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• My PhD advisor rewrote himself in bash (2010)
• 49
• Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?
• Why Individual Rights Can’t Protect Privacy
• Publishers find the AI era not all that lucrative
• Sam Altman is a dunce
• Presidents Are Strong, But Super-Groups Can Be Stronger
• Content creators find a place in newsrooms
• https://russ.garrett.co.uk/2024/12/17/online-safety-act-guide/
• Declaring platform independence
• Link
• Never Forgive Them
• https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-rush-for-ai-enabled-drones-on-ukrainian-battlefields
• Slop Infrastructures 1 & 2
• web development (and related) links
• Text fragments
• Nodriver: A Game-Changer in Web Automation
• CIC [Combat Information Center] Yesterday and Today
• What Was The ‘Dowding System’?
• ‘Making “Social” Social Again’ — Ev Williams Explains Mozi
• https://specificsuggestions.com/
• Google’s GenAI facing privacy risk assessment scrutiny in Europe
• I'm Just a Bill.
• Google Advertising Out to Lunch? Simple Pivots Catch an Ongoing Malvertising Campaign Hiding in Plain Sight
• When IBM Built a War Room for Executives
• C.A. Goldberg, PLLC Turned Ten and We Are Looking Back at the Firm’s Most Memorable Moments Over the Past Decade!!!
• There’s no “Trump Bump” (and that’s good!)
• The rise of informal news networks
• https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/01/countering-disinformation-effectively-an-evidence-based-policy-guide?lang=en
• Democrats Lost the Propaganda War
• contribution
• "Rules" that terminal programs follow
• https://post45.org/2022/09/organized-discontent/
• run a command in a tab with gnome-terminal
• LinkedIn post from Jérôme Segura at Malwarebytes
• re-runs make when a file changes
• devd
• https://natlawreview.com/article/hashing-it-out-jornayas-data-tech-victory-over-cipa-claims
• Pluralistic: Tech's benevolent-dictator-for-life to authoritarian pipeline (10 Dec 2024)
• https://www.hyperbrowser.ai/blog/webscraping_with_hyperbrowser
• https://slate.com/technology/2024/12/david-sacks-ai-crypto-czar-donald-trump-tech-hell.html
• Dave's linkblog feed
• Prediction markets go mainstream
• Court Says New Jersey Law Forbidding Disclosure Of Cops’ Personal Info Doesn’t Violate The 1st Amendment
• The Department of Transportation’s Underused Privacy Authority
• The LLM honeymoon phase is about to end
• B L O C K in the U S A
• Third Circuit is making them pick one
• TikTok Inspired Child Suicide Prompts a Sound Reading of Section 230
• How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
• copyright cases
• AI legal links
• My Blog Engine is the Erlang Build Tool
• Why I Migrated My Newsletter From Substack to Eleventy and Buttondown - Richard MacManus
• A Bicycle for the Mind – Prologue
• Social Distance and the Patent System
• Word.(s).
• The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com)
• effective privacy tips
• Block AI training on a web site
• I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop
• https://www.mi-3.com.au/26-06-2024/data-delusion-does-using-data-target-specific-audiences-advertising-actually-make
• Defining AI
• Trump2 Will Shake Up the “Competition Safe Spaces”
• https://www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2024/12/09/meta-plans-crackdown-on-health-related-user-data
• https://redcloveradvisors.com/privacy-tabletops/
• Does YouTube have a future if its creators have to make money elsewhere?
• Australia fires publisher damages claim at Google
• The publisher is always right
• As Australia bans social media for kids under 16, age-assurance tech is in the spotlight
• How a YouTube-Google Breakup Would Shake Hollywood. Are You Ready?
• https://aftermath.site/akg-perception-p220-p420-mod-neumann-u87-clone
• Developing a public-interest training commons of books
• The Most Controversial Game on the Internet
• Chinese researchers indicate diamonds can store data for millions of years
• Enrico Zini: New laptop setup
• Deepfake YouTube Ads of Celebrities Promise to Get You ‘Rock Hard’
• Godot Isn't Making It
• https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democratic-party-civic-life-local-membership/
• U.S. Officials Urge Americans to Use Encrypted Apps, for Texting and Calls, in Wake of Chinese Infiltration of Our Unencryped Telecom Network
• “Modern Work Fucking Sucks.”
• https://www.juancole.com/2024/11/consumer-pakistan-government.html
• Notice and Choice Cannot Stand Alone
• Whither CockroachDB?
• Reckoning: Part 2 — Object Lesson
• this RFD
• Australia approves law banning social media for under 16s
• https://aramzs.xyz/writing/feed.xml
• Kill Oracle's 'JavaScript' trademark, Deno asks USPTO
• The trouble with openness
• How to host an entire website on Bluesky
• NJ Cops Are Suing To Protect Their Exclusive Right To Keep Their Data Out Of Data Brokers’ Databases
• Humans Can Learn Echolocation Too
• privacy economics sources
• personalization risks
• scam culture
• SCALE proposal
• Modern Font Stacks
• the surveillance companies would have said so by now
• Even the FBI says you should use an ad blocker | TechCrunch
• FPF Launches New Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Repository
• Why Big Business May Wind Up Missing Lina Khan
• opt out of Google Page Annotations
• Google Search Console
• Google's iOS app now injects links on third-party websites that go to Search
• https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/talking_shit
• CISA, CRA, and PLD: some updates on government regulation of open source
• Bluesky verification could look a lot different from X’s blue checks
• Beyond Upstream First: The Linux Kernel Contribution Maturity Model
• DOJ Claims Google ‘Destroyed’ Evidence Before Antitrust Trial
• prediction markets and the 2024 election link dump
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• FBI raids Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan’s apartment, seizes phone: source
• An ad giant wants to run your next TV’s operating system
• David Hill
• Apparently, Brand Safety Is Dead. That’s Good For News, No?
• How decentralized is Bluesky really?
• Your use of AI is directly harming the environment I live in
• Use an ad blocking extension when performing Internet searches
• SingleFile
• local copy of the FBI alert
• https://interconnected.org/home/2023/03/16/singularity
• https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/10/29/the-app-always-wins/
• https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review
• https://perfors.net/blog/only-way-to-win-is-not-to-play/
• Dave's linkblog feed
• remove AI from Google Search on Firefox
• A Developer’s Guide to ActivityPub and the Fediverse
• https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/faculty_articles/1064/
• Texas AG opens investigation into advertising group that Elon Musk sued for ‘boycotting’ X
• From Campus to the Courts, the “Palestine Exception” Rules University Crackdowns
• Confidential OCR
• The Great Redbox Cleanup: One Company is Hauling Away America’s Last DVD Kiosks
• The Great Bluesky Migration: I Answer (Some) Of Your Questions
• How to Cut $2 Trillion in Federal Spending Without Breaking a Sweat
• Lying in Bed.
• https://www.techpolicy.press/why-the-dojs-google-ad-tech-case-matters-to-you/
• Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking U.S. Soldiers and Spies
• https://cepa.org/article/behind-the-lines-ukraine-warns-russias-neighbors-to-prepare-for-resistance/
• Wave of news publishers arrive on Bluesky as sign-ups surge
• The Scrumlord regime
• Bluesky's success is a rejection of big tech's operating system
• Both Democrats and Republicans can pass the Ideological Turing Test
• Designing a push life in a pull world
• MFA is Programmatic's Dark Mirror
• The Verge Editor-In-Chief Nilay Patel breathes fire on Elon Musk and Donald Trump's Big Tech enablers
• And All That Could Have Been
• The Ad Tech Tax Explained
• 2024-11-09 iron mountain atomic storage
• Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024)
• Why Not Bluesky
• Google is reportedly developing a ‘fake’ email feature to help you avoid spam
• Killer Robots About to Fill Skies...
• What To Use Instead of PGP
• Inside the Bitter Battle Between Starbucks and Its Workers
• What Comes After Open Source? Bruce Perens Has Some Ideas
• Maybe Bluesky has “won”
• Google appears to be working on a better alias system for Gmail
• Mozilla is all over the place
• Here’s why I turned off AI Overviews and why you should consider it too
• Google may soon let you create email aliases in an effort to fight spam (APK teardown)
• The Bluesky Bubble
• Amazon Haul Is an Omen
• https://www.mlex.com/mlex/data-privacy-security/articles/2260540/national-public-data-saga-illustrates-little-regulated-us-data-broker-industry
• Seven lessons I didn’t learn from election day
• Chinese immigrants in the U.S. are running Temu shipping centers out of their homes
• https://blog.kalshi.com/interview-koleman-strumpf-prediction-markets-future/
• I was invited to Google HQ to talk about my failing website. Here's how that went.
• On Building Git for Lawyers
• O2's AI granny knits tall tales to waste scam callers' time
• Privacy, Why?
• Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’
• AdMonsters Publishers Forum: Publishers’ Group Therapy, With Coffee and Cookie Anxiety
• Don’t Repeal Section 230. Clarify It.
• FBI raids apartment of election betting site Polymarket’s CEO and seizes cellphone, source says
• How Upside-Down Models Revolutionized Architecture, Making Possible St. Paul’s Cathedral, Sagrada Família & More
• 'It's the housing, stupid' -- finally, this issue gets election attention
• Links for 10 November 2024
• One Company A/B Tested Hybrid Work. Here’s What They Found.
• The Billionaire Suing Facebook to Remove His Face From AI Scams - WSJ
• Signal Is Now a Great Encrypted Alternative to Zoom and Google Meet
• The New Alt Media and the Future of Publishing
• Europe’s DMA forces Meta towards ‘less personalized ads’
• https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4963711
• I’m a neuroscientist who taught rats to drive − their joy suggests how anticipating fun can enrich human life
• Ecosia and Qwant, two European search engines, join forces
• Vitalik:
• already incredibly overburdened
• Google Chrome
• split into two companies
• Polling by asking people about their neighbors: When does this work? Should people be doing more of it? And the connection to that French dude who bet on Trump
• prediction market
• https://www.marketingweek.com/ritson-mccains-teach-nothing-new/
• The Counterculture Switch: creating in a hostile environment
• Yes, your phone is tracking you via advertising ID, and companies are using it to sell your location and identity to anyone. Protect yourself by disabling this feature on your device.
• CONFIRMED: LLMs have indeed reached a point of diminishing returns
• Link
• An AI rumor you won’t want to miss
• This instant privacy inspector exposes the web’s tracking secrets
• Everything I've learned so far about running local LLMs
• Info Finance
• Is Your Rent an Antitrust Violation?
• https://www.ft.com/content/888b05c4-6c95-11e7-bfeb-33fe0c5b7eaa
• Polymarket Explained: How Blockchain Prediction Markets Are Shaping the Future of Forecasting
• Initial Election Thoughts
• Why Right-Wing Media Thrives While The Left Gets Left Behind
• The Rogue Emperor, And What To Do About Them
• Note from the Executive Director
• Meta beats suit over tool that lets Facebook users unfollow everything
• Building the news
• Justices skeptical about Facebook’s data breach disclosure to investors
• We need a Wirecutter for groceries
• https://www.404media.co/why-the-work-still-matters-under-trump/
• https://www.citationneeded.news/wind-the-clock/
• Historic calculators invented in Nazi concentration camp will be on exhibit at Seattle Holocaust center
• Financial Times
• Betting odds called the 2024 election better than polls did. What does this mean for the future of prediction markets?
• Prediction Markets for the Win
• Australia to ban children from using social media
• CNN
• https://amycastor.com/2023/09/12/pivot-to-ai-pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain/
• “How do we fund open source? | InfoWorld”
• https://natlawreview.com/article/second-circuit-revives-proposed-class-action-under-vppa
• https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/paramount-class-action-lawsuit-user-sharing-viewer-history-1236051852/
• Bernie Sander's Statement on Democrats Losing the 2024 Presidential Election
• Australia looks to ban social media for kids under age 16
• After Election Day
• even impersonating Google
• I Bought Tech Dupes on Temu. The Shoddy Gear Wasn’t Worth the $1,260 in Savings
• Sweet Dreams and Sour Deals: How White-Noise Apps Are Playing Advertisers
• South Korea fines Meta $15 million over illegal collation of Facebook user data
• Trump Might Get Unfettered Surveillance Powers. How Did We Get Here?
