2019-03-12

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2019-03-12 05:58 am

Noise from Apple HQ

So they've got announcements coming up at Apple.

I wonder how much corporate self-harm they're about to commit this time. Seems as if a lot of the features that have made the machines they've made and I've bought over the last couple of decades have been getting set aside because "progress" and shaping how their customers define it.
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2019-03-12 06:01 am

New Forms of Fake News

This is pretty much confirmed by Snopes.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/03/local-news-imitation-sites-deal-in-gop-political-messaging/#p3

I was about to ask "how long before the Canadian Conservatives adopt this tactice?", but they already have Paul Godfrey running Postmedia to their liking, right? So maybe it's the Republicans adopting their Canadian cousins' tactics? Again?
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2019-03-12 06:17 am

IBM vs Flickr Users?

Courtesy of NBC News:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/facial-recognition-s-dirty-little-secret-millions-online-photos-scraped-n981921

If I understand this correctly, IBM's people didn't even talk with Flickr, let alone Flickr account-holders...?