We’re all zoomed.
Security and Privacy Implications of Zoom.
These startups are made up of idealistic dreamers with little or no real world experience, who are pursuing their dreams with complete ignorance of, or blatant disregard for, the experience, knowledge, best practices and standards of every aspect of their efforts from the architecture and management of their organizations to the design, implementation, deployment and continual improvement of their products or services.
Relevant: Why We Should All Be Done With This Modern Culture Bullshit.
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Human Crap – The idea of ‘disposability’ is a new and noxious fiction.
The happy day has arrived when nobody any longer considers the plastics package too good to throw away.
We recognize that your willingness to allow your employment to penetrate deeply into your personal life means that you will inevitably become our supervisor. We're cool with this.
A 501 developer is one who bolts out the door at 1 minute past 5pm. They are "outta here".
The ones who brought you the Solar Powered Website*.
Low-Tech Magazine – Doubts on progress and technology.
* see blog.p3k.org
Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup.
This is a list of smaller tools that might be useful in building your game/website/interactive project. Although I’ve mostly also included the ‘standards’, this list has a focus on artful tools & toys that are as fun to use as they are functional.
Great guy.
(…) if you take away the people who stutter from the world you are left with a whole bunch of chatty… fill in your own word.
Relevant: Use me.
Matrix.org – An open network for secure, decentralized communication (via lobste.rs).
The easiest way to try Matrix is to use the Riot Web client in your browser, which is configured by default to connect to the matrix.org homeserver
A Healing Spirit From 19th-Century Japan Is Back to Face COVID-19.
Artists are bringing back Amabie, a 'yōkai' associated with protection from disease.
WPoDNS: Wikipedia over DNS (via lobste.rs).
Relevant: DNS over Wikipedia.
Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising?
Google and Facebook, including their subsidiaries like Instagram and YouTube, make about 83 percent and 99 percent of their respective revenue from one thing: selling ads. It’s the same story with Twitter and other free sites and apps. More to the point, these companies are in the business of what’s called behavioral advertising, which allows companies to aim their marketing based on everything from users’ sexual orientations to their moods and menstrual cycles, as revealed by everything they do on their devices and every place they take them. It follows that most of the unsavory things the platforms do—boost inflammatory content, track our whereabouts, enable election manipulation, crush the news industry—stem from the goal of boosting ad revenues.
Relevant: The infinite scroll.
We have compressed and corroded and finally collapsed what used to be the core of a publication—its relationship with its readers, and the basic notion that one should not make it hard for them to read.