• Boeing strike ends after workers vote to accept “life-changing” wage increase
• Meta found to have exposed info on North Korean defectors to advertisers
• https://unbound.news/google-processed-over-1-billion-dmca-takedowns-last-year-heres-what-theyre-really-being-used-for/
• Apple 'broke law' by pushing out labor-organizing dev
• Times to strike.
• Advertising: Who Cares? Onwards.
• Stop it. Just stop it.
• Luis Villa at TechCrunch Disrupt: Free but not cheap, the open source dilemma
• links for 3 November 2024
• White-noise apps exploited in major audio ad fraud schemes, report finds
• How women's phones became a tool for abortion surveillance
• The Kids Aren’t Playing In The Privacy Sandbox
• https://hbr.org/2024/10/one-company-a-b-tested-hybrid-work-heres-what-they-found?ab=HP-latest-image-5
• Meta AI Keeps Telling Strangers It Owns My Phone Number - Business Insider
• Urheberrecht und Training generativer KI-Modelle - technologische und juristische Grundlagen by Tim W. Dornis, Sebastian Stober :: SSRN
• Generative AI’s Illusory Case for Fair Use by Jacqueline Charlesworth :: SSRN
• or we could just not
• wise man once said
• Mustri et al.(PDF)
• adtech tax
• How independent publishing has changed from the 1990s until today
• according to Professor Garrett Johnson
• US Census Bureau, 2024!
• Digital makes up over three-quarters of total ad spend in the US
• SCO sued IBM, Red Hat, Novell, and others
• surveillance advertising features in web browsers
• fiction
• Remote Startups Will Win the War for Top Talent
• Why Strava Is a Privacy Risk for the President (and You Too)
• Why Getting Your Neighborhood Declared a Historic District Is a Bad Idea
• 5 Rideshare Strategies That Are Complete BS
• Donald Trump Talked About Fixing McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines. Lina Khan Actually Did.
• What do you mean 'You don't use Spotify'?
• Plain Vanilla – a tutorial website for vanilla web development
• posted an essay on his personal website
• share the info from corporate web apps
• CIPA Uncertainty
• still up
• Am I (still?) in Mozilla's target audience?
• An awful lot of FOSS should thank the Academy
• Marketers in a dying internet: Why the only option is a return to simplicity
• Removing unused CSS from a website
• The Crash of the Hammer
• I attended Google's creator conversation event, and it turned into a funeral
• Is AI advertising going to be too easy for its own good?
• https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f6bb65014464a6d3ea2ffec/t/67237d4979e2536591d3977b/1730379081241/Letter-CFPB-re-FCRA-Data-National-Security.pdf
• GPT-4o and Co. get it wrong more often than right, says OpenAI study
• https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00213-020-05464-5
• Staff Jobs and Officer Education: An Army Ghost Story
• How Google is Killing Bloggers and Small Publishers – And Why
• Exploiting Meta’s Weaknesses, Deceptive Political Ads Thrived on Facebook and Instagram in Run-Up to Election
• https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/
• Using an 8K TV as a Monitor
• The Washington Post’s non-endorsement led to record-breaking weeks at other news orgs
• Ninth Circuit Upholds AADC Ban on “Dark Patterns”
• https://www.marketingweek.com/product-marketers-influence/
• Suchir Balaji, who spent four years at OpenAI, says OpenAI's use of copyrighted data broke the law and failed to meet fair use criteria; he left in August 2024
• Final Pre-Election 2024 Anti-Trans Risk Assessment Map
• ‘This isn’t a joke’: The Vatican now has an official anime mascot
• The Unlikely Inventor of the Automatic Rice Cooker
• links for 29 Oct 2024
• Amazon Linux
• full text
• Ethics and Rule Breaking Among Life Hackers
• Excuse Me, Is There AI in That? - The Atlantic
• Meta to pay $1.4 billion settlement after Texas facial recognition complaint
• With J.D. Vance on Trump ticket, the Nerd Reich goes national
• Satire Without Purpose Will Wander In Dark Places
• Google’s Shadow Campaigns
• Law Enforcement Deanonymizes Tor Users
• https://michael.kjorling.se/blog/2024/staying-with-firefox-for-now/
• Google accused of shadow campaigns redirecting antitrust scrutiny to Microsoft
• Scripting News
• https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/opinion/tiktok-meta-social-media-law.html
• typefaces that aren’t on this blog (yet?)
