What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on December 5, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: The Token Disconnect A Black Woman Invented Home Security. Why Did It Go So Wrong? New Report: Amazon’s Toll Road Canadian News Media Is Dominated by Corporate Lobbyists The Promise and Terror of Artificial Intelligence America’s Gambling Addiction Is Metastasizing The Tech Moguls Are Looking for a New Playground Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Free of Biases. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on November 28, 2021  |  2 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: Electric vehicles won’t save us — we need to get rid of cars completely - “The electrification of transportation is essential — there is no doubt about that — but just replacing every personal vehicle with a battery-powered equivalent will produce an environmental disaster of its own. Such a strategy also denies us the opportunity to rethink a near-century of misguided auto-oriented city planning. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on November 21, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on November 14, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on November 7, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on October 31, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:

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Some Thoughts on NBA End of Game Situations

 Posted on October 30, 2021  |  4 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

3 things I think teams get wrong Before anyone yells at me that there are teams that do get these things right and there are rare situations where these might be the right things to do, let me just say that I know that and I’m just speaking in general terms. Not being aggressive enough seeking out 3s instead of 2s when down late. I have written about this before here. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on October 24, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on October 17, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on October 10, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on October 3, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: Episode 145: How Real Estate-Curated ‘Mom & Pop Landlord’ Sob Stories Are Used to Gut Tenant Protections One Restaurant Owner’s Answer to the Labor Shortage The 2,000-year-old airborne disease theory that blinded Covid experts - “Droplets on surfaces is very convenient for people in power - all of the responsibility is on the individual,” he said. [Read More]
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on September 26, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:

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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on September 19, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting: Why Silicon Valley’s Optimization Mindset Sets Us Up for Failure - “Technologists with a single-minded focus on efficiency frequently take for granted that the goals they pursue are worth pursuing. But, in the context of Big Tech, that would have us believe that boosting screen time, increasing click-through rates on ads, promoting purchases of an algorithmically-recommended item, and profit-maximizing are the ultimate outcomes we care about. [Read More]
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How to Configure SSH Authentication With No Password on VirtualBox VM

 Posted on September 18, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

These are instructions for if you have multiple keys in your ~/.ssh folder. It also assumes you already have port forwarding for SSH already setup on your VM (you can already ssh in with a password). On host machine: ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "user@localhost" You will see this: Enter file in which to save the key (/Users/darryl/.ssh/id_rsa): If ~/.ssh/id_rsa does not already exist you can press enter, if it does exist enter a different file path (ex. [Read More]
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How to Disable Password for sudo Command

 Posted on September 18, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Edit visudo file:

sudo visudo

To run the poweroff command as the user username add the following line:

username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /sbin/poweroff, /sbin/reboot, /sbin/shutdown
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What I Read or Listened to This Week

 Posted on September 5, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  Darryl Blackport

Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:

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