‘s a long read. Here’s the intro blurb:

An investigative data journalist and a former tech lawyer teach you how to spot tricks and hidden disclosures within these interminable documents—and even how to claw back some privacy By Jon Keegan and Jesse Woo

Gonna dive in and see what nuggets of wisdom they offer.

Holeeeshit! All that from an accelerometer?

Yes. The magnets are ridiculously strong. Several hold screen in place on my heat exchanger, to keep leaves and lawn debris at bay.

Haven’t figured out a good use for the platters, but skeet shooting has crossed my mind.

If the self hosted option doesn’t pan out, would suggest iMazing.

They have an MDM now and their previous versions for personal use were superb, versus iTunes.

Tl; DR? Everything chemical slows down in the cold, companies will “winterize” existing batteries for northern climes and new battery tech is coming.

The lifetime license is definitely declining in value.

Interesting article, did not know EXR before this.

Fucking AI companies, copyright disrespecting, greedy, bullshitting shits. The lot of them.

In your case prevention of DDOS via VPN guides your decisions and legit VPN users are collateral damage.

I understand your position, and as you say, no data is sold, so no real harm.

Perhaps banks are the same way.

But out of the ones I have to deal with, only one makes me drop the VPN for access. /smh

Seeing “security companies” tagging VPN IP blocks as sus, is becoming all too common; just like ad blockers are being banned.

They wanna know who you are, where you’ve been, what you’re doing and how you’re doing it…AT.ALL.TIMES.dammit!

So does this mean neural gel packs are just around the corner?

For the ☠️ minded, The Capital Order can be found as a PDF, floating around out there.

Well worth the read; it’s long past time to tax billionaires out of existence vv

TL;DR? Timed fluorescence, aided by an algorithm. Amazing idea.

Hey, look, Disney has more lawyers than I do and while Steamboat Willie entered the public domain, didn’t wanna risk that Mickey [as a term] hadn’t.

Thanks for the info, may look into it further.

The subscription model is a wee bit off putting. I employ old hardware and don’t wish to be frog marched into an update/grade that could break that.

Have seen it happen before, been in IT too fucking long not to.

Not the Onion?

If schooling is worth subsidizing, there’s less and less of a case for having it take place in a physical school, as a full-time task for most attendees.

Same holds true for the work that inevitably follows.

Last month, Elon Musk slammed advertisers that left X, saying they would kill the social media platform.

Deflection and projection, attempting to create a false narrative.

Sorry Elon, your actions and toxicity will be what’s responsible for the eventual demise of X.