• more
• Atkinson Hyperlegible Font
• Departure Mono
• Prediction markets and the need for “dumb money” as well as “smart money”
• NFL Player Uses Pirate Streaming Site to Watch His Own Team
• Friday night feed reader score report
• Smarter than ‘Ctrl+F’: Linking Directly to Web Page Content
• Missouri AG claims Google censors Trump, demands info on search algorithm
• Navy Ad: Gig Work Is a Dystopian, Unregulated Hellscape, Build Submarines Instead
• Do LLMs Contain Personal Information? California AB 1008 Highlights Evolving, Complex Techno-Legal Debate
• The other shoe dropping on ‘AI’ and office work
• How to Convert Font Formats to WOFF under Linux
• sfnt2woff-zopfli
• personal AI in the rugpull economy
• VRM Day
• increase the rewards for win-win moves by sellers
• norms enforcers like Consumer Reports
• Data Rights Protocol
• privacy labour
• this AI cartoon by Tom Fishburne
• awkward mazes
• funnels and pipelines
• chickenization
• disclose provenance
• Small-scale and underground AI has sustainable advantages over the huge but money-losing contenders
• The AI Boom Could Use a Shocking Amount of Electricity
• Baldur Bjarnason writes
• How Apple and Microsoft’s trusted brands are being used to scam you
• Personal Agentic AI
• Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it’s haunted
• What Makes Women Clean
• Discover Wiped Out MFA Spend By Following These Four Basic Steps
• "The Kids Are Too Soft"
• Confessions of a media buyer on Google’s stranglehold on the industry
• Why We Must Stop Google
• Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers
• The Backlash Against AI Scraping Is Real and Measurable
• Sunday Internet optimism
• the colored pencil test for web features
• A layered approach to content blocking
• decision
• surveillance licensing in practice
• US Copyright Office “frees the McFlurry,” allowing repair of ice cream machines
• Public Knowledge, iFixit Free the McFlurry, Win Copyright Office DMCA Exemption for Ice Cream Machines
• Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity promote scientific racism in AI search results
• Removal of Russian coders spurs debate about Linux kernel’s politics
• Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC’s click-to-cancel rule
• Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back.
• LinkedIn fined $335 million in EU for tracking ads privacy breaches
• Cheap Solar Panels Are Changing the World
• PAAPI Could Be As Effective For Retargeting As Third-Parties Cookies, Study Finds
• Space is Dead. Why Do We Keep Writing About It?
• The Billion-Dollar World of Parasite SEO: How to Cash In
• The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data
• Chatbot that caused teen’s suicide is now more dangerous for kids, lawsuit says
• Pinterest faces EU privacy complaint over tracking ads
• Few truly shocked that NFL player used illegal stream to watch his own team
• https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/22/democrats_demand_doj_prosecute_tax/
• Why Your Brand Feels Like a Cheap Date: All Flash, No Substance in the World of Performance Marketing
• Thousands of creatives sign petition against AI data scraping
• Dow Jones says Perplexity is “freeriding,” sues over copyright infringement
• China Telecom's next 150,000 servers will mostly use local processors
• A Firefox XML Bug
• You Have a 'Work Number' on This Site, and You Should Freeze It
• On Banditry
• Cheap AI “video scraping” can now extract data from any screen recording
• Janky remote backups without root on the far end
• It’s Time to Build the Exoplanet Telescope
• https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/false-memories-planted-in-chatgpt-give-hacker-persistent-exfiltration-channel/
• Video scraping: extracting JSON data from a 35 second screen capture for less than 1/10th of a cent
• My solar-powered and self-hosted website
• Google Is Cracking Down on Ad Blockers, But Here's How You Can Fight Back
• The FTC puts an end to “click to subscribe, call to cancel”
• Let’s bring back browsing
• FTC “click to cancel” rule seeks to end free trial traps, sneaky auto-enrollments
• Economist ‘future-proofing’ bid brings back brand advertising and targets students
• How to find helpful content in a sea of made-for-Google BS
• X’s depressing ad revenue helps Musk avoid EU’s strictest antitrust law
• Hell Gate NYC doubled its subscription revenue in its second year as a worker-owned news outlet
• https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/10/conceptual-models-of-space-col.html
• Comments on TSA proposal for decentralized nonstandard ID requirements
• Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?
