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Weird. When a fast food chain introduces a sandwich that I don't want, I just don't buy it. 🤷

https://gizmodo.com/conservative-controversy-chick-fil-a-cauliflower-sandwi-1850100961

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Interesting article looking at the tax code as, well, code, that you can scan for bugs and vulnerabilities (*ahem* “loopholes”), and contemplating what happens when people start using AI to optimize their results.

Hacking the Tax Code

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I got two auto-renewal reminders this morning sent by domains different from the actual sites involved.

One was a phishing attempt.

The other was real.

*THIS SHOULD NOT HAPPEN*

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It's weird to think that I now trust Twitter even *less* than Facebook.

At least with Facebook
– They're more likely to skirt rules instead of flat out break them. (Pretty sure they actually pay rent on time.)
– There are more people in charge who can mitigate any idle whims Zuck might have
– They give warning for breaking changes ahead of time instead of retroactively pretending it was always like that.
– They actually understand the industry they're in.

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Gmail, not sure how you couldn't tell that “GET ALL THE TRENDING STUFFS AT CHEAPER RATE” should go in the spam folder

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I think the power company must queue up their “we're working on it!” robocalls to go out over time and then not clear them when the outage is fixed.

Every time the power's gone out over the last year or two I've gotten at least one call *after* the power's back on telling me that it should be fixed in the next however-many hours.

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New tech tip post: Remove GPS Tags After Taking a Photo

https://hyperborea.org/tech-tips/gps-remove/

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Oh this is cool! A web app (runs in your browser) that converts your personal Twitter zip archive into a searchable static website!

https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/

credit: @darius

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I’m not using it on my own archives, since there’s a whole lot that I’d like to discard first, but if I had something I *did* want a complete public archive of, this would be better than, say, importing everything into WordPress.

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Responding to a poll about book formats

I like the portability of eBooks, and being able to adjust font size and such, but I really prefer to read them on an e-ink display rather than a glossy backlit screen.

There are some authors or series that I prefer to get in print form, though, especially if there’s a good chance I might go back and re-read them someday.

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Search: Orbeez
Results: Orville Redenbacher's popcorn

…oddly, not too far off when you think about it.

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Responding to a post about how awful the term “content” is for everything we do online.

I can imagine web devs talking about layout vs. content as tech terms back in the day, only to have corporate marketing/legal jump on the term and run with it in the worst, dehumanizing way possible.

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I wouldn’t say it was ever a *great* term. I’m just speculating on possible etymology. It wouldn’t be the first or last time a jargon term got stretched way beyond its narrow use case.

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Krebs on Security: “As it stands, using Kushnir’s exploit was the only time I’ve ever been able to get Experian’s website to cough up a copy of my credit report.”

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/01/experian-glitch-exposing-credit-files-lasted-47-days/

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There’s some discourse going around about subtitles, but I haven’t looked at what’s kicked off the discussion because it’s a video instead of an article.

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