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Forum: The Off-Topic Lounge 12 Mar 2024, 10:17 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 366
Posted By webecedarian
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...
Forum: The Off-Topic Lounge 12 Mar 2024, 10:14 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 417
Posted By webecedarian
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...
Forum: The Off-Topic Lounge 12 Mar 2024, 10:13 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 134
Posted By webecedarian
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...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 12 Mar 2024, 10:05 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 761
Posted By webecedarian
Sorry to hear this about Skiff. I've been...

Sorry to hear this about Skiff.

I've been meaning to try it.

:(
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 12 Mar 2024, 10:03 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,200
Posted By webecedarian
Ah, this is my constant quest.

Ah, this is my constant quest.
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 12 Mar 2024, 10:01 AM
Replies: 26
Views: 6,842
Posted By webecedarian
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...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 12 Mar 2024, 09:56 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 580
Posted By webecedarian
Interesting, thanks. I would have expected Yahoo...

Interesting, thanks. I would have expected Yahoo about Outlook.
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 12 Mar 2024, 09:54 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,345
Posted By webecedarian
I appreciate the information, and am happy to...

I appreciate the information, and am happy to read up, but certainly have zero intention of signing on!
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 30 Jan 2024, 11:08 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,550
Posted By webecedarian
This is a quintessential example of the kind of...

This is a quintessential example of the kind of thing that infuriates me with email accounts.

:mad:
Forum: The Off-Topic Lounge 30 Jan 2024, 11:07 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 302
Posted By webecedarian
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...
Forum: The Off-Topic Lounge 30 Jan 2024, 11:05 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 583
Posted By webecedarian
I'd be happy just to settle for a year that...

I'd be happy just to settle for a year that wasn't full of existential national and international crises.
Forum: The Off-Topic Lounge 20 Oct 2023, 10:29 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,513
Posted By webecedarian
I was at Dupar's in Los Angeles, getting a patty...

I was at Dupar's in Los Angeles, getting a patty melt with french fries and a chocolate milk shake. Dupar's dates back to 1938, and I remember my grandmother occasionally taking me there for lunch.
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 20 Oct 2023, 10:22 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 904
Posted By webecedarian
Question 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...
Forum: The Off-Topic Lounge 13 Oct 2023, 10:12 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,679
Posted By webecedarian
But there's a difference between the "interwebs"...

But there's a difference between the "interwebs" as a network, or a facilitator, or transmitter, versus social media sites, very specific destinations.
Forum: The Off-Topic Lounge 13 Oct 2023, 10:09 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,679
Posted By webecedarian
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...
Forum: About this site... 13 Oct 2023, 10:05 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,364
Posted By webecedarian
I'm mostly on the move, using public...

I'm mostly on the move, using public computers.

But this is the ONLY forum in which this happens.
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 13 Oct 2023, 10:02 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 713
Posted By webecedarian
Okay, but I meant, what's the difference between...

Okay, but I meant, what's the difference between GMX.com and GMX.net?
Forum: About this site... 4 Oct 2023, 11:31 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,364
Posted By webecedarian
Same continued log-in problem as the past

I recently did a post - but then was logged out by the system and had no luck despite trying to log in again about 8 times. It kept welcoming me - and then making me try to sign in yet again, over...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 28 Sep 2023, 10:49 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 713
Posted By webecedarian
Okay, but I was also asking about "chic." And...

Okay, but I was also asking about "chic."

And what's the difference between the two GMXs? I tried GMX.com, and ran into huge trouble when I suddenly couldn't access it and no one, anywhere would...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 28 Sep 2023, 10:47 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 833
Posted By webecedarian
have any of you chosen an email for its look?

I've tried a lot of emails over the years - these days looking for free ones that don't require phone verification, preferably no verification at all - but I keep coming back to Hotmail. Maybe it's...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 27 Sep 2023, 10:16 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 713
Posted By webecedarian
Microsoft Hotmail/Live/Outlook

Is it correct that, apart from the name, Hotmail, Live, and Outlook are identical, but that Hotmail is somehow seen as retro or less "chic" in comparison to Outlook?
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 27 Sep 2023, 10:12 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 516
Posted By webecedarian
Okay, I'll give it a try. I do recall running...

Okay, I'll give it a try. I do recall running across one less-known provider which specifically makes you swear that you only have the one and will only have the one account.
Forum: The Off-Topic Lounge 26 Sep 2023, 11:10 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 334
Posted By webecedarian
Hand over your eyeballs!

Crypto’s Next Craze? Orbs That Scan Your Eyeballs.
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, has started Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency project that aims to scan billions of human irises.
By David...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 26 Sep 2023, 11:07 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 516
Posted By webecedarian
Does anyone have than one free account with the same provider?

More specifically, do you have more than one free account that is based with either the same computer or the same secondary address that you used to sign up with?

I have an account like...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 21 Jun 2023, 11:47 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,417
Posted By webecedarian
I can only tell you this: They sure as hell...

I can only tell you this: They sure as hell don't read emails addressed to them. Or, at least, they don't respond.
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