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.
Category: Fediverse
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?
Most social networks’ archive features, if they exist, fail to handle the simple case of …
Most social networks’ archive features, if they exist, fail to handle the simple case of giving you your images and captions together.
Lunar eclipse next week. Most of North America & Asia, and all of the Pacific …
Lunar eclipse next week. Most of North America & Asia, and all of the Pacific will be able to see it, though you might need to get up in the middle of the night. Maps & time conversion at the link.
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2018-january-31
It also happens to be a supermoon (when the full moon coincides with the moon being at the closest point in its orbit, making it look bigger) and a blue moon (second full moon in a calendar month).
Lost Kirby/Kane ‘Prisoner’ comic coming from Titan Comics
Whoa! An unpublished comic book of “The Prisoner” by JACK KIRBY not only exists, but is finally being published!
Lost Kirby/Kane ‘Prisoner’ comic coming from Titan Comics
An unpublished Prisoner comic by Jack Kirby, Gil Kane and Steve Englehart accompanies a new comic series by Peter Milligan and Colin Lorimer.
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
Fantine pretends to be a widow when she meets Mme Thénardier. If Valjean went years …
Fantine pretends to be a widow when she meets Mme Thénardier. If Valjean went years undiscovered w/a new ID, could she have invented a dead husband & kept Cosette?
How detailed were records in small-town France in 1818? “Madeleine” arrives under circumstances that distract officials from checking his ID, but would they have bothered to check papers of a young mother & child?
And if she lived openly as a widow, would the busybodies have cared as much to dig up the truth?
#LesMiserables
@mattamatic Regardless of how the comparison is made, it’s ridiculous that comparison is allowed …
@mattamatic 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.
Go home JavaScript, you’re drunk
Go home JavaScript, you’re drunk
https://codeburst.io/javascript-can-a-1-a-2-a-3-ever-evaluate-to-true-aca13ff4462d
Got spam offering a website redesign by George Orwell. Sure…
Got spam offering a website redesign by George Orwell. Sure…
Oh wait, NM, it’s *Goerge* Orwell. Totally different guy, I’m sure.
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.