Here comes the rain again… Falling on my head like a memory… Falling on my head like a new emotion… I want to walk in the open wind… I want to talk like lovers do… I know, I know, I will stop now.

If you plan to upgrade to iOS15/iPadOS15 and MacOS Monterey as soon as they drop, then backup your devices now!

Tried to watch the #Emmys2021 and see #TedLasso win (so far, they got 2!). They said, it is on Paramount+. Went to the channel, only to say it need to pay PREMIUM. Tsk tsk.

Thanks, Jumbo

Watch it, it is funny. :)

Best Sellers

Wiping an MBA before re-assigning to another user.

Prepping for this coming Friday :) #AppleTV+ 📺

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Facebook emboldens trolls by being their preferred platform! I am sure this is not exclusive to the US. It gets worse, when governments and institutions force people to go to Facebook! arstechnica.com/tech-poli……

Bug!

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Facebook has been putting people in danger for a long time. There are just a lot who don’t believe it yet (but there are those who refuse to believe, and even defend Facebook).

Facebook is evil

I can download FOSS and self-host it (pay for a server, keep it secure and updated, and contemplate when to donate to the FOSS creators) or I can pay for the same service from the FOSS creator themselves and support them and future FOSS development. #selfHostingWoes

What kind of people will hide the ill effects their product brings to these vulnerable children?! All in the name of profit! #DeleteFacebook #DeleteInstagram

Facebook knows Instagram is toxic

Repeat after me: I do not need an iPad Mini. I do not need an iPad Mini. I do not need an iPad Mini. I do not need an iPad Mini. I do not need an iPad Mini.

Bwahahaha! Epic FAIL Games!

appleworld.today/2021/09/1…

Apple patches NSO Zero-Day iMessage vulnerability with the release of iOS 14.8, MacOS 11.6 and watchOS 7.6.2. Whatever it is you are doing now, STOP and UPDATE your Apple devices. Better safe than sorry.

Deepfakes make videos difficult to believe. Unfortunately, a lot of people can’t distinguish one from the real video. Personally, I take that most videos are not authentic, unless I trust the one who publishes it (and some trusted news outfits fall victim to these deepfakes, misinformation and disinformation as well), note re-sharing it does not make it more trustworthy. slashdot.org/story/21/……

Facebook is the prime venue for misinformation and disinformation. Who are on this VIP list? The world needs to know who Facebook is allowing to skirt their moderation. This is another clear proof that Facebook only cares about money (getting more engagement) than preventing the spread of mis/disinformation. www.theguardian.com/technolog……

Checking out this new TV series Kin.

I added SSH keys to MacOS Keychain. Since it syncs across Macs, can I delete old keys on another Mac and make it use the ones in the Keychain? Also, is there a way to get iPadOS apps to use those keys off of the Keychain?

Tried brewing coffee using the old Mokapot - I might have done something wrong as it was more bitter than usual. I prefer Nanopresso, Pipamoka and pour-over brewed (don’t have an espresso machine or a drip coffee maker). #CoffeeTalk

It is so dark outside that it looks like it is already 6pm #rain

If there a way to sync our Micro.blog photos with PixelFed? :)

I knew Emma will cinch it when she went up 5-2 in set 2.

Emma Raducanu bested Leylah Fernandez for the US Open trophy! Congratulations to both of you!

Off-Facebook-tarian. Are you one of us? #DeleteFacebook

Spotify parts ways with Epic Fail Games by welcoming the decision (Epic Fail Games lost!) — wonder what happens next.

Personally, unless I trust the developer and the payment processor AND the price difference is significantly lower, I won’t consider paying outside of the App Store.

The question is - will Apple enforce its contract by collecting commissions from developers even if they use alternative payment methods? How?

Apple already announced concessions in allowing third party in-app payments but for “reader” apps, this ruling opens it for all apps.

Boom! Apple is now prohibited to restrict developers from alternative payment methods. This is inline Apple’s announcement earlier (class suit settlement). What is better is that Epic(FAIL) Games will pay damages to Apple AND is OUT of the App Store until Apple says so. Bwahaha. Apple to open up App Store payment…

No, you’re crying! 😭 #TedLasso

Why trust Facebook - it is the most untrustworthy company in the world?

Facebook consults privacy groups?

Apple needs to soften up and start cooperating. The current hard stance isn’t working at all! There are compromises that can be worked out, definitely.

An open letter to Tim Cook

If you plan on having a global company, think about what you name your company. :) #Tagalog #Filipino techcrunch.com/2021/09/0…

What a win! @Leylahfernandez wins semis! Off to the finals! #USOpen

And just like that #PLDTFibr is down in our area once again. #BetterPHInternetNeeded

So proud that the Philippines is represented in the Star Trek Universe! 🖖

My current work white noise generator is tuned on Paramount+ for the Star Trek Day live event. :) 🖖

how do you force an AirTags firmware upgrade?

