Category: Links of Interest
CAPTCHA Sucks and it’s Not Accessible
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Over 13 years ago I first addressed my dislike of the CAPTCHA. Back then I said that I disliked CAPTCHA to combat spam because spam isn’t the users problem. They’re not getting a bunch of your form submissions sent to them. They don’t care about your problem. The bad part of CAPTCHA is that it…
Twitter Wasn’t Worth the Effort for Traffic
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I saw no measurable difference when I left Twitter in the traffic to my site and neither has NPR. I think that Twitter, and possibly all social media, has got an unearned inflated importance in how much benefit it actually brings in terms of traffic to a site. My top referrers over the last 30…
Was America’s Iraq War Justified?
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According to this video the answer is no. America wanted to invade Iraq to help secure oil assets and to prove that they were “big and strong” after 9/11. This supports my reading from The Shock Doctrine where America weaponizes natural disasters to push capitalist ideas on the public. While the US and Britain are…
What to run on your Synology NAS
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Nick at The Linux Experiment shares some of what he runs on his Synology. I also want to start running my own NextCloud instance on mine.
Kensington SD5700 Ethernet Issues
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Back in April 2021 I purchase a Kensington SD5700 Thunderbolt 4 dock and until today had been fairly happy with it’s function. Today the ethernet died on the SD5700T in the most annoying way. It didn’t just stop working for the computer that the dock is plugged into, it puts out interference on the network…
Framework 13 AMD Review from The Verge
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Here’s the review from The Verge which sings the praises of the 13″ Framework with an AMD mainboard. I’m typing this on a 13″ Framework with 12th Gen Intel hardware and I’m entirely happy with the machine. The biggest drawback I see to the AMD Framework is the port situation. My Intel machine has 4…
What Companies Value Shows in What They Do
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There are many things to like about Github’s published document on how they should communicate. I like the idea of asynchronous communication as priority. I love that they want to write things down, and in an ideal world they want to maintain documentation as a first priority in a project. Really I have nothing to…
Standby Mode – Apple Wants You To Pay Even More Attention to Their Phone
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So with iOS 17 Apple has introduced Standby mode which turns your device into a clock, or lets you place some widgets on it of your choice. At first this seemed like a good feature but after a few days I feel like it’s just another bid by Apple to make their phone steal even…
Is Apple Really Committed to the Environment?
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At the recent Apple event there was a segment featuring Octavia Spencer as Mother Nature where Apple touted it’s efforts to make it’s products better for the environment. While Apple may be ahead of some companies in their efforts to reduce the impact of their products on the environment, there is one big step they…
Matt Has Music Suggestions
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Matt has been sharing an album a day for a while now as part of a 365 project. I give pretty much everyone at least one listen and have found some great music from the project.