The House Voted Tuesday, So I Went and Bought a VPN
The House vote to kill broadband privacy rules sent me down a rabbit hole of VPN shopping, router firmware, and a Skype call that wouldn't stop stuttering.
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So Congress Just Voted to Let Comcast Sell My Browsing History
The House voted 215-205 this week to kill FCC rules that would've made ISPs ask before selling your browsing history. Im finally setting up that VPN Ive been putting off for two years.
So I Guess I'm Buying a VPN Now
The House just voted to let ISPs sell your browsing history without asking first. Since I only have one ISP option where I live, I finally caved and paid for a VPN.
Forget the Red iPhone, the $329 iPad Is the Real News
Apple's red iPhone got all the headlines this week, but the quietly announced $329 iPad from that Chicago classroom event is the part that actually matters.
Apple Kills the iPad Air Name, Ships a $329 Replacement Nobody Announced
Apple quietly killed the iPad Air name and dropped a $329 replacement, plus a red iPhone 7, both announced without an event on the same day Twitter turns 11.
My Left Joy-Con Keeps Dropping Out, and I'm Not the Only One
Twelve days after launch, my left Joy-Con keeps losing connection mid-fight in Breath of the Wild, and a quick look around says it's not just my unit or my apartment's wifi.
The Best Part of Yesterday's AWS Outage Was the Status Page That Couldn't Admit It
Half the internet broke yesterday when S3 fell over in us-east-1, and the funniest part was AWS's own status dashboard, whose little health icons live on S3 too.
Same Pad, Different Rocket
SpaceX launched from Kennedy's Pad 39A on Sunday for the first time since the shuttle program ended, and I watched the whole thing instead of doing literally anything productive.
A Rocket Left From Apollo's Old Pad This Morning
SpaceX launched a Dragon resupply mission from Kennedy's Pad 39A this morning, the first flight from that pad since the last Space Shuttle mission in 2011, and I set an alarm to watch it buffer.
The Part of Snap's IPO Filing Nobody's Talking About
Snap Inc. filed its IPO paperwork this week, and the detail that stuck with me wasnt the loss, it's that the shares going public dont come with a vote.
Deleted Uber Off My Phone This Weekend
Uber turned off surge pricing at JFK during Saturdays taxi strike and it read as strikebreaking. #DeleteUber blew up all weekend and I finally pulled the app off my phone too.
Missed the Switch Preorder, Have Thoughts on $299.99 Anyway
Two weeks after the Nintendo Switch reveal, some thoughts on the $299.99 price, the missing launch-day Virtual Console, and why I still don't have a preorder.