Blogs about Computers, internet, tech
59 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
Typeface Tournament Tim Bray recently wrote some thoughts on picking a new typeface for programming. He then posted a followup with even more options. These articles struck a chord with me, and I thought it would be …
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Annoying Technology
“Curates the daily annoyances in the technologies surrounding us.” 🇩🇪Updated
Manuel was annoyed Let’s ignore for a moment how extremely annoying it is that any remotely useful app these days has to jump through these hoops and build a dialog like this, explaining to people how to make …
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asadrahman.io
“Asad's online home.” By Asad Rahman. 🇬🇧Updated
Surfing radio waves Surfing radio waves TL; DR – I listened to the radio in my late teens and early 20s, as much as I listen to podcasts today. They symbolise different things: both in my life, and …
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as days pass by
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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. …
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Blogccasion
“The personal blog of Thomas Steiner.” 🇩🇪Updated
Cross platform software frameworks Cross Platform Software Frameworks 🔗 The other day, I came across Elk Native, a native version of the rather excellent, if early-stage, Mastodon Web client Elk. To be honest, I wondered why they would build …
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booktwo.org | James Bridle
“The blog of James Bridle: art, literature, and the network, since 2006.” 🇬🇷Updated
Gleanings, January 2023 Seagrass conservation is critical for mitigating climate change due to the large stocks of carbon they sequester in the seafloor. However, effective conservation and its potential to provide nature-based solutions to climate change is hindered …
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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
Privacy in the product design lifecycle In the whirlwind that was the last fortnight, I never properly shared the big project I shipped at the ICO. Designers, PMs, and engineers: this is for you.Under GDPR (article 25), a data controller has …
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Chris Coyier
“Web craftsman, blogger, author, speaker.” 🇺🇸Updated
Authenticity I enjoyed this podcast with Susan Rogers who’s new book This is What it Sounds Like digs into why we like the songs we like. Susan unpacks the seven dimensions of music and how they …
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My Reverse Time Capsule While rummaging in the WIRED magazine archives, I found this entry from 1995. In it, Douglas Copeland imagines a “reverse time capsule,” sent back to 1975 and wonders what in it would be most surprising …
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Clive Thompson – Medium
“I write 3X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide.” 🇺🇸Updated
Maybe Zoom Parties Weren’t So Bad New research suggests Zoom brought not just fatigue — but genuine connectionContinue reading on Medium »
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danah boyd | apophenia
“making connections where none previously existed.” 🇺🇸Updated
What if failure is the plan? I’ve been thinking a lot about failure lately. Failure comes in many forms, but I’m especially interested in situations in which people *perceive* something as failing (or about to fail) and the contestations over failure …
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David Mytton
“David Mytton is CEO of Console (the best tools for developers) and an active devtools investor.” 🇬🇧Updated
Improving the accuracy of the GHG protocol in time and space A survey on the need for updating the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol standards recently closed. Having been in existence since 2004 (with scope 2 and scope 3 guidance published in 2015 and 2013), it is …
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Deeplinks Blog | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Civil Rights Organizations File Amicus Brief in Support of EFF Lawsuit Against Discriminatory SFPD Surveillance Intern Taylor Fox contributed to this blog post. At the height of the George Floyd protests in 2020, the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) spied on thousands of demonstrators in real time by using a …
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/dev/lawyer
“law, technology, and the space between.” By Kyle E. Mitchell. 🇺🇸Updated
On-Cloud Licensing the wheel of software delivery keeps on turning
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Emily F. Gorcenski
“The personal site of Emily Gorcenski.” 🇩🇪 🇺🇸Updated
The Mythologies of Genocide The horrific proposed anti-transgender legislation in the United States has a lot of people afraid, and the word “genocide” is being used like it’s going out of style. That’s both wrong and dangerous. You’ve probably …
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Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
“a personal view of the theory of computation.” By Kenneth W. Regan, Richard Lipton. 🇺🇸Updated
Céad Míle GPT The gift of Broadscale Linguistic Affinely Regressed Neurally Encoded Yakking By Simplified from “leprechaun robot” Neil L. is sentient. As a fantastical creature, that is his most important attribute. Today we ask whether Neil has …
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the grugq
“Cyber. Strategy. Deception.”Updated
Albanian Cyber War For all the disappointment over the lack of spectacular cyber warfare in Ukraine, there’s very little interest in the “textbook cyberwar” scenarios unfolding around Iran. Albania has just severed diplomatic ties with Iran over the …
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