Breaking news! I just spoke with a manager at Fitbit (now owned by Google, in case you didn’t know…), and they verified that Fitbit trackers no longer send “battery-low” notifications to email, nor text, nor as a push notification from the Fitbit app on the phone. It is flabbergasting...
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Is Microsoft 365’s “OneDrive” a type of Ransomware?
Medicare (Dis) “Advantage”
I was inspired to send this message by this brazen marketing attempt I got yesterday. You might know that “Medicare Advantage” is neither Medicare nor advantageous for most Medicare-covered citizens. It’s a private, for-profit HMO-style insurance option that has more practitioner and coverage restrictions than Medicare, and costs more....
How Software Lives – And Dies
It’s about profiteering, feature bloat, regressions and bad updates. Let me explain: I love software and apps that do a small set of things really well, especially if they’re free. There are lots of examples, like FileZilla, among other programs with “zilla” in their names, reflecting a legacy of...