Hello!
– Jeffrey Hine In Studio
On Bogus Redirects
– Reporting scam spam and dangerous web pages to Goole– IE: dd – wrt dot com
– Generative Art crating bizarre words and showing incongruous objects!
– Long Pointless Scrolling Pages beginning: “Amber Heard Diagnosed…” as a Hook and
– TEN celebrities who keep aardvarks as pets (Number 8 will AMAZE you)
– and the perennial: “Put a bottle on your tire or you will wish you had….
Link Farming–? Cookie Baking & Etc. Brave Browser? Incognito? anonymous mode help?!
– Pig Butchering Explained: SCAM

Yes! the Zen of Tech && the Tech of Zen!

Today’s Show: We talk about Data Broker Apps:
This that allow the Internet of Things (Security Cameras, Doorbells)
to be reachable from China and thence “Outside”
See: MQTT: Message Queue Telemetry Technology
Not to be confused with Marketing Data Brokerage

WiFI 7- What? More Upgrades to Spend Money On?!
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End of DSL Internet as we know it? AT&T  want to pull out all the copper everywhere  and put in fibre,
calling it “Internet AIR” over I suppose the same easements the copper ran on…
Trouble is not everyone will get that upgrade if and when DSL Shuts Down…?!
More Details on the Show, Certainly should be more reliable than 100 year old copper.

Cord Cutting: The art of dropping expensive Cable TV and even Satellite using instead Streaming Services– the Issues….

Vital Service Bait && Switch – Looking at YOU Quest Diagnostics! HIPAA my Foot.

Google Image Search used to Fix Things! Find out what a Spare is and But one (Microswitches for a water heater example)

More Things To Try: ONE.google.com and GEMINI.google.com

Finally- HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! Use Bing Image Creator for your Sweetheart Greet– Or Not!

6:00 PM Today! Here are the Guys To-Day!

• ICE “In Case of Emergency”. On an iPhone you can fill in your Medical ID in the Health app and include who to contact in case of emergency as well as your medical conditions, allergies etc.
• Your ‘Grab-Bag’ of Internet Recovery after a Disaster- Recovery Text number, email and ‘Escrow’ if you Die…
• Avoid Mail Systems SBCGLOBAL, YAHOO, OUTLOOK, HOTMAIL, COMCAST… will explain WHY
• Your Right To Be Forgotten. I tried POST.COM and NEXTDOOR.COM, dislike them No End — It’s NO use simply binning the app or not using it anymore & hoping for the best : )
  I want all my Info and Logon GONE- they provide NO easy way other than you must Email them FROM the Account Email used to log in- If it’s an Alias this complicates things. ‘Orphaned’ accounts can be broken-into and misused as ‘you’
• Google and Safari web page account saving passwords– The Issues.
• Pay Attention to Google Password manager when it says some password has been compromised!
• Apple iPhone 14 or newer will allow you to add a second “Face” to access your phone in case you are not able to. I’d recommend you do this with a person you TRUST IMPLICITLY as it gives them total access to your phone.
• Search for Google’s Inactive Account Manager which can help users plan what happens to their account if it’s inactive for a set period of time. This period can range from 3 months to a year, and the account owner can choose who to notify and what to share like Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Contacts etc.
• Large MPG variance on Hybrid vehicles depending on where/how you drive after filling up your gas tank!

New Show Logo! YEA!~ Turn On- Tune In- Tech Off!

We will have some Nice Curated Sound Clips- Inventions- Toys- Tips and Trivia
Then you will Call In and Give us a Hard Time!!!

Okay! for you PC guys trying to manage your Photos- Try this free Nikon software
https://www.nikonusa.com/en/nikon-products/imaging-software/nx-studio.page
Nikon Studio NX- Requires “I” series Intel CPU & Windows 10+. No need for
NO need for this on a MAC

Programmer’s Paradise and Jobbies- Interesting FAA article about getting trained & paid- If you are under 31 : )

Tech Jobbies Check out https://www.freecodecamp.org/ – “Just In Time” qualification certifications

Freind reports she us being headhunted from aggregated AI data…!

Refurbished PCs from amazon from under $100! Get nothign less thatn an i3 i5 or i7 or AND equivalent

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Welcome to 2024!
– Ad Based Free Speech: Google sends out AdSense memo which is where you can monetize your site with their various ads:
Warning: that a ‘sensitive event’ allows them to ‘change policy’ quickly as their Metrics demand. If they will lose advertisers, they will dump YOU first. Promptly.
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Elon Musk makes it profanely clear he does not care that he lost half his advertisers on X aka Twitter due to his and other rants because, surprise surprise, he is not motivated by profit and ad revenue so much as having a Musky Megaphone that he can, after all, afford.
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Importnat: I have added some new Evergreen Pages about securing your identity esp in the face of AI ingenuity used to unravel your ID
General technical security https://zen.kvmr.org/security/
Facebook In zen.kvmr.org/facebook-hardening
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Security by Obfuscation: Look up your own name, address and more to see what OTHERS could learn, Do this is “Incognito” mode so it appears exactly as a stranger might see it all
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More from Glen about your Right to Be Forgotten (RTBF)
This is rich field for scamming you should do this YOURSELF as is your legal right.
Do not just Abandon your old yahoo! account- get conformation it is DELETED
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten