AirPods Max (photo credit: SimonWaldherr) I’ve been eyeing AirPods Max for some time now. I’ve never really been much of an audiophile, but I was certainly interested in what Apple could produce given how well I liked the AirPods and AirPods Pro. The idea of spatial audio was also intriguing, and so these super premium-priced […]
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Simple Camping (with Tech) — by Jill from the North Woods
Hello, everyone. This is Jill from the Northwoods. Being from the Midwest and being a simple Midwest girl who loves to camp, I find it difficult to watch people who love to glamp, which is like glamorous camping, or people who like RVs. I’m a tent camper, and I love the simple life. So I […]
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Security Bits — 14 August 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇺🇸 A graphic illustration of how real the danger of tech company subpoenas is in a post-Roe America: This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion — www.vice.com/… (Facebook […]
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CCATP #738 – Bart Busschots on PBS 138 – Bundling a Web App/Site with Webpack (Part 1)
We’re back in the saddle after a summer of “PBS Adjacent” installments. Our last real PBS was learning how to use Webpack to bundle a JavaScript library for sharing with the world. That was cool, but a lot of us want to use Webpack to bundle a web app we’ve written ourselves to include all […]
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NC #900 LVFAN Portable Apple Watch Charger, Flume Water Monitor, Fujinon Image Stabilized Binoculars, Security Bits
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Thursday, August 4, 2022, and this is show number 900. I’ll wait to release the balloons and party streamers for 1000 episodes, but 900 episodes is kinda cool, right? […]
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Fujinon Techno-Stabi 12×28 Image-Stabilized Binoculars – by Steve Sheridan
Fujinon Techno-Stabi Many years ago, I bought a compact pair of binoculars from Qualide with a 10×25 magnification and a 5.5° field of view. I liked them because they were very light and small, but with small binoculars, you also get a very narrow field of view. They were easy to carry when hiking but […]
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Use Flume to Monitor Your Water Usage – by Bodie Grimm
Flume Water Sensor and Bridge I live in a 34-year-old house and we’ve had plumbing issues since the day we moved in, 4 years ago. So far they’ve been minor but it hasn’t been without a ton of stress and a few unscrupulous plumbers who’ll find that when they die, they’ve had their spot in […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 3 August 2022
❗ Action Alerts Calls to action, if any stories in this section are relevant to you there is some action you should take. SAMBA have patched a critical bug in their open source implementation of Microsoft’s Active Directory, if you use SAMBA, patch ASAP! — nakedsecurity.sophos.com/… The commonly used open source crypto library GnuTLS has […]
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LVFAN Portable Wireless Charger for Apple Watch – by Sandy Foster
LVFAN Watch Charger Charges Watch and Phone at the Same Time Hello everyone. This is Sandy Foster. Recently, I was preparing for a long flight to Europe, and past experience told me that I’d need to charge my Apple Watch while en route if I didn’t want it to die shortly after arriving at our […]
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