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“The law has been developing rapidly in places like Ireland and France. UK employers need to watch out.”
“Caching media files, especially images, seems like an obvious way to improve performance, but should we? To provide a more performant UX without abusing users’s network connections or hard drives, …”
“I have always thought the TSA should get Disney Imagineering to design their checkpoints. They really know how to set up a queue. Catchy music, theming… maybe a people mover.”
“The cynicism of political lies and the fear of losing control by opening up the corridors of power can’t last.”
“Common Weal director Robin McAlpine argues that reversing the Scottish economy’s bias towards corporations in favour of small businesses could be transformative I WANT to rig the economy. I want, explicitly, to use public policy and practice to favour some parts of the economy over others. In this I am no different than anyone else commenting on the the economy. In fact, on this if nothing else I agree entirely with the ‘administer the last rights and stop prolonging the cruelty’ Growth Commission. There are only two real differences.”
“More people than ever say they’re feeling pressured to look and be the best. It’s taking a toll.”
“Yesterday, an artist on Twitter named Nana ran an experiment to test a theory.
hey can y’all do me a favor and quote tweet/reply to this with something along the lines of ‘I want this on a shirt’, thank you pic.twitter.com/UhuGRQgU6b— Nana (@Hannahdouken) December 3, 2019
Their suspicion was that …”
“Exposed private cert key may also be an issue for IBM Aspera”
“The investigation into the murder of Malta’s most famous journalist has not just plunged the country into crisis; it has revealed Europe’s limits and failures.”
“A tool that brings attention and understanding to how color contrast can affect different people with visual impairments.”
“San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today released Certbot 1.0: a free, open source software tool to help websites encrypt their traffic and keep their sites secure.Certbot was first released in 2015, and since then it has helped more than two million website administrators…”
“Jumping from job to job wasn’t a choice, especially for Black folks.”
” If you are a hobbyist with the ability to store and display your minis in a dedicated space, chances are you may have an IKEA Detolf glass…”
I have some laser-cut acrylic stand inserts for my Detolf, which due to their design, reduce the amount of space available on the original shelves quite a bit. These extra shelves and brackets look like a much better solution, so I might need to hunt some down.
(I also need to get a second Detolf, but that’s another story…)
“Alexander Samuel reflects on tagging and its origins as a backbone to the social web. Along with RSS, tags allowed users to connect and collate content using such tools as feed readers. This all changed with the advent of social media and the algorithmically curated news feed. Samuel wonders if we h…”
I remember the rise of tagging “folksonomies” and the rush to add them to blogging software at the time (2005ish, per the original article). Because of how they were implemented there was always a tension between organising content through categories vs tags, which meant some blogs didn’t use them, while others went “all in.”
For myself, I’ve found myself drifting away from using either. I used to categorise posts into a particular theme, and then tag with more fine-grained keywords. Back when your “content” and “niche” “mattered”. Now I almost never bother explicitly setting either; I blog for myself, so I don’t feel I necessarily need to define everything into a taxonomy that helps other people make sense of things. Maybe I should put more effort into this, for the day my memory starts failing me?