On occasion I partake in online sales. These usually take the form of Kijiji or Facebook Marketplace listings and an in-person meeting to either buy or sell an item. The vast majority of the time, things go according to what’s agreed upon. But to say this environment is a cesspool is an understatement. It can bring out people intent on the shadiest of things. Today, I offer a bit of a different story…
It’s been about four years since I wrote an article about the state of encryption on the web. With news that Google is about to step up its efforts to warn users of “insecure” pages, I thought I’d revisit this topic that never ends. Encryption on the web is good. It’s good for everyone. I […]
With the passing of Bill 56, The Government of Ontario has removed authorization for the use of automated speed enforcement cameras from the Highway Traffic Act. There is an approach that I often attribute to progressives that is punitive. This assumes that people do wrong by default and the established structure should be setup to […]
Previously, I wrote about the prevalence of artificial intelligence (A.I. or the more common AI) and whether we should be worried. Months later, I came across a very real reason bloggers are getting worried about AI. Google appears to have taken a post of mine and used it to train its Gemini model an inject […]
As I was merrily Facebook’ing, the site redirected to a big, awful, center-page modal that loudly proclaimed WE HAVE SUSPENDED YOUR ACCOUNT. The abruptness of this immediately had me thinking it was some sort of redirect injection or at least some kind of malware. There’s no way Facebook just chops off longtime accounts like this, right? Wrong.
An article on 404 Media had me thinking about the state of trust in society today. The article describes software landlords are using the U.S. that forces prospective tenants to offer login credentials (or pass through a login) into business systems so that tenant’s pay can be verified…
Perhaps one thing that never gets shared in the aspirational and pefectional universe of social media is that staring at a blank screen is hard. Returning to something like writing when you’ve been away for a while is hard.
A recent announcement dropped from Plex. It seemed to fly under the radar for a few days until I came across it on Tik Tok (of all places). The most important of these changes will be in effect on April 29th, 2025. The biggest part of this announcement is that people watching videos on your […]
In which I consider if people are more lonely and what could be done about it. Also, I am absolutely not qualified to do this, but hear me out.
Curiously, all this talk about artificial intelligence seems to miss these bigger truths.