Look, look, look - Steve’s back with a message :) twitter.com/nickjr/st…

Happy birthday, Mama Mary!

Awesome performance by twitter.com/leylahfer… at the US Open Tennis. Congratulations Leylah! Off to the semis! MABUHAY KA!

I agree with EFF, Apple should abandon the on-device scanning completely. Apple and Tim Cook, please do more than just delaying it.

EFF calls for on-device scanning to be dropped

Anybody tried this? Looking for reliable and affordable Thunderbolt 3 cable

UGreen Thunderbolt 3 cable

THIS is definitely a good idea - more so if Apple can contribute back to the main code/design branch. appleworld.today/2021/09/0…

Bella Ciao! Binge watching since I couldn’t sleep anyway. Money Heist

Thank you Tim Cook and Apple. Please engage with more security and privacy researchers and experts to make this better! Apple delays Child Safety features

Started watching season 1 of Code 404 but will be paused in favor of the new season of Money Heist that just dropped. Binge watching tomorrow. :)

Can you identify the plant? 🌱

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w00t! Big Tech getting sued left and right - and yes, they deserve it. Still, the fines are too small IMHO.

whatsapp hit with 225M Euro fine

This is NOT about protecting CSAM offenders (may they rot in hell), but it is about protecting our privacy & our family’s. This is not exclusive to US since the tech will be available GLOBALLY (just not yet activated outside the US). act.eff.org/action/te……

THIS is one of the reasons why a lot of “reviews”, specially in the Philippines, needs to be taken with a grain of salt - either they’re regurgitated press releases or maybe, just maybe, along the lines of what the video is revealing. :) yewtu.be/watch

SHARENTING – simply DON’T! onezero.medium.com/sharentin…

Pretty interesting take on #privacy. pxlnv.com/blog/what…

And to think that Intel has cornered the server market. This one is HUGE! AMD FTW! https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/01/cloudflare_picks_amd_again/

And you believe Facebook will change? Political advertisement costs millions - Zuckerberg can’t resist that! www.wired.com/story/fac…

Boom! One down! South Korea passes law preventing Apple from requiring developers to use App Store in-app purchase service. Big market! Who is next, Australia?

This needs to increase! Friends don’t let friends use Chrome.

58% of Hacker News, Reddit and tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics - Plausible Analytics

Apple - the goody goody Silicon Valley company - is now starting to smell. The stink comes from within (their employees not being treated fairly, their App Store rules are rotting, and their privacy stance starting to crumble). What will Tim Cook do?

To my little social circle - if you are on the Mastodon network, please let me know your account so I can follow. Thanks thanks.

It’s a slow day…

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Heard that ActivityPub is one of the technologies Twitter is considering for their decentralization. What do you think?

Second cup of coffee for the day. Yeah, not lazy today – added milk froth on my pour-over brewed coffee. No latte art (still need to learn how to do this haha).

Nikita, Fury and Batman in one movie. :)

The Protege

Great start! Hope they get to maintain this.

Vigil

Enjoying the Reuters channel on Plex.TV Live. :)

Join if you can. Don’t forget your face mask! #StopiPhoneSurveillance #ScreechingVoices

Tell Apple: No Spyware on my Phone

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The lawfirm clearly FAILED this, and yet they are pocketing 30% of the settlement! They are just greedy! pxlnv.com/linklog/a…

I don’t know how blind Apple is to these kinds of App Store review nightmares. Frankly, they should be more transparent. Fire those reviewers who made those inconssitent decisions! pxlnv.com/linklog/h…

I have ditched all three (3) of these services. As of yesterday, I have gone cold turkey on Reddit. www.theverge.com/2021/8/27…

So much going on with how Samsung conducts its business. Couldn’t really trust them. hardware.slashdot.org/story/21/…

TGIF. Second cup of coffee - this time a latte with no art! LOL.

Note to self: stop going to Reddit

Change is coming to the App Store, which is good. No, not side-loading or alternative app stores, but it is a good start. www.apple.com/newsroom/…

Whilst I don’t have #Linux as a primary desktop, I do have a VPS server running Linux and a local file-server on #RaspberryPi running Linux!

I remember being the only grad student using an SGI workstation whilst my classmates were all using Windows. :) #Linux

Happy birthday, Linux!

A Linux server is always part of my arsenal. I have been Windows-free ever since I learned to install Linux using dozens of 3.5” floppy disks! #Linux

Education in the Philippines has long been suffering (not unique to this current admin) - thanks to the political leaders from all these parties! Both House and Senate FAIL to prioritize EDUCATION (yes, they have new laws etc., BUT come BUDGET time - not a priority!)

Have been saying that Stay(AWAY,NOT)Safe.ph is not effective as a contact tracing application for a long time, BUT it is highly effective as a personal data collection app - for what purposes, well… yewtu.be/watch

So I tried iCloud+ BYOD (bring your own domain) and enabled it for Family - apparently, the Family sharing part is not yet available. Yes, it is BETA. :)

Note to self - shortcuts don’t always work #Linux #SysAdForThisPM

Just watched The Chair.

