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
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Telecom to block messaging from GV.
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Side channels and JSON.
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Wiz API / Support.
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Coding fMRI bah.
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Power Harvesting switch.
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Wiz Non-support.
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Outlook Junk.
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Power Automate – fear and loathing?
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The acceptance of 5G.
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Digital divide – old school approach.
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Too much choice.
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Resilient Wi-Fi.
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Ish.
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Quora.
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Covid Site.
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Shelly Flicker.
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Telecoms problems – Zoom is free.
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Clearway Solar Guy.
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ADHD song.
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Looking for Wiz contacts.
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Home Control – plays with others.
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Clicking agree.
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The naïve failure of Project Loon.
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Scripts instead of instructions.
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RTFM Not.
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Local certs.
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Failing by doing everything right. Trying to figure out why my closet light wasn’t turning on. †
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ATT #FailureFirst device. †
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The Authoritarians.
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Terms and Conditions to use a stove.
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In praise of the command line!
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278 Home devices.
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Security for hhs.gov vs. 3rd party links.
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Wiz anti-marketing.
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Hubitat to Alexa.
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Bold font tool.
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Roper on why NASA.
- Technology Connections
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Online vs. Offline.
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Default to not autoplay.
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Josh Bernoff and the fairness doctrine.
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Brooklyn Bridge elevated train.
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DNS fail First.
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AI and I – Purpose vs. Use
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Mis-explaining the Internet /wo Best Efforts.
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Internet as a regressive tax.
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After TV.
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Minitel and 5G.
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Long battery life for phones.
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CSS4 / LCH.
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America – a theocracy. Belief over reality.
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Dehumidifier warning.
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Zigbee et al and IP Convergence.
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The religious right marches on.
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CSS as symbolic pictures.
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Connectivity and QR.
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Bosch UX from hell.
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Binging CSS.
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Southern Railroad gauge change.
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Where did the rules of the road come from?
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Abdicating Governance to Google et al.
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Skyline elevated in NYC and much more.
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The power of Red/Green and more.
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How can we talk about the Internet?
- Obvious to the meanest intelligence.
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T-Mobile outage and resilience.
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VisiCalc on Jeopardy.
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Tesla in perspective.
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David Weekly: OOB.
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The IEEE aids and abets 5G.
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Pisanty Market vs. State.
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HK MTR conflicts.
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The history of CED and RCA.
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Amazon Sidewalk?
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Defunctland EPCOT.
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Why thing work – VC edition.
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Against my religion.
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E911 and Magic Jack.
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Brown!
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Wi-Fi and best signal.
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Legacy LG TV.
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Cronkite – 21st Century.
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Site for conversations.
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Bar on Militant Secularists.
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In the land of the blind.
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Paying for subways etc.
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Amtrak and value in the whole.
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Terms of art.
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OneWeb Brexit GPS Debacle.
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On being wrong.
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Being part of society vs. the Vaxxers.
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Scott Adams – You’re gonna die?
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FB🡺Twitter efforts.
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Philosophy of Science / Connectivity Subthread.
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Third reboot on connectivity.
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An attempt at Internet Native.
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Example of terrible translation.
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What if a city got bids for broadband capacity.
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Time vs. XYZ.
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Mike Hawley.
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Guns and Law Enforcement Inc.
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Colbert / Bolton.
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How far back English.
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Telecom and the Klaxon (CLID).
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Skill is what you make of luck.
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T-Mobile outage tied to Telecom?
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Robinhood trading porn.
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PPI Doty.
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Going back in time.
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Fantasy Investing.
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Trump Racism.
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Chokeholds for Trump.
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More poles.
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Sprinkler Control.
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TED / Procrastination.
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Zoom and Tiananmen event.
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Verizon Lifeline Service Rules.
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ConTV and the content rush.
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OneDrive problem.
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T-Mobile drops account.
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From policing to social services.
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Poles and earbuds.
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Trump racist quotes.
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Complementing FB?
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Xfinity Flex.
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FB Trump Flag?
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XT2 Birdcam first try.
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COVID / Austin.
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Power Brokers
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Leonard Nimoy and Yiddish.
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Birdcam Woes.
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HTML history.
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Urban Travels.
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Simple home control example.
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Words of Art.
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History of Typography.
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T would’ve bungled WWII.
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T-Mobile Wi-Fi Devices.
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Luck dominates (Globe).
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Questions about Amazon Sidewalk.
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Verizon Protocols vs. The Future.
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Meritocracy and Antitrust.
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History of Consumer Internet.
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Rethinking China.
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Quora Ukraine Transcript.
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Die by the cloud.
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Schools don’t teach about money.
