In other news: phone’s dead. Dug out an old S4 & put LineageOS on it as a temp. Running smoothly so far…
Category: Fediverse
Looking back through my oldest Instagram photos, I’m struck by just how awful phone …
Looking back through my oldest Instagram photos, I’m struck by just how awful phone cameras used to be.
I mean, yeah, I remembered flip phone cameras were terrible, but even early smartphones couldn’t handle situations we expect them to now. Got to remember filters were introduced to compensate for the grain, gloom & fuzz.
Crap metal
Took me a second to realize a pole was blocking the sign & it wasn’t advertising “crap metal pickup” and “rash pickup.”
#LesMiserables update: 19% through the brick, according to Kindle, but notes start at 85%, so …
#LesMiserables update: 19% through the brick, according to Kindle, but notes start at 85%, so I’ve already passed 22% of the actual novel.
I miss page numbers.
Amateur Astronomers Have Always Been Great at Finding Satellites
Amateur Astronomers Have Always Been Great at Finding Satellites
A bunch of teens at picnic tables were the first people to track Sputnik I.
Not a fan of screen-based menus above the fast food counter that *change* while you’…
Not a fan of screen-based menus above the fast food counter that *change* while you’re trying to read them.
It’s the IRL equivalent of a web carousel, only you can’t even click to freeze it.
Finally reread Saucer Country & read Saucer State. Weird to look at the 2012 story …
Finally reread Saucer Country & read Saucer State. Weird to look at the 2012 story in the context of 2016, and the ways reality of 2016-2017 influenced the sequel.
And dammit, I was not expecting a cliffhanger ending!
#comics
What the Count of Monte Cristo Can Teach Us About Cybersecurity
What the Count of Monte Cristo Can Teach Us About Cybersecurity
In 1844, Alexandre Dumas described a telecom hack based on insider threats and social engineering
“‘We’ve just added more than 1,100 new items to the OED,’ said …
“‘We’ve just added more than 1,100 new items to the OED,’ said the lexicographer wordily.”
Like/favorite: signal to authorBookmark: signal to selfRecommendation/share/boost: signal to audience or publicMost social networks combine …
Like/favorite: signal to author
Bookmark: signal to self
Recommendation/share/boost: signal to audience or public
Most social networks combine these in some way or another. Bookmarks become likes, which are counted to become social proof or shown to followers or used to prioritize display, making them de facto recommendations.
And that encourages people to game the system.
Thought I had a great view of these stalks and dried-out flowers at a seasonal …
Thought I had a great view of these stalks and dried-out flowers at a seasonal marsh, but the lens flare…
The actual good photos from my hike are on Flickr, if you’re interested
Funny how the biggest reasons to “own your own data” with social networking are …
Funny how the biggest reasons to “own your own data” with social networking are opposites:
1. Limit access to data you don’t want shared too far.
2. Preserve access to data you don’t want to disappear.
Naturally-screened city.
Naturally-screened city.
In the distance: buildings along Los Angeles’ Wilshire Blvd as seen from the hills of Kenneth Hahn Park, an island of open space in the middle of the suburban sprawl.
That Instagram-to-WP plugin seems to have worked pretty well! I now have a complete backup …
That Instagram-to-WP plugin seems to have worked pretty well! I now have a complete backup of ~800 Instagram photos and captions on my own server.
Very customizable, though I do have 3 copies of the caption in each post – in the title, in the ALT text, and in the post body. I need to sort out the display settings, but that’s a theme issue, not an import issue.
Next question is how well the ongoing backups work. Then I’ll update my “What’s in your archive?” post.
I’m trying to place a scene from a movie or TV show…
I’m trying to place a scene from a movie or TV show that a moment in last night’s Flash reminded me of.
It’s a jailhouse visitation, and the prisoner has super powers that make the glass shatter so they can touch one last time before he’s pulled away.
Maybe Dark City?
The bad UI that fueled Hawaii’s missile false alarm.
The bad UI that fueled Hawaii’s missile false alarm. via @NNgroup
I’m reminded of the Far Side cartoon with the airplane passenger accidentally hitting the “Wings Fall Off” switch next to his seat.
Saw several links to this article on Facebook deliberately ignoring the fact that people present …
Saw several links to this article on Facebook deliberately ignoring the fact that people present their identity differently to different groups (family, friends, work, interest-based groups, etc.) & how that impacts social interaction. https://boingboing.net/2018/01/22/facebook-is-sad.html
It got me thinking about exploring other Mastodon instances again, and an article I read ages ago on a contextual identity project at Mozilla. Looks like I should check out Firefox Containers. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Project/Containers
Go home JavaScript, you’re drunk
Go home JavaScript, you’re drunk
JavaScript: Can (a==1 && a==2 && a==3) ever evaluate to true? Yes!
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Regardless of how the comparison is made, it’s ridiculous that comparison is allowed to alter the value.
There’s enough complexity in programming without adding the uncertainty principle to it.
Things I miss about my old phones
Things I miss about my old phones:
1. Diagonally polarized screen
2. The G1’s trackball that made it possible to move the text cursor one character to the left or right.
@peter I’ve been posting some to photog.social, though it feels like more of …
@peter I’ve been posting some to photog.social, though it feels like more of an artistic photo-sharing community rather than a general one.