grandpas and grandmas! Walking around, talking to friends, playing Chinese opera loudly
people of many diverse backgrounds and ages
Just some simple things I miss about real cities. San Francisco feels like a very weird, hollowed out city on many fronts. I think if I see a bunch of kids at once in SF I’ll be like ‘wow’. Outside of certain SF neighborhoods (Chinatown, Mission, TL), the city just feels very homogenous and bland to me :/
How do you manage your cross posting across mastodon and twitter? Is there a tool that does this for you that you endorse? Or are you manually cross posting (surely not) or did you build your own tool (seems possible) to do it?
@Andres4NY sounds like your kids are using it when you’re all in the house together, how else do you use it? What does it give you that say, all having iPhones with appleIDs doesn’t?
***** It's up to you, but for now I recommend DISABLING #Google's new #Chrome "real-time, privacy-preserving URL protection". *****
I'm getting a lot of questions about this, and I simply don't have time right now to write this up in depth. So this will have to be short (at least by my standards).
Google is implementing by default in Chrome a new system to expand their detection of unsafe sites, via a complicated new real-time system that sends hashes of URLs to a third-party, non-Google firm.
Google's goal is laudable, but though it would probably be unfair of me to call this system "Rube Goldberg-ish", it is definitely very far from trivial.
I am in particular concerned about the ramifications of Chrome users being connected by default to a completely non-Google entity to which they are sending data, no matter how obfuscated that data may be.
While Google seems to be asserting that by creating a three-party system (user, Google, outside firm) privacy is enhanced -- and this would appear to be true in theory -- the possibilities for interference by government or other entities seems increased with each new player in the process. Also, users are now dealing with an additional set of policies (and legal departments), that of Google and that of the third party. Nor (as far as I know) has the contractual basis of the relationship between Google and this third party been made public.
There may be nothing at all wrong with this arrangement. But frankly, the introduction of a third party and other aspects of this system have raised a caution warning for me, especially when this is enabled by default.
So my recommendation for now is to turn off this feature, until significantly more is known about it in the respects I've mentioned above and others. This is completely up to you of course. You may wish to keep the Google default that uses this system and have the additional protection, and may not be at all concerned about the other issues I've mentioned. Absolutely your choice.
I do invite Google to contact me with more information about these issues if they wish to do so.
Bitcoin's spiking — are we in for another round of crypto mania? I also go through Sam Bankman-Fried's sentencing memorandum, in which he asks for 6 years imprisonment instead of the recommended 100, and the 29 people who wrote letters in support.
I like doing economic analysis of #sciencefiction work (man needs a hobby, I guess). Looking for advice: what do I read next? Preference for recent work depicting #solarpunk economic systems.