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UWB vs Spectrum.
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Capitalism and incentives.
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DHCP Option 43 and hidden problems.
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Ofcom on frequency.
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Trump demand car pollute.
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Genetically Modified super-Mosquitos.
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I can see profiles again.
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Unstoppable Code.
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Pluto TV.
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QRCodes for TV.
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Einstein Genius.
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Saga of 185.82.148.10.
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Caller-ID Mortgage Info.
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NOAA wanted by Hurricane T.
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Myth of a Free Speech Crisis.
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The Morality Fallacy.
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JSON Web Tokens?
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Rokuten VIKI closed captions.
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Bits Vs Things.
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Dave no-interest loan?
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Automatic GPS info on a 911 call?
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Portable Email Addresses
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Browser File System.
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Agility.
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Anti-Vaxxers and Lyme Disease.
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BlockChain and Buzzword.
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On Privilege.
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5G and BRICS (Luca).
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Why do cell phone batteries overcharge?
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Spurious Precision in Reporting.
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Democrats and the war of words
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A taxonomy of lies and BS.
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Feld on anti-Israel.
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The Family (on Netflix).
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Origins of political polarization (Quora).
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How Spreadsheets unleashed Wall St.
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Origins of the Fax Machine.
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T-Mobile roaming warning.
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Telephone Museum.
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Parle-Vous Anglais? Of course.
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Bitrot and Originalism.
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Wolfram on the history of math.
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Perverse connectivity in Audi, LH etc.
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Jonathan Zittrain on ML magic.
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The Great Hack (Trailer)
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Russia election targeting.
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Need a passport to use WiFi in China.
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NYT Crossword email clue error.
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Americans die due to fight against healthcare.
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Chinese false sense of security,
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GOP and dead pimps.
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Tour of my hotel room in Shenzhen.
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Shenzhen train station
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Jobs response smooth response to critic.
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No black coffee (黑咖啡) in (惠州)
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China Push/Pull doors backward.
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QR Codes everywhere in China.
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Got VPN working and PRC/HKG borderline.
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VPN Challenges in China.
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GoGo inflight meddling.
- 5G deserves its own list
- Climate Change
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The Internet and My 53 Years Online.
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Corby dies.
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Why can’t WinWord translate.
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Understanding Hai and active listening.
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ECG research beyond Apple?
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Did you know – God added later.
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Maya without tenses.
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ATT ToS for vehicles.
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A Marshall plan for Central America?
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2ality for JavaScript.
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Cars and CO2 detection.
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Fighting Desertification.
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Unbanning Facebook in Japan etc.
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USDA Stealth Purge.
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NYT Tax Billionaires.
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JavaScript vs. C++ thinking.
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Cloud dependency.
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Seth w/Apple in 1984.
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WiFi in flight.
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Mt Washington Connectivity.
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US 5th shouldn’t be just for citizens.
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David Reed on Time and Physics
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Trump threatens Mexican tariffs.
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“Operators monetizing IoT”.
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How Fox News disinforms (Feld).
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Pole Foolishness.
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(Dave Crocker) No Free Speech Crisis.
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Geek GIT question.
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Huawei and Rural threats.
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https for IoT/PWA. (dev.to)
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Soullessness of anti-abortion.
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Anti-fax and weaponized ignorance.
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Next no longer plays with others.
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Binary Blobs vs JSON saving.
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The Oligarch problem.
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Buffer Bloat and Beyond.
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Rosenthal Bitcoin.
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Trump vs. Protecting Elections.
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What is a Terrorist in a headline?
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T-Mobile vs 5G.
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Discreet Online?
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Virtual Window.
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Third Wave Experiment.
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Air maps in flight.
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Just in Mice.
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NYC Special Network and the GPS excuse.
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I am a Robot.
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Google reminding me they own me.
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Extra History – Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Extra history – Triangle Fire.
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Response to EW market survey.
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Structure messages.
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Citing via the DNS.
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Sheep and airlines.
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The Boston Globe on Facebook danger.
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Telecom – like being limited by the gold standard.
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Quote people not papers.
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Extra History Money.
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Extra History – How Republics Fall.
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RCA TV Eye from 1953.
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Roger McNamee Podcast,
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CHM Origin and Impact of VisiCalc.
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Abramson on Trump/Barr.
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MAGA hats and a micro-aggression lesson.
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Largest “cities” over time.
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Keyless entry vs. tracking.
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Loop tiling – programming performance.
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The MIT quadruped robot and lessons in 5G
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Payday loans and clueless Trumpocrats.
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Problems with HER (Andy Oram).
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Airplane Movie parody.
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Trump’s craziest day on Twitter (CNN).