Whoa! All the more reason to have E2EE iCloud Photos and Drive. iCloud Photo theft via social engineering (phishing) www.latimes.com/californi…

OMG! Another 38M personal information out in the open. www.wired.com/story/mic…

Currently listening to 80’s Summer Hits

A good read on Machine Learning. doctorow.medium.com/machine-l…

Did not get to finish The Green Knight - got bored!

What is this fuss about The Green Knight - is it any good? 📽🍿

Ditched my Ember mug (at least 2 years old) - no longer holding a charge and the ceramic coating was chipping off (shouldn’t have happened in the first place)

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Typical Filipino dipping sauce (Soy sauce + calamansi juice + chili)

Not bad. Is there a sequel? :)

Sweet Girl

Go get them, FTC! #DeleteFacebook www.macrumors.com/2021/08/1…

Let our screeching voices (of the minority?) be heard – www.theverge.com/2021/8/19… #StopiPhoneSurveillance

When will Donna and Rachel re-appear on Titans

Time for Star Trek: Lower Decks🖖

Surely, Apple, you are not deaf to all these concern. Surely, not the screeching voices of the minority as described by NCMEC.

Policy groups ask Apple to drop plans to inspect iMessages, scan for abuse images - Reuters

Spending this holiday afternoon with youngest daughter… watching a Naruto movie 🎥 🍿

Is there a Micro.bloggers Flickr group?

We need more governments to wade in - Germany writes to Tim Cook on on-device CSAM scanning concerns #StopiPhoneSurveillance

Currently transferring videos off of the iPhone to a local file storage. I use @PhotoSync_app. :)

From another point of view. I still believe that @apple could fix this by moving away from doing it on device and doing it on iCloud Photos.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Panic over Apple’s child abuse crackdown is wrongheaded

This is really terrible! How did it get to this?

www.telegraph.co.uk

Watch | Saigon then, Kabul now: Afghanistan airport evacuation compared with fall of Saigon in Vietnam War

The side-effects of algorithmic amplification need to be explained to a lot of social media users.

‘Likes’ and ‘shares’ teach people to express more outrage online - YaleNews

Daughter’s happy - her random (just scattered the seeds) papaya tree (is it a tree) is bearing lots of fruits

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The trick to getting good milk froth using that battery operated frother is using Bear Brand’s Full Cream milk, blasted for a couple of seconds in the microwave.

Done clearing up Keychain and populating it with relevant accounts only. Still looking for TOTP app that runs on iOS, iPadOS, macOS and watchOS - preferably open source.

It is finally over, or is it? 📽🤖

Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time

It is important that it is decentralized and has privacy embedded at the onset. Otherwise, the data collected will be abused - like used in election campaigns.

Digital contact tracing apps: do they actually work? A review of early evidence - AlgorithmWatch

Dear Apple, nobody minds having their photos scanned on the cloud. Moving your on-device processing to a proxy on the cloud, instead of on-device, will be far more secure than what other cloud-based solutions are doing.

I am rebuilding my Keychain – in an effort to backup 1Password data to it and in prep for iOS 15.

What is the best TOTP app that runs on iOS, iPadOS, MacOS and watchOS and is open source?

I am seriously considering using Keychain and BitWarden (will need to explore the enterprise setup as well). I have been refusing any Electron app on my Macs and this one won’t be the first. @1Password please just enable iPadOS version on Apple Silicon Macs and ditch Electron.

Now can we have those experts, who voiced out concerns, to audit iOS 15 GM and iPadOS 15 GM? That way, users will know if the safeguards Apple claims to have are indeed sound. https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Security_Threat_Model_Review_of_Apple_Child_Safety_Features.pdf

attending my first Micro.camp live… :) sad that I won’t be able to join live tomorrow.

CODA on  TV+ is ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

It is going to be TV dinner tonight — CODA on  TV+ queued up. 📺 📽

#TedLasso made me miss Christmas in the UK haha

It’s Christmas! Happy Christmas! #TedLasso

Thanks @Windscribecom @ProtonVPN!

How Private Is My VPN? – The Markup

New, subscription-based photo service, Glass, looks like a good replacement for Instagram. Glass is actually going to compete against Flickr, which has stagnated despite Smugmug’s purchase. Flickr’s mobile app needs a complete re-design, IMHO.

Zuckerberg’s nightmare - Facebook no longer leads app downloads worldwide

Finally, an interview of an Apple executive. We need more of this so all questions will be answered – the FAQ is simply not enough. techcrunch.com/2021/08/1…

Love the ST:NG reunion scene on Star Trek:Picard, and of course, seeing 😍 Seven :) 🖖

Re-watching Star Trek: Picard. Can’t wait for the next season. 🖖 📺

Why aren’t Apple executives being interviewed about this as well? The potential to help children is enormous, but it needs to be done right the first time. Fear, uncertainty and doubt route faster, of course, but they are not unfounded.

There were a lot of assumptions and what-ifs about Apple’s Child Safety features. Apple could have explained it better than just dropping a press release and an FAQ.

Rene Ritchie explains Apple’s Child Safety features

Small countries will have really small effect, but China, US and India definitely can change this. www.theguardian.com/environme…

Let’s see Zucka weasel his way out of this.

Senators Demand Answers From Zuckerberg Over Suspended Researchers

SO sad that Smugmug didn’t take advantage of this when it was first announced. Should have made a huge Flickr push to get photographers and artists off of Instagram and back to Flickr. www.theguardian.com/technolog……

THIS is one of the reasons why I ditched Spotify a long time ago. #surveillance

Spotify tracks you

Here I go again — consolidating family photos and videos to prep for de-duplication. Once done, I can back-up to multiple external drives. I forget that I have photos in Google Takeout (back in the day, I used the service).

Dear Apple and Tim Cook, Please DELAY these Child-Safety features until iOS 16 or 17. It is best that you get this right the first time. Judging by the the backlash it is getting, expect that it might translate to sales later. Your partner, NCMEC, calling us users SCREECHING VOICES OF THE MINORITY, just goes to show how they value us Apple users (frankly, it is not cool!) who value privacy above all things.…

To our photographers here, what do you use to manage your photo library? Am looking for an affordable solution that does de-duplication (and hopefully, not on the cloud).

Apple, transparency is key here, IMHO. tidbits.com/2021/08/0…

More media coverage of this Apple plan please. Apple needs to know that what they are proposing opens pandora’s box. #iPhoneSurveillance www.theguardian.com/commentis…

Let the screeching voices of the minority be heard! Apple, we know the intention, but the implementation is not ideal.

Any Photonix on Raspberry Pi 4 users out there? #SelfHosting #PhotoStorage

Is there a petition to call out Apple and stop them from distributing this? @Eff? www.eff.org/deeplinks…

ROTFL When will Facebook employees wake up and realize that the money they are getting is not worth the damage the company is doing to humanity. www.geekculture.com/joyoftech…

Thanks, Twitter! Now I am more inclined to try out Spaces with friends, without fear that the space disappears when my connection messes up. www.theverge.com/2021/8/5/…

It is time that we call it what it is - Starbucks Desserts! Coffee is just a minor product – every new drink they come up with is loaded with sugar, which kills you! Ever heard of a new Starbucks drink that is sugar-free? :)

Of course, Facebook makes things tricky, yes, they are serious about your privacy, dumb f##ks! :) techcrunch.com/2021/08/0…

Let’s stop giving airtime to this one-hit wonder, Zuckerberg. He has not done a SINGLE innovative thing since creating that web app that rates people based on looks and calls them dumb-f##cks! www.wired.com/story/mar…

Why do people do this? www.vice.com/en/articl…

The accidental papaya tree is now giving us fruits

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Nanopresso extracted coffee.

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Now when will you kick Facebook’s nuts? www.wired.com/story/fra…

Every journalist on earth must have their smartphones checked. www.theguardian.com/news/2021…

Funny story :)

iPhone users are stupid, eh?

Re-watching Star Trek Into Darkness 🖖

Be careful out there! Punycode used to dupe people.

Brave.com impersonator

Enjoying Jean Claude do comedy :) 📽🥋

The Last Mercenary

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Jack Whitehall on Jungle Cruise is just so funny!!!!

Watching Jungle Cruise whilst having pork ribs sinigang and rice

Saw this earlier 📽 Rurouni Kenshin - The Beginning

How can we all go back to normal when even the vaccinated are spreading the virus, putting everyone at risk? Don’t forget the kids who are not yet vaccinated - becoming spreaders. Argh!

Vaccinated as spreaders, too

The Delta variant can be spread even by the vaccinated. Is this true?

Go Nesthy!!!! Go for gold!!! #Tokyo2020

I forget that I still have a Duke hand-puppet. #Java #JavaOne #SunMicrosystems

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Facebook’s Ray-ban glasses - the never-ending pursuit of data. Yes, Zucka will promote this and gather everything it hears and sees. Need a portable, directional EMP device.

More like this, please, right @Gruber? TECHDIRT IS NOW ENTIRELY WITHOUT ANY GOOGLE ADS OR TRACKING CODE

Fast and Furious 9 - Looney Tunes version! That’s all folks!

Watching Fast & Furious 9. 📽🏎🚀

This never changes whilst the *bergs are in control of Facebook! Why can’t governments understand this?

She exposed how Facebook enabled global political manipulation. Now she’s telling her story.

M1 MacBookPro failed diagnostics — it is going back for repair. Tsk tsk.

