The FCC Must Reject Efforts To Lock Up Public Airwaves

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/19/the-fcc-must-reject-efforts-to-lock-up-public-airwaves/

I filed my last copy for this week at 10 p.m. Friday, and then it was a delight to have Saturday be my first legit work-free day since… um, Jan. 1.

1/16/2024: Don’t Engage: ‘Pig Butchering’ Scams Start With a Text, End in Financial Ruin, PCMag

One reason I couldn’t unplug from work last Sunday: I had to watch my friend Sean Gallagher’s very good walkthrough of pig-butchering scams at the ShmooCon information-security conference in D.C. I did, however, opt to watch the livestream of his talk that morning instead of heading over to the Washington Hilton for the third day in a row.

1/17/2024: NextGen TV Airwave Upgrade Flies Under the Radar at CES, PCMag

This CES recap ran several days after the show ended because I needed to verify some Consumer Technology Association forecasts of sales of NextGen-equipped TV sets. And because I needed some uninterrupted time to finish writing the thing.

1/19/2024: Biden Admin OKs $150 Million in Grants to Fix Broken Public EV Chargers, PCMag

I spent Thursday afternoon at the Washington Auto Show’s public-policy day and came away with this update on the Biden administration’s latest efforts to ease electric-car adoption, in which I also noted how the White House’s plan to underwrite a nationwide network of fast chargers on highways has yet to yield much usable hardware. I ended the post by calling out ignorant remarks by two Republican congressmen on a panel that afternoon in which they characterized EVs as some sort of big-government plot.

1/19/2024: Ep 96 SmartTechCheck Podcast CES 2024 Recap, Mark Vena

I joined my industry-analyst friend’s podcast to compare notes about CES with Mark and my fellow tech scribe Stewart Wolpin–who drew on his deep knowledge of the business with a recap of the slow and halting adoption of color TV when our host asked about bumps in the road to EV adoption.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/01/21/weekly-output-pig-butchering-nextgen-tv-ev-charging-mark-vena-podcast/

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STOP Paying for TV and cut the Cord for good. I haven't paid for OTA TV in over a decade, and neither should you. I made a guide on how to build your own DVR with Plex, Inc. for their Pro Week!

Check it out👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5okoyPewyU

#plex #overtheairtv #cutthecord #selfhosted #dvr #homelab

After 20 years, we're dropping #Netflix. Their policies don't fit us anymore. Our household spans 2 houses, and 2 kids away at college. We pay Netflix extra for the ability to do multiple streams, which seemed fair. Now they want us to pay for 4 subscriptions. We are marginal Netflix users at best. I get that they're a business. But for now, drowning in unconsumed TV content from a half dozen other subscription services, it's easiest to just say Goodbye to Netflix.

It may be time to look at the other TV subs, and what im paying. I'm not even sure what we have or what they cost these days.

When it comes to #subscriptions, if you make me think about your subscription (especially in the summer months) you're probably going to get cancelled.

#enshittification #cancelnetflix #OverTheAirTV