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A is for ‘Artificial’

February 18, 2023 by Dave Knadler

You’ve probably heard about the New York Times reporter who was creeped out by his conversation with Microsoft’s new chatbot.  The reporter kept pressing questions to which there was no factual answer, and the chatbot eventually started returning responses that, if uttered by a person, would seem kind of ominous. That includes professing love […]

Filed Under: american life, internet, luddite rants, Movies, social media

Bonfire of my vanity

January 15, 2018 by Dave Knadler

gallery faces

Take a look at the composite picture above: What do the five faces have in common? I’ll just wait here while you ponder. Hint: It’s not the Dave Clark Five. It’s not the Five Amigos. It’s not the Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse. It’s not the Five Guys. It’s not the Five Pillars of […]

Filed Under: internet, Me, social media

Gadgets galore

October 25, 2016 by Dave Knadler

The other day I was thinking about getting an Amazon Echo. No reason, really, other than being a total sucker for electronic gadgets of all kinds. I’m also a sucker for slick marketing and word of mouth, which has made a strong case that life without Alexa is barren and futile. I really should […]

Filed Under: american life, internet

Borrowed knowledge is better than none

March 30, 2013 by Dave Knadler

Over the past couple of days I’ve built a new computer. That was the easy part. Now it’s a matter of getting everything to work as it should — not just all the speedy new hardware, but the new operating system known as Windows 8. So far I don’t like the OS much, but […]

Filed Under: internet, Other Stuff

Rolling the dice on a new ISP

August 30, 2012 by Dave Knadler

att service outage

Today I’m hanging around waiting for the Comcast guy to show up. You know how that works: They give you a two- or three-hour window for when they’ll be there, so you can’t go for a run, or take a shower or walk the dog. I’m even reluctant to go out back and pull […]

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Don’t pick up the SOPA

January 18, 2012 by Dave Knadler

former sen. chris dodd, champion of SOPA

I won’t be joining today’s protest over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), since a quick glance of my site traffic reveals that nobody would notice if I did. It’s a two-edged sword, running an unread blog: You are completely free of responsibility, but you are also completely without influence. Ah, well. At least […]

Filed Under: internet, Other Stuff

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