You may be wondering why I'm salty about data privacy in cars all of the sudden:

https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messages-privacy

Since I have different opinions on daylight saving time (DST), a.k.a. summer time, than others:

Lawful Good: DST, roughly 25°-48° from equator, switching 3 weeks winter-ward of equinoxes

Neutral Good: DST as done today

Chaotic Good: Local sunrise is 6am

Lawful Neutral: Permanent standard time

True neutral: Mean local solar noon

Chaotic Neutral: Standard time of nearest multiple-of-15° longitude

Lawful Evil: UTC everywhere

Neutral Evil: Permanent DST

Chaotic Evil: Seconds since the epoch

Here is my (slightly less unhinged than I expected) musings on the current state of designing for the web.

Generally, I think we lost something when we stopped calling people web designers and forced people to pick a side.

https://heather-buchel.com/blog/2023/10/why-your-web-design-sucks/

Infosec friends are unanimous: if you're using Chrome, you want to visit chrome://settings/adPrivacy and turn off Ad Topics, Site-Suggested Ads, and Ad Measurement.

IMPORTANT: you must do this for each of your Chrome profiles, since it's not a global setting.

#chrome #privacy #enshittification

When I was a kid in the 80s and 90s, I watched Star Trek: The Next Generation. I soaked up the vibes of a high-tech, utopian future. I internalized the trajectory we were on was good, that we had reached the End of History. There might be a few bumps on the road, but the direction was inevitable and the destination was inexorable.

It turns out that the fastest a human being has ever traveled was 39,897 kilometers per hour. That was the crew of the Apollo 10 mission returning to earth. That happened on 26 May, 1969.

Fifty-four years ago. We peaked more than half a century ago.

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