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Everybody can thank Facebook for the techlash that is happening now. Elizabeth Warren: “I’m sick of freeloading billionaires.”
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Facebook did a half-hearted push towards a more messaging focused experience during the conversational boom, but didn’t manage to make any inroads and abandoned the effort. Whatsapp could have been...
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I didn’t think I’d live to hear one, but WIDI is a German language podcast (by Igor and a different Johannes) about technology that adds a unique perspective and a more systemic approach to the mix....
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The best thing about ContraPoints is that she gives the most charitable possible treatment to in this case Gender Critical people (the other time it was Incels) and then still rips them for all that...
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Zoom is an excellent video-conferencing app which turns out to be built on some technical excellence of its own (running WASM encoders and decoders in the browser). How Zoom’s web client avoids using...
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The men I work with are not the geniuses of Menlo Park, the ones who retreated to garages and emerged with hardware that changed the world. They’re ensemble actors in an industry that favors singular...
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“Everyone else, money manager big or small, met with him virtually, over Zoom. When Yuan flew to New York for the IPO, it was just his eighth work trip in five years.” Zoom is the real deal and the...
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The newsworthy thing about the Accenture/Hertz story is not that they failed to deliver but how badly they failed and that they are getting sued for it. Getting something that’s not very good for far...
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Even given that this is an amazing job description, you don’t often see companies describing themselves as a ‘socio-technical system’. This is a great way to show off both your care and your depth of...
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Puzzels kinderen van Juf Jannie
Deze Nederlandstalige app van Juf Jannie belooft puzzels voor kinderen vanaf 2 jaar aan te bieden maar de interactie en gebruiksvriendelijkheid zijn erbarmelijk slecht. Ik heb mijn geld terug gevraagd...
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Usually it’s not for a good reason but still, it’s nice to see my grand-boss Dror on television regularly explaining cybersecurity to the German public....
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Many years ago I suggested building in async facilities into Django. I got ridiculed for that both for technical feasibility (rightly) and necessity (short-sightedly). Now finally we have a proposal...
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“Changes to one team’s service may be implemented by another team who needs the enhanced capability by what is called an Away Team. This team works on the Home Team’s code to add what it needs...
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Swisher is doing good work here on Facebook/Fakebook but her handling of the worst of technology is still astonishingly softball given what is happening.
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Set aside all of the obvious outcry, I haven’t seen a single argument yet that explains how encrypted communications are compatible with state power....
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Tooling has become so good and so empowering that like in this tweet, many commerce ‘startups’ that are really struggling to hire and retain dev teams (and then utilize them to their potential) would...
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About password managers: “But I never found a way to get people onto 1password in a single training session. The setup process has a lot of moving parts, involving the desktop app, browser plugin,...
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A poor man’s instapaper
I’ve stopped using Instapaper for a long time now, but I’m still reading longreads. Let me explain how. I go through my links in Chrome on my desktop. I close and read whatever I can and anything...
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Too aggravating to even read this entire thing. I’ll have to get it together soon to delete my facebook account. Though I’ll still be locked into Instagram and Whatsapp then, so I think it would be...
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Cloudflare is setting a high bar for post-mortem writing but if you want to get started with this, the only parts you really need are: What went wrong & What are we doing about it....
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Europe will need its own cloud, but talking will not make it so. https://www.golem.de/news/digitale-souveraenitaet-bundesregierung-treibt-den-aufbau-einer-europa-cloud-voran-1907-142706.html
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A thorough and humane treatment of alt-right memetic history and 8chan with its associated chans. https://medium.com/@DaleBeran/why-does-8chan-exist-at-all-33a8942dbeb2
View ArticleÉlite Universities and Their Donors
Maybe after this New Yorker exposé, Joi Ito will finally resign? https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-an-elite-university-research-center-concealed-its-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein Full...
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Berlin is finally thinking of fixing its totally and utterly broken website. That’s good news but a shame that we have had to use this monstrosity for the past ten years....
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I love TikTok but it is a very large application with very little checks. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tiktok-india-hate-speech-caste
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Unsubscribing from Micromobility
I was surprised to learn you are affiliated with a company (Smide) that you've been praising profusely on your podcast.— Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel (@alper) May 2, 2019 As an occasional listener to the...
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An interesting reversal here where I once said that any application could be delivered through the chat medium, now Kevin Kwok signals a tendency for one chat platform to permeate all applications....
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It is true that Goodreads is a deeply broken website but right now it is the only place that we have that has a critical mass of readers on it....
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All online metrics are a fraud. https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/24/20882240/comscore-sec-serge-matta-financial-fraud-charges-settlement
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An incisive profile on the life of an Instagram influencer. https://www.thecut.com/2019/09/who-would-tavi-gevinson-be-without-instagram.html
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It's funny how much I've come to disagree with this framing, given my background. I think a lot of the discourse around encryption and online privacy suffers from being focused so exclusively on the...
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Not very surprisingly Airbnb these days is a willing platform for criminal behavior. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43k7z3/nationwide-fake-host-scam-on-airbnb
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The story about Dutch national cyber scammer Rian van Rijbroek written up in full like is done here is amazing and priceless....
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The disappearance of Page and Brin is one of the weirder and more foreboding things. You have to wonder whether we will ever hear from them or anybody similarly rich ever again. When, in their famous...
View ArticleBUILDING A NEW WIN 3.1 APP IN 2019 PART 1: SLACK CLIENT
I have nothing but immense respect for these people who built a Slack client for Windows 3.1, turning retro computing into retro programming. Building a new Win 3.1 app in 2019 Part 1: Slack client
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Venkat keeps churning out these legendary and broadly valid pieces. This one is about why everything online is on fire all the time. Strap in. The Internet of Beefs
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Away is a good example of how Slack can get totally out of hand if your company culture is toxic....
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I know more about TikTok than almost everybody around me and still I hardly know anything about TikTok. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/how-meme-accounts-surface-the-meanest-parts-of-tiktok.html
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A very long but quite inspired series of conceptual visual spatializations of the internet. https://louisedrulhe.fr/internet-atlas/
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I can’t say I’ve read a lot of Beyond the Beyond nor been much of a happy Wired consumer in any case, but it’s passing still marks the end of an era. I remember Bruce Sterling’s closing speeches at...
View ArticleLosing @firstname on Instagram
I have my first name as my user name in a bunch of places. I’ve had my Twitter account (Twitter.com/alper) for a very long time but my Instagram account (Instagram.com/alper) got a lot more attention...
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I thought I knew how big a deal TikTok was a year ago already but I feel sorry for not diving in back then because it is much bigger a deal than I had thought....
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This look into QAnon by a game designer goes deeper and is a lot more disturbing. View at Medium.com
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An interesting story about the interaction between loving the outdoors and Instagram culture. https://www.outsideonline.com/2415324/instagram-social-media-geotagging-outdoors-oversharing
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Looking at some Discord first organizations this describes how they could play out and how much potential is there if you want to put some effort in it. https://buff.ly/2THEtQ3
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Getting @firstname back
So the Instagram handle that I thought I had lost was returned to me suddenly last week (thanks to a friend). Not sure whether I’ll get to keep it this time round, but let’s try. At least this time...
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I thought I had problems with my Instagram account. Turns out it can be a lot worse than that. A @Facebook employee has stolen my @instagram account. Thread! (RTs appreciated)...
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Here come the scammers
After having been locked out of my Instagram account for months because of wrongful reports, I have just gotten back access to the account for a week or so and I already get the first people reporting...
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How Taiwan’s Unlikely Digital Minister Hacked the Pandemic A review of Taiwan’s digital and democratic culture focusing on Audrey Tang....
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