3 August 2024 | Computers, Gizmos, How Does it Work?, Spare Me!, Video |
When you imagine your future with the amazing technology of AI, chances are it doesn’t look like what’s happening today.
In fact, it’s not even close.
If you’re sick of hearing about AI while lamenting the lack of actual, cool uses for it, you’re not alone.
On top of that, it’s getting pretty bad out there: from power problems to money problems to ‘model collapse’, AI is on the road to changing… well, nothing at all, actually!
It’s pretty much a mess.
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30 July 2024 | Spare Me! |
In my earlier video, Global IT Outage: What it means for you, I discussed the outage caused by CrowdStrike’s wonky update.
Since the publication of that video, I’ve read a fair load of nonsense.
It’s Microsoft’s fault! It’s the European Union’s fault! It’s the fault of everyone else except CrowdStrike.
Well, no.
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22 July 2024 | Computers, Networking, Spare Me!, Video |
In addition to global IT outages, CrowdStrike is involved in political nonsense.
Surprise, surprise…
I’ll give you a hint: Russia, Russia, Russia!!!
Another hint: Orange Man Bad!
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18 July 2024 | Computers, How Does it Work?, Spare Me! |
Well, here we go again…
A few years ago, Google announced FLoC, which I talked about here.
In short:
Led by Google, a group of businesses and advertisers is pushing a new standard that would have your browser identifying your particular group of interests by a unique ID number.
This number will be sent to all sites you visit. VOILA! No more 3rd party cookies, and supposedly more privacy!
Fast forward three years, and Mozilla is jumping on the bandwagon with their own such technology.
So, how do you turn it off?
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12 March 2024 | Computers, How Does it Work?, Spare Me!, Video |
AI is all the rage.
But with the recent Gemini disaster along with a lack of truly killer applications using AI, it doesn’t seem like AI is really going anywhere.
So, is it all just hype, or what?
Join me for a look at the real danger presented by AI.
Hint: It ain’t SkyNet you need to be worried about!
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1 August 2023 | Computers, How to, Spare Me! |
If you’re a Twitter user [ducks under the table], you’ve no doubt been seriously annoyed by those constantly auto-playing video posts.
What’s even crazier than the fact that the vids autoplay is that if you refresh the current page on Twitter, the same vids autoplay again, and again, and again.
Wow, that’s annoying.
If you’re thinking, “Please god, make it stop…” then read on!
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21 March 2023 | How Does it Work?, Spare Me! |
I recently had the misfortune to read an article on CNN entitled: What to know about hypersonic missiles fired by Russia at Ukraine
I say “misfortune” because clearly, the individual who wrote it was trying very hard to downplay the significance of hypersonic weapons in the hands of the USA’s declared adversary – aka Russia.
The above-mentioned article is actually an extended version of a shorter one at CNN published just a day earlier. That earlier article (now missing) was even worse – for both its purely propagandistic nature, as well as the author’s breathtaking display of simple ignorance regarding the subject matter of his article.
But, whatever. So let’s take a look at hypersonic missiles…
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7 March 2023 | Computers, Gizmos, Spare Me! |
Windows 12 has been in the news lately.
Specifically, rumors are swirling that not only will there be a Windows 12, but it will be “AI-powered”.
Of course, this requires support preferably from Intel’s next 14th-gen processors as well as from AMD’s equivalent offerings.
That means Windows 12 will probably have even tighter hardware requirements than Windows 11, sadly…
But hang on, does anyone even use Windows anymore?!
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7 February 2023 | How Does it Work?, Spare Me!, Video |
These days, it’s all about the green, reduced carbon footprint.
While that all sounds nice, what would actually happen if we just ditched fossil fuels – coal, oil, and gas – overnight?
It turns out it’s WAY more complicated than you might think…
Join me for a deep dive into the world of petrochemicals!
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3 May 2022 | How Does it Work?, Spare Me!, Video |
A recent revelation from inside Facebook has called into question all these privacy laws we now have…
Or more specifically, how companies are actually implementing (or not) these laws designed to protect our data.
The truth, as usual, probably shouldn’t surprise you:
It’s pretty much just smoke and mirrors!
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When you imagine your future with the amazing technology of AI, chances are it doesn’t look like what’s happening today.
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