The Indicator from Planet Money: How Amazon's Counterfeit Products Threaten Safety https://www.npr.org/2020/01/14/796296810/how-amazons-counterfeit-products-threaten-safety
@sir working in asm, the JMP was tightly controlled; each section of code had well defined input, output, & modified register lists. Without that, the it was nearly impossible to comprehend.
Later, I came across code (professionally) where there was an inspired genius who liberally used the GOTO. No one could touch it without breaking. This is the more common usage.
Engineered GOTO is fine. Most developers are hacks and cut people with these sharp knives.
@sir it doesn't help that writing a custom allocator is one of the earliest exercises in the white bible.
Strangely it went along the lines of "here's variables, here's printf, here's pointers. Now write an allocator/deallocator"
Tor Browser 9.0.4 is out now.
This release fixes a critical security issue in Firefox: CVE-2019-17026. https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-904
Enlightening look at the power of location data that almost everyone's phone is giving up constantly. Claims of anonymity debunked in chilling way:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html
"Yet Another #Librem5 and #PinePhone Comparison" is an in-depth technical comparison of the two devices by #postmarketOS developer @martijnbraam
You can read it here: https://tuxphones.com/yet-another-librem-5-and-pinephone-linux-smartphone-comparison/ #linux
Looking at #KDE Plasma Mobile and #PinePhone is giving me the sort of a glimmer of hope that I haven't felt in a long time as far as mobile anything is concerned.
@imacrea if you share on mastodon, other mastodon & pleroma instances can comment/boost it.
If you share on pixelfed, mastodon & pleroma instances can comment/boost it, but no other pixelfed instances can see it.
@dansup but you run *such* a nice blog there
@martijnbraam "inferior to webp, despite what Mozilla says"
@dthompson which one? Interested to hear a review.
@sir an empty inbox may be a sign of a cluttered mind.
Or someone with lots of spare time and/or OCD.
This opt-in requirement is critical, and the precise thing tech orgs successfully lobbied to remove from the CCPA:
"As a first step, governments must enact laws to ensure companies including Google and Facebook are prevented from making access to their service conditional on individuals “consenting” to the collection, processing or sharing of their personal data for marketing or advertising."
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/11/google-facebook-surveillance-privacy/
@franciecashman@mastodon.social @dansup even on big screens, 2 column allows more focus on the images, which are the point, aren't they?
My vote is for 2 column.