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Private Access Tokens (and how reCAPTCHA 2 and 3 are different)
Jana Iyengar: Private Access Tokens: stepping into the privacy-respecting, CAPTCHA-less future we were promised
Private Access Tokens are an alternative to CAPTCHAs for supported client platforms. They use careful application of cryptography and requirements to guarantee that a website learns only exactly what it needs to know about a user in order to
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The Current "Longest Strawman Argument Article" of 2022 is…
Alice Gribbin: The Empathy Racket
Asking artworks to teach people lessons means asking those who engage art to see themselves as morally wanting. As a circumscribed expectation of an art encounter, empathy burdens the mind. The imperative that one corral one’s feelings in a single direction is spirit-smothering, tyrannous.
There may be some
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Glassdoor Alert: Employer Legal Action
Ryan Mac: Inside a Corporate Culture War Stoked by a Crypto C.E.O.
“Kraken is the perfect allegory for
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Essential Inconvenience
Bryan Caplan: Convenience vs. Social Desirability Bias
The Panglossian explanation is that there’s almost no political resistance to the inconvenience of extra privacy, safety, and consumer protection because these benefits are clearly worth the loss of convenience. Yet that’s hard to reconcile with the enormous effect of convenience on our actual behavior. Furthermore,
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watchOS 9 is a Sleeper Hit
José Adorno: watchOS 9 is Apple Watch's greatest update in years thanks to Series 3 being discontinued
I honestly think watchOS 9 is the greatest update for the Apple Watch in years and the main reason is Apple Watch Series 3 going away for good. I know it’s a very affordable wearable
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The Rise, Fall, and Rise of 1,000 True Fans
Cal Newport: The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
Perhaps Dixon is right that Web 3.0 will play a role in the future of online creative careers, but it’s also clear that Ball and Enjeti, Hilton Carter, Maria Popova, and any number of successful podcasters didn’t depend on a technological
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This Used to be More Fun Before Things Got…Complicated
Greg Morris: The Wonder Of Tech
Perhaps Casey’s right, it could be a long way off, but Ai advancements will provide a real change to the way the world works. What won't provide it is Apple putting widgets on my lock screen, or being able to shoot a photo at 3x instead
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Lightroom Does Video
Benjamin Warde on Adobe's Blog: June 2022 photography releases
The same edit controls that you already use to make your photography shine can now be used with your videos as well! Not only can you use Lightroom’s editing capabilities to make your video clips look their best, you can also copy and
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Be Wary When Users go Up and Profits Go Down
Derek Thompson: Why urban life suddenly got way more expensive
For the past decade, people like me—youngish, urbanish, professionalish—got a sweetheart deal from Uber, the Uber-for-X clones, and that whole mosaic of urban amenities in travel, delivery, food, and retail that vaguely pretended to be tech companies. Almost each time you
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Pixar Upsets Few Folks
Jenny Brewer: Pixar takes a stand on LGBTQIA+ representation amidst global bans of Lightyear film
As reported by South China Morning Post, beyond the United Arab Emirates, Disney was unable to secure permission in countries including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia and Lebanon, with a screening in China “also unlikely”. In response to pressure to
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The M2 MacBook Air Doesn't Tempt Me (thank god)
Macworld: When newer doesn't mean better
In sum, expect a Mac with the M1 Pro to be a good 30 percent to 40 percent faster than the M2 in every way, with the the exception of the media engine (which appears the be the same) and the Neural Engine (in which the M2
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Stage Manager Is Only for M1 iPads, and No, It’s Not Because Apple Hates You (yes, you!)
Craig Federighi talking to Matthew Panzarino:
“It’s only the M1 iPads that combined the high DRAM capacity with very high capacity, high performance NAND that allows our virtual memory swap to be super fast,” Federighi says. “Now that we’re letting you have up to four apps on a panel plus another four – up
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One Day of Peace
This Axios headline struck me today: U.S. has seen 1 day in June without a mass shooting. Honestly, this sells it short, as of this writing there have been 32 documented shootings in the first 12 days of the month. That brings us up to 303 murders and 1,140 injuries in these shootings
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iOS Customization Ain’t Done Yet
Lance Ulanoff: Exclusive: inside Apple’s iOS 16 remake of the iPhone’s iconic Lock Screen
“We knew this was a multi-act play, and we knew our next venue would be the Lock Screen,” said Federighi. “We saw a real opportunity to take that area that really has evolved slowly over time but has
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RSS Would Be More Popular Than Facebook if Google Reader Was Still Around…Right?
Chris Aldrich: Am I on the IndieWeb Yet?
Chris Coyier made a point of replying on his personal site – a lovely little post about how cool RSS is, and the benefits of “slow social” web interactions. And I agree completely! [insert requisite mourning for Reader]
I’m linking to this article mostly because it’s
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What I’ve Witnessed is Disgusting
Michelle Goldberg: The Amber Heard Verdict Was a Travesty. Others Will Follow.
During the trial, the jurors heard a recording in which Depp sneered at Heard, using an obscenity, “I head butted you in the forehead. That doesn’t break a nose.” (He claimed it was an accident.) They heard from a makeup artist who
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Ads in Apple Music?
Jason Snell: Apple Music has betrayed its most loyal listeners
The fact remains that if you listen to an Apple Music streaming radio station like Classic Rock or Alternative, you will eventually hear a 40-second ad for Zane Lowe or Strombo or other pre-recorded Apple Music radio episodes. What was once an ad-
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Everyone Thinks They’re Okay, but Everyone Else is Messed Up
Derek Thompson: ‘Everything Is Terrible, but I’m Fine’
And though the number of Americans who said that they personally were “doing at least okay” actually rose slightly from 2019 to 2021, their evaluation of the national economy plummeted in that time frame. If this graph were a bumper sticker, it would read: Everything is