M1 MacBookPro behaving weirdly — keyboard and trackpad freeze when BT trackpad and keyboard are attached. Nuking it and re-installing from scratch.

You see the ambition of one-hit wonder, Zucka, to be a god at his metaverse – great distraction from real-world issues that he failed to address. arstechnica.com/tech-poli…

Exactly why Zucka is investing heavily on VR. www.wired.com/story/vir…

Musk dissing Apple shows he is scared of the rumoured, non-existent Apple car.

What the heck Windscribe? arstechnica.com/gadgets/2…

Updated iPhone, iPad Pro and Macs to iOS 14.7.1, iPadOS 14.7.1 and macOS 11.5.1 respectively

So proud of the Hidilyn Diaz for bagging the first Olympic gold medal for the Philippines! Mabuhay ka!

Typhoon’s gone but still cloudy

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You can’t (must not!) stop people from posting whatever they want, what social media must do is STOP AMPLIFYING IT FOR PROFIT. www.nytimes.com/2021/07/2…

Anybody here using this? Is it any good?

iVerify

More insights

An explosive spyware report shows limits of iOS, Android security - Ars Technica

You think Instagram is safe? Think again.

whatsApp and Instagram data shared with Facebook

Futbol ⚽️ is life… err… death… err life!!!! #TedLasso

Sneaky attack on Android devices - in and out without a trace. This is scary. Pegasus Project: Apple iPhones compromised by NSO spyware - Amnesty International Thousands of Google Android phones were also selected for targeting, but unlike iPhones their operating systems do not keep accessible logs useful for detecting Pegasus spyware infection …

Ted Lasso day starts in less than 12 minutes. Futbol is life! ⚽️

Finally, Safari Technology Preview Release 128 on Big Sur is out and it is already way better than the previous one.

Epic Games acquires SketchFab - time to look for alternatives.

Love this episode’s panel!

TWiT

Misinformation and disinformation fuel Facebook’s profit.

www.geekculture.com/joyoftech…

C’mon, Apple, add RCS support for iMessage - we don’t mind if it remains green. Make SMS red to shame telcos who would rather use not secure SMS. LOL.

If you are still using Facebook, then grab a copy of the 📖An Ugly Truth by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang 📚 and find out why you should stop using it.

Ok - this is another Clubhouse-inspired d*** move. You can’t do anything without the app harvesting your address book. How can this be privacy friendly? @halloapp

ControlD.com is now blocking it. Will NextDNS.io and Better.fyi add these domains, too?

Pegasus Project Domain Blocking

Apple needs to do better – random system integrity checks maybe. appleinsider.com/articles/…

Magandang maulan na umaga!

Friends, if you value your privacy, then please respect your friends’, too. If you don’t care about your privacy, then respect your friends’ nonetheless. The Data Privacy Law of the Philippines REQUIRES CONSENT.

Wow! I wish there is a hill near I live. :) Will being chased by a dog for 20-seconds count? LOL www.inc.com/melanie-c…

So spot on again. STOP FACEBOOK FROM TRACKING YOU on iOS/iPadOS. www.geekculture.com/joyoftech…

What’s the big deal? Google collects your search terms the moment you hit Enter, not 15 minutes after.

deleting the last 15 minutes of search history

Woohoo! Election season is here!

Sen. Francis Pangilinan files cyber libel complaint against YouTubers, GooglePH country manager – Manila Bulletin

Is it true that PayMaya is 50% owned by a Chinese company?

Looking for someone who is using a PinePhone or Librem 5 phone — what apps do you have installed? How’s the app ecosystem like?

Last academic year proved how pathetic our telecommunications infrastructure is. This coming academic year will see very little infrastructure improvement, too.

Facebook, the destroyer of democracy and decency. #DeleteFacebook twitter.com/yaeleisen…

Love seeing Amy Pond aka Nebula aka Karen Gillan kick some ass #GunpowderMilkshake 🎞

I cannot wait for Safari Technology Preview for Big Sur update to be at par with the MacOS Monterey Beta 3 Safari.

Update your Etherpad software to 1.8.14 ASAP. thehackernews.com/2021/07/c…

I hear thunder ⚡️🌩

OUCH!!!!! That goal post hit clinched it for the Italians! CONGRATULATION, Italy! #EURO2020

Less than 2 minutes left. England vs Italy. #EURO2020

Rooting for England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Daughters made sweet potato fries for snack this afternoon. Happy tummy. 🍠 🍟

People need to stop using services and products from surveillance capitalists.

ProtonMail, DuckDuckGo, others ask EU & US regulators to ban surveillance-based advertising - The Record by Recorded Future

So how the heck can you update an Xbox wireless controller without a console or Windows PC?

Tim Horton’s steak and cheese panini is really good. 🥩🧀🥪

Perfect playlist for the weekend, specially when reading a book (yeah, almost done cooking).

Jazz in Spatial Audio

Love this weather - drizzling outside, and I’m all alone in the kitchen, cooking food for dinner later.

