Don Marti
Sun 29 Dec 2013 06:40:27 PM PST
From inside the filter bubble
(This is feedback for my filter bubble tool, which lives here: read the whole thing. You've probably seem most of these when they made the rounds.)
Sarah Green: Research: Cubicles Are the Absolute Worst
Remy Van Elst: DigitalOcean Sucks. Use DigitalOcean! - Raymii.org
Megan Garber: English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet
Mike Masnick: Microsoft Front Group Struggles To Find App Developers To Sign Letter Against Ditching Bad Patents
Margot Kaminski: The TPP and Copyright
John Gruber: Why an 80 Percent Market Share Might Only Represent Half of Smartphone Users
The Universe of Discourse: Insane calculations in bash
Janet Levaux: Pinball Museum Set for New Alameda Home
When We Lose Antibiotics, Here's Everything Else We'll Lose Too - Wired Science
Kevin Drum: Why Are American Doctors Paid So Damn Much?
David Heinemeier Hansson: Microsoft's dystopian pitch for remote work by David of 37signals
John Bergmayer: If You Love Fair Use, Give It A Day Off Once In a While
Why open-office layouts are bad for employees, bosses, and productivity
Michael Geist: The Trans Pacific Partnership IP Chapter Leaks: The Battle Over Internet Service Provider Liability
sogrady: The Difficulty of Selling Software
Columbia Journalism Review: The NYT's paywall overtakes digital ads
KillerMartinis: Why I Make Terrible Decisions, or, Poverty Thoughts
James Hamblin: The Fist Bump Manifesto
Andrew Raff: Google Book Search is a Fair Use
Staring Down The Taliban In The Race To Eradicate Polio
kohsuke: Summary Report: Git Repository Disruption Incident of Nov 10th
Mike Linksvayer: Upgrade to CC-BY(-(NC(-(ND|SA))?|ND|SA))?-4.0
Rich Miller: Intel: Pollution in Asia Shortens Server Component Life
Docker 0.7 runs on all Linux distributions – and 6 other major features | Docker Blog
Timothy B. Lee: Here’s why Obama trade negotiators push the interests of Hollywood and drug companies
Matthew Yglesias: Can't Talk San Francisco House Prices Without Talking Zoning
James Kwak: Why JPMorgan Is JPMorgan
Doc Searls: Marketing isn’t getting the market’s message
Ben Bajarin: Android is Eating the World
Ian Bogost: For Adults Who Want to Feel Good About Themselves
Chris Heilmann: Help me write a Developer Evangelism/Advocacy guide
John Hempton: Google Plus will get your children murdered
IPv6-only servers? - Nom de domaine et hébergement cloud - Gandi.net
xkcd.com: Git Commit
Matthew Yglesias: Conservatives' Curious Affection for the Doctors' Cartel
Dan Roberts: Elizabeth Warren challenges Obama to break up 'too-big-to-fail' Wall St banks
OK to clone software by testing it and reading the manual, rules UK court.
Order Of Truth: The great UK #government #internet porn filter con – what you are REALLY signing up to
Ernesto: What Piracy? Removing DRM Boosts Music Sales by 10 Percent
Stop Being A Bookstore Asshole
Guest Author: On Go’s Web Application Ecosystem
Bill Black: NYT: Not Prosecuting JPMorgan Proves DOJ’s Vigor ?!
Go 1.2 is released - The Go Blog
oliveremberton: The real reason we have meetings
Matthew Green: How does the NSA break SSL?
Patrick Stokes: The digital soul
Steven Rosenberg: I'm looking at the Fedora Power Management Guide
George Monbiot: The lies behind this transatlantic trade deal | George Monbiot
Matthew Garrett: Subverting security with kexec (via LWN.net)
Christina Farr: Swarm Mobile gets $3.5M to track shoppers in physical stores
Andrew Rossignol: A Testament to X11 Backwards Compatibility
Edward Hasbrouck: Witness in “no-fly” trial finds she’s on “no-fly” list too
Eli Dourado: New Dourado and Tabarrok Paper on Intellectual Property
Why you should use OpenGL and not DirectX - Wolfire Games Blog
Bruce Schneier: The Problem with EULAs
Mike Masnick: German Court Says CEO Of Open Source Company Liable For 'Illegal' Functions Submitted By Community (also Court: Open Source Project Liable For 3rd Party DRM-Busting Coding)
Tom Scocca: On Smarm
Jean-Marc Valin's random rants on DSP, Speex, open-source: Opus 1.1 released
Jeff John Roberts: Supreme Court to review patents on software
Timothy B. Lee: The Supreme Court could abolish software patents next year. Here’s why it should.
