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It's time for infrared-blocking glasses to become commonplace as facial recognition spreads. I only know of one company selling them.
Apple: "Designed in California, Assembled in China, Purchased by You, Owned by Us." https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i
I use doas btw
This could be our future: https://puri.sm/posts/internet-of-snitches/; Please consider signing https://appleprivacyletter.com/
RIP Terry A. Davis; 1969-2018
Is it just me or is the new beta of Haiku more unstable than the previous one?
Decided it was high time for a sitemap on mckinley.cc, hopefully made it a little easier to find. https://mckinley.cc/sitemap.html
Tech tip: To download a Google spreadsheet directly, replace /edit and anything after in the URL with /export?format=ods or any other format
Fork vacuum: A condition that exists when the maintainers of a popular free software project take action widely disliked by the community
I'm tired of Mozilla's shenanigans. This was over the line. I made sure to tell them that in their uninstallation survey.
I restart my PC to update my graphics drivers, and I come back to the terrible looking UI of Firefox 89. I switched to ungoogled-chromium.
I just spelled 'Koenigsegg' correctly on the first try entering it into a search engine. Feels good.
You can still download videos by passing extracted browser cookies from an account. I'll bet you'll need cookies for any video soon.
YouTube has stopped youtube-dl from circumventing age restriction. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28578
Yes, I had to look up terms to describe the issue with my watch. You know, there's a 1500 word Wikipedia article about buckles.
The tongue of my watch's buckle has gone to the wrong side of the frame, and I don't know how. A good excuse to finally get a NATO strap.
"Native JavaScript IDE for iOS" are five words that don't belong in one sentence. https://codesandbox.io/post/codesandbox-acquires-playjs
Audacity PR closed. Author wants tracking, but willing to avoid Google. https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835#issuecomment-835880865
A look into the dystopian future: https://www.vice.com/en/article/93yyyd/this-motorcycle-airbag-vest-will-stop-working-if-you-miss-a-payment
On the subject of Mountain Dew, I'm still mad about the discontinuation of Black Label. Black Label was the best flavor, change my mind.
DEW-S-A IS BACK! I need to get my hands on Code Red, White Out, and Voltage to see if DEW-S-A really is a mix of the 3.
The VERY NEXT PR adds a Google telemetry library. Not a coincidence. Watch PRs closely. https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/836
Apparently the PR author is associated with their new parent company, Muse Group. I doubt the opposition will be heard.
Yandex and Google trackers will potentially be added to Audacity: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835
GoDaddy gave me a refund. I guess I'm not getting mc.cz for $16.