I read a nice rant article yesterday. The video sources were also fun. Perhaps the greatest demonstration of marketing genius (maybe it’s serendipitous), is setting up the classic us versus them (catnip), but on generalizations that are stealthily ambiguous (intelligence, consciousness, reasoning, and thinking).

It’s somewhat out of context, but Dijkstra (a computer scientist) practiced a very exceptional and very brief kind of philosophizing.

I just heard about the Microsoft Recall program. What a strange name? I’m used to hearing “recall” in relation to product defects as in “A company issues recall program on product B”.

Someone asked if they were recalling PCs (the title speed–reads that way). I’m in a cave on Windows news.

I take it that Zeitgeist was a bit too early? The sadly unsurprising (or surprising) part is that by consensus, a recall program is something that most would probably consent to.

I recovered some junked DLINK DIR 615 I1s a while back. These routers were soft bricked (on-and-off remote access). A peek online hinted at a built-in recovery/safe mode.

That failed in modern browsers. The suggestions here didn’t work either. Why? Who knows? They were made in 2012 and discontinued 2017. Using the “recreate the developer’s environment” trick, a 2012 browser (Opera) revived the custom firmware updater! Now they work again. The end.

Default firmware: https://tsd.dlink.com.tw/

A global single point of failure event happened recently. I’d bet there’s more concern around the gambling potential of this stock. Apologies, I’ve lost my naivete.

Dumping Windows for Linux and/or macOS wouldn’t have prevented this one. In fact, under similar circumstances, the stock, I mean software that crashed everything would’ve caused Linux and macOS (userspace) systems to panic/brick too.

If you need zero trust compliance then start here. This is not a product endorsement. I failed marketing. You shouldn’t trust anything you’ve just read.