Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

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  • Sort by delivery date

    January 17, 2019
    Uncategorized

    If Amazon wants a better way to take my money, then they would add to the filter a sort by delivery date. Two day shipping doesn’t mean something I order today gets here in two days. It means what is the date it goes out the door, it should arrive in two days. For most…

  • The Social Media Evolution

    January 16, 2019
    Facebook, Social / IM / Chat, Uncategorized

    The Make Me Smart Podcast episode 96: Do it for the ‘gram had an interesting quip that Instagram was what the Facebook News Feed was before it got corrupted by ads and political arguments: the trivialities of our daily lives. All social networks became popular because of trivialities. “What’s on your mind?” THAT is what…

  • Facebook should honor those privacy notice hoaxes

    January 4, 2019
    Facebook, Fact Check, Privacy

    I’ve seen several friends post the new variant of the notice saying that in order to have privacy, you have to post the note that does not give Facebook permission to use your photos or status updates. Here is the thing. Taking away that permission makes Facebook unusable as no one can see them even…

  • Happiness is the truth

    January 2, 2019
    Psychology

    Because I’m happy; Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth I occasionally review how I am using social media. For years now, I worry about how I leverage social signaling. (read more) There is an awareness of the temptation to make myself appear more successful than I am. And that excessive signaling on…

  • Relative Dating

    December 14, 2018
    Uncategorized

    “Today” and “Yesterday” are intuitive ways to indicate when something happened. Except when one cannot determine when today is. See, I appear to have a weird DNS issue where some software is not able to communicate with servers. Microsoft Teams appears to be one of those products affected. So, in a thread that says “Today”,…

  • The Special Character That Wasn’t

    December 12, 2018
    Uncategorized

    In trying to uninstall a piece of software, the computer reported that process failed because of a special character in the directory where it was installed. What? That doesn’t make any sense. First, it was a generic folder name. Second, how did the same installer software create this directory it now cannot remove? Eventually, the…

  • “School spirit”

    November 30, 2018
    Uncategorized

    It seems like a common thing where employees wear shirts with a high school or college logo in the town of the team on the days prior to and on the day of a game. The more I talk to people, the more I run across people who are posing. Employees dependent on good tips…

  • Friend Request Hoax

    November 28, 2018
    Cybersecurity, Facebook, Uncategorized

    A legitimate message expressing concern about your impersonation account would: Ask if you created another account. Provide the address to the new account so you can go to the profile, click the three dots on the cover photo, select Report, and follow the instructions for impersonation. Instead, the hot hoax right now says: Hi….I actually…

  • The Great Filter Rorschach 

    November 27, 2018
    Astro / Climate / Geo, Build / Engineering

    Fermi wondered why we have not met aliens. He recreates an equation which we are still just figuring out some of the constants. Part of it wonders how many civilizations wipe out themselves. This Great Filter makes people concerned any time life on our planet is threatened. During the Cold War, the concern was a…

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