Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
@oct2pus Looks like they were right in this case.
Microsoft Edge: Making the web better through more open source collaboration
For the past few years, Microsoft has meaningfully increased participation in the open source software (OSS) community, becoming one of the world’s largest supporters of OSS projects. Today we’re announcing that we intend to adopt the Chromium open source project…
The Beat has a comics-themed round up of “The ten weirdest content moderation decisions #Tumblr has made this week”
“getAdditionalData() – This method will return additional data.”
THIS IS NOT DOCUMENTATION. Not in any meaningful sense.
I’ve got an entire JavaDoc tree like that for an API I’m trying to connect to, and it’s essentially useless. The only thing I can get out of it is the parameters & return values, which my IDE can find on its own.
Ducks feeding in a marsh pond. The last time I was here, the entire marsh had dried out for summer. After a couple of fall rainstorms (which, if they’d come sooner, night have at least cut down on the massive wildfires last month), parts of the marsh have flooded again for winter.
I was halfway there before I realized I hadn’t brought the film camera, but I at least had the Canon, which has a more powerful zoom anyway.
#ducks #pond #marsh #photography
Missed a bunch of work-related IMs yesterday because the app had frozen (not crashed) & I didn’t need to send any, so I didn’t see it was unresponsive.
Instead, it sat there, “on” but not picking up messages, gobbling up memory until today my computer reported it was out of application RAM & I needed to force quit something. Like, say, the messenger taking up 112 GB of what I can only assume was swap space, since the computer doesn’t have that much.
This is cool: The equivalent of an ASCII-art map of Lake Michigan, done with a typewriter.
@hafnia @InvaderXan Holy crap, the worst practices here…
At $dayJob I’ve always insisted that email verification is critical in order to prevent this sort of thing. Sadly, I’ve been overruled a few times. Sales/marketing folks only seem to think of it as a roadblock in the way of people who are trying to sign up & don’t even consider that their emails might end up going to someone else.
Also, kind of interesting that the social networks are the ones that understood the problem and fixed it.
My brain is mixing up “The Man With the Bag” with “You Gotta Get a Gimmick”
Having one of those days…
Source: https://www.fowllanguagecomics.com/comic/caffeine/
The bonus panel is good too: https://www.fowllanguagecomics.com/caffeine-bonus-panel/
Yes, I know, “transformer down in the roadway” on a traffic alert doesn’t mean what it sounds like it should…
Interesting perspective on what software-enhanced phone cameras mean for your pictures. Photography? Digital art? Something in between?
Holy crap, I can’t believe how much faster this computer is with an SSD. I should’ve done this ages ago.
More experimenting with Night Sight in the Pixel 2.
#photography #nightsight #night
Trump is literally the big city hotshot who thinks he could do your job better than you despite no relevant experience and only the shallowest idea of what it involves. https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-california-fires-woolsey-hill-camp-trump-claims-bad-forest-management-1541863722-htmlstory.html
Wi-Fi features I would like to see on Android:
1. Always connect to my chosen VPN as soon as I’ve connected to any Wi-Fi network that’s not on a trusted list.
2. Auto-update apps when connected to *specific* Wi-Fi networks (not just any).
@kellerfuchs@vulpine.club points out that updaters should be using TLS and signatures.
Good point – updating over (for example) coffee shop wifi *feels* like it should be more dangerous than it actually *is* with proper encryption.
@sohkamyung WOW!
My Pixel 2 already takes better low-light photos than I would have expected, and this looks incredible!
It’s not clear from the article, but it looks like the updated Camera app is rolling out to the older Pixel phones starting today. It hasn’t shown up in the Play store yet on my phone, though – I guess I’ll have to keep checking.
@andrhia Yeah. I get them too, and it’s just annoying that I have to stop everything even though I’m not otherwise physically blocked at the time.
The latest episode of the Les Miserables Reading Companion podcast covers the amazing scene where Eponine single-handedly stares down 6 hardened criminals and wins.
As always, their analysis turns up some really interesting connections with other parts of the book – like the fact that Eponine channels both Javert and Thenardier, the two main antagonists, but uses their traits to act heroically.
https://readlesmis.libsyn.com/ep40-iv8i-v-the-dangers-girls-face