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Smart Cities 1939 (via Lynn Wheeler)
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Internet as English (via Robin Bradbeer)
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Freeze away fat.
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Mozilla and TV remotes.
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Zipcar outage,
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Eat Dirt – the risks of cleanliness.
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Thinking of reposting on Medium.
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Layers are Turtles.
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Local Computing – Google’s Corel.
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Boston Globe 5G op-ed.
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Can’t subscribe to MS if I have a VoIP line.
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Ernst: debate of Chromecast/DNS.
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Texas corruption.
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Why LTE is not the answer.
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HP Printers and a lack of binding.
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Why Facebook Still Seems to Spy on You.
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WiFi direct and wider connections
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Looking for Chromebook printer.
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Samsung S10 Crypto Locker.
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The power of File System Semantics. †
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BellNet vs connected devices. †
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Nest camera rent-seeking.
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312 Friend Requests.
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TC53 at the LBJ Library.
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UX Fail. OneDrive – I deleted what?
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Machine learning and what’s not there.
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David Reed on 5G. †
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Our First Computers.
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Newton Maker Space.
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NY Charging Manafort.
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Trump Climate Czar is a CO2 breather.
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Chinese collect DNA for tracking.
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Angular and unreachable elements.
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Sonoff’s annual fee for an API key.
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When your foreign policy is to make enemies.
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4K TV.
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One click short of a full order.
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Nest Hello or Goodbye.
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IEEE CE 5G Radios.
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Seeing the Light – my March 2013 column.
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AI Text Generation.
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Russian henchmen fucking with your mind.
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Greg Osler and Trump Mafia history.
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David Reed on 5G with comments.
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Comments on AI.
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More reasons for vaccinations.
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HDMI again. More on ARC, EARC etc.
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Geeking out on Hubitat.
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JPG Rotation flag ignored.
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DJT admin will let adoption agencies turn away Jews and gays.
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The risk of YouTube links.
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Thiel anti-science mag.
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May dump FiOS.
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HDMI – ugh.
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Trump and the Wall.
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Technicolor!
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Outlook still uses IE.
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Connecting to access points.
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Expiring Smartthings.
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Hiawatha on Covington.
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Outlook buries alerts.
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IoT Device Identity.
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Ignore glowing reviews. (see mention of meta review sites
https://reviewmeta.com/ and
https://www.fakespot.com).
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Kids and their Clouds.
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Are Trump supporters stupid [Vixie].
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Trump doesn’t understand negotiation.
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China to boycott foreign brands.
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Brands living on Motorola, GE.
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Silicon Labs – Zigbee etc.
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PM2 Problems.
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Warning against wall environment cost.
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CES 2019 has left the room.
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British Sarcasm.
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Portuguese decriminalization.
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Border Wall cut through.
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With Larry Magid at Redrock Canyon.
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Foxconn owns Belkin.
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International Dateline – Why.
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Social web, Sesame and worse.
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Tech that died in 2018.
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Chase limits downloads to 5 months.
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MIT Alum cascading failures.
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Cambridge Monorail.
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Samsung Foldables.
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Trying to sign up for Fortunate Wings Club (Hainan).
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AMA on Trump’s latest abortion.
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CNN: Trump Lies.
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Germany 1934 Football ban.
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Trump to pardon D’Souza.
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NPM audit.
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Colorado GOP Billboard
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danah boyd on the messy fourth estate.
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Romans 13
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Ingraham summer camp comment.
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Response on preppers.
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Google Pixel Nonsupport.
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Koch Brothers against public transit.
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Lands end unsubscribe.
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FB needs a subject line.
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Bork on Antitrust
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ATT gets CNN.
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Mission Accomplished (Trump/Un).
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Outfoxed in Singapore.
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Russian Airspace.
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Stupid Watergate.
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Brother can’t be bothered to update apps. †
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Web Assembly – the promise and the risk. †
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Schlage and product registration †
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Trump calls for Russia to rejoin G7.
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Credit card companies should offer subscription management.
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Why did think Vehicle should be spell-checked in French?
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QR code on Mass Vehicle Inspection Report.
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CSS Variables.
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Schlage API?
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Glacial legacy in NYC.
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Hubs API Outage.
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Supreme Court on no gay cakes.
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Zittrain on IoT.
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Tulsa race riot.
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Paying per device.
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Worries about stealing WiFi.
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Car dealers vs. computer tracking etc.
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1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Eric Cline, Ph.D.)
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JavaScript Vulnerabilities.
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Everyday Racism NBC.
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Visiting ER gets you inundated by ads!
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Christian Project Blitz.
