Geoff Wozniak @GeoffWozniak@hackers.town

This is not encouraging.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html

About 1/3 done. I'm going to have to summarize in a gopher post.

So far it's good, but not without its flaws. I'm speaking as someone who does not know the history and did not participate in BBSs.

Makes me giggle every time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HPVQ4FpVlY

Not cyberpunk, but if you want to see a good movie, check out The Farewell.

Solid. Want to see where it goes. My wife (not into Trek) liked it well enough, and I only had to pause a couple of times to give a little backstory.

Notes:

• The major players, save Stewart, need to find their character.
• They shouldn't use Spiner too much.
• The music is good.
• Throwbacks didn't bother me since, well, it's still about Picard.
• I don't care about canon too much, nor continuity.
• Glad to see the action isn't constant. This needs to be a non-action based show.

Checking fedi while I wait for logs to download. As you do.

Time to curl up with the cDc book before falling asleep.

Cheers to Fastmail for answering my question about their TLS certificate promptly via Twitter.

Jeers to them getting my name wrong.

Shipping was more than the book. Still worth it.

Uh oh... another old computer book that's not too expensive...

And hooray for misspelling the hashtag!

Copy finally arrived! #TechicolorRainbow

I'd just like to reiterate that gpg-agent and pinentry are a detriment to enjoyable computing in every environment I have used them in.

Wikis really are where information goes to die.

Good to see current and relevant information on the Emacs Wiki.

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Gnus

My wife and I went for a walk earlier today and helped a person in an motorized wheelchair get through the snow on the sidewalk.

Felt good to help someone out.

Also, it was a bit lucky we happened to come along. It's not clear how long he would have had to wait to get help otherwise.

gpg-agent is the worst agent in any genre.

Even though this article goes into why, I simply do not get why there is so much anti-vax sentiment out there.

(The story within the story here is how two mothers learned the almost-hard-way why vaccines are so important.)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/anti-vaccine-myths-biases-1.5429845