Short Note: Friendly reminder that browser extensions have ...

Jul 21, 2019, 10:55 PM UTC

Friendly reminder that browser extensions have access to a lot of information and aren’t well monitored. Be sure you trust the publisher.

Some fascinating technical detail from @dangoodin001 about the browser extensions that slurp up and share browsing data: https://t.co/lWW1KtNaYz.

What jumps out are the extensions's obfuscations of their activites, such as by waiting a couple weeks before sending telemetry back.
— Jonathan Zittrain (@zittrain) July 18, 2019

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I'm a software engineer living in Southern California building cool things using JavaScript and other web technologies. I enjoy traveling to other countries and spending time in nature.

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Jul 18, 2019, 11:54 PM UTC

History is so interesting…I’d be up for this Fixed Calendar idea once we move to the metric system. So, Kodak is weird. And a particular way they are weird has to do with the International Fixed Calendar, as developed by Moses Cotsworth in 1902.It's a calendar designed to be maximally...

Jul 23, 2019, 1:03 AM UTC

I don’t wear glasses but I am about to order 4 different types of sunglasses. Anyone have any experience with blue light glasses and amber colored driving sunglasses? I didn’t event know this was a thing until recently.

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