• Gosub – An open-source browser engine
• The tech startups shaking up construction in Europe
• Another easy-ish state law: the No Second-class Citizenship Act
• Kurt Vonnegut’s concept
• Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities
• Protecting Your Privacy While Eroding Your Democracy: Apple’s and Mozilla’s PPAs (Privacy Preserving Ad Attribution) Considered Harmful
• Uber v. Fetch
• the average user has their activity passed to Meta by thousands of companies
• https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/how-long-gone-habsburg-empire-still-visible-eastern-european-bureaucracies-today
• NPR has reviewed
• Cloudflare Destroys Another Patent Troll, Gets Its Patents Released To The Public
• Conceptual models of space colonization
• Cash incinerator OpenAI secures its $6.6 billion lifeline — ‘in the spirit of a donation’
• compete with legit ones in the same ways that third-party cookies do
• turn off advertising measurement in Apple Safari
• ClearURLs
• convert TTF to WOFF2 on Fedora Linux
• mostly denied
• under the CCPA, businesses are required to disclose inferences about people
• Inconsolata
• Converting TTF fonts to WOFF2 (and WOFF) - DEV Community
• Details of package woff2 in sid
• woff2-tools
• Take that
• We Don’t Want “Privacy”-“Enhancing” Technologies in Our Browsers
• Ex-coiner Y Combinator startup bro: ‘dawg i chatgpt’d the license, can’t be bothered with legal’
• The cheap chocolate system
• Steam adds the harsh truth that you’re buying “a license,” not the game itself
• Ex-Twitter execs push for $200M severance as Elon Musk runs X into ground
• PET projects or real privacy?
• Lina Khan Is Just Getting Started (She Hopes)
• The AI bill Newsom didn’t veto — AI devs must list models’ training data
• Antitrust challenge to Facebook’s ‘superprofiling’ finally wraps in Germany — with Meta agreeing to data limits
• https://www.adexchanger.com/data-privacy-roundup/applying-the-would-your-mother-approve-rule-to-online-ad-tracking/
• drinking games with the Devil
• https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/california-privacy-act-sparks-website-tracking-technology-suits
• https://www.consumerreports.org/money/scams-fraud/black-latino-consumers-more-likely-to-lose-money-in-scams-a7652153980/
• ClassicPress: WordPress Without the Block Editor
• Thunderbird Android client is K-9 Mail reborn, and it’s in solid beta
• Roblox stock falls after Hindenburg blasts the social gaming platform over bots and pedophiles
• documentation
• fake ads intended to steal people’s passwords for commonly used services such as Slack and Calendly
• fix Google Search
• Firefox
• other free software people
• Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) | Cyber Criminals Impersonating Brands Using Search Engine Advertisement Services to Defraud Users
• https://myadcenter.google.com/home
• Personal Blocklist
• How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search
• Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good - Ars Technica
• udm14
• IAB, Others Urge Court To Reconsider Ruling That Curbed Section 230
• Risks vs. Harms: Youth & Social Media
• Idle Tricks Are the Devil’s Game Table
• Why Django supports the Open Source Pledge
• It Was Ten Years Ago Today
• The ‘Bias’ Bias: No, Your Brain is Not Made of Swiss Cheese
• https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/10/google-search-user-interface-a-b-testing-shows-security-concerns-remain
• Using GitHub Pages to host a locally built site
• https://www.techpolicy.press/in-the-trenches-with-state-policymakers-working-to-pass-data-privacy-laws/
• Hey Google, What’s The Chrome User Choice Mechanism Going To Look Like?
• Smart TVs are like “a digital Trojan Horse” in people’s homes
• there ought to be a law
• some ways that Facebook ads are optimized for deceptive advertising
• taxing surveillance marketing
• State privacy law features from the power user point of view
• OTHER ATTRIBUTES
• notes on a California advertiser protection bill
• GPC all the things!
• do the simplest thing that could possibly work
• Anti-Fragility.
• Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds
• Mozilla's CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now
• Meta faces data retention limits on its EU ad business after top court ruling
• links for 6 October 2024
• simplified to the point where it’s practical
• the Open Innovation Network’s Linux System definition
• Ukraine’s new F-16 simulator spotlights a ‘paradigm shift’ led from Europe
• The Atlantic Did Me Dirty
• The more sophisticated AI models get, the more likely they are to lie
• Each Facebook User Is Monitored by Thousands of Companies
• dmarti on GitHub
• My keybase page
• LinkedIn
• federate.social
• Inconsolata
• Bitstream Charter
• regulate Big Tech in a way that avoids free speech issues
• why I’m turning off Firefox ad tracking: the PPA paradox
• claiming credit for selling a thing that customers were going to buy anyway
• Mobile Dev Memo by Eric Seufert
• have been for quite a while
• smart TV mics
• effective
• Intent IQ Has Patents For Ad Tech’s Most Basic Functions – And It’s Not Afraid To Use Them
• New Map Shows Community Broadband Networks Are Exploding In U.S.
• https://www.thecurrent.com/google-privacy-adam-heimlich-ceo-chalice-custom-algorithms
• Taylor Swift: Singer, Songwriter, Copyright Innovator
• Reflecting on AI accountability for misinformation - and solar powering the revolution
• Writing Projects
• So It Goes
• fair use alignment chart
• took it apart to find out
• non-human entities with non-human goals
• object to processing
• useful enough that it’s a good idea to have a redundant array of them
• Grok is fair use
• Orange Prince is fair use
• New Portraits
• four factors
• Cloudflare’s one-click AI scraper blocker
• Creative Commons Position Paper on Preference Signals
• at work
• https://www.draft2digital.com/blog/2024-ai-training-survey-results/
• The Other Bubble
• Tantek Çelik proposes
• Campaigners claim 'Privacy Preserving Attribution' in Firefox does the opposite
• No-training Creative Commons
• Scam culture is everywhere
• Return of the power user
• Trump’s $100,000 Watch Likely Made in China, Vastly Overpriced
• Move at the speed of trust
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• Knowledge workers
• Reverse-engineering a three-axis attitude indicator from the F-4 fighter plane
• Oskar Wickström: How I Built "The Monospace Web"
• Posse: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world
• How breaking up Google could lower your online shopping bill | Ars Technica
• weird, clunky in-browser ad features
• funding illegal sites
• How I Made $10k Predicting Which Studies Will Replicate
• Edit distance
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• DoNotPay Has To Pay, After FTC Dings It For Lying About Its Non-Existent AI Lawyer
• Gates Foundation Shows That ‘Gold Open Access’ Was A Mistake, And ‘Diamond Open Access’ Is The Future
• Steam doesn’t want to pay arbitration fees, tells gamers to sue instead
• Best practices in practice: Black, the Python code formatter
• CNN and USA Today Have Fake Websites, I Believe Forbes Marketplace Runs Them
• EPIC Publishes Model Privacy Bill as Practical Solution for States
• Trump’s Most Misunderstood Policy Proposal
• Google’s revised ad targeting plan triggers fresh competition concerns in UK
• Mozilla hit with privacy complaint in EU over Firefox tracking tech
• NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules
• Calif. Governor vetoes bill requiring opt-out signals for sale of user data
• As the open social web grows, a new nonprofit looks to expand the ‘fediverse’
• How breaking up Google could lower your online shopping bill
• https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/hydrogen-drone-long-range-korea
• What Happened After I Outed a Reddit Mod for Affiliate Spam
• The Sleazy World of Reddit Marketing, Everything is Fake
• Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Huge Mistake
• Evan Prodromou Launches The Social Web Foundation
• NHTSA Starts To Take The Safety Threat Of Comically Large Trucks More Seriously
• stop putting privacy-enhancing technologies in web browsers
• About 30% of people really want cross-context personalized advertising, 30% really don’t want it, and for 40% it depends how you ask.
• Grid-scale batteries: They’re not just lithium
• https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/grid-scale-batteries-theyre-not-just-lithium/
• Arrogant programmers and Enshittification - A New Understanding
• Link
• Ars is seeking a seasoned senior reporter for all things Google
• high-skill human side
• Arielle Garcia, director of intelligence for Check My Ads, said
• Google pulls AI Gemini demo video after National Advertising Division complaint | Ad Age