Reading on a brand new Kindle Paperwhite (I wish there is something at the same price range that isn’t from Amazon) whilst listening to Jazz on AirPods Pro, sipping home-made fizzy water and patiently simmering menudo on the stove.

Fear Street Part II time 📺

Going offline. I have a date with the Black Widow :)

The Leverage team is back 📺

Never really warmed up to Discord, and dumped Slack a long time ago. medium.com/fast-comp…

THIS is exactly why YOU shouldn’t believe anything from Facebook! pxlnv.com/linklog/f… #DeleteFacebook

Way to ruin it for everyone! www.theguardian.com/football/…

Interesting trick - Breathing exercise. The Breathe app on the Apple Watch helps, too. Sometimes we need to slow down a bit.

And that’s it! CONGRATULATIONS ENGLAND!

Congratulations ENGLAND! Would need a miracle for DEN to get a goal now.

Weighed down by the rain. It is time to harvest our lone pineapple. :)

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Listening to this whilst waiting for college general faculty assembly for this semester

Sgt Peppers Lonely Heart Club band

If you are beta testing iOS 15, please don’t forget to send feedback, such as, “pull to refresh/reload” on Safari won’t work when you are NOT at the top of the page.

Watching America: the Motion Picture 🍿🎥

WireGuard app works on iOS 15 beta 2. Windscribe’s WireGuard does not. :)

Instagram wants to be TikTok. TikTok wants to be YouTube. There is an opening for an Instagram replacement, maybe better Flickr app will fill this void.

The negative feedback on the Safari re-design on iOS 15 and macOS Monterey needs to be heard by Apple - unless they really want to drive away their users. Still early in the beta process - so there is plenty of time to re-design.

Cuckoo time! Lisey’s Story episode 6 on  TV+ 📺

Wow! Now in spatial audio Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band remix

Waiting for Popeye’s chicken burger via PickARoo delivery #burger 🐔 🍔 🦄

Now am seriously considering macOS beta, too! Hahaha

OK, let’s do this! Main iPhone and iPad Pro now running beta OS! Bring it on! #SillyMe

Tempted to get that BackBone One with that Xbox subscription thingie… but I want a controller that I can use on the iPad and Apple TV as well.

That is it! I will get another Xbox wireless controller for iOS/iPadOS/Apple TV - hoping PLDT Fibr latency and lag are enough for the Xbox xCloud games. :)

OK. what Apple TV+ shows and Netflix shows take advantage of Dolby Atmos (Spatial Audio)? Recommend please.

Currently listening to Pop in Spatial Audio

always spot on. MSFT alternative history of the web. www.geekculture.com/joyoftech…

If you are looking for alternative cloud storage - you may want to check out cloud.degoo.com/drive-vxacnypbmnct we get 5GB free each.

Dear Microsoft, your App Store rules are great because you do not have a mobile phone ecosystem - nothing, nada, zero, zilch! Until you do, just STFU. Why can’t you do the same for your game store? No commissions from developers - can you do that? Of course NOT.

For the first time in a long time, went out, but only for a joy ride. Didn’t leave the car except when I went to the ATM to withdraw cash (waited until no one is near the ATMs).

Majority of the internet and, of course, the web were NOT built on Windows! Whatever alternate history is being spread must be contained within Facebook, where lies thrive!

What the… apple.news

“I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted - Ars Technica

What do you expect? Facebook DOES NOT CARE ABOUT ITS USERS, only about its revenue. #DELETEFACEBOOK After Repeatedly Promising Not to, Facebook Keeps Recommending Political Groups to Its Users – The Markup

TGIF! Lisey’s Story later — can it get any weirder? Haha 📺

Matter Reader is now on the App Store. Check it out.

Wouldn’t it be funny if Apple releases iMessage for Windows 11 but not Android and ChromeOS?

Need to sanitize the supply chain! apple.news

Ahoy, there’s malice in your repos—PyPI is the latest to be abused - Ars Technica

Wow! MSFT allows alternative App Stores on Windows. Apple is doomed! Wait, the Mac does, too, right? And also, there is NO Windows mobile OS, right? apple.news

Microsoft just turned the screw on the App Store by allowing third-party commerce in its own store - iMore

Looking for a good iOS photo editor that respects user’s privacy. HELP.

Playing with Safari Technology Preview 14.2 on Big Sur. :)

Daughter had Auntie Anne’s pretzels delivered. That cinnamon sugar is tempting but… sugar. :)

Had coffee at 4pm yesterday and had a difficult time sleeping. At work, I drink 3 cups, with 1 cup at 4pm before i head home and it was fine. Hmm..

NetNewsWire 6 for iOS soon to be available… yay! https://inessential.com/2021/06/20/nnw_6_ios_coming

Anybody using an Asus ZenScreen Touch MB16AMT - is it compatible with iOS/iPadOS?

