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• 24-Mar-2024

  
  In 2009 I could use Twitter in Lynx. Can I do that in 2024? No. I am directed to the Help Center: Supported Browsers page. Here’s a screenshot of when I was able to tweet with Lynx in 2009. And the tweet I tweeted. Do you know what Lynx is? (from 2019)
• 28-Feb-2024

  
  Mistrust-Based Technology Choices The latest news in tech has been excitement about reports that Automattic has the intent to sell Tumblr and WordPress.com website data (read that as “your blog posts”) to a Large Language Model-based company for big dollars. Putting your stuff on a companies servers usually means they get to do what they want to with...
• 27-Feb-2024

  
  Another day, another… This* is why I pay money to a registrar for my own domain and pay money to a hosting service for a web server and application server and databases and use open software that makes my data portable to myself as much as is practical. * Different reason each week. ( originally published at xoxo.zone/@artlung/112005780524682934...
• 19-Jan-2024

  
  Chaos, Mr. Who. “Chaos, Mr. Who,” Lupus Yonderboy said. “That is our mode and modus. That is our central kick. Your woman knows. We deal with her. Not with you, Mr. Who.” His suit had taken on a weird angular pattern of beige and pale avocado. “She needed her medical team. She’s with them. We’ll watch out for...
• 18-Jan-2024

  
  Google Results Worse Nothing quite like using Google News search to look at the results for “google results worse.” I sometmes switch to DuckDuckGo, or more rarely, Bing, but the muscle memory is using Google. I don’t think I ever have gotten truly more useful results than when I used AltaVista. It was such a raw text search,...
• 26-Dec-2023
  Email from Amazon Congratulations, you reinvented television by inventing television. Jerks. Dear Prime member, We are writing to you today about an upcoming change to your Prime Video experience. Starting January 29, Prime Video movies and TV shows will include limited advertisements. This will allow us to continue investing in compelling content and keep increasing that investment over...
• 22-Mar-2023

  
  Email of the day: “Twitter two-factor authentication is now off” I’ve had a twitter account since October 2006. In that time they’ve been pretty diligent about security. Not anymore. Today’s email, subject line is: “Twitter two-factor authentication is now off” You’ve turned off two-factor authentication for @artlung This means you’ll no longer have this added protection when you log in to Twitter. Your account will...