Facebook apologizes to users, businesses for Apple's monstrous efforts to...
New iOS update will rob people of personalized ads, wails antisocial giant:Facebook has apologized to its users and advertisers for being forced to respect people's privacy in an upcoming update to...
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Amazon Drivers Are Hanging Smartphones in Trees to Get More Work
Beg For Scraps Or You Will Starve:Drivers in on the plot then sync their own phones with the ones in the tree and wait nearby for an order pickup. [...] Much the way milliseconds can mean millions to...
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Apple bans RSS in China
Reeder and Fiery Feeds said this week that their iOS apps have been removed in China over content deemed "illegal".Inoreader, a similar service, was banned from Apple's Chinese App Store back in 2017....
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It's Kessler Season again
Who has "maybe GPS, phones, weather and military satellites all go away by next week" on their 2020 bingo card?Leo Labs:We are monitoring a very high risk conjunction between two large defunct objects...
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Since the mythology is that Facebook's advertising engine is a hypnotism mind-control ray that can turn anyone into a Nazi in a week, sometimes it's good to reflect upon how absolutely terrible they...
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View ArticleXScreenSaver 5.45
XScreenSaver 5.45 is out now, including iOS and Android.Second release this month! The previous release came out on March 20th, and now it's only March 283rd. New hacks, covid19, headroom,...
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Twitter's war on the web continues apace
Some time in the last couple of days, Twitter removed the HTML-only page you would get on mobile.twitter.com with Javascript disabled. The only way to access it now is with Javascript in a browser...
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Instagram: where security is job 1.1a.
When some script kiddie tries to halfassedly take over my account, is there any way to tell Instagram, "that's not me, I am under attack, stop texting me once a minute"?I have not tried replying with...
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Phonebooth
Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
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XScreenSaver 6.00 out now
XScreenSaver 6.00 is out now, including iOS and Android.I have significantly refactored the XScreenSaver daemon, the component of the XScreenSaver suite that provides screen locking on X11...
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Keyboard repeat
Dear Lazyweb, can anyone tell me how to disable all console keyboard autorepeat on a Raspberry Pi?"/sbin/kbdrate -r 1 -d 100000" does not appear to be the answer.Not X11. Currently Raspbian...
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Today in Mark of the Beast news:
(I tried to find a funny "Apple / Mark of the Beast" thumbnail, but it was just depressing because those people aren't joking.) Surprisingly, Apple AirTag has built-in anti-stalking tech:Unfortunately...
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XScreenSaver 6.01 out now
XScreenSaver 6.01 is out now. This is an X11-only maintenance release, so there are no macOS, iOS or Android packages this time around.The 6.00 refactor of the X11 XScreenSaver daemon has so far...
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Great moments in autocomplete
Sometimes autocomplete makes you really feel seen:And sometimes it's nothing but WTF: The primary completion, "Lisa R", is someone I have not exchanged email with in probably 15 years. "Lisa H" is...
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Surveil yourself at home!
I just found out that my condo building is about to replace our (terrible) vintage-1990 front door voice-only intercom system with this app-based video chat thing, ButterflyMX. Anyone have any...
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GPIO noise
The payphone regularly gets GPIO events that are not real. I have four switches attached to GPIO pins, as well as a MAX7219 LED 128x32 display, and I get ghost open/closed events on the switches...
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Unicode Character U+1F574 'MAN IN BUSINESS SUIT LEVITATING'
The Secret Ska History of That Weird Levitating Businessman Emoji:It's one of the least popular emojis (ranked 1233 of 1679 on Twitter), perhaps because nobody is really sure what it is or how to use...
View ArticleMore payphone shenanigans
Your periodic reminder that the only planet where 100% of Linux systems have working sound is Mars.A few weeks ago I griped about GPIO noise in the payphone and someone pointed out that it was most...
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