Category: Links of Interest
Xyla Grounded for Female Hysteria
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Ugh, we’re so backwards. Xyla’s awesome I love her builds and this is stupid.
Sexy Notebooks Recommended by Matthew
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I’m a sucker for a dot grid notebook so when Matthew recommended these sexy science notebooks I ordered 3. Do I need more notebooks, nope I have a stake on the shelf. But these are hot.
Cory’s list of tech outside the US
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Cory has a bigger list than I put together a few days ago. To my US friends, I like you all and wish you the best but I have to say no to the government shit going on. Outside the attacks on my country, the US government is removing rights from it’s citizens and that’s
Guess I’m old and irrelevant
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CJ Chilvers commenting on Neil’s research says that since my blog started in 2008 and I have about 4000 posts on it it’s likely that Google thinks my site is irrelevant. But I’m going to hold to his advice by posting what I want, when I want, and not pruning my backlog because this is
Apps Outside the US
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Lou has a good list of apps that won’t be subject to the changing privacy whims of the US government because they’re outside the US. I’m not sure that’s true given that we see many companies saying that they “comply with all local laws” but at this point I’m much happier to support anything that’s
Is Firefox safe anymore?
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Firefox recently updated their terms of service, and when a company updates their terms it’s rarely in favour of the user. Take this line in the new Firefox terms. When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience,
Jason on comfort
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It’s time to get uncomfortable, folks. Doing the same things we have always done because they are the path of least resistance is not going to cut it anymore. The times of ignoring the bad for the little comfort benefits are over. – Comfort and You rant about Apple’s choices and then pick up the
Liberate your Audible books with Libation
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I’ve really never worried about my audio books on Audible, but with Amazon turning the cranks up on being a shitty company as they take away ownership of your books I decided to use Libation to download all 200 of my Audible books. Setup was easy and it’s churning away right now downloading them all.
Annoyed by Sonos
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I have a set of Sonos Play speakers in my office which get 6 – 8 hours a day of usage while I’m working. I’ve enjoyed their sound for a few years, but the software has continued to get worse and worse. Lately they’ll play music, but only some album I played a few weeks
AI doesn’t have to be successful to be dangerous
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Miriam has a good and heartbreaking post on the current state of technology in light of the pushers of technology wanting to eradicate her existence. The beliefs of these CEOs aren’t incidental to the AI product they’re selling us. These are not tools designed for us to benefit from, but tools designed to exploit us.
