News, Entertainment, Enlightenment
DuckDuckGo Hits 100M Milestone — Paoli, Pa. -based search engine DuckDuckGo hit the milestone of 100 million daily searches, Jan. 16. Granted, that still a long way off of Google’s 5 billion daily searches but giants can fall.
DDG is a search engine that promises privacy and keeps it. Take a few minutes to make it your default on your mobile and desktop. Your peace of mind will thank you.
Greenwald Reveals Tech Hypocrisy, Tyranny — Check out Glenn Greenwald’s article How Silicon Valley, in a Show of Monopolistic Force, Destroyed Parler on Substack.
Vile, corporate anti-liberal — in the original, good meaning of the word — have taken over communication. Their “progressive” minions, whose reasoning skill makes a George Romero zombie look smart, shuffle along in ironic approval considering themselves “woke”.
Check out Greenwald’s article. If you can’t see it, a subscription is worthwhile.
Tony Taylor Telstar Hero R.I.P. — Beloved Philadelphia Phillies icon Tony Taylor died, July 16, at age 84. While there have been articles recording his athletic achievements we missed the one noting what will put him in the history books centuries hence, namely being the first athlete to appear in a transatlantic satellite broadcast. It happened on July 23, 1962 when part of a Chicago Cubs-Phillies game was broadcast as filler before remarks by President Kennedy to inaugurate Telstar. It showed Tony flying out to right field.
Here it is. Tony’s appearance is at 19:38.
Tony, this is for you:
TikTok Blackmail Tool — CrazyDaysandNights.net commonly known at CDAN is the most entertaining gossip site on the WWW. Granted, its claims should be taken with a large dose of salt but it was way ahead of the curve exposing Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer and Kevin Spacey.
Anyway, on July 8 it posted an item describing how information gleaned from those who downloaded Chinese social media app TikTok is being used to blackmail celebrities.
Just a word to the wise.
WindowMix Malware Affecting Macs — WindowMix, which is annoying browser hijacking malware, is affecting Macintosh computers.
Most Mac users who find it on their machine do not remember how it got into their system.
This site explains how to remove it. It recommends also using the utility software Combo Cleaner which requires purchasing a subscription to use its anti-virus service.
We f0und, however, Combo Cleaner to be unnecessary in solving the problem and its reviews are not very good.
GM Installing Google Starting 2021 — Motorists will soon be able to count on a Silicon Valley big brother to watch them as they drive. Google is putting its apps into the touch-screen displays of General Motors cars starting in 2021.
Drivers will be able to access Google Maps; the voice-activated assistant; Google Play app store, and a multimedia multimedia app directly from the dashboard.
Hey, did you see where Google got the big brother types, 800,000 more votes in 2018?
Looks like GM is one more thing to avoid. Have you switched to DuckDuckGo yet?
Deleting Alexa Commands — It’s being claimed that there is a new voice command that allows you to delete the directions you’ve given Amazon Alexa. Simply say “Alexa, delete everything I said today.” Apparently it only works for a partial day though.
Frankly, we don’t trust anything claimed for Sleepless in Seattle.
Hat tip Duck Duck Go, which is Proactive in Paoli.
Princeton IoT Inspector Monitors Alexa While She Monitors You — Alexa, who is listening in? Good luck with getting an answer. Actually, she’ll refrence a 1979 song by the Northern Irish group The Undertones.
If you wish to learn who is monitoring your life while you think Seattle’s Mata Hari is sound asleep, check out the Princeton IoT Inspector from Princeton University.
IoT means “internet of things.”
Princeton describes the Inspector as an open-source desktop tool with a one-click install process that lets you automatically discovers IoT devices and analyzes their network traffic and helps you identify security and privacy issues with graphs and tables
The Inspector requires minimal technical skills and no special hardware as Princeton notes.
Hat tip to DuckDuckGo, Chester County’s very own Google slayer.
Multidimensional War Includes Cyber War — A fascinating video was uploaded to Youtube, March 3, apparently with permission of the U.S. Army.
In describes how new war will include space and cyber battlefields. It describes how this includes manipulating the perceptions of populations.
It shows the sinking of the USS Racine in a multinational military exercise held off Hawaii last July and features a long interview with four-star General Robert Brooks Brown.
This would have been a big story in mainstream journalism circa 1980.
Watch it below.
Fastest Computer Again American — Summit, the newest supercomputer at US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, has been deemed the world’s fastest, supplanting Sunway TaihuLight.
It can do 200 petaflops, or 200 million billion calculations a second.
Winning is great.