Happy Father’s Day to all dads and single moms out there!

Why I don’t trust Facebook and Google www.nytimes.com/2021/06/1…

Just imagine an AI model trained on Facebook’s fake news and hate? spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk…

This is also a problem on iOS - enforcing Apple’s rules to ensure Privacy Nutrition Labels are true and the App Tracking Transparency settings are respected arxiv.org/pdf/2106….

This speaks more about AI researchers and practitioners being unethical than anything else. So sad venturebeat.com/2021/06/1…

Three down, one to go. Now watching 📺 #Netflix

Rurouni Kenshin: the Final Chapter Part 1 - The Final

Made avocado+chia+almond milk ice cream during the short break in between movies. Hehe. Need to stand-up for the ring! ⌚️

One down, three to go. 📺

Rurouni Kenshin Part II

Now on #Netflix, all three movies and the latest one. Now watching Origins. 📺

Rurouni Kenshin Part 1

If you haven’t ditched it yet, then there is no excuse, ditch it now. :) www.wired.co.uk/article/g…

Lisey’s story - where viewers end up crazy! Am so confused now. Haha 📺

Wouldn’t it be great if CDNs like Fastly and Cloudflare block FLoC, too? Is there a setting I can toggle somewhere, Cloudflare?

It is back to 42C!!!! Curse you, integration testing!

I agree that iOS 15 Safari UI changes made the overall experience worse instead of better. Using it now requires you to guess where the different functionalities moved - everything’s hidden! Beta 1 still, there’s still time to revamp it before release.

Remember, make sure that you evaluate the apps before using it and storing your health data. www.theguardian.com/technolog…

Trying to figure out why WireGuard wasn’t working on my RaspberryPi. PiVPN was not routing properly. Ended up configuring WireGuard directly, with routing properly working when connected from outside of the network, but does not work from inside, so back to work.

Wow! Kate Hudson on season 2 of Truth Be Told on #AppleTV+. Nice.

So the rumored Nintendo Switch Pro is not arriving anytime soon, right? Will the Switch get significant discount during Prime Days? :)

Fellow TED Fellow, Professor Francis De Los Reyes, talks toilets on the TEDEd Channel! :) Mabuhay ka, Francis! www.youtube.com/watch

Is Lente the only non-partisan election watchdog left? NAMFREL, 1Sambayan, Vote For Us, and COMELEC: What’s the connection? – Manila Bulletin

Sugar-free Brazo de Mercedes! FTW!

“dumb f*cks” “idiots” aka Facebook users? Well, “dumb f*cks” is what Zuckerberg calls Facebook users. mondaynote.com/mark-zuck…

Yes! Coffee is one of the superdrinks! :) www.nytimes.com/2021/06/1…

“I will not be a party to this BS, Zuckerberg!” I love it! #DeleteFacebook #DeleteInstagram twitter.com/lajornada…

Time to focus… yeah, right 🤪

WWDC21 Coding Focus

Time to brew that second cup of coffee. Should I make it iced coffee this time?

The stability of the first iOS beta is tempting me to install it on my main iPhone, but then it is beta - the next one might not be that stable.

Still getting used to iOS Safari controls.

Enjoying the new iPadOS multitasking controls.

Did Nintendo announce the Switch Pro at E3 already?

The semester is almost over - the academic year is almost done for me (no mid-year academic load). The most hated part, i.e., reducing students’ learning to a mere number aka grading, is coming up next.

Drats! Weekend’s almost over. Can we extend it even for 12 more hours? :)

I’m craving for Ben&Jerry’s ice cream but sugar! Tsk tsk. Where can I order sugar-free ice cream?

Perfect Sunday lunch music

Studio Ghibli Essentials

Currently listening to WWDC21 Coding Chill music.apple.com/us/playli…

What does fundingchoicesmessages DOT google DOT com do? Yeah, App Privacy Report just surfaced this for me. Blocking it on NextDNS.io, ControlD.com and Pi-Hole at the moment, until I find out more about what it does. HELP.

Anybody using iOS15 beta with their main AppleID? :) any iCloud issues when mixed with non-beta iOS devices?

IYHO, what makes the micro.blog community great? Tag @cheri @jeanb @eabando if you reply, please tag others :)

What to do with used Tiles? Can I sell it? How much - 40% of original price?

Facebook works very well with sex traffickers! Protect your family and friends, STOP using Facebook! Remember, Facebook profits by promoting evil, instead of good. www.traffickinginstitute.org/wp-conten…

Protecting privacy is a competitive advantage. Unfortunately, this goes against VCs greed.

I am watching the English version and later the Filipino version.

Trese: What Netflix’s new occult anime reveals about the Philippines - BBC News

Waiting for the DC Universe cross-over to happen - when will Wonder Woman appear? Watching Sweet Tooth on Netflix. 📺

iOS 15 Safari is just an entirely new interface that takes awhile getting used to. There are buttons that we are familiar with that are no longer visible. There must be a way to balance this out between what is familiar and what will be new in future beta releases.

