The latest version of Semantic-Linkbacks has fixed facepiles on my blog. I always grateful, even though I don’t do much about it for all the work of the #Indiweb and #WordPress developers.
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Cleaning up- Last Day of School Yesterday
Overall, AppTrackingTransparency is a great step forward for Apple. When a company does the right thing for its users, EFF will stand with it, just as we will come down hard on companies that do the wrong thing. Here, Apple is right and Facebook is wrong. Next step: Android should follow with the same protections. Your move, Google.
In reality, a number of studies have shown that most of the money made from targeted advertising does not reach the creators of the content—the app developers and the content they host. Instead, the majority of any extra money earned by targeted ads ends up in the pockets of these data brokers.
Christmas Decorations
We’ll get our updated visuals up as soon as we can! pic.twitter.com/uFdvJNIhad
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We’ll get our updated visuals up as soon as we can! pic.twitter.com/uFdvJNIhad
— NLC Communication Friendly Environments (@SchoolsNlc) December 19, 2020
My Year in Flickrs
All the photos I’ve posted to flickr this year, stitched together. I’ve updated the script a bit from this one, need to get the gist up to date too after some tidying.
Music: Myst on the Moor by Kevin MacLeod
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License: Standard license
I am wondering if we are returning before pupils are we supposed to carry out online teaching from school? My home broadband is several times faster than school network?
According to my on this day page (thanks again @cogdog) last year was end of term. I don’t think this year will feature as much “stuff to touch”
Short story: Google Chrome installs something called Keystone on your computer, which bizarrely hides what it's doing from Activity Monitor and makes your whole computer slow even when Chrome isn't running. Deleting Chrome and Keystone makes your computer way, way faster, all the time.
Via Aaron.
Surprised I’ve not see this in my feeds yet. I’ve certainly noticed that Chrome can sometimes seem to hog resources and energy on macs. I mostly use Safari and Firefox.
Link to: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/12/16/facebook-takes-out-full-page-ads-to-attack-apple/
Here’s the thing. Apple isn’t blocking the ability for Facebook to personalize ads, in any way. Apple is just providing users with control over their own privacy. Users can easily choose to keep providing Facebook (and anyone else) with all the information they want. Or they can choose not to.
Fascinating and weird.