2023-07-19
Google could sell this same thing directly to parents https://www.cnbc.com/...
CNBC
Sources: Google is internally piloting an opt-in program where some employees will be restricted to internet-free PCs to reduce the risk of cyberattacks
- Google is enlisting employees for a pilot program to work without internet access. — The search giant, which is undergoing …
2023-03-27
New form of extortion: abuse the abuse-reporting systems to take down a profitable account, then blackmail said account with promises to get ban lifted https://twitter.com/...
ProPublica
A look at OBNBrandon, a prolific scammer in a booming community focused on banning influencers' accounts, mainly on Instagram, and extorting for “reactivation”
https://www.propublica.org/... … @craigsilverman@mastodon.social : OBN, a mysterious fraudster, says he made hundreds of thousands of dollars by exploiting Instagram's security gap...
2021-10-03
This essay on the tabs in Safari 15 for Mac illustrates the enduring tension between visual design and interaction design. Tabs and their relationship to content and other controls - a classic interview question because the aesthetic lure is so compelling https://daringfireball.net/...
Daring Fireball
The new tab design in Safari 15 for macOS makes usability worse and shows a complete disregard for the familiarity users have with the previous tab design
even a little — is a design sin of the first order. Designs should evolve over time in the other direction.” https://daringfireball.net/... @tonx : ME 15m AGO: So glad I'm not the...
2021-02-05
Gonna be interesting to see how the filters adapt to this https://twitter.com/...
Nikkei Asia
Users in mainland China are flocking to Clubhouse, a rare space outside the country's firewall where they can speak freely with people from Hong Kong and Taiwan
Audio-based social-media platform becomes free-speech haven for mainland users — The Clubhouse app had two million users globally as of Jan. 24. Tweets: @joshschoen , @harry_jerr...
$3K sounds like a lot, but 8K displays and iPhone-level performance would be better than the CPU and monitor setup I have now. I still say that a sufficiently powerful headset can emulate and replace any prior computing paradigm https://twitter.com/...
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