Of all the sites on the internet, this is one.
In a couple of weeks Mozilla will be releasing an update to Firefox, my current browser of choice. It’ll be version 57, it’ll go by the name Quantum, and according to the makers of JAWS and NVDA it’ll mess up your screen reader something fierce and you probably shouldn’t use it if you plan on …
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Generally speaking, most of the people I hear from because of this site are very nice. The rest are mostly made up of people trying to convince me to participate in dubious-sounding content partnerships with them or people threatening me with legal action by pretending to be lawyers who do well to spell words like …
Tricky as it might be to exploit, as far as internet security vulnerabilities go I’m not sure it gets much worse than Krack. Thankfully Carin and I are above buying shit like kettles and cookie jars and socks that require connectivity, so we’re probably good once we Windows Update the computers, upgrade the iPhones to …
Whenever I hear a person described as an “online influencer”, “internet celebrity ” or “thought leader”, I can’t help but think of somebody just like this geek right here. Seriously, this movie is all of them. A stay-at-home dad and self-proclaimed “internet celebrity” ignores an obvious addiction to social media, and attention from strangers, while …
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I’m not a Netflix subscriber so I can’t really help out here, but if you are and can, you have until September 20th to take part in a survey on its described video offerings. Sara Brennan, a Masters student at the University of Montreal in the Vision Sciences program, is exploring the ease and satisfaction …
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I realize this news isn’t exactly breaking, but there are only so many times you get to celebrate the death of something as goddamned irritating as Adobe Flash, sooooo… Adobe Systems Inc.’s Flash, a once-ubiquitous technology used to power most of the media content found online, will be retired at the end of 2020, the …
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I was not expecting to check my email and see an email from Snopes entitled “We need you!” but that’s what I saw in my email yesterday. I guess they had a company providing them some services who has now gone rogue and is basically holding their site hostage. They’re looking for donations to cover …
I got an email today about one of Carin’s old posts. You’d be amazed how often that happens, but that’s another post for another day. Anyway, this one was about a password security tester she linked to a few years back that would tell you how long it might take for somebody to crack your …
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Would anybody care to enlighten me as to who the target market for this $190 batch of internet-connected socks is? Because I’ve got nothin’. That video is in what sounds like German, so if like me you can’t see what’s happening you’re not going to get a whole lot out of it. But there’s this, …
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If you can’t quite bring yourself to remove Donald Trump from your internet entirely, now you can at least ensure that you’re getting a somewhat more accurate presidential experience by installing RealDonaldContext, the Washington Post’s new Chrome extension and Firefox add-on that will allow you to fact-check his tweets. What a world we live in …