gr0k @gr0k@gr0k.net
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Linux Nerd. Web developer. Photographer. Electronic Musician. Occasional Writer. General Creative.
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Microsoft's Edge browser appears to be sending all the URLs you visit to its Bing API website.
Reddit users first spotted the privacy issues with Edge last week, noticing that the latest version of Microsoft Edge sends a request to bingapis.com with the full URL of nearly every page you navigate to. Microsoft tells The Verge it's investigating ...
*cough*
"Oh did we accidentally write code and put it in our browser that collects info on everything you do, again?
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/04/25/209254/microsoft-edge-is-leaking-the-sites-you-visit-to-bing
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Congratulations on living past 30! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to discover new music that sounds like old music and doesn’t remind you of your unresolved trauma and shame!
Seth Godin on point again, this time about #AI https://seths.blog/2023/04/the-cliffs-notes-paradox/
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Sorry, the sabotage of Twitter is not a “disaster for democracy”—it’s the logical and inevitable endpoint of surveillance capitalist control of our communications infrastructure.
Those who control a message’s delivery system control the message.
Twitter was always owned by surveillance capitalists—it NEVER served democracy.
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.; - Amelia Earhart
a new Underworld track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh4tuUkANtg
Another reason to keep using Firefox, or to start using it if you don't already or have moved away: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/04/17/firefox-may-interact-with-cookie-prompts-automatically-soon/
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The purpose of Substack is
1. to make investors money and
2. keep journalists siloed, fragmented and controllable
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Writing Humor
Credit ― Steve Hely, How I Became a Famous Novelist
Not sure I've mentioned Back Alley Kat, but really enjoying their #NameYourPrice EP - Somewhere https://backalleykat.bandcamp.com/album/somewhere-ep #bandcamp #hiphop
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. - Anaïs Nin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnEIeVWLtbU Ice Ice Matrix - INCREDIBLE! Essential viewing.
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#quote: Writing is the process by which you realize that you do not understand what you are talking about. Importantly, writing is also the process by which you figure it out. - Farnam Street - https://fs.blog/why-write/
Really enjoying this 2012 #NameYourPrice album: colours of melancholia by Colours Of Melancholia. Grab it here https://coloursofmelancholia.bandcamp.com/album/colours-of-melancholia
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This was a great read. https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-for-everyone/
I've often scratched my head at Signal's decision-making. Stickers? Stories? I'd rarely use them, if ever. But Signal describes how they are specifically making features for users outside U.S. culture and infrastructural contexts.
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Linux Nerd. Web developer. Photographer. Electronic Musician. Occasional Writer. General Creative.
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