Daily Archives: May 9, 2022

• (USA Centric) Want a discount on your Internet?

  Posted on May 9, 2022 at 22:23 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  Heard this on the drive home on the radio.

  www.getinternet.gov

  or call 877-384-2575

  They just announced the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), which provides eligible households $30 per month off their internet bills. If you qualify you will receive a discount.  If you are unsure, reach out to your Internet Service Provider and look for their ACP program.  While this is for low income families, seniors on fixed incomes may also qualify as well.

  You may want to check out this list as well.

  We have another problem in the Central California area – that of decent speed for those that are in the more rural or farming areas. Unwired Broadband is one of the few companies in this area that specialize in rural customer.  There has been many a time that I’ve tried to remote into a computer of someone on rural internet and it feels like dial up.

  So what’s your speed and what’s your costs?

   

  Internet Patch Lady Posts

• The one thing you need to know about the metaverse

  Posted on May 9, 2022 at 02:45 CDT by Max Stul Oppenheimer • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 19.19 • 2022-05-09

  LEGAL BRIEF

  

  By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq.

  Nike is trying to convince a court that the metaverse is a real place, where the rules of the real world (as I think of it) do not apply.

  If it succeeds, it will be a revolution in thinking on a par with the introduction of the theory of relativity. Because the one thing you need to know about the metaverse is this — it is not real. The tools that create the metaverse create projections into the real world, but the metaverse itself is no more real than Pandora.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.19.0, 2022-05-09).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

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• Are Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) good or evil?

  Posted on May 9, 2022 at 02:44 CDT by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

  PUBLIC DEFENDER

  

  By Brian Livingston

  A programming technique that Google says will speed up websites is actually slowing them down, according to major Web publishers and browser makers who are actively blocking it or working around it.

  The technology is called Accelerated Mobile Pages or AMP. The search giant has been working on the technique since at least 2015. But AMP has become a hot potato only recently.

  Last year, publishers and Web developers began realizing that Google was favoring its own AMP systems and silently diverting to itself a large cut of websites’ advertising revenue, according to a lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of 16 US states.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.19.0, 2022-05-09).

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• How to use two-factor authentication the right way

  Posted on May 9, 2022 at 02:43 CDT by Lance Whitney • Comment in the Forums

  SECURITY

  

  By Lance Whitney

  Two-factor authentication is still one of the best ways to protect your accounts. But there are right and wrong ways to use it.

  More websites and companies now offer two-factor authentication (2FA) to better protect your logins and accounts. The idea is to use a second form of authentication so that you’re not solely dependent on your password. The goal is to prevent your account from being accessed and compromised in case your password is ever leaked or stolen. And here’s how that can happen.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.19.0, 2022-05-09).

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• Is firmware patching important?

  Posted on May 9, 2022 at 02:42 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  ON SECURITY

  

  By Susan Bradley

  Firmware patching has always been fraught with concern.

  Until very recently, applying firmware updates often meant launching the update process from a DOS prompt. You often received warnings that if your computer lost power during the process, your machine might be bricked. This is such a daunting thought that, for servers, I would often update the firmware when I initially installed the server and never touch it again.

  But firmware is nothing more than software, and — like every other kind of software these days — attackers find vulnerabilities in firmware. Recently, researchers found security issues in Lenovo consumer notebook firmware.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.19.0, 2022-05-09).

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