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🔗 A New Mailing List, Goodbye Instagram?, Future Book Hello Again — Roden Explorers Archive
Sign up for Craig Mod’s new mailing list.
🔗 Drivers demand reminders for car rego as NSW rakes in $240m in fines
Fines for driving unregistered vehicles have accelerated in NSW since the removal of car registration stickers in 2013, with hapless motorists blaming the state government for not sending reminders to renew registration.
How about putting a reminder in your calendar, and stop blaming everyone else. 🤦♂️
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001) 📺
An orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world.
Finally, convinced @travispacker to watch Harry Potter ✨
I had been putting off starting Zelda: Breath of the Wild…but I guess I have no excuse now
🔗 We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites - Motherboard
But for people who came of age in the early 2000s, sharing our lives online is second nature, and largely came without consequences. There was no indication that something we’d been conditioned to do would be quickly weaponized against us.
🔗 The 21 (and Counting) Biggest Facebook Scandals of 2018 - WIRED
In 2018, the social giant juggled so many crises, you probably forgot half of them. Here's a refresher.
Facebook’s had quite the year… 🤯
🔗 Sydney bakes as heatwave sets in, with no end in sight beyond New Year’s Eve
Roads are melting, beaches are full to bursting and air conditioners are getting a serious end-of-year workout as residents in Sydney and across the state swelter through heatwave conditions, with no end in sight until 2019.
Are we still debating whether Global Warming is an actual thing or not? 🤦♂️
🔗 Chinese schools are using ‘smart uniforms’ to track their students’ locations - The Verge
while the uniforms are meant to encourage attendance, it seems that there’s nothing stopping administrators from using them to track students out of school, at least technologically speaking, which is certainly concerning
That is one super slippery slope!
I’ll preface this with saying I am decidedly against likes on Micro. - Josh Sullivan
that brings up the question, if you don’t want to write about it and cannot find a single sentence worth quoting or directly bring others attention to, is it worth sharing?
Personally, I think “simple” liking is the scourge of the social Internet and adds little to no value to anyone, unless you’re using “liking” as a bookmark type thing, which is what my wife does instead of using an actual bookmarking service.
That said, I often “like” other peoples posts using Indigenous, however, when they Micropub to my blog they do so “Privately” and I can then choose to add a comment or pull-quote later, and then publish it publicly.
I’m thinking about making my New Year Resolution all about education, both getting and giving as of it as I can. 👨🏫
Damnit, I can’t get past Zapdos in Pokemon Let’s Go. 5 failed attempts so far…
I’m desperately trying to level up some Rock and Electric types before my next attempt.
Watching: WarGames (1983) 📺
A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.
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Does anyone know if there’s a way to re-import the Facebook export back into Facebook, for the purpose of re-generating my Facebook account so I can re-export it in JSON format instead of the shitty HTML version?
Trying to find a decent plugin to sync from my live WordPress install to my localhost one, but just like the App Store, all of them want me to purchase a subscription!
Any suggestions?
@cleverdevil, is there a way to use your Ditchbook app with Facebook’s html export? I cocked up and forget to select json! Argh!
🔗 Coalition needs a miracle to win next election
“He’s an ex-marketing guy and he wasn’t good at that either,” Prof van Onselen said.
😂
Watching: Black Mirror: Arkangel (S4.E2)
After nearly losing her daughter, a mother invests in a new technology that allows her to keep track of her.
Here’s How Your Apps Reveal Personal Information To Facebook
The privacy researcher collective App Census estimates that “approximately 30 percent of all apps in Google’s Play store contact Facebook at startup” through the company’s SDK. The research firm Statista estimates that the Google Play store has over 2.6 million apps as of December 2018.
Clickbait headline aside, that’s a pretty shocking number of apps that connect to Facebook even if you don’t have an account, specially considering some of the apps that do it, i.e. Tinder, Grindr, Pregnancy+.
🔗 We’ve Got the Screen Time Debate All Wrong. Let’s Fix It - WIRED
Public anxiety over the side effects of screen time—the hours we spend staring at our various devices—is the highest it's been in years. That anxiety has manifested in The form of self-help books, social movements, major media outlets foretelling "the worst mental-health crisis in decades," and no shortage of guilt.