Scratchpad for August 30 2020
- Self-hosting security challenge
- Completed this some time ago for this site.
- Your calendar should be an allowlist, not a blocklist
- Exactly.
- The Panopticon Is Already Here
- Just in case you didn’t notice that China is already exporting its dystopian surveillance technology worldwide.
- Data isn’t just being collected from your phone. It’s being used to score you.
- This is one of the reasons for GDPR, no matter how imperfectly it may be implemented.
- Ted Lasso
- A remarkable series that is humorous and radiates human warmth at the same time — and skips all the tawdriness.
- Minimalist HTML
- What you can get away with in HTML 5.
- The Problem With Happiness
- There’s a difference between being happy and leading a meaningful life.
- Carl Bergstrom: ‘People are using data to bullshit’
- Some pointers towards why this age of data worship is so unsettling and dangerous.
- The trick that makes you overspend
- The “decoy effect” explained.
- No, you cannot have a third of my life!
- When you replace the excessive exclamation marks it gets way more readable and raises a valid point. If anything should be learned from the COVID-19 home office situation it is this. Time and intensity demands of work vs. everything else is broken.
- Social media’s out of control growth
- Another part of the puzzle about why social media is taking over everything.
- FreeBSD Virtual Data Centre with Potluck: DevOps & Infrastructure as Code - Part I
- Overview and Basic Setup.
- FreeBSD Virtual Data Centre with Potluck: DevOps & Infrastructure as Code - Part II
- Setting Up Consul, Nomad & Traefik.
- FreeBSD Virtual Data Centre with Potluck: DevOps & Infrastructure as Code - Part III
- Testing the Environment with Nginx & Git.
- AI-Generated Text Is the Scariest Deepfake of All
- GPT-3 will forever change the way we write.
- Twitter used phone numbers provided for security to target ads
- No doubt, you can trust them with your personal information.
- Watch this 9-year-old absolutely crush Nirvana’s ‘In Bloom’ on the drums
- Because so many things are so negative right now, here’s a girl drummer that is absolutely ripping it.
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