What happens when the internet disappears?: For so many links, the internet is not forever.
Computing
2025-03-23
2025-03-18
The World’s Most Invasive Apps: I’m not particularly convinced by the methodology, but, even so, hardly a surprise Meta apps come out as particularly terrible for keeping your personal data private.
2025-03-14: Revealed: how the UK tech secretary Peter Kyle uses ChatGPT for policy advice. …
2025-03-12
2025-03-02: The Winterbreak exploit lets everyone jailbreak their Kindle
2025-02-27
It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds: ‘…it is very scary to make yourself 100% dependent on the goodwill of the American government merely because it is convenient’
2025-02-23: A script to automatically download all your Kindle books to your computer - whilst you still can
2025-01-23
How to survive being online: You can use the internet without being Very Online, as they say.
2025-01-19
Smartphones Are Hot: A decade-old take on ‘What would Marshall McLuhan make of the smartphone?’
2025-01-19: The US Tiktok ban goes into force
Google Maps turns 20, adds AI features, new countries to beat Apple: Next month sees Google Maps' 20th year anniversary; it is kind of hard to imagine life without this type of software.
2025-01-08: What we learned about LLMs in 2024
2025-01-04
Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South: Due to new state-level age verification laws.
Your App Should Have Been A Website (And Probably Your Game Too): Modern web browsers are powerful and capable.
2024-12-31
The beautiful sentence that is the web: ‘In web development, HTML is the noun, CSS is the adjective that describes the noun, and JavaScript is the verb that makes it do something.’
2024-12-29: Just learned that you can now turn off Microsoft Excel’s previously incessant desire to …
2024-12-28: Edit csv is a very handy tool if you need to make some basic edits to a CSV file on a computer …
2024-12-25
AdGuard Mail — a new AdGuard product to protect your email: AdGuard enters into the cadre of services like SimpleLogin and Addy by offering a product designed to keep your email private.
making a website is hard: cathode ray dude bemoans the lack of a modern Microsoft Frontpage or Dreamweaver equivalent.
2024-12-21
Mobile Communications Best Practice Guidance: Largely sensible advice from the US cyber defence agency on keeping your mobile communications secure.
2024-12-18: Noticed that Mimo, one of the ‘Duolingo but for coding’ educational apps I sometimes …
2024-12-14: GoFullPage is a useful Chrome browser extension that lets you take a screenshot of all of a webpage …
2024-12-08
Smartphones don’t suck. People do: We shouldn’t let our phones bore us so often.
2024-12-07: OpenAI may be planning a ChatGPT Pro plan for $200 per month. Well, that’s quite a hike if …
2024-12-06: A friend kindly informs me that if you’re a customer of O2, a common mobile phone carrier in …