TECHNOLOGY: When does Facebook lose it’s immunity?

Friday, November 27, 2020

https://www.justfactsdaily.com/usa-today-facebook-illegal-voting-by-non-citizens

USA Today & Facebook Use Slanderous “Fact Check” to Suppress Facts About Illegal Voting By Non-Citizens
By James D. Agresti
November 24, 2020

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A “fact check” by USA Today is defaming a Ph.D.-vetted study by Just Facts that found non-citizens may have cast enough illegal votes for Joe Biden to overturn the lawful election results in some key battleground states. The article, written by USA Today’s Chelsey Cox, contains 10 misrepresentations, unsupported claims, half-truths, and outright falsehoods.

Furthermore, Facebook is using this misinformation to suppress the genuine facts of this issue instead of honoring its policy to “Stop Misinformation and False News.” Compounding this malfeasance, a note at the bottom of Cox’s article states that USA Today’s “fact check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook.” 

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Back in the old BBS’ days, websites were immune to suits as long as they didn’t exercise “editorial control” over the content. 

Like the phone companies weren’t responsible for the conversations they carried, so to Facebook SHOULD be held accountable BECAUSE they are exercising “editorial control’1

When will they be held accountable for their biased “fact checking”, deplatforming, and selective advertising?

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TECHNOLOGY: what3words app v4.7: shared lists and widget | what3words

Saturday, November 21, 2020

Shared listsLists are an easy way to share recommendations and useful locations with friends, family, hobby groups and teams. Share a list with your top foodie tips in an area, plan a trip with friends, or organise activities around specific locations. All you need to do is generate a link in the app and share it.

Source: what3words app v4.7: shared lists and widget | what3words

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I think this is a neat idea to “mark” and “communicate” places that are not easily addressed in “normal ways”.

And more convenient than Google’s plus codes.

Interesting?

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TECHNOLOGY: Was Election Software Rigged? Sidney Powell Lays Out the Trump Team’s Findings.

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

There are other concerns about how the software can be utilized. The attorney stated software and election officials have the ability to do things like delete ballots, force the machine not to read voters’ signatures or the down ballot. Powell said there’s also the ability for the machine to be programed to only count votes for Biden.

Source: Was Election Software Rigged? Sidney Powell Lays Out the Trump Team’s Findings.

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As a fat old white guy injineer, why would one build in these type of functions?

Only one reason, FRAUD!

Argh!

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TECHNOLOGY: Big Data as evidence of fraud

Saturday, November 14, 2020

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/big_data_to_the_rescue_the_electoral_college_meets_data_pattern_science.html

November 13, 2020
Big Data to the Rescue: The Electoral College Meets Data Pattern Science
By Jay Valentine

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“When subject to statistical analysis against known patterns, industrial fraud stands out like a dinosaur walking through a field of peanut butter. It is unmistakable.”

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Pretty damning evidence IMHO!

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TECHNOLOGY: Yet another downgrade — no reduction in price, of course

Saturday, November 14, 2020

Hello Ferdinand Reinke,

You are currently using the IONOS Address Book feature.

Since this feature no longer meets our current technical requirements, we will be completely discontinuing the IONOS Address Book on 02/16/2021.

On 12/15/2020, the first step will consist of deactivating the ability to create new contacts or collect them through contact forms on your websites. 

On 02/16/2021, we will turn off the Address Book feature permanently.

Until then, you still have the possibility to retrieve your contact data via the export function as a vCard (VCF file) in order to save them for yourself or to transfer them to a system of your choice. Find out more

Sincerely,
IONOS Customer Service

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TECHNOLOGY: Dropping Google and returning to the “less evil” empire of Apple

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

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Ok, I admit that my attempt to move from Apple to Google was a complete and utter failure.

Google:

  • By killing Google Cloud Print, it made my printer “obsolete” with no alternative. (Was the final straw!)
  • Google docs and sheets are no where near as good as Microsoft Office.
  • Google’s “end of life”-ing chromebooks is inexplicable.
  • Google’s 4a offering was “unsubscribable”. (A tech giant should be able to do that!)
  • Google has no support comparable to Apple’s.
  • Google Fi’s beem a disappointment compared to Altice Mobile.