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A tale of two pings (windows/bash)
- What the MeWe? (https://mewe.com)
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Alex oversharing.
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How Geely saved Volvo.
- Responding to Brownsberger and Network Neutrality.
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GDRP and UX
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Microsoft Word spell check broken.
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Republican attempt to subvert the FBI.
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Infected routers. Russia?
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.child
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Crooked Trump’s insecure phone.
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Whitehouse.gov has gone feral
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Slate on Collusion – Cohen et al.
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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’
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Got ES6 to work for home control!
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But sometimes .. LED traffic lights
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NN vs. Hiawatha
- NY Times atmospheric Viruses.
- Contranym watch: Forge.
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In praise of YDI (You-Do-It Electronics).
- Why are we still using wired logic?
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Internet Privacy (with Doc Searls)
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DJT vs USPS.
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Apologies to 620, 510 area codes.
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NY Time fact check Zuckerberg
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Trump’s Caravan story.
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Tasteless Big3 Ad?
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DJT Defies his Generals.
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MadTwitterer roils markets.
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Competition was once considered good.
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Christie says Trump can’t help but lie.
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Trump Economy as a Drunkard’s Walk.
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Realignment in Politics.
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Evangelicals and Trump (WP)
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It’s tax time. And the numbers are inaccessible.
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Adobe tracking services,
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On Cambridge Analytica.
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Andy Clark in the New Yorker. (FB)
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The city of the future – 1930’s Robert Moses style.
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Prisoner of Linear TV waiting for 60 minutes.
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The London Garroting Panic. Fake news is not new.
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Paying for infrastructure by harvesting our data isn’t confined to Facebook. It’s at the heart of smart cities and so much more... †
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The conspiracy to manufacture conspiracy theories.
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Why can’t I get a URL to a TV show?
- Thinking of giving in and using Google Photos.
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Cloud storage for web page app. Looking for suggestions
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Arming teachers. A thread on how bad the idea is.
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The brain is not a computer. Why are we having such a pointless debate?
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Taking responsibility for climate change. A sarcastic take on the idea that we have to solve our problems without government’s help.
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Pence as President? Uh-oh.
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Notifications. They’ve gone from feature to plague! *
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FB copies. This means you can track down and correct shares, among other problems.
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Recovering my PC. Trick to getting windows to clean itself is using media creation tool to reinstall the existing version.
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Conservatives vs. Reality. The conflict with an inherent truth mindset and a complex/ Ambiguous world
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10 Bizarre Things Americans Believe According to Studies
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Last Post before TKR (Total Knew Replacement). [spoiler alert – I’m now back home and recovering]
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Fossil Foolishness. The administration seeks to blacken our future because it can hide in darkness.
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Using coins to pay for parking now seems strange.
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Trying VR/MR on Windows.
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Gigs vs Jobs in response to a discussion on Uber/Lyft vs Curb (which uses medallioned cabs).
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Google’s Anticipatory Meltdown Moment. The effort to provide answers before I ask them is an annoying over-optimization.
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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.
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Watching Obama and Letterman. A reminder of a time when had adult supervision.
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Smart-assed Cities. Smart cities are like smart networks providing limited solutions rather than creating opportunity.
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Credit Card Harvesting. An example of what can be done by injecting code client-side.
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Bible Museum. The Museum of the Bible Is a Safe Space for Christian Nationalists.
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Texas judge interrupts jury, says God told him defendant is not guilty.
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Uber UI.
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Fred Turner on Don’t Be Evil.
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JetBlue Pod Experience
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Windows Explorer Languishes. The folder metaphor is powerful, but it is underutilized.
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Birkenstock Vs. Amazon.
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USB-C Woes. USB-C had such potential but …
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Multi-homing at home. It’s close to transparent.
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Fast Algorithm Overlords. Better isn’t necessarily better.
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Cowering In Place.
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Home Control Resilience.
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Welcome to the Theocracy.
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Anyone Can Make it in America (and other lies told by the rich).
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Takeover of the Judiciary.
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Apostrophe in peril!
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The disconnect between wealth and wisdom. Rich preppers. [2017-01-17]
Closed Groups
Mainly so I can find them
LucidCam
Pending
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PODJT Thoughts on accidental winning.
Misc.
Others
By Topic
Quora
#Gripes
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.
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.
Expert History
The DNS (Domain Name System)
Telecom Legacy
Programming and Software
Home Control
CES 2018
Politics
A lot is politics, so I may not always list here.
Groups
Real History of Online
Shelly Support
Other’s posts
Not Public
Others on Medium
Other Press
Pretty: Pictures and the like
Figure 2With Seth on Skywalk at Grand Canyon
Figure 3Stawman -- 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.