes.
• Andy Oram explanation.
• Zittrain on IoT.
• Tulsa race riot.
• Paying per device.
• Worries about stealing WiFi.
• Car dealers vs. computer tracking etc.
• 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Eric Cline, Ph.D.)
• JavaScript Vulnerabilities.
• Everyday Racism NBC.
• Visiting ER gets you inundated by ads!
• Christian Project Blitz.
• A tale of two pings (windows/bash)
• What the MeWe? (https://mewe.com)
• Alex oversharing.
• How Geely saved Volvo.
• Responding to Brownsberger and Network Neutrality.
• GDRP and UX
• Microsoft Word spell check broken.
• Republican attempt to subvert the FBI.
• Infected routers. Russia?
• .child
• Crooked Trump’s insecure phone.
• Whitehouse.gov has gone feral
• Slate on Collusion – Cohen et al.
• Interpreting Xi Jing Ping Era. https://goo.gl/xynkbe Chinese Philosophy: Jiang Shigong on ‘Philosophy and History: Interpreting the “Xi Jinping Era” through Xi’s Report to the Nineteenth National Congress of the CCP’
• Got ES6 to work for home control!
• But sometimes .. LED traffic lights
• NN vs. Hiawatha
Warlock hunt
Boston-ready driverless cars.
The 9.9%
HoweyCoin
Cohen missing files.
Windows Graphic failures.
WhatsApp and the Indian Elections
European #Webfi.
Windows Connection sharing now standard. (Hot Spot in setup)
How cheap is too cheap? Shipping and logistics
Expressive programming (via Quora).
URLs for shipping notifications.
Framework reluctance.
Oculus Standalone.
LinkedIn tracking glances
NY Subway crisis and the power of active illustrations.
Trump always makes the wrong choice – Iran edition.
Real Estate and Volcanoes and global warming?
Index.php and Browser caching
My April Moments! No !
Alexa spam. Cinco de Mayo
Google Timeline reminder.
Spaces after the dot and kerning.
Boston Globe: Ripping off prisoners with phone charges.
Microsoft camera belch message.
New Coke lessons.
Free thought caucus.
TechAlter on why Europe has lost its tech companies.
Jeff Bezos interview.
TSA prudishness.
Hotel temperature controls. (Hilton Edition)
Hotel 6.6 vs TM 91/31 speeds.
Back East – NJ edition.
American Duma Russian Collusion Coverup.
Hertz lack of WiFi at SFO.
Zelle and open loop signaling.
Maintaining WiFi connectivity in Android.
Globe on paper checks.
Greenbacks and godless currency.
Samsung S3 features.
Globe – Economists like Free-Trade but Politicians don’t.
Facebook Messenger teensy window.
Microcenter squanders it’s advantage.
Comments on coding vs. Software. Also.
We have a Unicorn problem
NatGeo user QR for activation.
Elon University quoting me on the Internet.
• NY Times atmospheric Viruses.
• Contranym watch: Forge.
• In praise of YDI (You-Do-It Electronics).
• Why are we still using wired logic?
• Internet Privacy (with Doc Searls)
• DJT vs USPS.
• Apologies to 620, 510 area codes.
• NY Time fact check Zuckerberg
• Trump’s Caravan story.
• Tasteless Big3 Ad?
• DJT Defies his Generals.
• MadTwitterer roils markets.
• Competition was once considered good.
• Christie says Trump can’t help but lie.
• Trump Economy as a Drunkard’s Walk.
• Realignment in Politics.
• Evangelicals and Trump (WP)
• It’s tax time. And the numbers are inaccessible.
• Adobe tracking services,
• On Cambridge Analytica.
• Andy Clark in the New Yorker. (FB)
• The city of the future – 1930’s Robert Moses style.
• Prisoner of Linear TV waiting for 60 minutes.
SFO/AMW Visit.
• The London Garroting Panic. Fake news is not new.
