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They stole something from you. For decades, they stole it. That thing they stole? Your entire culture. For all of human history, works created in living memory entered the public domain every year. 40 years ago, that stopped.
I know I'm not alone in having a relationship with the orange site that is... weird. I generally dislike the culture there, it's almost impossible to read any of the comments without being frustrated about the industry I work in or am adjacent to and some of the people who inhabit it; but as a link aggregator of stuff…
Meta's Threads.net sure looks a lot like App.net. Is Meta due for a pivot? The legislation the company supports suggests yes.
Creating a subtle, peripheral, and synchronous sense of shared space and context on the web
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
The final compromise text of the EU Cyber Resilience Act is now officially available, and various open source voices are currently opining on it. This is a complex act and other parts of the open source world (like the Eclipse Foundation and NLNet Labs) have been hard at work to advocate with the EU and member states…
The new normal in tech recruiting
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Apparently Randall Munroe gets a lot of messages saying that the “random” button on xkcd is biased.
Nothing I Buy Works
Many bad things happened in 2023. You already know them. Many tragic events were so terrible we will never forget them and we shouldn’t. You can easily find them all over the news. But the good things that happened are much harder to encounter, and it is easy to get the impression nothing good happened at all. In…
This map story is about one specific map, the only one remaining from the Roman …
Patents are supposed to be an incentive to invent. Too often, they end up being a way to try to claim “ownership” of what should be basic building blocks of human activity, culture, and knowledge. This is especially true of software patents, an area EFF has been speaking out about for more than 20...
Companies increasingly aim to control how users interact with their content online, threatening user freedom. As more companies crack down on browser exten...
Experiences navigating disintegrating American health care institutions, and what they might imply for life in 2037
Since Google’s introduction of its Pixel 8 phones earlier this month, it has been interesting and a little amusing to me to read the reactions to its image manipulation tools. It feels like we have been asking the same questions every year — questions like what is a photograph, anyway?, and has technology gone too […]
I’ve been buying a copy of Maximum PC magazine at the airport newsstand on every long-distance trip I’ve taken over the past two decades. I’m primarily a Mac user but Maximum PC, which started life as boot, bought at these … Continue reading →
A speech Bill Watterson gave at Kenyon College, Gambier Ohio, to the 1990 graduating class.
The complete original Limits to Growth study is now freely accessible online, thanks to the Donella Meadows Institute and the Dartmouth College Library.
How big is YouTube? It's not easy to find out, but we did two years of research and figured out how...
A recent UK Channel 4 TV programme talked about the recent decline in quality of food: YouTube Channel 4
It's time to be honest about Musk's vacuum tube to nowhere
Companies increasingly aim to control how users interact with their content online, threatening user freedom. As more companies crack down on browser exten...
苹果公司自诩为用户隐私的捍卫者，然而这并非事实。 在近十年的时间里，苹果允许应用程序具备跟踪用户位置的能力，而不提供关闭此功能或引起用户对此的关注的选项。 而且这是「只有苹果可以做到的」（Only Apple Can Do）！
A data-driven examination of the 12% increase in US homelessness, the structural causes behind the numbers, and what the data tells us about housing policy failures.
