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A few friends started a discussion about fake profiles connecting to us on LinkedIn. I'll try to summarize the thoughts and discussions we've had around topic. I accept all connection requests. Don't treat "mutual connections"…

Yes, that's right, I have over 1,000 active email addresses. Here's why, how I manage them, and how my system has evolved over the past 17 years. In early 2002, my main email address was…

A good summary of the study from Treehugger: https://www.treehugger.com/bikes/study-finds-e-bike-riders-get-much-exercise-riders-regular-bikes.html The study itself, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259019821930017X E-bikers take longer trips by e-bike and bicycle, compared to cyclists. Physical activity gains from active travel are similar in e-bikers and…

8chan Activates “Emergency Bunker” on Dark Web — DarkOwl - Darknet Big Data — Read on www.darkowl.com/blog/8chan-finds-new-home-on-dark-web

Out of interest in learning how machine learning works at the code level, I started building a firearm detector. There are plenty of libraries which detect a firearm, for instance, this one.  I wanted to…

20 years ago, I decided to stop hacking around, join an IRC network, and make friends. I chose SlashNet because I was reading Slashdot regularly. Since I was already on their IRC server, I figured…

I'm working on a research project where we're parsing 500-750GB of log data per day. Initially, the hack was to use fish shell scripts to automate grep, awk, etc. Quickly, we realized the entire idea…

Screen captures from two websites with very different approaches to privacy and GDPR compliance. Approach One: Agree or get plaintext. Frankly, I like the plaintext version so much more. Approach Two: FUCKING ACCEPT OR FUCKING…

Over the past few years I've become less and less involved in "social media". My twitter, my google plus--now migrated to this blog, my mastodon, and now my linkedin are basically one way feeds from…

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