I’ve been missing in action on my blog over the past few weeks. We were dealing with Operation Metro Surge, the ICE siege in the Twin Cities metro, which has been all-consuming, but I was also checking out new web hosting services. My renewal with InMotion Hosting is coming due in April. I’ve been with them since 2018 and have been noticing more downtime for my blog. It would become inaccessible for several minutes randomly…
Why AI Makes Me Uneasy Let me preface this post by saying that the push by Tech Bros to insert generative AI into everything makes me deeply uneasy for several reasons. The hype they’ve built in their rush to create artificial general intelligence (AGI) has steered eye-watering amounts of money away from investments in other areas. While I understand that investors in AI aren’t likely to put their money into solving the climate crisis or…
My last update on the Cyber Cleanse I have been conducting was at the end of March. What have I been up to since then? It’s a bit like a tedious soap opera, with a few surprises as I go along. Once I cleaned out my primary Gmail accounts, I needed to sift through all my other online accounts, those for which I was using these email accounts as the user name. Let me say…