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There’s no place like Chrome
Dec. 1st, 2016 05:49 amApparently, Firefox has a bug that makes it even less trustworthy than the Net usually is, so I have installed Chrome and am using it for the duration, with redoing passwords and other fun stuff. The continuing saga of computers becoming the sort of thing I want to use computers to deal with.
The title tells it
Feb. 2nd, 2016 06:13 amThe Internet of Garbage
Here’s an interesting thought from it:
Here’s an interesting thought from it:
Harassment doesn’t happen because the Internet is “too big”— it happens because it’s too small. Part of this has to do with thoughtless user interface design. When it comes to Twitter, an @-reply feels offensive because it “invades” your online space; it’s a message delivered straight to your face because the Twitter user interface is designed to make @-replies visible.
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Newspaper stops running comments on its Web site because
Our comments are a raging cesspool filled with the worst that humanity has to offer and you all make us look bad by smearing your feculent mindpoops on our property, so do it somewhere else and we’ll pick the ones we like to highlight.Scalzi approves.
Thought-provoking article about the decline of Twitter. It starts with Walter J. Ong’s theory of orality, which is a good place to start.
Thanx to Metafilter
Thanx to Metafilter
Jonathan Swift was right
Dec. 26th, 2014 06:55 amFor some reason Firefox has decided to approach the network named after shit-flinging monkeys with a firm grip on its own ankles, and it no longer defaults to Google for searches. Fortunately, we have a computer self-defense professional in the household, and he will fix it.
ETA: I figured out how to switch it back myself, but I'm still pissed off.
ETA: I figured out how to switch it back myself, but I'm still pissed off.
"Obamacare for the Internet"
Nov. 11th, 2014 04:33 pmNet neutrality explained, as it must be to Ted Cruz, with lots of pictures.
