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One of my favorite single-purpose websites: http://isthereacubsgametoday.com/

A lot of my smart phone usage lately seems to be around managing how much attention my phone can grab from me. I let very few apps send me notifications on my phone. I check it eno…

I think they're reinventing ActivityPub

I suppose it hasn't had mass real world consequences for folks yet, but the Equifax breach pretty much proves this?

Yes, that was the S3 outage last year... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13756111

There's an option on https://myaccount.google.com/security to turn off 2-step login.

Michigan has had a similar 10c bottle return program for decades... Was a popular fundraiser for High School clubs

Depends on what analytics and ad tracking are also running on that site

So under-represented or disadvantaged communities that don't have the resources to meet the education standards don't get to vote? Education requirements can very easily become a p…

You could spend a lot of money lobbying for those laws to go away before you hit $1bn...

Seems to me law enforcement having access to our internet activity (presumably moderated by the courts) is better than private companies just selling that data to the highest bidde…

Liberals I think are a little bit more critical, knowing they exist in a society that is systemically racist in a lot of ways, are willing to look at their thoughts and behaviors i…

Also the Chicago Deep Tunnel system is pretty massive "Phase 1, the creation of 109.4 miles (176.1 km) of drainage tunnels ranging from 9 to 33 feet (2.7 to 10.1 m) in diameter, up…

Your username has nothing to do with your email address. Usernames take the form of @myusername@instance.domain. You lose followers when you change instances but you can set a flag…

Well Deserved is a (parody) marketplace for privilege https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoK4_dQbfuU

Between Equifax and today Exactis both leaking 300M+ records it's not really a question of if, but rather how many times have I been pwned...

Alistair Reynold's Revelation Space universe explores this, often times with sub-light travelers arriving at what they thought would be one of the largest cities in known space onl…

Or fast food restaurants embedding tracking devices in their food... That'll be fun having to review privacy policies at every restaurant you eat at.

These open protocols seem pretty cool, but I'm curious what sort of improvements for privacy people expect them to offer? Federating with other servers just means you're trusting e…

I was always a fan of these nihilist security questions: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/nihilistic-password-secu...

It raises a few 'who' questions, besides 'who is sending these messages?' but also 'who receives that alert and makes the decision to block these things?' and 'who's in charge of t…

You can also drag the file over the taskbar and whatever program you hover over will come to the foreground

Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge explores this a bit. Classroom distractions become students throwing up graphics in their shared AR and the one guy in the room that doesn't know how …