April 2024

by Jeff McKamey

The DOJ is going after Apple for having a monopoly:

Never mind they let Ticketmaster buy out all their competition!

https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/doj-files-landmark-lawsuit-against-apple-over-iphone-monopoly-5611960

https://www.engadget.com/apple-refutes-every-claim-made-in-dojs-antitrust-lawsuit-123223870.html

New M3 macbook air

New M3 Macbook Air has a problem with no fan, if you leave it closed to use two monitors, it runs about half speed. Of course this might be plenty fast for most people.

https://www.techradar.com/computing/macbooks/m3-macbook-air-said-to-lose-50-of-its-performance-in-clamshell-mode-so-much-for-that-cool-new-dual-monitor-setup-you-wanted

Walmart is selling the M1 for only $699

https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2024/03/15/walmart-brings-the-popular-macbook-air-with-the-m1-chip-to-its-shelves

Apple is talking to Google about using their AI

Yes, this is the same AI that won’t generate anything but diverse people…

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-18/apple-in-talks-to-license-google-gemini-for-iphone-ios-18-generative-ai-tools

Apple made a site for comparing the features of the different Iphone generations:

It’s pretty handy to see what you are missing by keeping your old phone.

https://www.apple.com/iphone/why-upgrade/

Dutch court orders website blocked in the country:

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/03/22/1954248/dutch-court-orders-isp-to-block-annas-archive-and-libgen

These two websites are the largest open library in human history, they have books, papers, comics, source code, and

Library Genesis has lots of books:

Library Genesis – Libgen – Official Library Genesis Mirror Links

Anna’s archive:

https://annas-archive.org/

You can look for spiderman comics:

https://annas-archive.org/search?q=spiderman

Also MLB and other sports teams black out games even if you live hundreds of miles away:

https://www.mlb.com/live-stream-games/help-center/blackouts-teams

So the way to get around this is VPN, VPN will make the internet think your computer is somewhere else instead of your home town.

The best free one is ProtonVPN

You just install it, and you have to turn it on by hitting the button at the bottom of the screen, it will tell you which state it picked for your server:

https://protonvpn.com/download

You can go to whatismyip.com and see if it worked, that website will tell you what town the internet thinks your are in:

https://www.whatismyip.com/

Also Opera has a free VPN built in, you have to turn it on, but the free version lets you pick other countries:

https://www.opera.com/

Then there is TOR, it is free, but it’s really slow:

https://support.torproject.org/tormobile/tormobile-3/

There are several reasons to pay for a VPN. The biggest reason is if you want to pick a particular city, the free ones don’t let you do that.

The other is the paid ones are faster, and you should get support from the paid ones.

If you want to pay, surfshark is one of the cheaper ones:

https://surfshark.com/

And Tunnel bear is considered a little more user friendly, and has a free trail:

https://www.tunnelbear.com/

New truck to truck worm is going around the GPS loggers that are required by law:

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/03/22/2153200/truck-to-truck-worm-could-infect-entire-us-fleet

Dearrow:

Puts better thumbnails and descriptions in youtube videos,

https://dearrow.ajay.app/

Here is the chome extension, they have all the other browsers supported.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dearrow-better-titles-and/enamippconapkdmgfgjchkhakpfinmaj