Lap dogs.
RT @djm_@twitter.com
"The only visible user interface was 28 toggle switches arranged in 5 neat rows. Investigators found the bomb armed – 27 of the switches were toggled off. However, switch #23 was on."
https://hackaday.com/2015/09/21/this-is-what-a-real-bomb-looks-like/
“Let's talk about usernames”
https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2018/feb/11/usernames/
“I Read Steven Seagal’s Insane Novel So You Don’t Have To”
http://www.cracked.com/blog/i-read-steven-seagalE28099s-insane-novel-so-you-donE28099t-have-to/
“A judicious editor could cut this novel down to an angry YouTube comment.”
#MastoAdmins protip: if you suspend a local account, it permanently deletes *all* statues for that account, even if you un-suspend. Better be 100% sure when you click "suspend"! 😬 https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/5760
#MastoAdmins In contrast, when you suspend a *remote* account, it's as if that account temporarily doesn't exist, and you can always undo.
So if you get into the habit of suspending remote accounts when looking at reports, it can make it really easy to accidentally delete someone's entire toot history, if you don't notice that the account is local or don't know the implications. I kinda wish the "suspend" button had a modal dialog for when the account is local.
Most techies are strongly pro-free-speech and anti-censorship.
Until it comes to spam.
Fighting spam using centralized, unaccountable blacklists curated by complete strangers is somehow "normal" and few techies give it a second thought. It's just what you do, right?
Cognitive dissonance, big time.
Obviously, I bring this up because I disagree. :-)
February is #Cyberpunk-month on #Netflix. Just a couple of days until Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon debuts, and at the end of the month we get to see Duncan Jones' long awaited #Mute.
“How to save your marketing data from GDPR”
https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/save-marketing-data-gdpr/1455114
The amount of work marketers seem to have to do for GDPR is promising.
"A Bone to Pick with Skeleton Screens" https://www.viget.com/articles/a-bone-to-pick-with-skeleton-screens/
Great research on when you should use skeleton screens versus loading spinners. (Also: we have a name for these things now? I used to call them silhouettes. 😛)
“Making password managers play ball with your login form”
https://hiddedevries.nl/en/blog/2018-01-13-making-password-managers-play-ball-with-your-login-form
Been playing around with fetch streams (https://jakearchibald.com/2015/thats-so-fetch/#streams). Browser support is still wonky, but I look forward to the day we can drop WebSockets, Server-Sent Events, XHR, and sendBeacon and just use fetch() for everything.
RT @rezendi@twitter.com
"This has gotten crazy out of hand, I apologize but we will no longer be selling PonziCoin on this site because this was a joke. I cannot terminate the contract but I will not be selling any coins that I own." http://ponzicoin.co/home.html
@gaditb oh no oh no
I'm hoping https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/4514 is going to be merged soon to have a direct message column in #mastodon. Really nice!
RT @GuyMazzeo@twitter.com
Today, the Berlin Wall has been down longer than it was up.