Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Category: uncategorised

Merry Christmas: “Stalkers ‘exploit face recognition site designed to stop revenge porn’”

2023/12/25
Migrate your podcast shows from Google Podcasts to YouTube Music (US Only) | …sigh, another trainwreck

2023/12/24
I got to say the new Bluesky logo is giving me familiar vibes…

2023/12/24
Blame Parents for Carless, Sexless Teenagers | …whilst it is refreshing to read something not blaming social networking for changes in teenage behaviour, I feel this is a stretch generalisation

2023/12/24
What’s the deal with KFC and Christmas in Japan? | Time Out Tokyo | …and I thought Jewish Chinese-Food Christmas was amazing

2023/12/24
China to increase curbs on video gaming industry | BBC | …let’s be honest: this is all about political control

2023/12/23
Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters | some classic geekery, straight from the horse’s mouth

2023/12/22
My village is sufficiently weird that for a few minutes I did wonder if someone decided to start worshipping Baal at Christmas time

2023/12/22
“Technology Panic Attacks, From Radio to Social Media, With Amy Orben” | from 2020, Dr. Amy Orben, expert in the history of technology panics | this will be weekend listening

2023/12/22
The Future of Model Deletion | …of *course* “ill-gotten data” should be deleted, because it’s ill-gotten and *everyone* can see that; but I’m wondering how long before this idea runs into people who consider data more like librarians than philosophers

2023/12/22
Age Verification: “New Jersey […] requiring social media companies to contract with third-party data vendors to perform invasive age and identity verification”

2023/12/22
Judge a person by their enemies…

2023/12/22