* Posts by zip119

5 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Aug 2012

Flying camera drones, cuddly Echo gadgets... it's all a smoke screen for Amazon to lead you gently down the Sidewalk – and you'll probably like it

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Re: Bezos must be a fan of Pete Seger

Seeger sang the song; Malvina Reynolds wrote it.

Microsoft Teams gets off to a wobbly start as the world and its cat starts working from home

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"Homes" is working great for me. But, as I recall, there's a big surprise waiting in the upstairs loo.

This one weird trick turns your Google Home Hub into a doorstop

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Re: Google being rather disingenous

Wouldn't Bluetooth connectivity for in-home controls be just as useful for renters, and not vulnerable to the public internet?

Google, propaganda, and the new New Man

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Conflating

The "happenings" of the hippie era were deliberately staged as community experiences. There was nothing individualistic about them. They had nothing in common with Andy Warhol's Factory, which was just a dead-eyed parody of the celebrity system.

Beck's open-source challenge to freetards: play it yourself!

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Plus ca change

A century ago, sheet music was the pop music of the day. Every middle-class home had a piano, and sheet music of hit songs sold in big numbers. What's the next innovation--starting electric cars with rotary cranks?