Apple

  • Has a remarkable consistency in their infrastructure.
  • While killing iTunes Apple Music, iWeb, and a parade of obsolescence, it has been as disruptive as Google’s “end of life”-ing chromebooks.

I’ll continue to watch the field, but it’s no sense wasting anymore time.

I’ll still recomend chromebooks with the caveats about printing and “end of life”-ing.

Argh!

(My apologies for the bad advice!)

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TECHNOLOGY: Google cleaning out the app’s inventory — RIP Trusted Contact

Saturday, October 17, 2020

Over three years ago, we launched the Trusted Contacts app as a way to help people stay up to date with their loved ones’ whereabouts. Since then, we’ve built this functionality directly into Google Maps with Location Sharing – making it even easier to share your live location with trusted friends and family.

As a result, the Trusted Contacts app will be removed from the App Store and Play Store today, and will stop being supported after December 1, 2020. If the app is installed on your device, you can continue to use it until then.

If you have created trusted contacts, you can download them from the trusted contacts page until December 1, 2020. After that date, the Trusted Contact app will no longer work and your trusted contacts will be unable to see the live location you are sharing with them from the app.

To learn more about Location Sharing in Google Maps, check out our help center.

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Too bad if you were using it.

You really are NOT in control of your tools.

Makes everything that Google “gives” you for “free” suspect that it won’t be there tomorrow.

Argh!

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CHROMEBOOK: LaCros “fixes” “end of life” on Chromebooks?

Monday, September 14, 2020

https://www.chromestory.com/2020/09/multi-profile-chrome-on-chromebook/?unapproved=75469&moderation-hash=0ed8311875f1f816bf51ad759e8d4a8f#comment-75469

LaCros Will Change the Way We Use Chromebook
September 12, 2020 by Dinsan Francis | Last Modified: September 12, 2020 

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It will stop getting updates when your Chromebook reaches end of life.

Using a browser that no longer gets software updates is not a safe thing to do. With this change, Google can continue to give you Chrome updates even after stopping support for Chrome OS on your Chromebook.

But that’s not what I am excited about

I use two Chrome profiles on my Mac. One has my personal account. The second profile has the Google account that I use for the blog (Analytics and Search Console, etc).

Whenever I have to switch between these two profiles to complete tasks, I tend to use my Mac. It is not easy to do this on a Chromebook. I cannot switch profiles as I do on my Mac or Windows PC.

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Maybe I don’t understand the need for “End of Life” on Chromebooks. I’ve discarded two as my secondary machine to my primary Mac Book Air. I’d have thought that Google had created the computer that was closest to an appliance like a toaster. But they threw in the EOL as planned obsolesce. Such a shame, because the EOL ones still work.

I never saw a need for “profiles”.

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TECHNOLOGY: Ulterior motive of touchscreens in cars?

Sunday, August 16, 2020

https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2020/08/10/rules-and-rulers/

Rules and Rulers
By  eric – August 10, 2020

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This is considered distracting – and is often illegal for that reason . . . when it comes to the use of cell phones in cars. But it comes standard in almost ever new car. Even more cognitively dissonant is that people are encouraged to be distracted thereby since many of the car’s necessary functions cannot be controlled except via the touchscreen.

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Never thought of it this way.

The Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.

And, I would put it past them to be thinking that.

Argh!

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TECHNOLOGY: Battle Royale — Epic vs Apple / Google

Friday, August 14, 2020

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Fortnite/Epic Games versus app store taxes

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Epic Games kicked off a brief, enthralling campaign against Apple and Google yesterday. First, it emerged that it had found a way to offer discounted in-app purchases in Fortnite, the lifeblood of the game. All without Apple or Google taking a cut, the lifeblood of those app stores.

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Epic filed legal action against both companies. One interesting wrinkle in the lawsuit against Google is a new claim by Epic that accuses Google of crushing Fortnite deals with OnePlus, LG (Android Authority).
Spotify chimed in to support Epic, too (MacRumors).

So, it’s a Battle Royale.

Choosing sides:

We’re well into the era of companies having committed enough fans to entice them to fight against fans of other companies.

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Hope they “kill” each other for the benefit of lower costs to consumers. Just light an old “free capitalistic marketplace” should operate.

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