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24 Aug 2025 • Quoting Rebecca Williams

Linked - Talk on Burner Phones

Next, we discussed why your smartphone is risky and how you can improve it today, even without a burner phone. We covered how device IDs – the IMSI tied to your SIM and cell tower access, and the IMEI tied to your hardware – make true phone anonymity nearly impossible. We...

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24 Aug 2025

Film Review - Night Always Comes

Night Always Comes (2025)

Rated: 1/10

Added: 2025-08-24

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24 Aug 2025

Film Review - Taxi

Taxi (1998)

Rated: 1/10

Added: 2025-08-24

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24 Aug 2025

Film Review - Downsizing

Downsizing (2017)

Rated: 2/10

Added: 2025-08-24

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11 Aug 2025 • Quoting Castro

Linked - Castro adds device sync

Castro is launching device sync today along with an iPad app. Sync is part of the existing Castro Plus subscription, with no additional charge or pricing changes. All aspects of the feature are opt-in and can be enabled or disabled at any time. If you would prefer separat...

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11 Aug 2025 • Quoting New Scientist

Linked - Key genetic differences found in people with CFS

The study, called DecodeME, compared DNA samples from just over 15,500 people with ME/CFS and nearly 260,000 without it, all of whom were from the UK and of European ancestry. “We have found eight genetic signals,” says Chris Ponting at the University of Edinburgh in t...

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11 Aug 2025 • Quoting Cloudflare

Linked - Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives

We are observing stealth crawling behavior from Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine. Although Perplexity initially crawls from their declared user agent, when they are presented with a network block, they appear to obscure their crawling identity in an attempt to circ...

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11 Aug 2025

Blog - Quoting Reddit user on giving up work

Reddit user on giving up work One clue was spending about half of my summer holidays asleep and the other half resting and still not feeling recovered from a busy time at work after two weeks of doing that. The other clue was the increasing symptoms that seemed to pop...

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11 Aug 2025 • Quoting Techdirt

Linked - The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About

Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you know? It’s turned out to be exactly the privacy-invading, freedom-crushing, technically unworkable disaster that everyone with half a brain predicted it would be.

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10 Aug 2025

Film Review - The Exorcist: Believer

The Exorcist: Believer (2023)

Rated: 4/10

Added: 2025-08-10

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08 Aug 2025

Film Review - Dead Poets Society

Dead Poets Society (1989)

Rated: 4/10

Added: 2025-08-08

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03 Aug 2025

Film Review - John Q

John Q (2002)

Rated: 3/10

Added: 2025-08-03

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03 Aug 2025

Film Review - Breaking

Breaking (2022)

Rated: 3/10

Added: 2025-08-03

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02 Aug 2025

Blog - You Should Probably Leave Substack

Unfortunately, Substack willingly platforms, and allows bad actors to monetize, hate speech and misinformation.

https://leavesubstack.com/

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01 Aug 2025 • Lethain

Linked - How to provide feedback on documents

As one step in reducing the overhead of sharing documents widely, I wrote up and shared this recommended process for providing feedback on documents: Before starting, remember that the goal of providing feedback on a document is to help the author. Optimizing for ...

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01 Aug 2025 • Quoting Kill the Newsletter

Linked - Kill the Newsletter!

How does Kill the Newsletter! work? Create a feed with the form above and Kill the Newsletter! provides you with an email address and an Atom feed. Emails that are received at that address are turned into entries in that feed. Sign up to a newsletter with that address and...

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01 Aug 2025

Mixtape - Monthly Mixtape - July 2025

What I’ve been listening to this month. Fade into You - Mazzy Star Praise You - Fatboy Slim You Get What You Give - New Radicals How Bizarre - OMC Canned Heat - Jamiroquai Movin’ on Up - Primal Scream Steal My Sunshine (Single Version) - LEN Golden Skans ...

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01 Aug 2025 • Quoting Taylor Lorenz

Linked - Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog

Substack sent a push alert encouraging users to subscribe to a Nazi newsletter that claimed Jewish people are a sickness and that we must eradicate minorities to build a “White homeland.” NatSocToday describes itself as “a weekly newsletter featuring opinions and news ...

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01 Aug 2025 • Quoting Dane McMillan

Linked - The Verge Launches New Site Features Aimed at Deepening Audience Engagement

The Verge today launched a suite of homepage and editorial product updates aimed at deepening its direct relationship with readers. The announcement includes a new feature that allows readers to follow topics and individual Verge journalists, view those stories in a perso...

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01 Aug 2025

Film Review - Ghost Town

Ghost Town (2008)

Rated: 3/10

Added: 2025-08-01

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01 Aug 2025

Film Review - Cast Away

Cast Away (2000)

Rated: 5/10

Added: 2025-08-01

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28 Jul 2025

Blog - Dia Browser Takes

I like the simplicity of The Browser Company’s second browser. I had been using Arc as my primary browser as I preferred the left hand side tabs - particularly on my 34’ screen - for around a year. Dia is a step back in feature set and an easy take is its chrome with chat G...

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28 Jul 2025

Blog - Phone battery issues

When a phone gets hot, very hot, because it’s processing something in the background and it doesn’t finish. It has crashed and you realise the battery has gone from 98% to 8%. You force close every app and have to leave your phone for an hour to cool down. Since October 2022...