Weekly Axis Of Easy #131 Last Week’s Quote was “Life is a long lesson in humility” …was Sir James Matthew Barrie (creator of Peter Pan), nobody got it. This Week’s Quote: “The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned” …by ???? THE RULES: No searching up the answer, must be posted to the blog The […]
[Axis of Easy] Amazon Doorbells Exposed Home WiFi Passwords To Hackers
Weekly Axis Of Easy #122 Last Week’s Quote was “Image is reality, and reality is nothing more than one long propaganda film” by Peter Levenda, winner was Marco Maske This Week’s Quote: “The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.” by….??? THE RULES: No searching up the answer, must be posted to the […]
A Heretic’s Guide to Deplatforming
[Update: Ironically, after ascending rapidly and fostering vigorous commentary over on Hackernews, this article has been “flagged” there . Update #2: A few hours later it was unflagged and is currently on the first page of HN ] The phenomenon of deplatforming in the internet age, which includes the component of publicly expressed outrage that impels companies to […]
Escape from the BUMMER machine
(A long overdue review of Jaron Laniers’ “10 Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now“) In 1978 a former public relations and advertising exec, Jerry Mander wrote “Four Arguments For the Elimination of Television”. Mander in essence argued that “the problems with television are inherent in the medium and technology itself, and thus […]
Should You Delete Your Facebook Page?
In 1994 Wired magazine ran a short story entitled “Hack the spew” . This was back when Wired was actually cutting edge and not the insufferable Silicon Valley stroke job it became after Conde Naste acquired it. In it our antihero “Stark” finds himself inexplicably recruited as a kind of data scout, looking for viable consumer trends […]
New facebook page
Getting with the times, we figured it’s time to start an official Facebook page for easyDNS before some gigantic media conglomerate reports the Communist Kitten Molesters facebook page as ours. Since I can’t figure out how to create one of those /easydns URLs at facebook, we’ve set up a redirect: Here it is: http://facebook.easydns.org
