Motherboard: AirPods Are a Tragedy –
Apple claims that AirPods are building a “wireless future.” Many people think they’re a symbol of disposable wealth. The truth is bleaker.
via Dave Winer
Motherboard: AirPods Are a Tragedy –
Apple claims that AirPods are building a “wireless future.” Many people think they’re a symbol of disposable wealth. The truth is bleaker.
via Dave Winer
Infinite Scroll from Pete Henderson on Vimeo.
Seems pretty accurate…
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I’m loving securitycheckli.st. It is an easy to understand list of ways to secure your data and privacy. Not only does it tell you what you should be doing, but it also has suggestions for services and sites that can help. Each of the points on the list also have links to more in-depth resources. Personally, I think if you were only going to do one thing on this list: Get a password manager. This will make using using strong, unique passwords for all of your logins much easier. I wouldn’t stop there though, the other suggestions on the list are solid. Kudos to Brian Lovin for putting this together! via Cool Tools Changes are afoot at Flickr. The days of free storage (up to a terrabyte) are over. Now, non-paying members can only store 1,000 photos or less. In February, they will delete photos in excess of 1,000. I haven’t been using Flickr in the past several years. Most of the that were uploaded there, are also archived locally, but local archives are the equivalent of a storing printed photos in a dust-covered box in the attic. Wanting to get a copy of all of these pictures along with the meta data (albums, tags, etc.), I requested all of my data from Flickr. Getting the data is easy, but it doesn’t happen instantly. I didn’t time how long it took for Flickr to assemble all of the files, but it was less than 24 hours. The files in the download are not user friendly. Here’s a brief inventory: This seems consistent with Dave’s analysis of his download from Flickr. There’s enough information to piece things back together, but not without some effort. My library has over 2,000 images. Probably on the lower end of what many users have on Flickr, but too much to go through manually. I might try hacking together a script to upload the photos onto this site with as much meta data as I can. At minimum, it would be nice to have the photos organized in the same albums. Stay tuned…securitycheckli.st
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