Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2023
Mon Mar 13
★ Liked https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/03/13/all-data-is-health-data/
webdevlaw.uk
post All data is health data.
Canny readers of my book will have figured out that the Postscript, formally titled “Privacy and health data”, was a coded message. We used those pages to talk about one thing, but we were actually talking about something else.
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Sat Mar 11
★ Liked https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/11/llama/
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Fri Mar 10
★ Liked https://xeiaso.net/blog/a-weapon-to-surpass-metal-gear
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★ Liked http://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/indie-games-and-the-promise-of-better-spaces
www.nathalielawhead.com
post Indie Games and the promise of better spaces
Idyll is a small social world designed around kinder forms of online conversation. That description alone couldn’t come at a more meaningful time.
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Thu Mar 9
★ Liked https://aaronparecki.com/2023/03/09/5/bluesky-and-oauth
Aaron Parecki
post from OAuth Support in Bluesky and AT Protocol
Bluesky, a new social media platform and AT Protocol, is unsurprisingly running up against the same challenges and limitations that Flickr, Twitter and many other social media platforms faced in the 2000s: passwords!
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★ Liked https://aaronparecki.com/2023/03/09/5/bluesky-and-oauth
Aaron Parecki
post from OAuth Support in Bluesky and AT Protocol
Bluesky, a new social media platform and AT Protocol, is unsurprisingly running up against the same challenges and limitations that Flickr, Twitter and many other social media platforms faced in the 2000s: passwords!
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★ Liked https://blog.torproject.org/how-we-plant-and-grow-new-onions/
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★ Liked https://jagtalon.com/2022/12/08/still-going-a-zine-on-using-old-technology/
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★ Liked https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/blog/de-brand/
Simone Silvestroni
post from De-brand
Today, a post by my online friend Ali generated a lively exchange where all the participants agreed on one point: how we were all fooled by the idea of turning our online presence into a brand.
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Wed Mar 8
★ Liked https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/7/23629504/twitter-tor-onion-site-security-certificate-expired
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★ Liked https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/03/08/freaking-out-about-tiktok-on-your-work-phone-you-should-look-closer-to-home/
webdevlaw.uk
post Freaking out about TikTok on your work phone? You should look closer to home.
One of the biggest stories in tech policy, right now, is that governments all over the world are banning TikTok on government devices. There are concerns about Chinese state access to the information on those devices, and on wider systems, enabled by TikTok’s background software.
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★ Liked https://warrenellis.ltd/isles/how-to-build-a-blog-without-social-media/
Warren Ellis
post from How To Build A Blog Without Social Media
Well, you can’t. Right?
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Tue Mar 7
★ Liked https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2023/the-memex-mirage/
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★ Liked https://gomakethings.com/html-over-the-wire/
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★ Liked https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/03/07/the-age-appropriate-rubber-dinghies-of-the-sunlit-uplands/
webdevlaw.uk
post The age-appropriate rubber dinghies of the sunlit uplands
In May 2021, I co-authored a post with Sahdya Darr titled “Is government preparing to censor discussions about migration?”, where we fleshed out how the then-Home Secretary was leveraging the draft Online Safety Bill for explicitly political purposes.
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★ Liked http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5509
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Mon Mar 6
★ Liked https://ericwbailey.website/published/i-doubled-down-on-rss/
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Sun Mar 5
★ Liked https://the-ard.com/2023/02/23/struggle-solidarity-imagining-the-future-with-science-fiction/
the-ard.com
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Sat Mar 4
★ Liked https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/03/march-fourth-fourth-march/
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★ Liked https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/coded-resistance-comic
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Fri Mar 3
★ Liked https://twi.github.io/blog/github-warns-you-that-your-pronouns-may-be-illegal.html
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Wed Mar 1
★ Liked https://farawaytimes.blogspot.com/2023/02/how-to-make-good-small-games.html?m=1
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Tue Feb 28
★ Liked https://todon.eu/@jalcine/109944173571014337
Jacky Alciné
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The thing I was talking about indirectly this morning: https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/02/28/changing-the-narrative-new-black-x-tech-stock-photo-collection/ (https://jacky.wtf/2023/2/uZwi)
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★ Liked https://werd.io/2023/i-moved-to-philadelphia
Ben Werdmuller
post from I moved to Philadelphia
So, I live in Philly now.Or to be more specific, Elkins Park, which is an area in Cheltenham Township, just on the other side of Philadelphia’s northern border. If you’ve read Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House, you’re already familiar.I know comparatively little about the area, …
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★ Liked https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/02/28/changing-the-narrative-new-black-x-tech-stock-photo-collection/
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★ Liked https://xeiaso.net/blog/voice-control-talon
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Mon Feb 27
★ Liked https://jamesg.blog/2023/02/27/iwc-principles/
James
post from IndieWeb Principles Poster
The rain outside here in San Francisco is unyielding. This is perhaps a sign that I should let my feet rest after two long days of walking outdoors. While the rain falls, I have taken an opportunity to do a bit of writing and design. I decided to make a poster that shows the …
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Sun Feb 26
★ Liked https://jacky.wtf/2023/2/yO65?
jacky.wtf
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Tbh, I don't expect most people to really read most of what I say, especially when it comes to pointing how the influence capitalism has over their thinking and approaches to life. I've been told to my face that "it is what it is" and I always have to remember that this is what …
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Fri Feb 24
★ Liked https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/24/impressions-of-bing/
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★ Liked https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2023-02-23-investing-in-rss/
timkadlec.com
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One of the first jobs I had gave me the opportunity to work with James King, and one of the great habits I picked up from him was making sure to set aside time to learn from others. He would set aside an hour or so a day, sometimes less, sometimes more, to read through the RSS …
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