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Twitter locked my account for a nine year old tweet
I recently got an e-mail saying I had violated Twitter’s rules for hateful conduct. I immediately thought my account password had been compromised, o...
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Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft
Slack Technologies, Inc., (NYSE: WORK) today announced it has filed a competition complaint against Microsoft Corporation before the European Commission.
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Public Apology to Jeremy Howard
NumFOCUS's Code of Conduct Committee's apology to Jeremy Howard
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Update on free software and telemetry
Telemetry services and GitLab. (GitLab CE will continue to be free software)
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Running a Law Firm on Linux
We are now three or so months into the world of running decoded.legal, and doing legal work, exclusively* on Linux 1 , so I thought I’d write about it.
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Apology
After talking to two team members who recalled our staff meeting at the 2018 Racket Summer School better than I did, I think I can put myself into your shoes now.
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Global coalition to Facebook: “Authentic names” are dangerous for your users
Facebook claims its practice of forcing users to go by their "real names" (or "authentic identities" as Facebook spins it) makes the social network a safer place. In fact, the company has often claimed that the policy protects women who use the social media platform, even when faced with community...
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What the Goddamn Hell Is Going on in the Tech Industry?
Sweet merciful Jesus, I woke up this morning and my inbox was flooded with horrific stories about how employers treat people. I knew things were fucked, but this was so much worse than I imagined, and that's not even getting into the comments on Hackernews. I am going to dig into some of those emails, but first...
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USA Temperature: can I sucker you?
Suppose I wanted to convince people that temperature in the USA wasn’t going up, it was going down. What would I show? Let’s try yearly average temperature in the conterminous U.S., als…
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How to build a small town in Texas
Of all the questions I get on Twitter the most common is this: “How do you build a town?” We know how it used to be done, but these last two centuries we have forgotten how to do it.
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U.S. insurrectionists received $500k in bitcoins from French donor
Did you know that Alt-right groups got $500k in bitcoins a month before the capitol riot? Read the entire report here and find out who the secret donor is.
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Denmark bans Gmail and Co from schools due to privacy concerns
Denmark's data protection authority follows Dutch and German authorities by raising concerns about Google's GDPR compliance.
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Global Intelligence Crisis
A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future
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We Regulate the Wrong Things
Most cities’ zoning and development regulations obsess over things that are easy to measure, like building height and density, at the expense of the things that actually determine whether we’re building quality places.
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Dear USA, my data has left your building
NSA, GCHQ, Prism, FISA, Project Bullrun, Sigint. After Edward Snowden, former CIA and NSA employee, started revealing how massively, intensely and easily we are all being spied upon by the intelligence agencies of various governments, the terms above have suddenly been spending a great deal more time in the media…
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The War On RSS
John Gruber was right, when pointing to Dan Frakes’ review of the Mail app in Mountain Lion, to highlight the fact that the application drops support for RSS (he calls it an “interesting omission”, which is both correct and understated). It is indeed the most interesting aspect of the review, even though it’s buried…
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AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2
Some (well-known) consequences of AI automating work
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Refund of pre-installed Windows: Lenovo must pay 20k euros in damages
In a historic judgment in Italy, in a case initiated by FSFE supporter Luca Bonissi, Lenovo was ordered to pay 20,000 euros in damages for abusive behaviou...
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Yahoo breaks every mailing list in the world including the IETF's
Search IETF mail list archives
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Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA
The Wikimedia Foundation’s mission is to support the communities of readers and contributors who share and consume information on Wikipedia and the other free-knowledge projects. Privacy and anonym…
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Thought Leaders and Chicken Sexers
From the moment I started paying attention to the tech industry, Paul Graham was there. My first job out of college was in SoMa, around the corner from the Justin.tv offices, and his essays were just floating around in the ether, impossible to ignore. His popularization of Lisp was a small part of why I tried Clojure…
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