Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter will now let you transfer data between their services.

https://technologyreview.com/the-do...

Setting your computer on fire will always make the bug go away.

Here is what I don't understand about elementaryOS: it's supposed to be targeted at users who aren't tech savvy. But in order to perform any major upgrades you need to reinstall the entire operating system.

Cool throwback to 2005, I guess.

The IRS has a form on their website that can only be submitted during business hours.

So many reposts.

The mobile version of Medium does not let you leave comments. I do not understand. How did that get overlooked.

I love the feeling of running `sudo apt autoremove` and getting rid of like 500 MB of useless packages.

Sometimes I wonder if Alice uses a pink color scheme in her text editor.

That doesn't make any sense.

I don't understand the hype around making the web more decentralized. What makes people think that users want to host everything themselves?

Another funny release note.

My Loss/Time graph looks like a fun slide. Weeee. Woah. Weeee. Woah...

TIL in China you need to get a government issued license to run a website. Wouldn't surprise me if the EU started taking cards from their playbook.

I unfollowed everyone on Twitter and now my feed is just a bunch of ads lol.

So apparently there's going to be some sort of "link tax" for creating hyperlinks to other peoples websites.

What's next is the EU government going to start requiring people to register a license to run a webserver on their computer?

Found this on YouTube. What the fuck does that second comment even mean?

I use a light theme on my terminal. Fight me.

I'm gonna build my own Blockchain, with blackjack and hookers.

Okay, the last one I promise.

To everyone freaking out about how bad Microsoft buying GitHub would be for "privacy". I want you to know that GitHub already uses Google and Facebook analytics on their site.

Oh no Microsoft might buy GitHub! It's the end of the world! Everyone grab your code and hide in a nuclear bomb shelter.

Guy: We should build a Blockchain based review website.
Me: Why does it have to use a Blockchain?
Guy: That way we can verify that only real people are leaving reviews and not bots.
Me: That's not really how Blockchains work.
Guy: Blockchain!

When you can see how optimized your code was each time you tried running it.

I never understood Snapchat.
- Its a text messaging app with all the useful features removed
- Its a camera app that deletes all the photos you take with it
- Its a news app that only shows you clickbait

Ghostery just leaked all of their users email addresses in their GDPR compliance email.

You know GDPR compliance is going to create a whole new form of scam where scammers impersonate users and send data requests to companies to get people's info.

Saw DuckDuckGo running a targeted ad campaign on Facebook yesterday. Lol, hypocrites.

I always see people who say that open source != monetarily free. While I agree that may be technically true, I think practically speaking it is not.

Why do I say this?
Well to my knowledge there isn't any successful company that makes money by actually selling open source software. There are a few companies that have become successful by selling complimentary services like Redhat with Enterprise support or Mozilla with selling ad space in their browser, but none that actually sell the software directly.

De-ta or Dat-a?

Blockchain is meh.