Interesting. Disconnected my work laptop from the VPN briefly, and it continued to resolve at a different IP to my home network 🤔
“Facebook told US senators it tracks users’ location even after they’ve turned those settings off. Don’t be shocked, we learned this exactly a year ago.”
“How the new Star Wars movies made the best lightsabers ever.”
“Hope you didn’t like multitasking too much.”
I had thought I’d seen this bug reemerge. I wasn’t affected by it last time, but I’d noticed I was seeing the loading splash screens of most of my installed apps a lot more often than I used to.
“In using the web, and listening to “12 days of Christmas” my mince pie addled brain decided it would be neat to do a list of things that annoyed me that were clearly crappy in web products. Except I crapped out at 10… so, yeah, there’s 10.
Hence my list of faux pas, mashed with christmas, thus fau…”
I’m in agreement with 100% of these; items one, three, four, and five are my personal biggest pet peeves that I come across on the web. I also can’t believe four, six, seven, and nine are still a thing so many years after they were first identified as user-hostile.
This attached quote feels particularly revealing about a worldview at Google. Basically: "invasions of privacy and mass data collection are fine, so long as they’re dressed up as ‘useful’ to the consumer."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-12-11/silicon-valley-got-millions-to-let-siri-and-alexa-listen-in
“Version 4.2.0 of Syndication Links was released today. This version refactors the site to icon mapping to try to improve accuracy. It also includes: Adds support for generating a custom feed to syndicate to Micro.blog and pull back the links to your posts Add support for Bridgy Mastodon, courtesy …”
Fixing a smashed iPhone 7 screen is a saga and a half, but I got there in the end thanks to an @iFixit guide, tiny screwdrivers, and a hot water bottle 👍