Marty McGuire

Marty Likes Things (Sometimes)

2023
Tue Apr 4
★ Liked https://snarfed.org/2023-04-03_so-long-twitter-api-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish
Ryan Barrett
post from So long, Twitter API, and thanks for all the fish
Well, it’s come to this. Twitter is burning, a billionaire owes money, an API will soon get lobotomized, so Bridgy‘s Twitter support will die within the month. Granary‘s and twitter-atom too. The Twitter API may now be effectively unmaintained, but they still managed to find an …
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★ Liked https://werd.io/2023/feedly-launches-strikebreaking-as-a-service
Ben Werdmuller
post from Feedly launches strikebreaking as a service
“In a world of widespread, suspicionless surveillance of protests by law enforcement and other government entities, and of massive corporate union-busting and suppression of worker organizing, Feedly decided they should build a tool for the corporations, cops, and unionbusters.” …
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Mon Apr 3
★ Liked https://gregorlove.com/2023/04/lets-practice-a-love-ethic/
gRegor Morrill
post from Let’s Practice a Love Ethic
Overall, things have felt a bit better since my post last August. I still have plenty of times where I feel discouraged, isolated, and hopeless as our so-called leaders and institutions abandon us during an ongoing pandemic for the pursuit of profits. However, I have been trying …
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Sat Apr 1
★ Liked https://werd.io/2023/coloring-the-past
Ben Werdmuller
post from Coloring the Past
“The following images are originally from 1897-1973. After noticing how much more responsive audiences are to color photos, Eli decided to work on past images from queer and trans history. During a time when politicians can openly argue trans people did not exist until 2015, it …
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Tue Mar 28
★ Liked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujHUMG0Uovs
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Mon Mar 27
★ Liked https://snarfed.org/2023-03-24_49619-2
Ryan Barrett
post from Content negotiation considered harmful
Matilda, 1996
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★ Liked https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2023/03/23/remarks-on-chat-control/
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★ Liked https://xeiaso.net/talks/wazero-lightning-2023
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Thu Mar 23
★ Liked https://adactio.com/links/20039
Jeremy Keith
post from
Learn Privacy
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Wed Mar 22
★ Liked https://www.bitestring.com/posts/2023-03-19-web-fingerprinting-is-worse-than-I-thought.html
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Tue Mar 21
★ Liked https://maya.land/monologues/2023/03/21/hypertext-hostility.html
Maya
post from a newfound discomfort with hypertext
I bought a printer, months and months back, because I had these ideas of beautiful janky little booklets, monochrome laser printed, lovingly finessed margins. I buy people’s zines and read them. I write, I illustrate things, I have a rotating stapler; trust me that there is a …
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Mon Mar 20
★ Liked https://todon.eu/@jalcine/110057232759297810
Jacky Alciné
post from
Molly White knows how to start a week. https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/the-venture-capitalists-dilemma (https://jacky.wtf/2023/3/efQm)
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★ Liked https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/the-venture-capitalists-dilemma
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Sat Mar 18
★ Liked https://mat.exon.name/notablog/wordpress-activitypub/
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Tue Mar 14
★ Liked https://chriscoyier.net/2023/03/14/doing-computer/
chriscoyier.net
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★ Liked https://werd.io/2023/wordpress-and-activitypub
Ben Werdmuller
post from WordPress and ActivityPub
I’m pretty excited about Automattic’s acquisition of Matthias Pfefferle’s ActivityPub plugin. I believe it will remain open source, but by acquiring the copyright to the code and hiring its developer to work on open web projects, Automattic is sending a signal about what it …
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Mon Mar 13
★ Liked https://thenib.com/not-working/
thenib.com
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Popular sustainable-future imagery depicts industrious workers tirelessly constructing expansive green infrastructure…but what if averting climate catastrophe could also mean a life with much less work, and much more free time?
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★ Liked https://farlow.dev/2023/03/02/hacking-the-nintendo-dsi-browser
farlow.dev
post from Hacking the Nintendo DSi Browser
I managed to exploit the Nintendo DSi browser 15 years after it was released in Japan. This post will go over the journey and the technical details.
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★ 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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