Aug 10, 2022 from bearblog To Escape the Heat, Just Apply Suncream? Heatwave precautions are a meme. Is it really more important to wear your suncream when outside on a hot day than a cool day? Of course not, but the advice to do so is copied across the media and s...
May 22, 2022 from bearblog YouTube Comment Spam and the Linking Non-Link As somebody who quite often scrolls down to the comments section on YouTube (for my sins), I'm often faced with the innovative tactics that spammers use to get their comments through Google's autom...
Apr 15, 2022 from bearblog A Thought - Maybe More Money is not More Better Nobody understands the economy. But more money is more better, right? Well, maybe. But an economy cannot be based on the creation of money alone.
Jan 10, 2022 from bearblog Bottle Deposits are Bad Policy Bottle Deposits are a popular environmentalist policy worldwide. However, they are a bad policy that imposes outweight costs on society while barely helping the environment.
Jan 08, 2022 from bearblog What are you really doing when you fill in an hCaptcha It's not clear exactly why hCaptcha gives the challenges that it does, but it's certainly more interesting than you might think to take a closer look and try and work out how it all ticks.
Dec 30, 2021 from bearblog New Things of 2021 It's getting to be the end of 2021 - so it's a good time to look through some of the things I bought over the year, and reflect on how they've turned out. Some of them have been rubbish of course, ...
Dec 28, 2021 from bearblog My IDE Broke Last week my IDE broke. I tried to fix it and failed, and then I realised I was a failure as a software developer.
Dec 25, 2021 from bearblog You block ads in your browser, why not in your city? There are defences against badvertising on the internet, and you should use them. But there are defences against bad advertising in real life too, and you should use them too. Put badvertising in i...
Dec 23, 2021 from bearblog Searching for Nothing, Finding a Surprise Search engines are a fact of daily life for most of the population nowadays. Google (sub your preferred provider) is an extension of the brain, imagined as giving you access to the sum of the world...
Dec 22, 2021 from bearblog Drinking From the (Musical) Firehose on YouTube YouTube provides a great experience for music discovery, but sometimes it's nice to break out of your filter bubble and be the first ever person to listen to a brand new song.
Dec 21, 2021 from bearblog No, California Is Not Going to Take Your Generator Away It's time to read the docs and learn what the law really says, before getting in a huff about your generator losing its puff.
Jun 18, 2020 from bearblog Defective by Design: Reflected Attacks on Email Privacy using DMARC Email privacy is dead, confirmed for the umpteenth time. In this post I present the SOILED-PRIVACY attacks (Systemic Online Information Leakage using Email+DMARC against Privacy). These are two ref...
Jun 02, 2020 from bearblog Wayland is Almost There I finally break down and install wayland on my desktop at home, using sway to replace i3. Things go OK, mostly.
