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6 votes
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Don't ask to ask, just ask
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Facebook and Google refuse to pay revenue to Australian media
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What blogs/newsletters do you subscribe to and why?
Back in the day I was a hardcore Google Reader (RIP) user, and following that I continued to use https://feedly.com/ for many years, but eventually I found myself falling behind on all my feeds...
Back in the day I was a hardcore Google Reader (RIP) user, and following that I continued to use https://feedly.com/ for many years, but eventually I found myself falling behind on all my feeds and stopped checking it.
Recently, I signed for Inoreader and I've started reading more blogs again. It also has the nice feature of letting you subscribe to email newsletters too, which is quite nice since I find them annoying to deal with in my email inbox but convenient in the feed reader.
I'm wondering what blogs and newsletters folks on Tildes subscribe to.
Here are a few of my favorites:
Blogs:
- bellingcat: Independent investigative journalism often based on online "open source intelligence." e.g. The Boogaloo Movement is Not What You Think
- BLDGBLOG: Geoff Manaugh's blog about everything related to the space we inhabit, both built and natural. e.g. Underground Cathedrals of Radiation and Zones of Irreversible Strain
- Flowing Data: Nathan Yau's blog about data visualization. e.g. Racial Divide
- Idle Words: The blog of Maciej Cegłowski, creator of the Pinboard bookmarking service. Covers tech and lots of unrelated topics. e.g. Superintelligence: The Idea that Eats Smart People
Newsletters:
- BIG by Matt Stoller: A newsletter about economics and in particular the economics of monopolies and disruptive startups. e.g. The Slow Death of Hollywood
- Data is Plural: A weekly newsletter of fun/weird datasets.
- Normcore Tech: Vicki Boykis' newsletter about tech and tech-related things. e.g. The Reign of Big Recsys
- Uses This: Brief interviews with all sorts of creators about what tools they use to do what they do.
This is just a slice. I can share my entire list if people are interested. But I'm curious about what feeds others enjoy, on anything from film and furniture to "movie-set" urbanism. What are you reading?
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Search only forums and find actually useful information with BoardReader
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Reddit is finally facing its legacy of racism
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CDA Section 230 explained: The important and often-misunderstood legal foundation of the social internet
6 votes -
Internet Archive ends its "National Emergency Library" unlimited digital book-lending program in response to lawsuit filed by publishers
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Scuba divers could send sea life shots in real time using an aquatic internet service
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Twitter removes Chinese misinformation campaign
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Covid-19 makes it clearer than ever: access to the internet should be a universal right -- Tim Berners-Lee
14 votes -
How to design a Proof of Concept project to evaluate software
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What is the Gemini Protocol?
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IBM exits facial recognition business, calls for US police reform
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MIT, guided by open access principles, ends Elsevier negotiations
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Twitter is testing a new feature on Android: When you retweet an article that you haven't opened on Twitter, the app may ask if you'd like to open it first
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Apple announces Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2020 keynote timeline, week-long conference schedule
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Facebook groups are falling apart with drama, infighting, and deleted comments about Black Lives Matter posts
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Phone automation - Share your workflows!
I recently switched operating systems on my phone and lost some of the automated workflows I had during the transition. While I've rebuilt some of it, but it sometimes feels like I'm missing...
I recently switched operating systems on my phone and lost some of the automated workflows I had during the transition. While I've rebuilt some of it, but it sometimes feels like I'm missing something or that I could do more, I just don't know what exactly. I'd like to hear from others here and see if they can inspire me to implement what works for them. I'm using an android phone with automate and here's the workflows that I got:
- When plugging in the phone, set it to do not disturb and enable Bluetooth. This is for when I go to sleep so that I don't get woken up by notifications and I can listen to podcasts on my headband.
- If at work (Based on cell towers, not GPS) set phone to vibrate, when leaving it set it to ring. I actually lost this one but haven't rebuilt it since I've not been to the office in a while.
- Learn location. For a set time, grabs the cell towers around and stores them in a JSON file.
What kind of automation have you implemented on your phone?
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On Apple announcing the ARM Mac transition at WWDC this month
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Reddit names Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel as Alexis Ohanian’s replacement on its board of directors
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We mapped where Customs and Border Protection drones are flying in the US and beyond
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Changing the world with drones – Helena Samsioe is widely known as the 'Drone Queen' since founding GLOBHE in 2015
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Clubhouse - Buzzy new "spontaneous social" app | How does social capital work in context of live audio
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Apple plans to announce move to its own Mac chips at WWDC
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GPT-3: Language models are few-shot learners
9 votes -
Several subreddits have posted a open letter "Open Letter to Steve Huffman and the Board of Directors of Reddit, Inc– If you believe in standing up to hate and supporting black lives, you need to act"
38 votes -
The most urgent threat of deepfakes isn't politics, it's porn
10 votes -
Privacy browser Brave under fire for violating users’ trust
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Checking the End Of Life dates for various tools and technologies
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Copyright blocks interview of protesters because Marvin Gaye's 'Let's get it on' was playing in the background
17 votes -
Why email is the best discussion platform
10 votes -
When phones were fun: Samsung's "Matrix Phone" (2003)
8 votes -
What if the internet never existed?
5 votes -
Incognito mode detection still works in Chrome despite promise to fix
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Alexis Ohanian (site co-founder) resigns from Reddit's board, urging them to fill his seat with a black candidate and pledging future gains on his stock to serve the black community
63 votes -
The great race to surrender our privacy (2019)
5 votes -
Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message encryption
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Schools turn to surveillance tech to prevent Covid-19 spread: "We are very much interested in the automated tracking of students"
6 votes -
Critics warn of multimedia 'hell' (1995)
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One Twitter account is reposting everything Trump tweets. It was suspended within three days
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Retrotech: The Novell NetWare Experience
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Internet service provider Optus has been ordered to hand over the details of a customer accused of defaming a Melbourne dentist through a Google review
7 votes -
AWS and Slack join forces
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Seven years later, I bought a new Macbook. For the first time, I don't love it
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What are secure alternatives to slack, and what are your experiences with them?
First, some context. The latest from the US justice department saying that they will be focusing on finding "ANTIFA leaders" is incredibly troubling for anyone involved in leftist groups. I...
First, some context. The latest from the US justice department saying that they will be focusing on finding "ANTIFA leaders" is incredibly troubling for anyone involved in leftist groups. I foresee a lot of good activists, regardless of how far left they actually are, arrested on trumped up charges in order to squash opposition.
Organizing is essential to resist fascism. This is made more difficult by the pandemic, as in person meetings bring a huge, almost unacceptable risk. As such, many orgs have been turning to platforms like Slack instead. Trouble is, Slack logs are not encrypted and I am certain that as a business based in the US Slack will not put up a fight to keep user data safe if the feds come calling.
I'd like to collect a decent list of alternatives. Important factors include encryption, ownership, open source status, ease of use, federation, scalability, hosting, cross platform, and anything else you can think of.
23 votes -
How a raccoon became an aardvark
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Reddit's /r/history closed down for 24 hours in protest against Reddit's lack of anti-racist policies
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Hands-on review: Why Apple’s newest iPad Pro packs a powerful punch
8 votes -
Even if you're trying to avoid Grubhub by calling restaurants directly, Grubhub could still be charging it a fee
8 votes