Four Things Procrastinators Need to Learn - read this now or later?
<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/whats-not-included-in-facebooks-download-your-data">What's Not Included in Facebook's 'Download Your Data'</a>: all the data about you.<p>#status #status</p>
A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/21/identity-checks-election-disenfranchise-ethnic-minorities">hostile environment</a> for immigrants is a hostile society for everyone.<p>#status #status</p>
Sad but true: we create our own surveillance society and then proclaim privacy is dead.<p>#status #status</p>
This is how to build trust, thanks Apple
<img src="https://vandragt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2018/03/550de294ae134fdf94e99b91bbfec991.jpg" width="600" height="600" /><p>#status #status</p>
In the alternate universe Apple created a home(pod) entertainment system that elegantly worked with TV, consoles, music, & film.<p>#status #status</p>
Perhaps making websites appears hard again to avoid the impression making them is easy, self preservation.<p>#status #status</p>
Self documenting code is a lie, it only describes the single solution that was chosen not why it was and why others were not.<p>#status #status</p>
<p class="e-content">Wow, Inception - The App is back on the app store! <a href="https://www.inception-app.com/">www.inception-app.com</a> My go to app to drown out background noise. Love it. “Hear” is also good.</p>
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Lost my BBC complaint data due to accidentally swiping back to the previous page whilst trying to move the cursor. Feedback sent to Apple. TIL write anything moderately long in a proper text editor such as iA Writer.<p>#status #status</p>
Accidentally watched BBC News this morning as they parrot Trumps’ incorrect facts and read out the tabloids attention diversion tactics.<p>#status #status</p>
How long do people keep their upstream pull requests open on github? Forever to help forks or give up after 6 months?<p>#status #status</p>
Link: explain cron job syntax, love it <a href="https://crontab.guru/">crontab.guru</a><p>#status #status</p>
Happy holidays! My Workflow (iOS) flow to add recipe ingredients to reminders <a href="https://workflow.is/workflows/0a54a25582fe4e2395be0d4fe681c3ed">https://
More Private Browsing
If you visit this site you will know what browser cookies are and that they are used to store information about you across visits to that website. A typical website will store a few to a few hundred cookies on your computer.
Each cookie has an expiry date for when they are no longer valid and then automatically deleted by the browser. Did you know the lifetime of some of these cookies are several decades in the future and that they are routinely used by data brokers and analytics companies to gather data on you?
That's why I've recommended installing a plugin like PrivacyBadger, to prevent these tracking cookies from being passed back to websites that track you across websites.
But you can also override the maximum lifespan of these cookies. I've experimented and 10-14 days seems to be a good medium between having to login to all your websites all the time and maintaining privacy.
Update: 2019-08-29 - the following no longer works on recent Firefox releases:
On Firefox, open about:config and search for network.cookie.lifetime, you will find network.cookie.lifetime.days (set this to 14) and network.cookie.lifetimePolicy (set this to 3 to override the default behaviour or letting the website decide).
On Chrome or Vivaldi (update: and now Firefox) browsers it's possible to set these values by installing my FreshCookies addon, which does not contain any tracking itself.
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It is 2017 and we're still asking for 10 character alphanumeric passwords?<p>#status #status</p>
Hide Trackbacks 1.1.1
Hide Trackbacks is a WordPress plugin that hides pingbacks and trackbacks from your website comments.
I've updated the plugin to indicate it works correctly with WordPress 4.9 and earlier.
Embedding a ted.com video by pasting the URL into a WordPress post means the whole video loads (33mb!) on pageload! Great videos, bad service.<p>#status #status #technology #wordpress</p>
Fix iPhone lightning port disconnection issues by cleaning out the port with a tooth pick. If the inside isn't white then it's not clean.<p>#status #status</p>