Category: Tech

Technology

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Fingers Crossed

I just got an Android system update notification on my Pixel 6A.

Did Google fix the very bad battery drain problem they created a couple weeks ago?

The answer is …

Update 3 hours later, SUCCESS!

My battery drain is back to the low rate I had before the bad update.

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NHTSA Considers Security

It’s good to see that the NHTSA and Automakers are going to workaround the ridiculous wireless access requirement in the Right To Repair law that I advocated and voted against. There is NO truly secure remote access, and the control systems of a modern car are far to dangerous to risk it so that auto techs can save a few seconds by not plugging in a communications cable..

Check out the article from Ars Technica

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The Future of AI

As AI progresses companies will be able to have lower skilled employees successfully pull off work that required much more expensive skilled workers. This will allow companies to reduce their overall payroll, making the rich and poor richer and the middle class poorer.

This prediction is based on personal experience of technology impacts on my co-workers during my 40+ year career and the one fixed rule of capitalism. The rule is best expressed by the mom on Malcolm in the Middle, Lois Nolastname.

Lois: “I’ll tell you what they’re going to pay you, they’re going to pay you what all jobs pay, less than you’re worth and just enough to keep you crawling back for more.”

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Why WordPress Hosting Sucks

Unless you are willing to pay way too much money, $300/year, you are stuck with these very crappy limitations and non-competitive pricing.

  • You are stuck with the horribly inefficient Gutenberg block editor with no way to avoid it.
  • The price for domain names is way too high, double or more than other providers. At least with this feature I can move my custom domain away from WordPress before the next renewal.
  • You are stuck with their crappy Jetpack statistics instead of the free excellent Google Analytics

The main reason I switched was for the timely, accurate, security updates. This is needed since the underlying software is so riddled with security problems. If you don’t monitor your site for updates and breaches on daily basis you’ll soon be hacked.

Before the next renewal I’m going to have to research newer hosting services to see if any are as good from a monitoring/update perspective. Otherwise I’ll just have to renew for another year and put up with the stupid block editor and Jetpack analytics for another year while I finish migrating all my stuff to ultra secure static sites built with Hugo.