DeleteMe, please stop the nonsense: data brokers are not doxxing people
Data brokers selling people’s data is not doxxing, and claiming otherwise makes you look stupid and greedy.
Category Archives: Internet
How you actually should respond to that “183 million credentials leak”
What a recent Forbes article got wrong and what it should have told you instead.
Why websites shouldn’t indiscriminately block VPN users
I convinced a state senator that government websites indiscriminately blocking VPN users is bad. Here’s the case I made, which you can use yourself to keep fighting the good fight.
Comics Aggregator: GoComics.com was broken, is now fixed
Overnight last night, GoComics.com was modified to deter bots, along with some other changes which broke the Comics Aggregator‘s ability to fetch comics from there.
How to stop Google from invading your privacy and others’ when you share links
“share.google” links are evil. Here’s how to get Google to stop spitting them at you.
Can’t log into Costco website, their technical support is useless
I spent nearly four hours of my time proving this isn’t my fault. I’m still doubtful that Costco will do anything to resolve the problem.
Thoughts on the proposed Massachusetts Data Privacy Act, S.2608
The proposed law is a good start but it has problems that should be fixed before it is enacted. Here are some of them.
Suspicious email from “pulse <root@overlinux.com>”: malicious or just dumb?
The person who sent this email is either extremely clueless or up to no good. It’s hard to say for certain which.
Some Comics Aggregator internals changed, let me know if you run into issues
I’ve had to rewrite a bit of the Comics Aggregator code to be able to add Alexandra Petri to it. Because this involved switching from one third-party library to another in code that doesn’t just impact Alexandra Petri, I may have broken something. I did some testing and everything seems to be working, but I… Read More »
Alexandra Petri added to comics aggregator
I’ve added the humor columnist Alexandra Petri, who previously wrote for The Washington Post and now writes for The Atlantic, to the comics aggregator. If you don’t feel the need to read her stuff Right Away When It Comes Out, then I would encourage you to use the “1-day delay” variant of her entry in… Read More »