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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Intelligent is a euphemism for invasive.

    Consumers People who earn a living must have real choice in authentication options. It’s unacceptable to freeze out open standards because an internal marketing projection suggests the bank will make a few dollars doing so. If I only want to employ login+passphrase+TOTP, that’s my prerogative.







  • ‘No one’s spying on me, I’m not interesting’ is more pernicious than Nothing to Hide. Most adults can kind of sense the idiocy of the latter refrain. But ask the utterer why advertising is a trillion-dollar industry if their attitudes and behaviours aren’t interesting, or why a data broking industry even exists, and you’ll typically be asked ‘why care?’

    What’s harder to work out is whether the utterance is a genuine failure to comprehend the nature of surveillance capitalism, or a grasping denial of its impact, as though they’re only 80 per cent convinced of their footprint’s worthlessness. It’s difficult to convince someone to turn down their data faucet when they barely acknowledge the faucet’s existence to start with.






  • Call me a cynic but I suspect the biggest ‘contributor’ to r/product will end up being product’s marketing department account, likewise with r/country and party-political apparatchiks. The move is elegant in a way: Reddit Inc can ruin true democratic operation of subs by turning subscribers into shareholders (which wards off repeats of mod activism) and simultaneously provide further cover to astroturfers (lots of points = Time and Effort™ = good faith actor).






  • If the subscription service has a retail shopfront I can visit and sample the coffee at, I’m more comfortable signing up. But for me it’s moot because I buy beans in person anyhow. I would say freshness and roast type (espresso versus filter) is just as important in determining whether you’ll like a given coffee. I used to be bigger on single origin bags (still like them) but it’s possible to get used to a versatile, consistent blend.