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Mac app launches slowed by malware scan (2024)
I've always attributed slow Xcode launches to Xcode simply sucking, but I've noticed that the FileMerge app frequently launches slowly too. When this happens, the app can take a dozen bounces in the Dock before finally opening. FileMerge resides in the folder Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/ within the Xcode bundle…
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The Brief Origins of May Day
Most people living in the United States know little about the International Workers' Day of May Day. For many others there is an assumption that it is a holiday celebrated in state communist countries like Cuba or the former Soviet Union. Most Americans don't realize that May Day has its origins here in this country…
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Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rebuked the phone giant, opened the app store, and made a criminal contempt referral to an Apple executive for lying under oath. Plus, a bad antitrust bill goes down.
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How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment
A weblog about Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and top level telecommunications equipment
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Future of OSU Open Source Lab in Jeopardy
I am writing to inform you about a critical and time-sensitive situation facing the Open Source Lab (OSL). Over the past several years, we have been operating at a deficit due to a decline in corporate donations. While the Oregon State College of Engineering (CoE) has generously filled this gap, recent changes in…
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Someone at YouTube needs glasses
Opened YouTube and was greeted with this abomination:
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I can't pay rent because devs just don't care
Rent's due today, thank heavens I just got paid. I don't set up standing orders, got burned once with unarranged overdraft fees, that wasn't a good mont...
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My sourdough starter has twins
A couple of years ago, I participated in a study of the HealthFerm Citizen Science group in …
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Knowledge-based society, my ass
I've studied the effects of electromagnetic fields on patients with carotid stent implants during my PhD. I've never talked with any patient nor seen any such medical devices even to this day, fifteen years later.
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Congress passes Take It Down act despite major flaws
It would give the powerful a dangerous new route to manipulate platforms into removing lawful speech that they simply don't like, with President Trump himself saying that he would use the law to censor his critics. The bill passed the Senate in February, and it now heads to the president's desk.
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East German Stasi Tactics – Zersetzung (2021)
A look at the experiences of activists in East Germany (GDR) dealing with Stasi informants and infiltration before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
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We need more optimistic science fiction
We cannot create a better world if we cannot imagine it.
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The coming knowledge-work supply-chain crisis
"Humans. Here they are. Bottleneck, bottleneck. Hi, good to see you. And some of you are terrified. You're going to be even bigger bottlenecks." - Tyler Cowen
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Backblaze: Mounting Losses, Lawsuits, Sham Accounting, Insider Selling
Summary * Backblaze (NASDAQ:BLZE) is a $250 million cloud storage and backup solution provider based in California that operates through two business segments: B2 Cloud Storage allowing “customers to store data” and “developers to build applications,” and Computer Backup that “automatically backs up data” from devices…
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Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case
It's damned hard to prove an antitrust case: so often, the prosecution has to prove that the company intended to crush competition, and/or that they raised prices or reduced quality because they knew they didn't have to fear competitors.
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ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation
Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well
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I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time
In 2003, I wrote a book called Crap Towns. It seemed funny at the time. But plenty of people say it would not be possible to publish it today. Is that a problem?
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Reading RSS content is a skilled activity
I've long had a fraught relationship with ToDo lists, because they're very much a double edged sword, but I'm convinced that much of the problem is t ...
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Street address errors in Google Maps
(or actually they do, but they don’t use this knowledge effectively)Update, April 26, 2025: the address fix for W 6th Ave is live, mostly. Going forward I wish that Google Maps would make it harder…
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Manufactured consensus on x.com
How algorithm-driven influence quietly replaces genuine discourse with engineered popularity.
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America's reputation drops across the world
The proportion saying the United States will have a positive influence on world affairs has fallen in 26 out of 29 countries over the last six months. America’s reputation has fallen most markedly in Canada. For the first time in our decade-long survey series, China is placed ahead of the US when it comes to playing a…
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I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)
I was curious about the 51 Franklin Street address in the GPLv2 license notice so I wrote to them as they said
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Careless People
I never would have read Careless People , Sarah Wynn-Williams's tell-all memoir about her years running global policy for Facebook, but then Meta's lawyer tried to get the book suppressed and secured an injunction to prevent her from promoting it:
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AI Horseless Carriages
An essay about bad AI app design
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They made computers behave like annoying salesmen
They made computers behave like annoying salesmen | exotext
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