Tech Commentary and Consideration will bring you deeper insights on technology uses. I’ll cover ethics, privacy, and security that isn’t particularly new but warrants address.
Have you ever wanted to go back in time and see what a website looked like years ago? Or maybe you’re looking for information that’s been deleted or lost from a website. If so, you may want to check out the Wayback Machine. What is the Wayback Machine? The Wayback Machine, actually called the Internet…
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize our world, but it is not without its flaws. Despite its advanced technology, AI still reflects human bias, which can have harmful consequences for society and individuals. The reason for this is simple: AI is being trained by humans. The process of developing AI involves feeding algorithms…
ChatGPT has been in the tech news for about two months, and you’ve likely heard about it. I have had mixed feelings about it, because I know that it can be both an incredible tool for productivity and a way to escape doing valuable work. One of the concerns I have is that it could…
Blacklight is a privacy inspector hosted at a website called The Markup.The Markup is a news organization that’s—well, quite different from other news organizations. I’m not going to go into a lot of detail about it but I recommend if you want to know more about the site, go and read the About page. One…
Right after the first iPhone came out (so somewhere around a decade ago), the company issued me an iPod Touch at work. That way, I could have the experience of working with the phones that many of our users were getting. I didn’t need a company phone at that time. Podcasts were still in their…
Embed from Getty Images I love Facebook! I enjoy keeping in touch with people I served in the Army with, far-flung family members, co-workers past and present. Additionally, I’ve found several groups that feed my hobby interests and several that provide professional information. All in all, I find it a useful platform. Unfortunately, wherever there…
Note: originally published June 14, 2016; updated 10/17/2017 for optimization, and new content at the end. Instagram is fun. I like sharing some of my phone photos. And, let’s face facts–fancy filters notwithstanding, a good portion of the photos on Instagram are really simple phone photos. Yes, the latest iPhones and Android phones have…
These little gizmos are fabulous, aren’t they? They make it so easy to carry around everything you could ever need, in some cases even a whole operating system! I have some very geeky friends who have some distribution of Linux on a flash drive, and all they have to do is plug it into some…
As a rule, I wait a couple of weeks after the release of an upgrade (and sometimes even an update) to apply it to my computer and other devices. I like to let the developers work out the bugs, and I don’t like being a guinea pig for them. I rely too heavily on…
As a tech professional, it’s my job to clean up after computer “accidents.” But a more important aspect of my job is keeping them from happening. There is a lot of information on the web directed at cyber safety, and most of it is good. But there is one thing that you can do more to keep…