• Paying for infrastructure by harvesting our data isn’t confined to Facebook. It’s at the heart of smart cities and so much more... †
Cloud Act. Pro and Con
T-Mobile Foibles.
Pretty backyard.
Eversource Scam.
Family Values, Banning child marriage in America: An uphill fight against evangelical pressure
Is LinkedIn sneaky in making it too easy to accept?
The rise of the #Stupidocracy. Why smart people lose, and stupid people rule.
• The conspiracy to manufacture conspiracy theories.
• Why can’t I get a URL to a TV show?
• Thinking of giving in and using Google Photos.
• Cloud storage for web page app. Looking for suggestions
• Arming teachers. A thread on how bad the idea is.
• The brain is not a computer. Why are we having such a pointless debate?
• Taking responsibility for climate change. A sarcastic take on the idea that we have to solve our problems without government’s help.
• Pence as President? Uh-oh.
• Notifications. They’ve gone from feature to plague! *
• FB copies. This means you can track down and correct shares, among other problems.
• Recovering my PC. Trick to getting windows to clean itself is using media creation tool to reinstall the existing version.
• Conservatives vs. Reality. The conflict with an inherent truth mindset and a complex/ Ambiguous world
• 10 Bizarre Things Americans Believe According to Studies
• Last Post before TKR (Total Knew Replacement). [spoiler alert – I’m now back home and recovering]
• Globe Story on TKR
• Fossil Foolishness. The administration seeks to blacken our future because it can hide in darkness.
• Using coins to pay for parking now seems strange.
• Trying VR/MR on Windows.
• Gigs vs Jobs in response to a discussion on Uber/Lyft vs Curb (which uses medallioned cabs).
• Google’s Anticipatory Meltdown Moment. The effort to provide answers before I ask them is an annoying over-optimization.
• Porting my number. Trying to move from a landline to using VoIP is a reminder of how antiquated the design point of our phone system is.
• Watching Obama and Letterman. A reminder of a time when had adult supervision.
• Smart-assed Cities. Smart cities are like smart networks providing limited solutions rather than creating opportunity.
• Credit Card Harvesting. An example of what can be done by injecting code client-side.
• Bible Museum. The Museum of the Bible Is a Safe Space for Christian Nationalists.
• Texas judge interrupts jury, says God told him defendant is not guilty.
• Uber UI.
• Fred Turner on Don’t Be Evil.
• JetBlue Pod Experience
• Windows Explorer Languishes. The folder metaphor is powerful, but it is underutilized.
• Birkenstock Vs. Amazon.
USPS/Amazon Synergy.
Medicare site woes. Makes things worse as an excuse to make things worse. An anti-virtuous cycle.
Spooky Tracking. A reminder of how much Google knows.
明年在上海 (Next Year in Shanghai). Jewish Christmas.
Got API. Comments on https://rmf.vc/GotAPI.
Apps demanding location. Why do apps claim they need my location just to use Bluetooth?
Apple Besties. iTunes for Windows is more helpful than I want.
• USB-C Woes. USB-C had such potential but …
• Multi-homing at home. It’s close to transparent.
• Fast Algorithm Overlords. Better isn’t necessarily better.
• Cowering In Place.
• Home Control Resilience.
• Welcome to the Theocracy.
• Anyone Can Make it in America (and other lies told by the rich).
• Takeover of the Judiciary.
• Apostrophe in peril!
• The disconnect between wealth and wisdom. Rich preppers. [2017-01-17]

Closed Groups

Mainly so I can find them

LucidCam

• File Transfer

Pending

• PODJT Thoughts on accidental winning.

Misc.

• Defending Trump’s policies

Others

• Brad’s Tesla link.
• Quora on others’ beliefs affect them.

By Topic

Quora

Const in programs. (FB)
Fifty Years of Programming.

#Gripes

• Long DHCP leases are evil.
• WiFi disconnectivity.
• Synchronous Support.
• Social media as an opiate.
• Community Forums are not a substitute for support.
• Printer Paper Weight.
• Messages that don’t provide enough info. Like a hex address instead of a device description.

Gripes in progress

Windows File Explorer

• So much potential
• View by attributes (but only some)
• Thumbnail manipulation
• Illusion for Windows
• Windows 95 compatibility
• Hard to write managed extensions
• Legacy of WinCE file transfer protocol
• Lack of PaperPort capabilities
• Vs. Internet Explorer
• Failure to embrace the metaphor
• OneDrive online
• OneNote tec.
• Perhaps for file system extensions
• RemoteApp

#Fails

I’m going to start to use the tag #Fail for some posts. Partially to avoid having too many marked #gripe but also to be about more specific encounters.

Lyft (and Uber) fail.
• UA record splitting.
• Uber stuck at SFO.
• Tizen/Eclipse installation. (-vm{nl}c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_161\bin)
• Hulu and Netflix #fails on Roku.
• Passwords on guest WiFi connectivity.
Canadian Rail tiny popup.
Printing tiled images should default to single-sided.
Bitrot as sites start to require security and other corporate practices.
Uconnect, Sirius and …
HVAC Unmonitored

Software, Programming and Disconnectivity

To a degree the concepts behind software pervade my writings so this isn’t a distinct category, but I’ll attempt to group some of the appropriate writings here.

JerryScript – a very small JavaScript engine.
• Connectivity as a Vital Consumer Service.
• The risks of As a Service and cloud dependency.
• Networking to Opportunity. Post for https://rmf.vc/nto.
• Complexity of Firewalls! Etc.
• IoT ET al are not ready for prime time.
• Getting SQL server working with TCP. (w/LINQ pointer)

Expert History

• Lessons from the lead up to WWI.
• The South Sea Bubble.

The DNS (Domain Name System)

• The DNS is a rent-seekers dream. Price rise in .net
• DNS Price Jacking. Companies take unfair advantage of their ability to extract rent thanks a DNS (Domain Naming System) that holds your name and scared honor hostage.

Telecom Legacy

• Another 5G BS show on BBC.
• Telephone History Museum.
• 5G The super toll road
• Trump administration is thinking about nationalizing 5G mobile network.
• The Dead Hand of 5G. Why a new infrastructure for each new technology.
• Missed calls from my physician because T-Mobile labelled them Telemarketing.
• Telcos and the Façade of Modernity.
• A rant on the Google phone app. How do such things happen?

Programming and Software

• My new home server. Commodity platforms are increasingly inexpensive.

Home Control

• Connected my Nest Hello!
• The high price of Nest Aware.

CES 2018

• Disconcertingly real city backdrop at Ford at CES .
• Google Assistants. Or storm troopers or?
• Cox Lame Wifi at CES.

Politics

A lot is politics, so I may not always list here.

• Not Infrastructure. Trump proposal to swampify society
• House Republicans declare Trump above the law WRT to Russia.

Groups

Real History of Online

• Multics Emulator

Shelly Support

• Dimmer Discussion.

Other’s posts

• David Reed:
• Spectrum vs. Weather
• The Surveillance Economy.
• Steve Bellovin debunking security nostrums.
• Curt Schilling’s crazy on Q Anon.
• Black Scholes and other Formulas. Class match mixed with questionable models for finance and other modern attempts to assume an ordered world. [Thanks Lynn Wheeler and comments by Lisa Toinen Mullin]
• Karl Schulmeisters on Privacy and FB.
• GUI for connecting microservices.
• Gmail “.” Attack. (Karl Schulmeisters) Shared.
• Dave Berlind Discussion of printers and networks.
• Ruth Balser / Kunstler event.
• Lynn Wheeler on FS et al.
• MagaPill. This is a batso site touting T’s accomplishments. I’m tempted to respond at some point
• Frank Paynter on my Regulatorium.
• Identity in the Economist.
• How to dial a phone. (Cheponis)
• Why can’t I have birth control (Richard Frankenstein)
• God Killing first-borns vs. abortion.
• O’Reilly on Blitz companies.

Not Public

• Whitehouse.gov discussion.

Others on Medium

• Eric Bedell on Satanic Monument.
• Michael Jordan on AI.
• Beating the odds at the track.
• Two spaces – Josh Bernoff
• Religion vs. Science via Enriquez.
• Reason why RNC is afraid of Russia.
• What Colour do you like your Objects? Pink or Blue?

Other Press

• WSJ On VisiCalc 20190713.

Pretty: Pictures and the like

Figure 1: A CES sewer spouts beauty

Figure 2: With Seth on Skywalk at Grand Canyon

Figure 3: Stawman -- will use it to respond on FB

Notes to Self

• Write about first system effect and NodeJS
• Geek out
• Shelly and Habitat
• Perimeter security – physical vs. virtual
• One IP network – many quirky Zigbees
• Discovered cloud dependencies with loose wire
• Write about data and linking
• Everything in JSON
• Semantic web??
• JavaScript ecosystem.