Joshua Stylman’s essay on refusing to give the digital identification is a great read and definitely worth sharing. The system requires your participation to work. The catch is that this may also be its biggest weakness. It only becomes a cage when adoption is near-universal. In other words, when opting out means you can’t participate [...]

Discernment regarding the technology choices that one makes continues to remain important.  In many cases, doing away with social media entirely is the best choice.  Freedom and knowledge for posterity is given up bit by bit. The infrastructure for systems in which you “cannot buy or sell without an ID” is being assembled one prompted [...]

  Disabling Microsoft 365 Copilot from Startup on Windows 10 is a bit of a challenge for those familiar with Windows from the old days. It does not appear in Autoruns anywhere, nor does it appear in MSCONFIG. It only appears in the task manager startup section.[1] I have done this to run H & R [...]