Even if it’s impossible for you actually to quit … How often to you think to yourself, “That’s it. I’m done with the Internet”? Absolutely never. What a ridiculous idea! Never, but I understand the temptation. Rarely. Maybe once a month. Once a week — or more. At least once a day. Other Please Specify: Created with QuizMaker As always, feel free to elaborate, vent, rant, question my (or your) sanity, etc. in comments.
Category: Computers & Technology
Yesterday was pleasant and relaxing. But there was this one startling moment. We were about to get out of the car at one of our stops when Furrydoc’s smartphone suddenly screeched with a voice crying, “Alexa, play _____” (with the blank part being a particular streaming song list from Amazon). The voice belonged to one of Furrydoc’s office staffers, and she recalled the moment the previous day they were all trying in vain to get Alexa to deliver them a little Jimmy Buffett for their Friday afternoon wind-down. I think merely talking to Alexa is creepy enough. Furrydoc — having…
DefCad.com goes dark. Judge’s order. CodeIsFreeSpeech.com rises. With all the same downloadable and perfectly legal 3D-printable firearm plans, not subject to the restraining diktat. What did they expect? How many more mirrors can the grandstanding statist bastards stomp? How many more will arise? Declan McCullagh has details.
Last spring I sat down to create a third edition of The Freedom Outlaws Handbook. I knew major updates would be needed, particularly in the areas of freedom technology and privacy. Eleven years had passed. Tech changes. Ventures fail. Laws tighten. Rarely, laws loosen (but it does happen). I was prepared for that. I wasn’t prepared for devastation. But devastation confronted me as I attempted to revise item after item. Mere rewrites were futile. Mere replacements didn’t exist. Site after site, option after option had disappeared. Sometimes they’d merely disappeared, broke, obsolete, unable to deliver on their promises, or neglected…