Michael Nielsen: How the Bitcoin protocol actually works (via Marginal Revolution and Schneier on Security)
BBC News - World: More men chat in girls' 'dialect'
Mike Masnick: Patenting University Research Has Been A Dismal Failure, Enabling Patent Trolling. It's Time To Stop
Justin Ellis: The Guardian experiments with a robot-generated newspaper with The Long Good Read
Charlie Stross: Lovebible.pl
Simone: Radio Arcala Antenna Collapsed
Florian Mueller: Federal Patent Court of Germany invalidates Microsoft FAT patent, appeals court may disagree
Restaurant on Google Glasser: Man-child stinking up the joint | Technically Incorrect - CNET News
Carmel DeAmicis: The last person on Earth not burned by Facebook’s privacy settings realizes her entire wall is public
etbe: A Basic Income for Australia
Mike Masnick: The USTR's Revolving Door With Copyright And Patent Maximalists Removes All Credibility
Adele Peters: Turning Vacant New York City Office Space Into A Fun Pop-Up Hotel
Dan Gillmor: Six months after NSA story broke, Edward Snowden looks even more patriotic | Dan Gillmor
Denis Duvauchelle: The most valuable lessons I learned from managing a virtual team
steveblank: When Product Features Disappear – Amazon, Apple and Tesla and the Troubled Future for 21st Century Consumers
jdieter: Multiseat in Fedora 19 and Setting up a multiseat system
Richard Posner: Raise the Federal Minimum Wage (But Not Too Far)—Posner
Michael Geist: The U.S. Stands Alone: How the U.S. Is Increasingly Isolated on Intellectual Property Policy
Anil: Learn to Code Switch Before You Learn to Code
Adrianne Jeffries: CyanogenMod rolls out encrypted text messaging by default
Tom Morris: Why I'm turning JavaScript off by default (via Tobie Langel)
How journals like Nature, Cell and Science are damaging science | Randy Schekman
Jeff Jarvis: Eight tech giants have sided with citizens over spies, but it's not enough | Jeff Jarvis
Sean Hollister: One standard to sync them all: AllSeen Alliance forms to accelerate Internet of Things adoption
Ed Felten: How to stop spies from piggybacking on commercial Web tracking (via Deeplinks)
Planet PostgreSQL: Josh Berkus: Meet your new NoSQL Database
Joshua Koran: Reports of the Cookie's Death Are Greatly Exaggerated -- and That's Good
Charlie Stross: Trust Me (I'm a kettle)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Beta - Red Hat Customer Portal
Adi Kamdar and Rainey Reitman and Seth Schoen: NSA Turns Cookies (And More) Into Surveillance Beacons (via Schneier on Security)
UPDATE 3-New U.S. FDA rules aim to cut antibiotic use in farm animals | Reuters
Eugene Kaspersky: Top-10 tips for fighting patent trolls. (via nonpracticingentities)
Chris Roberts: Fedora 20 final status is a go
News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier | Media | The Guardian (via ploum.net)
Jeffrey Zeldman: This is a Website (via Adactio, Mike Linksvayer, willnorris.com)
Jim Motavalli: Driving VW's Astonishing 200 MPG XL1
Charlie: Stainless steel, the metal bacteria love.
Peter Eckersley and Peter Eckersley: Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claiming Its Release Was Accidental (via John Battelle's Search Blog and Global: Dan Gillmor | theguardian.com)
Zev Winicur: (Gluten-Free) (Vegetarian) Tamale Pie
Keith Packard: xserver-warnings
Johannes Ernst: There are only Three Base Business Models
CoreOS Blog: Running etcd in Docker Containers
Daniel Kahn Gillmor (dkg): OpenPGP Key IDs are not useful
Charlie Smith: How US News Organziations Should Respond to Censorship in China
Bruce Schneier: World War II Anecdote about Trust and Security
DigitalOcean's guide to using Docker on their hosts (via taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog)
Doc Searls: Fred Wilson’s talk at LeWeb (via Marc's Voice)
Robinhood The world's $0 commission stock brokerage.
Benjamin Meyer: Large Git repositories
Colin Ian King: Detecting System Management Interrupts
Tantek Çelik: XFN 10th Anniversary (via Mike Linksvayer, Marc's Voice, and The Promised Planet)
Tobie Langel: "Counter intuitively, it may be better not to sit with your developers, you may get a better idea of..."
Mike Hadlow: Are Your Programmers Working Hard, Or Are They Lazy?
Kevin Drum: Repeat After Me: There's No Such Thing as Socialsecurityandmedicare
Ardi Kolah: Marketers face ‘double legal whammy’ on DM activity in 2014
Tom Philpott: Will Factory Farms Finally Have to (Gasp!) Get a Vet's Approval to Use Antibiotics?
Ronald Bailey: Kill Off Software Patents
Switch to open source successfully completed, city of Munich says | PCWorld
RT: Uruguay faces UN backlash for legalizing pot
BBC News - World: Moon rover sends back first photos (via SWJ Blog and Core77)
dotCore: Simple Binary Encoding, a new ultra-fast marshalling API in C++, Java and .NET
Kent Anderson: Print’s Retreat — Are the New Metrics of Online Actually Devaluing Publications?
