TweakHound

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Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Win10 Updated

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March 5, 2018—KB4090913 (OS Build 16299.251)
“This update includes quality improvements. No new operating system features are being introduced in this update…Addresses an issue in which some USB devices and onboard devices, such as a built-in laptop camera, keyboard, or mouse, stop working.”
This update is a cumulative update. That means it will apply the Meltdown/Spectre patch from past months.

Weekend Random Stuff…

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Uh…Shouldn’t you start with humans?
Paul Allen Wants to Teach Machines Common Sense. Good luck with that. Most people I come across lack it.

American Made Jeans?
Reading about talk of trade war and one of the things the EU said they were gonna target was bluejeans. I thought, “We still make bluejeans here?” I’ve always worn Levi’s because they’re cheap, they fit, I’m simple, and I have no fashion sense (don’t want any either). Levi’s haven’t been made in the U.S.A. in a long time. A Google search turned up this:
American Made Denim: The Ultimate Source List
The EU also said they were gonna target bourbon. Good, more for me!

No Sh** Sherlock
Another “study” that didn’t need to be done: Uptempo music helps people to keep exercising for longer
Is there someone out there that didn’t know this to be true?

Other tech related stuff I bookmarked this week:
The WIRED Guide to Net Neutrality
An FOI request has revealed ‘anonymous’ browser Tor is funded by US government agencies
New Spectre attack variant can pry secrets from Intel’s SGX protected enclaves
Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired because I resisted “illegal” diversity efforts
News Corp. CEO Slams Facebook, Google for Not Sharing Enough Ad Revenue
Twitter’s CEO just admitted the platform has problems, and he’s asking for help to fix them
Top web browsers 2018: Microsoft walks the road to browser irrelevance

Other off topic stuff I bookmarked this week:
Stephen Hawking on What Happened Before the Big Bang
Justin Verlander on Twitter: “Been sitting on this… Exit velo and launch angle and it’s correlation to % chance of becoming a homer. 2014 vs. 2017…”
New study links changes to the baseball to the record number of home runs in MLB
MIT study shows how much driving for Uber or Lyft sucks
The Mahindra Roxor Is A Tiny Offroad Jeep That You Can Totally Buy In America

Google Clips And Privacy

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Why? Why would you let Google Clips into your life?
It sits there. Watching. Capturing. Everything. IN YOUR HOME.
Navneet Alang at The Week has a fantastic opinion piece:
The disturbing acceptance of Google’s new ‘smart’ camera
“we are unwittingly become guinea pigs for tech, and inadvertent cheerleaders for things that, in the aggregate, end up making things worse…Why is capturing more and more candid images good?…Not helping matters is that the tech press is forever breathless about new tech, obediently accepting its makers’ framing…Indeed the world is overrun with new technologies carrying unintended negative effects.”