TECHNOLOGY: Speaking of old technology … … Laugh!

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/village-wales-tv-broadband-internet-connection-aberhosan-powys-b530527.html?utm_source=reddit.com

OLD TV DISRUPTED ENTIRE VILLAGE’S INTERNET CONNECTION FOR 18 MONTHS
The television disrupted internet connections for the village when it was turned on every morning
Adam Smith@adamndsmith Tuesday 22 September 2020 14:41

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TIL that for 18 months, a village in Wales was mystified as to why their broadband internet crashed at 7am every morning, until engineers “picked up a large burst of electrical interference” springing from one dude turning on his very old TV.

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And they didn’t even buy him a new TV?

I’d have “traded” it with them or begun to turn it off and on several times a day.

But, then I am just grumpy old fart.

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TECHNOLOGY: The FBI Should Stop Attacking Encryption

Saturday, March 13, 2021

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/fbi-should-stop-attacking-encryption-and-tell-congress-about-all-encrypted-phones

The FBI Should Stop Attacking Encryption and Tell Congress About All the Encrypted Phones It’s Already Hacking Into
BY JOE MUL

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The first step is to start keeping track of what’s happening. Congress should require that federal law enforcement agencies create detailed audit logs and screen recordings of digital searches. And we agree with Upturn that agencies nationwide should collect and publish aggregated information about how many phones were searched, and whether those searches involved warrants (with published warrant numbers), or so-called consent searches. Agencies should also disclose what tools were used for data extraction and analysis.

Congress should also consider placing sharp limits on when consent searches can take place at all. In our January blog post, we suggest that such searches be banned entirely in high-coercion settings like traffic stops, and suggest some specific limits that should be set in less-coercive settings.

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As a little L libertarian, my first step would be “no warrant; no search”.  PERIOD!

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TECHNOLOGY: Google Pay loses functionality permanently

Monday, March 1, 2021

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First, starting on April 5th, the following features will no longer be available from the old app and at pay.google.com:
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Ability to send, request or receive money
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View of your recent activity or transaction history

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That sounds like a pretty big change to me.

Guess google can’t compete with all the other ways to “send, request, or receive” money?

No impact to me, but maybe to Google’s Users of their phones?

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TECHNOLOGY: Paytrust changed their UI

Thursday, February 25, 2021

It used to be perfect from my POV.

Then they “upgraded”

Now I can’t see my payees or my outbox of bills.

Oh well it was nice while it lasted now I have to leave them.

Sadly the worst part is no one cares.

Argh!

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TECHNOLOGY: Paytrust changes their UI and makes it unusable

Sunday, February 21, 2021

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Unfortunately, the old interface is no longer available. We understand that the new interface takes some time getting used to and we are definitely here to assist. We apologize for the inconvenience.

If you need further assistance with the new interface, please contact us at 800-729-8787 for your bill payment needs. We are here 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to serve your bill payment needs.

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What a way to lose Customers!

What pain in the A-double-Q to change out.

Argh!

Oh well, an idea who’s time has past.

I wonder who did their User Interface design.

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TECHNOLOGY: New GE Washer needs a unavailable software upgrade?

Friday, December 18, 2020

RE: GFW850SPNRS GE Washer

Bought a brand new GE washer from Lowes.  

Had to wait for delivery.

Finally got it installed.

Came in one day and it sounds like it’s draining.  Unplugged it and plugged it back in.  All quiet.  A fluke?

Came in another day and the same thing,  Left it unplugged and scheduled service.

Service guys came and said: “Oh yeah they should have know that this model needs a software upgrade to fix random draining. The upgrade should be available between mid and end January. You just have to install it.  We’ll leave the report open in case that it doesn’t fix the problem.”

Argh!

No one’s problem but mine!

Argh!

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TECHNOLOGY: Forensic Report of Dominion Voting machines alleges fraud; intentionally high error rate; deletion of data | Sharyl Attkisson

Monday, December 14, 2020

Forensic Report of Dominion Voting machines alleges fraud; intentionally high error rate; deletion of data DATED: DECEMBER 14, 2020 BY SHARYL ATTKISSON LEAVE A COMMENT Report released by Michigan court today Dominion software said to have an incredibly high 68% error rate, “by design” 2020 election data illegally deleted on Nov. 4, according to the Plaintiff’s forensic report Plaintiff’s attorney claims the forensics exam proves fraud, which Dominion and Antrim County, Michigan officials deny Plaintiff’s attorney says the forensics explain the mysterious 6,000 vote “accident” in Antrim County, in which Biden was incorrectly declared the winner until a correction showed Trump actually won

Forensic Report of Dominion Voting machines alleges fraud; intentionally high error rate; deletion of data | Sharyl Attkisson

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Seems like the machine IS the “smoking gun”!

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TECHNOLOGY: MAC OSX 11.01 on MacBook Air (M1, 2020) always has a problem waking up

Sunday, December 13, 2020

MacBookAir (M1 2020)

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TECHNOLOGY: MAC OSX 11.01 on MacBook Air (M1, 2020) always has a problem waking up.

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You would think that Apple is getting overwhelmed my automatic reports?

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TECHNOLOGY: The search engines rewrite history

Saturday, December 12, 2020

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/12/no_author/google-youtube-is-erasing-all-evidence-of-election-fraud/

Google/YouTube Is Erasing All Evidence of Election Fraud
By Andrea Widburg
American Thinker
December 11, 2020

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Google/YouTube didn’t try to be subtle. It announced on Wednesday that it would delete any videos that so much as mentioned the word “fraud” in connection with Joe Biden’s patently fraudulently ascension to the top of the ticket in the days after the November 3 election. The implications of this are so enormous that it’s currently difficult to assimilate all of them, let alone understand what needs to be done to hang on to American liberty.

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The control of “history” belongs now not only to “the victors” but to the corrupt “lame stream media” and the tech giants who control the search engines.

Hopefully, “We, The Sheeple” will not forget. 

But that is asking a lot for the asleep, the dumb, and the distracted.

Argh!

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TECHNOLOGY: Sounds like “Social Media” won’t be afforded protection from accountability any more

Saturday, November 28, 2020

https://dailycaller.com/2020/11/27/trump-section-230-national-security-biden/?fbclid=IwAR0xufJwDTMAFBq0ZFR6ncje-ZkknUuB3u-QEcGk8JNtgpdG8qwQwPgUSww

‘Immediately Terminated’: Trump Calls For Abolishing Section 230 In Late Night Tweet
ANDERS HAGSTROM — WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT
November 27, 202010:22 AM

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Trump and Republicans have argued for years that social media giants like Facebook and Twitter were abusing the immunity to silence conservative voices on their sites.

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Long overdue!

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