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We built an entire industry around increasing engagement stats and trying to convince the permanent servant underclass to buy more stuff. You'd have to be utterly insane to find me…

I tried to register for this and after fixing multiple CSS bugs that prevented the form from being rendered correctly I was able to actually trigger the submission which kicked off…

If I never hear the argument that "tech is just too hard and bandwidth too unaffordable, poor Zuckerberg/Bezos/Brin are so destitute they would just have to shut down the web and p…

The chargeback is one of the few tools consumers still have with real power. Sure fraud is still a problem, but it's a really uncomfortable proposition to start making chargebacks …

It's not impossible to make it work, and in the future I'd expect more and more automated systems in planes for sure. But you have to recognize the whole engine hack is just a conv…

I hope the irony of Facebook sponsoring a CTF event after having given away all their literal flags on purpose and accidentally over and over again for 15 years is not lost on anyo…

The revolt against surveillance capitalism seems to just be starting in earnest. I think a lot of smart people are finally realizing they have wasted their considerable talents on …

This is a really good read for stats people, this paragraph in particular kind of freaked me out: > After 100 years of projected extinctions, the global composition of mammals and …

People were predicting this as the Chrome endgame years ago. It's playing out exactly as everyone cynically expected. It's time to eliminate Google from your life as much as possib…

I too can madlibs any noun in front of "blockchain" and try to start a pyramid scheme off of it, but the question is why?

This is how all pyramid schemes work.

It is amazing when you consider both the number of and the sheer depth of the problems that would be fixed instantly by moving to publicly financed campaigns.

I know of more than one organization that have decided against Angular in recent years primarily because of Google's backing of the project. Skepticism of the big three (four?) tec…

I had the same experience, but never actually got the groups page to load. Hey googlers remember a cool little thing called the URI? Can we make that just work again without all th…

Judging by the massive growing homeless encampments everywhere I don't think it's really theory anymore. Where I live they have started drilling into trees to set anchor points for…

They have a very strong defense thanks to the CDA and DMCA act which these large tech platforms wrote. They wrote themselves blanket immunity for nearly any type of content, in any…