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A solid, smart, and studied response to Spectre and Meltdown from the higher ed perspective: http://secwonks.org/real-time-risk-assessment-of-spectre-and-meltdown/

my eyes! my eyes!

I am completely confused by the bright white screen which has suddenly become my web view to gmail.

Apparently this is how the embedded weather app chooses to convey snowbomb.

Boy did I like this post on how to test microservices https://medium.com/@copyconstruct/testing-microservices-the-sane-way-9bb31d158c16

Newbie dumb question - can you delete toots? #newbie

After 30 years, they changed out the art at the Hungarian.

I swear the old angels and tarot characters were here the last time I came by.

Alphonso 'automated content recognition' app, embedded in roughly 1000 games, listens for ambient sounds, then compares a digital hash with known sound samples. Apparently it's integrated into Shazam too.

The article draws a distinction between tracking by IP address and tracking PII, but really if Experian is cross-matching on IP then it is PII.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/business/media/alphonso-app-tracking.html

Hello Mastodon.social. This is my first toot. I'm looking forward to meeting all 120k of you.