Blogs about Computers, internet, tech
68 blogs about Computers, internet, tech.
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#algopop
“Studying the appearance of algorithms in popular culture and everyday life.” By Matthew Plummer-Fernández. 🇬🇧 -
anderegg.ca
“Something (slightly) less boring than nothing.” By Gavin Anderegg. 🇨🇦Updated
Bluesky Frustrations Over the past couple of weeks, my news and Mastodon feeds have been overloaded with discussion of Bluesky. This has made me rather grumpy, but I’ve had a hard time articulating why. About a week …
Feed Roughly 10 posts per year. Started in .
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Annoying Technology
“Curates the daily annoyances in the technologies surrounding us.” 🇩🇪Updated
Manuel was annoyed Your browser does not support the video tag. I guess it’s iMessage week at AT. I just don’t understand how iMessage is such a steaming pile of garbage. How dare I try looking up something …
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asadrahman.io
“Asad's online home.” By Asad Rahman. 🇬🇧Updated
Agency, commitment, and funding the good life Agency, commitment, and funding the good life TL; DR – I live and work by two values – agency and commitment. When those values manifest in my day job funding and scaling tech ideas, is …
Feed Roughly five posts per year. Started in .
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as days pass by
“scratched tallies on the prison wall.” By Stuart Langridge. 🇬🇧Updated
Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves, a review So, Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves, which I have just watched. I have some thoughts. Spoilers from here on out! Up front I shall say: that was OK. Not amazing, but not bad either. …
Feed Roughly eight posts per year. Started in .
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The Autodidacts
“Exploring the universe from the inside out.” By Curiositry, Adam, Immanuel. 🇨🇦Updated
Useful keyboard shortcuts I learned too late I’ve been using computers for a long time, and for most of that time, I’ve considered myself a power user — the kind of person who bothers to use keyboard shortcuts in the first place, …
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Netflix, Shein and MrBeast A couple of years ago, I wrote an essay arguing that Netflix is a ‘TV company’, not a ‘tech company’, simply on the basis that all the questions that matter for it are TV questions. …
Feed Roughly seven posts per year. Started in .
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Blogccasion
“The personal blog of Thomas Steiner.” 🇩🇪Updated
Getting my domain tomayac.de back There's this old mantra that Cool URIs don't change that Tim Berners Lee has been championing since 1998. And in the subtitle of the linked document it says: What makes a cool URI? A cool …
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booktwo.org | James Bridle
“The blog of James Bridle: art, literature, and the network, since 2006.” 🇬🇷Updated
I could make that I went off to the mountain alone for a few days this week, which is a longer and more interesting story than this one. And because I didn’t want the internet with me, I picked …
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cadence's weblog (personal blog)
“A grab bag of stories, computers, photos, mind, and all the other thoughts that won't let me go.” By Cadence Ember. 🇳🇿Updated
How to log in to phpBB for scraping This post is all about logging in to phpBB through manually constructed requests. Once you're logged in, scraping the forum is up to you. You can use the usual techniques for it, just be sure …
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Cennydd Bowles · Writing
“Cennydd Bowles is a designer and tech ethicist. He is a principal technology adviser at the ICO, author of Future Ethics, and a visiting lecturer at the RCA and Manchester Met.” 🇬🇧Updated
Do the benefits of AI outweigh the risks? I was kindly invited to a Raspberry Pi Foundation offsite to debate ‘Do the benefits of AI outweigh the risks?’ Here’s the short statement I shared:Sometimes the role of an ethicist is to ask distinguishing …
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Chris Coyier
“Web craftsman, blogger, author, speaker.” 🇺🇸Updated
Modern CSS in Real Life Hey! Chris Coyier here. This is a blog-itized version of a presentation I created. It started life as a Keynote file which I presented in person at RenderATL in June of 2023. I put a …
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Clive Thompson – Medium
“I write 3X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide.” 🇺🇸Updated
Three Hilariously Terrible Tech Predictions Or, how I’ve learned to be careful about dismissing new trendsContinue reading on Medium »
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conway.scot
“Information Security Researcher.” By Scott Conway.Updated
Ditching E-ZPass for Increased Privacy and Cheaper Tolls As a resident of the state of New York who likes to use the I-90 interstate on occasion, I was practically required to get an E-ZPass tag in 2021, when the I-90 switched exclusively to …
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danah boyd | apophenia
“making connections where none previously existed.” 🇺🇸Updated
Too Big to Challenge? Photo 148941930 / Robot Economy © Andrey Popov | Dreamstime.com I find it deeply disturbing that the tech industry represents 9% of the U.S. GDP and only five Big Tech companies account for 25% of …
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David Mytton
“David Mytton is CEO of Console (the best tools for developers) and an active devtools investor.” 🇬🇧Updated
Overestimating AI's water footprint Last week, a journalist requested that I comment on a new preprint article discussing the water footprint of AI. Water is a crucial subject, as the discussion about the environmental impact of IT has mainly …
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Deeplinks Blog | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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To Save the News, We Must Open Up App Stores This is part four of an ongoing, five-part series. Part one, the introduction, is here. Part two, about breaking up ad-tech companies, is here. Part three, about banning surveillance ads, is here. When Steve Jobs …
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/dev/lawyer
“law, technology, and the space between.” By Kyle E. Mitchell. 🇺🇸Updated
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Emily F. Gorcenski
“The personal site of Emily Gorcenski.” 🇩🇪 🇺🇸Updated
Review: Mathematics for Machine Learning and Data Science Specialization by DeepLearning.AI on Coursera I worked through the DeepLearning.AI course on Math for Machine Learning at Coursera. It was fun and informative, if not a bit shallow. Over at my day job, our Germany data and AI community has …
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