Jan De Deken: The Architect of Uruguay's Marijuana Legalization Speaks Out
Caleb Garling: A modest proposal: Lose the tint, Tech Buses
John Brownlee: This Genius Spoof Rebrands Santa For The 21st Century
Matthew Yglesias: Central Planning in America (via Moneybox)
Andy Greenberg: ‘A Genius Among Geniuses’ (via Standblog and Nieman Journalism Lab)
Beat the Press: Paul Krugman and TPP (via Crooked Timber)
News You Can Bruise: Markov vs. Queneau: Sentence Assembly Smackdown
Baylen Linnekin: Small-Town Raw Milk Farm Faces Dubious Attack in Massachusetts
Svati Kirsten Narula: Americans Still Care About Their Public Libraries (via The American Conservative)
Joey Hess: completely linux distribution-independent packaging
Sean Gallagher: Update: NSA surveillance critic Bruce Schneier to leave post at BT (via Schneier on Security)
Matthew Yglesias: You Can't Talk Housing Costs Without Talking About Zoning
Matthew Yglesias: How To Save Money on Amazon With a Fake Baby (via Ars Technica)
Elsevier steps up its War On Access | Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week (via Hack Education)
rob: Less is exponentially more
On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git (via taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog)
Mark Dominus: Moonpig: a billing system that doesn't suck
adamw: PSA: Use Fedup 0.8 for Fedora 20 upgrades
Inside the Saudi 9/11 coverup | New York Post
The Mission to De-Centralize the Internet : The New Yorker (via Planet Intertwingly and O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies)
Daniel Genkin, Adi Shamir, Eran Tromer: RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis (via Schneier on Security and Planet Intertwingly)
Sean Gallagher: NSA leaks blamed for Cisco’s falling sales overseas (updated)
Charlie Stross: Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire (via amor mundi and see shy jo)
Dean Takahashi: Google’s Niantic Labs formally launches massive mobile game Ingress
UPDATE 3-Saab wins Brazil jet deal after NSA spying sours Boeing bid | Reuters (via Cato @ Liberty)
Timothy B. Lee: Obama administration sued over its secretive trade negotiations
Kashmir Hill, Forbes Staff: Data Broker Was Selling Lists Of Rape Victims, Alcoholics, and 'Erectile Dysfunction Sufferers'
jbat: Facebook Must Win The Grownup Vote
sogrady: DVCS and Git Usage in 2013
Nathaniel Mott: Why the HP Chromebook 11′s exploding charger is its best feature
Moxie Marlinspike >> Blog >> A Crypto Challenge For The Telegram Developers
David Kendal: Block-chains and Bitcoin
Gregory Ferenstein: Tim Draper Wants To Split California Into Pieces And Turn Silicon Valley Into Its Own State (via TechCrunch)
Dylan Love: BitTorrent Is Building An NSA-Proof Chat Product
Dan Brekke: Bus Vandalized as Protesters in S.F., Oakland Target Silicon Valley Shuttles
Kyle: Using Copyright to Keep Repair Manuals Secret Undermines Circular Economy
Dan Brekke: Google Bus Protesters’ Manifesto: ‘Get Out of Oakland!’
doingitwrong: When “Life Hacking” Is Really White Privilege — Medium (via Chris Hanel)
Sam Biddle: Tech Titan: Let's Break Up California and Make Silicon Valley a State
BitTorrent secures and open-sources DHT bootstrap server
Francois Marier: Creating a Linode-based VPN setup using OpenVPN on Debian or Ubuntu
BBC News - AK47 assault rifle designer Kalashnikov dies at 94
Mikko Hypponen: An Open Letter to the Chiefs of EMC and RSA
Mike Masnick: RSA's 'Denial' Concerning $10 Million From The NSA To Promote Broken Crypto Not Really A Denial At All
The Tech Block: Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission’s accomplished (via WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR and Firedoglake)
Jason: Ho Rudolph
PHILIP B. CORBETT: Getting Guns Right (via JIMROMENESKO.COM)
Molly Samuel: The KQED Blog Posts That Just Won’t Go Away
samzenpus: Interview: Bruce Sterling Answers Your Questions (via Giles Bowkett)
Paul Nijjar's Internet Landfill -- Firehose: Why Libraries Still Matter
Guy Somerset: Manufacturing Outrage
Matt Blaze: How Worried Should We Be About the Alleged RSA-NSA Scheming?
Krzysztof Kotowicz: Rapportive XSSes Gmail or have yourself a merry little botnet...
Network & Infrastructure Blogs: Offshore Cloud Services: Who's in control?
Derek Jones: How to use intellectual property tax rules to minimise corporation tax
Marco.org: → iA makes patent threats (via Prolost and And now it’s all this)
Platypus Reloaded: Data Extortion
Steve Kovach: Why Your Android Phone Will Always Be Out Of Date
Felix Salmon: Why cab drivers should love Uber
Mat Honan: Generation X Is Sick Of Your Bullsh*t
Eric Blattberg: Apple-backed Rockstar group reportedly hawking its patents
essjaybee: Philip Guo - The Two Cultures of Computing (via Bucktown Bell)
Jeremy Stieglitz: Monster Madness – creating games on the web with Emscripten (via Standblog)
Arik Hesseldahl: Talk of an RSA Boycott Grows After Reports It Colluded With the NSA (via AllThingsD)
On Hacking MicroSD Cards « bunnie's blog (via LWN.net)
67p – British government porn filters block EFF, Linux, Amnesty and more
Catalog Reveals NSA Has Back Doors for Numerous Devices - SPIEGEL ONLINE