Latest bookmarks (page 1 of 149)

Time-limited and usage-limited free trials, and always-free options (and what their limitations are).

"I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple."
TL;DR: Make it clear to the general populace that the wannabe dictator is actually trying to dismantle democracy.

An article from a few years back about Archive Of Our Own's tagging scheme

"It was a beautiful and predictable scheme. Once you knew how it worked, you could guess other URLs. If I were typing an email or authoring a blog post and I happened to have a link to your photo in Flickr, I could also easily include a link to your Flickr homepage just by editing the URL, without having to jump back to the browser to verify."

Regarding various news sites blocking the Internet Archive because someone, somewhere, might be using it to train AI.
"The Wayback Machine is built for human readers." "When libraries are blocked from archiving the web, the public loses access to history. Journalists lose tools for accountability. Researchers lose evidence. The web becomes more fragile and more fragmented, and history becomes easier to rewrite."

"Protect yourself and your workers by displaying this “Private Property! No ICE” sign on your business’ front door or window. ICE agents MUST have a valid judicial warrant signed by a federal judge to enter and arrest!"

"End-to-end encryption protects the privacy of your data, puts control over how the data gets used into your hands, and is the best way we have to ensure private conversations remain private. Not enough companies use it as broadly as they should. Learn more here."

The first article I remember reading about the chestnut reintroduction projects, way back in 2014.

An update on the multiple attempts to bring the species back to its original range, where it once dominated forests before a pair of blights nearly wiped it out.
The hybrids, the genetically modified, and the descendants of resistant trees all do a little better, but not a lot. Combining all approaches might be needed.

"The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability."