Forum: The Off-Topic Lounge
26 Apr 2024, 11:31 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,276
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
26 Apr 2024, 11:26 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,527
I'm confused, because I'd never consider...
I'm confused, because I'd never consider something like GMX to be "local" to me in the U.S.
But I'm stunned that anyone in their right mind would provide bank information as ID.
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Forum: The Off-Topic Lounge
26 Apr 2024, 11:23 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,575
110 "monumental" films
Why is this forum so dead? Other chat websites have very lively off-topic sections with all kinds of interesting things.
Okay, for movies This is actually a pretty good list, better than most,...
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
26 Apr 2024, 11:20 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,668
There's a Better Way To Do Email
Happy 20th Anniversary, Gmail. I’m Sorry I’m Leaving You.
There's a Better Way To Do Email
By Ezra Klein
There is no end of theories for why the internet feels so crummy these days. The New Yorker...
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Forum: The Off-Topic Lounge
22 Apr 2024, 09:45 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 2,269
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
22 Apr 2024, 09:43 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,157
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
22 Apr 2024, 09:40 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,206
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
9 Apr 2024, 11:21 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,157
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Forum: The Off-Topic Lounge
9 Apr 2024, 10:55 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,276
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Forum: The Off-Topic Lounge
9 Apr 2024, 10:52 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,686
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Forum: The Off-Topic Lounge
12 Mar 2024, 09:17 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,276
Privacy and power in tech
What Google’s multibillion payment to Apple says about privacy and power in tech
By Zeynep Tufekci
Companies expect users to accept what they’re given, not know their options or not have the...
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Forum: The Off-Topic Lounge
12 Mar 2024, 09:14 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 2,269
I am the eye in the sky, looking at you...
When eyes in the sky start looking right at you
By William J. Broad
“This is a giant camera in the sky for any government to use at any time without our knowledge,” said Jennifer Lynch, general...
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Forum: The Off-Topic Lounge
12 Mar 2024, 09:13 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 262
The Search for a New and Better Internet
The Search for a New and Better Internet
Can the Internet Be Governed?
Amid worries about what Big Tech is doing to our privacy, politics, and psyches, many stakeholders—from activists to...
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
12 Mar 2024, 09:05 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,019
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
12 Mar 2024, 09:03 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 2,073
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
12 Mar 2024, 09:01 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 7,334
I thought Vivaldi vanished long ago.
Requiring...
I thought Vivaldi vanished long ago.
Requiring your participation reminds me of being in school - demanding that you speak up in class as well as do the homework. One factor would be what exactly...
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
12 Mar 2024, 08:56 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 910
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
12 Mar 2024, 08:54 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 1,833
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
30 Jan 2024, 10:08 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,769
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Forum: The Off-Topic Lounge
30 Jan 2024, 10:07 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 368
Geoffrey Hinton, Godfather of A.I.
For anyone seriously interested...
Why the Godfather of A.I. Fears What He’s Built
Geoffrey Hinton has spent a lifetime teaching computers to learn. Now he worries that artificial brains are better...
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Forum: The Off-Topic Lounge
30 Jan 2024, 10:05 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 659
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Forum: The Off-Topic Lounge
20 Oct 2023, 09:29 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 5,632
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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous
20 Oct 2023, 09:22 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,030
Puzzling over a suspicious email
I have a Hotmail account that I use ONLY for rare messages to other posters in a particular forum and to keep notes for myself. So there's very little traffic, and very little spam. I suspect that...
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Forum: The Off-Topic Lounge
13 Oct 2023, 09:12 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,774
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Forum: The Off-Topic Lounge
13 Oct 2023, 09:09 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,774
Wouldn't it maybe be nice if there were two...
Wouldn't it maybe be nice if there were two different "milieus" - social media and business-y networking?
It reminds me of how irritated people get when they're supposedly invited over to lunch at a...
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