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Sat, 08 Jun 2019

How Politicians and Scholars Turned Against Big Tech - The Atlantic

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Fri, 07 Jun 2019

YouTube Blog: Our ongoing work to tackle hate.

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Woody: "... [Microsoft] have every incentive to make 1909 super-stable, because they’ll continue to support it (Enterprise and Academic versions) for 30 months." [Yes, I really think v1909 is the one to go for. If you're on v1709 Enterprise currently it fits the timing of EOL perfectly.]

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From MS: "One benefit of Features on Demand is that installed features persist across Windows 10 version upgrades!" [This did not happen in my case. I had to reinstall the RSAT features after upgrading from 1809 to 1903. Fail.]

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Thu, 06 Jun 2019

Alabama lawmakers pass bill requiring chemical castration for child sex offenders

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Babies with 'Bubble Boy' diseased cured with gene therapy made with HIV | Euronews

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Wed, 05 Jun 2019

The "Sign in with Apple" button thing is pretty nice. I still think SQRL is the future because of app-side adoption. But it's good to see this.

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Tue, 04 Jun 2019

Microsoft Azure Being Used to Host Malware and C2 Servers: “It's evident that Azure is not currently detecting the malicious software residing on Microsoft's servers,” says David Pickett of AppRiver.

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The dangerous folly of Software as a Service: "...you won’t be at the table when the victim-studies majors are defining 'hate'".

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Upgraded from 1809 to 1903 today and no issues so far. Painless.

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Mon, 03 Jun 2019

I spent some time scripting in S3 today. And, it got me wondering when Amazon is going to try and monetize the petabytes of object data they have in S3. If I can think of a dozen ways they could do it, then you know they have too. Probably inevitable.

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Chrome extension manifest v3 proposal · Issue #338 · Github [This is an interesting read.]

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Sun, 02 Jun 2019

Google is moving forward with their plan to block ad-blocker extensions using manifest v3. [Ridiculous move on their part with chromium Edge about to come out.]

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Thu, 30 May 2019

Recent Tornadoes are Due to Unusually Cold Weather: "Or, phrased another way, the last half of the 65-year U.S. tornado record had 40% fewer strong to violent tornadoes than the first half."

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Gab will become a Mastodon fork | Hacker News

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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to Keynote FireEye Cyber Defense Summit | Business Wire

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Tue, 28 May 2019

NPR - Selective Service Registration Comes Under Fire Again: "But Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Mueller, for reasons know only to himself and his then-boss, US Attorney (later Governor of Massachusetts) William Weld, had me indicted in Boston in what became Mueller’s first high-profile case."

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Fri, 24 May 2019

Clearly modern tires are now lined with 24k gold.

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Tue, 21 May 2019

I didn't know Alex Jones officiated @adamcurry and @elincomm wedding. Nice touch. :-P

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Health update #3: My ME is in remission – Jennifer Brea

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