2022 June
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I finally updated my long-unmaintained blogroll page. The contents of this page are only one category in my feedreader. Typically when I find a new blog that seems interesting to follow, I first put in a category called "tentative". After some time of following, I'll decide whether I want it to be in my public blogroll. Reviewing the public blogroll also means removing blogs that are no longer current or updated. I will typically move those into a feedreader category called "defunct". I'll highlight new/added blogs in a future "Follow Friday" post (a series which I have neglected to follow-up
2022 May
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My Android didn't have the "delete advertising ID" option, but had an "Opt out of ads personalization" toggle.
2022 April
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More blogs to check out and more things to add to the ever-growing backlog of things I want to add to my own blog.
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Some great ideas here, and making me think about some of the stuff I've wanted to do on my own site for a while.
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Related: Mobile games have a short shelf life https://roytang.net/2019/04/mobile-games/
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An essay on how the internet changed our daily lives
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Benedict Evans on the problems with algorithmic news feeds
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An interesting mystery about URLs
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🔗 home sweet homepage via web
A comic about a young girl growing up online in the early days of the internet
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This post (and the linked article) discuss the consequences of a mobile-focused internet (and I don't think it's a China-specific thing really)
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I'm mostly a Windows user (because gaming) so I'm used to all of this, but it's good to get an outsider perspective.
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🔗 Contrachrome via web
A remix of Scott McCloud's original comic about Chrome, this one is about modern Chrome's role in surveillance capitalism
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I think more people should blog, and more people should follow people who blog, so I've been meaning to do some posts to promote other people's blogs, in the hopes of accelerating the return of real/personal blogs. (As opposed to those commercial blogs that are just for selling stuff or being content farms or whatever.) With that in mind, here are some blogs I can recommend you follow: Pluralistic by Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow has been blogging for a while; he used to blog over on BoingBoing (as mentioned in my Blogs of Yesteryear post), but now he has his
2022 March
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Matt Ruby's rant on our modern tech dystopia
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Statistical analysis of publicly available Wordle play data
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Interview with Matt Mullenweg. Covers Wordpress, Tumblr, the open web, web3/NFTs, and keeping the internet weird
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So it turns out if you request an export of your data from Amazon they give you this ridiculously long list of zips that need to be downloaded individually. 110 items! There are 33 items for Kindle settings alone!
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