Category Archives: Technology

jwz: ENGAGEMENT!

Posted on April 14, 2021 by David K.

Every time we post to our Facebook account, it immediately gets 2-5 one-word comments from random Indian dudes with locked accounts that are years old and have thousands of friends: Source: jwz: ENGAGEMENT! There’s never post about Facebook on “Hacker” … Continue reading →

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How People Get Rich Now

Posted on April 13, 2021 by David K.

The tech companies behind the top 100 fortunes also form a well-differentiated group in the sense that they’re all companies that venture capitalists would readily invest in, and the others mostly not. And there’s a reason why: these are mostly … Continue reading →

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The Gervais Principle II: Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk

Posted on March 31, 2021 by David K.

Finally, Sociopaths and Losers speak rarely to each other at all. One of the functions of the Clueless, recall, is to provide a buffer in what would otherwise be a painfully raw master-slave dynamic in a pure Sociopath-Loser organization. But … Continue reading →

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Imgur. Again.

Posted on March 26, 2021 by David K.

I think Imgur is currently running 40% on the liberal programming right now. I know I’ve talked about it before, but I’m convinced it’s a sociological experiment, no different than the Cambridge Analytica scandal that drove the liberals out of … Continue reading →

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Wait no longer my friends! – whatadeal post – Imgur

Posted on March 24, 2021 by David K.

Reddit says this is from 1981. Google says this would be $9,800 in today’s dollars. I’m surprised by that date, though. Even in 1994, when I got my first job, 10 MB was the standard desktop hard drive size in … Continue reading →

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Google and “Privacy”

Posted on March 16, 2021 by David K.

After months of stalling, Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome and the Google app. No wonder they wanted to hide it.⁰Spying on users has nothing to do with building a great web browser or search … Continue reading →

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Liberals and Conservatives Are Both Totally Wrong about Platform Immunity | by Tim Wu | Medium

Posted on March 14, 2021 by David K.

Everyone is, in short, currently asking for the wrong thing. Which makes it worth asking: Why? One reason is that this area is confusing, and the idea of making tech “responsible” does sound good. There are, as I discuss below, … Continue reading →

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On Changing Blogging Format

Posted on March 3, 2021 by David K.

I’m really late in coming to an understanding of this, but I’m just realizing that “blogging” has moved to video. I mean, the kinds of things I’m writing down here are mostly being done, these days, as 10-15 minute videos … Continue reading →

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“I will slaughter you” | daniel.haxx.se

Posted on February 19, 2021 by David K.

Source: “I will slaughter you” | daniel.haxx.se “I lost my family, my country my friends, my home and 6 years of work trying to build a better place for posterity. And it has beginnings in that code. That code is … Continue reading →

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Chromebooks outsold Macs worldwide in 2020, cutting into Windows market share – GeekWire

Posted on February 18, 2021 by David K.

New numbers show 2020 was the first year that Chromebooks outsold Macs, posting impressive market share gains at the expense of Windows. Computers powered by Google’s Chrome OS have outsold Apple’ Source: Chromebooks outsold Macs worldwide in 2020, cutting into … Continue reading →

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