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“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?
“I just realized that instead of storing my GPG keyring to disk, I could be just using my Yubikey for that! I followed the (very clear!) steps over at https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide and got my key up and running in moments (I skipped a few steps that weren’t in my threat model).
I might go back and even consider hardening the keys I have set up.”
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“The engine of internet culture is chugging along, changed. ”
“I love music. I need it in my life and for a number of decades, there was more music in my life than there was not. When I was 13 I used to have a paper round that paid £11 on the Saturday morning. I would head to town that afternoon and buy a new album from the store and immediately listen to it o…”
“Data portability is friendly to consumers, but it has very little to do with encouraging competition, at least relative to interoperability.”
It somewhat tickles me that the Gaelic word for ‘small’ is ‘beag’, pronounced more-or-less as “big”
“Step one: Ignore insidious competition culture.”
“New technology means museums can return items to their countries of origin while still representing those cultures in fair, interesting ways.”
“The Santa myth tells us more about adults than children.”
“This past weekend, just before everything slowed down for Thanksgiving, I got a chance to reflect on my photographic journey. While it is easy to quantify the technological and social success of a …”
“I’m always happy for a friend when they start a job at Apple — but I’m also sad when it means they have to stop their community activities: no more podcasting and blogging, developer meetup organizing, presenting at conferences, writing side-project apps, contributing to open source things.”
“Hans Calmeyer was a left-wing German lawyer — his law license was temporarily suspended when he was accused of being a Communist — who was inducted into the German army under the Nazis, who put him in charge of an office that determined which Dutch people would be deported to Auschwitz during the Nazi occupation.”
“Influencers and regular users are reckoning with what Instagram has done to them. Now Instagram wants us to love it again. “