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I endorse Kamala Harris for president

It shouldn’t need to be said, and yet, it does.

Category: Journalism Politics Tags: Donald Trump, John Scalzi, Kamala Harris, LA Times, Washington Post

Comics aggregator: Washington Post links now go through a page archiving service

I will not send traffic to a newspaper that can’t figure out how to oppose fascism on its editorial page.

Category: Comics Aggregator

Comics aggregator: Damon Young removed, Carolyn Hax & Miss Manners fixed

I’ve removed the Damon Young column in the Washington Post from the comics aggregator because he hasn’t written anything there for two years so I’m pretty sure he’s no longer being published in the Post. Over the past day or so the Post did something to break the other columns from there that the aggregator… Read More »

Category: Comics Aggregator Tags: Carolyn Hax, Damon Young, Miss Manners

Case study: anonymizing email addresses for online accounts

Why you might want to anonymize the email addresses for your online accounts, some techniques for how to do that, and the details of how I did it myself, including stats, stories, and scripts.

Category: Computer Security Computers email Free software Internet Spam User Experience Web Tags: Addy.io, AnonAddy, Bitwarden, Information Security, privacy, Spam

Boston online poll-worker training thread

Thread of posts about online Boston poll-worker training.

Category: Boston Government activism Politics Tags: Boston, elections, GoogleMeet, MAPoli, politics, poll-worker, pollWorker, pollWorkerTraining, USPol, voting, Zoom

Comics: Most recent “This Modern World” published early

Please note that the most recent edition of the This Modern World comic was published a few days early and therefore the comics aggregator didn’t pick it up. That bug has been fixed so next time it will be picked up, but for those of you who want to see the early one, here you… Read More »

Category: Comics Aggregator Tags: This Modern World

2024 Massachusetts ballot questions: my recommendations

YES, YES, YES, YES, YES.

Category: Consumer activism Government activism Law Politics Social Activism Tags: ballot questions, Lyft, Massachusetts, MCAS, Uber, voting

My routine for rebuilding my Linux laptops from scratch

Maybe you’re sufficiently Linux-nerdy that you’ll enjoy glancing at this. Or maybe not, whatever. 😉

Category: Computers Free software Tags: Debian, Linux, sysadmin

Developers who don’t know the email standards shouldn’t write code that generates emails

Looking at you, Square.

Category: Computers Consumer activism email Internet Tags: email, Square

Python fails Postel’s Law parsing email messages, with a workaround

The next-generation email parser in Python silently ignores data it doesn’t understand, sometimes to the detriment of the caller.

Category: Computers email Free software Internet Tags: Postel's Law, Python
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