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GraemeL··on How Facebook tracks you on Android [video]
The Kindle app on iOS gets blocked attempting to connect to Facebook every time I open it.
GraemeL··on A Cashless Economy Locks Out the Poor
Forcing people that are struggling to live day-to-day to use bank accounts just makes life worse for them.

The first thing that happens when they're in debt is that their bank account gets frozen to pay the debts leaving them with nothing.

Forcing all transactions to be electronic takes away the margins they live in. It's no longer possible for them to pay 1/2 their rent with a promise to pay the rest in a couple of days when they get paid so that they can feed their children during that period. The rent comes out of their account on time and their children go hungry until payday.

GraemeL··on European consumer groups want regulators to act against Google tracking
More detail on the practices being complained about here: https://www.forbrukerradet.no/side/google-manipulates-users-...
GraemeL··on DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Weapon Systems Vulnerabilities
>Multiple weapon systems used commercial or open source software, but did not change the default password when the software was installed, which allowed test teams to look up the password on the Internet and gain administrator privileges for that software.
GraemeL··on Firefox Offers Recommendations with Latest Test Pilot Experiment: Advance
Nothing on the Laserlike website indicates how they plan to make money from their service, but I wouldn't bet on it not being overridden with advertising, corporate messaging, politics and other moneyed interests.
GraemeL··on Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver DNS feature is dangerous
It's currently an experimental feature not enabled by default and with no UI to change settings outwith about:config.

In the current release version of Firefox (61.0.1) the provider parameter (network.trr.uri) is blank and not set to Cloudfare out of the box.

GraemeL··on The 640K memory limit of MS-DOS
"It is now safe to turn off your computer"

The days before ACPI.

GraemeL··on Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigate energy efficiency
In an interview on Radio Scotland, the project lead said the container is sealed with an inert gas replacing the air and with a significantly lower water vapour content than the atmosphere.
GraemeL··on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches
It didn't actually run out of fuel. It didn't have enough of the hypergolic mix used to ignite the engines (triethylaluminium & triethylborane that causes the green flash sometimes seen at ignition) and only one of the three engines needed for the landing burn re-lit.
GraemeL··on Scottish Independence Referendum Data Map
Seems to be that the border colours represent previous SNP vote share and the middles will represent referendum declarations as they are announced. The numbers are projected declaration times.
GraemeL··on Bing vs. Google
I added plus.google.com to the list of sites blocked from search results shortly after they started spamming them. Too many results were polluted with google+ above ones I was actually looking for.
GraemeL··on Panorama picture of Mars
You can see the reference marker on the panorama. It's on the solar panel to the left of the mast. At the top of the panel is a white disk that looks like if has an old style arcade joystick sticking out of it. Zoom in on the disk and you can see the (now red dust marred) colour calibration indicators on the square surrounding the white circle.
GraemeL··on [dead]
Two issues I can think of off-hand.

First, the image is shot through the transparent lens cap currently protecting the camera. The cap wont be removed until after the mast is deployed. The mast is still in the position it was stowed in for the journey, this is why the image is at an angle.

Second, the high gain antenna hasn't been deployed yet, so they're working on limited bandwidth. The image was probably heavily compressed to transmit it over the link currently in use.

GraemeL··on Military technology: Magic bullets
True, but the smooth-bore guns used in most other tanks all fire fin-stabilised rounds.
GraemeL··on Show HN: Entire concerts algorithmically "reconstructed" from YouTube videos
For me it was Adblock blocking your http://switchcam.com/assets/js/utils/logging.js script. Things work fine once I let that script load.
GraemeL··on New in Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing
Overall, with the minimalistic Greasmonkey script, it's not bad. One thing that I don't like is that in expanded view, there is no visual indication to differentiate read from unread items. In list view, read items are grey. Why didn't they do something similar in expanded view? I keep having to look over at the unread count on the left.
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