Mozilla has a petition asking Facebook to stop tracking people's browsing off the site unless they opt in to it. Frankly I think the solution is to remove the ability to track people across sites from the web entirely, but I signed the petition anyway. Facebook has taken a huge hit to their reputation, so now is a good time to be putting pressure on them to change their ways.
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Sean R. Lynch ☑️ (seanl@social.literati.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Apr-2018 12:29:27 EDT 
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St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Thursday, 05-Apr-2018 11:04:54 EDT 
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That's not how arrows work.
https://mulligrubs.me/photos/stjohn/image/90684047455ac62e07211e2722776610
Rolleiflex Automat II / Kodak Ektar 100
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St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Thursday, 05-Apr-2018 10:08:42 EDT
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Not bad, eh? I got a new/old Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex camera and took it for a test spin last week. The negatives are so big and this film is so smooth, you can't even see the grain. Plus those old 50s cameras are built like tanks. They're a joy to shoot on. -
St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Thursday, 05-Apr-2018 10:06:46 EDT
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Under Ramp Park 2017
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Rolleiflex Automat II / Kodak Ektar 100
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St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Saturday, 31-Mar-2018 15:07:26 EDT
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The Boy consoled me by telling me the story about how he accidentally exploded a chicken he was trying to feed to a boa constrictor. -
St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Saturday, 31-Mar-2018 14:40:34 EDT
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Two months ago my snake was trying to eat a rat which unaccountably exploded, spraying the inside of the tank with rat guts. I've cleaned everything twice, but to this day I swear I can still smell that rat. -
St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Saturday, 31-Mar-2018 03:42:48 EDT
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Oh wow, you don't fuck around! Napalm Death are really metal. Do a lot of metal bands do tape releases these days? I buy new tapes at record stores without knowing what's on them and there seems to be a lot of heavy metal being published on cassette, which is weird because cassettes seem like such a twee medium. -
St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Saturday, 31-Mar-2018 03:35:55 EDT
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Oh my god, "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron"! I'd completely forgotten about this song. It's a classic. -
St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Thursday, 29-Mar-2018 13:06:12 EDT
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Pffffhahahaha
♲ @Vacay (plu@mstdn.io): Penn doesn’t just swing and miss with his ambitious vocabulary; he swings and cracks a hole in reality as we know it, leaving us all unsure of the concept of a good sentence, how a novel should be structured and generally what makes sense any more.
“She sharted agave shimmering spirits and shifted shit-faced overboard.” It’s like beat poetry, just somehow worse. amp.theguardian.com/books/2018… -
St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Mar-2018 05:02:05 EDT
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Agreed. I'd been hoping to rewatch the whole Moffat era end-to-end to try and get to grips with it, but I'm stuck in the Clara/Capaldi years. I just can't work up the will to care enough. -
St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Saturday, 24-Mar-2018 08:46:00 EDT
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Holy crap this is good. If this isn't official, the Beeb need to drop what they're doing and just use this instead. It's beautiful, haunting, weird, and if this doesn't make you go "What *is* this show about?" then nothing will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvD-gaxDj0I
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St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Saturday, 24-Mar-2018 02:41:10 EDT
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I'm getting a devious joy from these Hacker News comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16659360. Someone tried to post a technical article and everyone is just bitching about the fact that the article needs third-party JS to even render the text. Good, they should be bitching. How do you write a whole document in plain text with no images and *still* require third-party JS just to load it? I mean what's the bloody point.
I dunno, though, I've moaned so much at this point I just feel like Basil Fawlty beating up his own car. -
St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Friday, 23-Mar-2018 12:54:02 EDT
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Why do I feel like tech has become less cool since the 1970s? Someone needs to tell Elon Musk we've taken a wrong turn somewhere. https://mulligrubs.me/photos/stjohn/image/75246281315ab530f14778e906351784 -
St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Friday, 23-Mar-2018 12:34:40 EDT
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It's pretty grim. I remember liking the cliffhanger where you think it's all over but the Vardans go and the Sontarans show up out of nowhere. Plus it's one of the rare stories that explores the TARDIS. But yeah, it does all feel like padding and it's pretty execrable. And that Sontaran with the hilarious Cockney accent :P -
St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Friday, 23-Mar-2018 06:23:46 EDT
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They're all so bad. What's worse is trying to find one in common so you can actually talk to someone.
"Do you have Skype?"
"No, do you have Signal?"
"No, do you have Discord?"
"No, do you have Matrix?"
"WTF is that. Do you have Telegram?"
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St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Friday, 23-Mar-2018 06:05:16 EDT
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I'm taking some alternative browsers for a spin and Midori crashed almost immediately. Literally, within the first five minutes. On Debian Stable. Lift your game, son.
All right, now to try out qutebrowser. I did actually try Links (with graphics) and thought it was quite promising, but it lacks tabs and something went wrong where I couldn't copy/paste, so maybe not. I might give it another go, though — I like the idea of a text-centric browser. -
St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Thursday, 22-Mar-2018 12:47:56 EDT
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Ooh, have you seen the up-coming releases? I didn't know they were out yet so I don't know what the new privacy options will look like. My impression from that press release was that this hadn't been released yet.
In any case, privacy options are already configurable through extensions (like uBlock) and settings (like sending the Do Not Track header). What I don't know is why it's suddenly Mozilla's job to *own* all my privacy features and have "opinions" about them. I've been laboring under the misapprehension they're supposed to be making some kind of web browser. -
St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Thursday, 22-Mar-2018 09:00:52 EDT
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In lieu of any acceptable third-party browsers, I am now going to browse the web using this DuckTales yo-yo from 1992. It's very private, totally untrackable, and doesn't have an opinion on anything except Scrooge McDuck. -
St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Thursday, 22-Mar-2018 08:24:36 EDT
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Mozilla: "In 2018 Firefox browsers will be fast, personal, mobile, and opinionated. […] People on the web deserve a browser that represents people first, a browser that isn't neutral when it comes to advertising, tracking and other dark patterns on the web."
[0]What? No, I don't want my browser to have an opinion, no more than I want my toaster or my toilet paper to have an opinion. I want Firefox to render the damn Web. I appreciate the thought, but privacy options should be configurable through settings and add-ons. Why am I suddenly buying into a whole corporate philosophy by just wanting to browse the Web?
[0]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Roadmap
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