Planet Money gets AI wrong (again)
In its ongoing quest to provide cover for the AI bubble, Planet Money ignores the fact that rigged markets aren’t efficient and that data centers built specifically for AI are useless for anything else.
Category Archives: Computers
A better way to migrate your data from Bitwarden to 1Password
Use my previously shared bitwarden-backup.py to export your data from Bitwarden, and my new 1password-from-bitwarden-backup.py to import it into 1Password.
The why and how of backing up your Mastodon data
Your server or your Mastodon account could go away at any time. If you don’t want to lose your data, you should back it up. Here’s how to do that, and how to restore it later.
Unbelievably, offensively useless chat with Healthfirst online support
A website that refuses access to critical documents is bad enough. Completely clueless chat agents who provide stock, bullshit, useless answers is much worse.
This is how to make the “Install pending software updates” checkbox go away in GNOME
You can switch GNOME Software to manual updates, or block offline updates completely with polkit. Neither solution is perfect. The GNOME developers have no interest in improving the situation.
Comics Aggregator: workaround while “Nancy” is in transition
If you read the comic strip Nancy in the Comics Aggregator, you may have noticed that your comics page is loading slowly and displaying an error for Nancy. This is because Nancy has stopped publishing new strips temporarily while transitioning to a new artist. The slow page load is due to the fact that unfortunately… Read More »
Thoughts on proposed Massachusetts Consumer Data Privacy Act, H.4746
The Massachusetts House version of the privacy act is superior to the Senate version but still has some problems. Also, it has a role to play in reducing privacy-invasive ALPR mass surveillance.
DeleteMe, please stop the nonsense: data brokers are not doxxing people
Data brokers selling people’s data is not doxxing, and claiming otherwise makes you look stupid and greedy.
How you actually should respond to that “183 million credentials leak”
What a recent Forbes article got wrong and what it should have told you instead.
Why websites shouldn’t indiscriminately block VPN users
I convinced a state senator that government websites indiscriminately blocking VPN users is bad. Here’s the case I made, which you can use yourself to keep fighting the good fight.