Loving the new protonmail.com web interface.

Did the same App Store search and this is what I got @cheri :)

Airpods Pro on, Spatial Audio on. Apple Music spatial audio feature is blowing my mind! 🤯

Google and Responsible & Ethical AI do not mix. www.wired.com/story/goo…

Tried Portrait mode during Facetime call and it needs more blur. This goes to the Feedback. :)

What? Our original iPhone SE will still get iOS 15?! Talk about support, Apple! CNt get that on any other platform IMHO!

Apple can now generate TOTP for multi-factor authentication. Hmm…

Xcode Cloud! Interesting. #wwdc21

Shortcuts on macOS Monterey. Finally! #wwdc21

Universal Control is huge! #wwdc21

Digital Legacy feature might have been pushed up the pipeline due to this pandemic. People have lost loved ones and they need access to iCloud data. #wwdc21

New Swift Playgrounds makes me excited now. Roll it out now, Apple. #wwdc21

Who’s waiting for the WWDC keynote to start? :)

Five minutes to go. Let’s do this. #wwdc21

Less than 7 hours to go… #WWDC21

Found a sugar-free, keto friendly brownies. Hmmm. Hope it does not disappoint.

Mounted OneDrive on my Raspberry Pi using rclone.org (with encryption). Now uploading 12GB of files - encrypted! :)

Dear Apple, please add virtual backgrounds on FaceTime. This is my most used Zoom feature when I am required to use video (if I cannot negotiate my way out of it).

Congratulations to my kababayan, Yuka Saso, for winning the 2021 US Open Women’s champion! Galing galing! Mabuhay ka!

Help! Any idea on how to delete this cookie?

Google’s new reCaptcha has a dark side

Will be up late on this part of the world to watch the #WWDC21 keynote tomorrow. Wondering what snack to prep. Hehe.

We should definitely end the data economy, but it needs governments to work together and bring it down. Individuals and companies are doing their share already.

Why We Should End The Data Economy by Carissa Veliz

Time for The Conjuring: The Devil made me do it

The solution to all tech problems: blockchain, AI, and 5G!

Oh look here.. Tears of the Anaren

And because people do not care about their privacy and the US government won’t protect privacy, TikTok will still remain popular. www.theverge.com/2021/6/4/…

Neeva? Nevah! Haha. Kidding.

If Facebook spins up its own smartphone, running ZuckOS, with its own App Store, where tracking and data collection are encouraged, will you buy?

It’s about time. #DeleteFacebook anti-trust investigation on Facebook

The political clowns are emerging! Whoever is whispering in their ears that they have a chance to win are probably laughing hahaha

With Google following Apple’s lead in preventing third-party tracking on Android 12, will Facebook try re-entering the smartphone market, after failing miserably?

Here we go… Lisey’s Story episodes 1 and 2 📺 tv.apple.com/us/show/l…

Stupid HBO Max Apple TV app! Tsk tsk

Which is better Synology or QNap? Just for multi-user storage, photo management, possible Docker/VM use.

Awesome folks!

8 Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders whose innovations have changed your life (really!) -

Apple is freaking insane! The June 2021 Apple Watch challenges have gone bonkers! The model used to generate these needs a lot of tweaking! hahaha.

Moved several backups from one external drive to another. Ran Gemini 2 to detect duplicates and I ended up freeing around 20GB of duplicates!

What’s the best iPadOS app that supports LibreOffice open document formats?

Anybody knows how to inform the NHS that we are opting out of their deal giving our health data to third parties? Help.

The incompetence of the DOE is what causes this planned rotating brownouts. If you power up BNPP now - for cheaper, reliable and greener power supply - then consumers will be happy! Nuclear power na! Now na!!!!!

yeah, just like Location info harvesting when it is OFF, right Google? 9to5google.com/2021/05/3…

Yeah, baby! #applewatch

49C!!! This is driving me insane!!!!

Yay! 🌧 !!

The WWDC 2021 keynote will be packed again — will they keep it at 60 minutes or do the usual keynote length? Excited to find out new features, and also some pre-emptive moves to address anti-trust concerns. :)

It is unfair indeed!

Can’t get anything done this weekend. Feels like 47C is a killer!

Sun Microsystems, Inc. is one the tech companies that I love. Sad that their HQ is now occupied by one of the tech companies that I would like to fold-up soon.

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Weekend! Do I revisit the FreedomBox RPi project or finish binge watching Ragnarok season 2, Solos and Eden? Hahah

Thank you, Pixelmator! www.diyphotography.net

Time to relax and watch the FRIENDS reunion on HBO Max :)

Is this still supported by Music app on Big Sur?

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Season 2 of Ragnarok is now up on Netflix. Scheduled for weekend binge watch. :)

I know it is possible, but could no longer remember where the setting is — how do you unsync Apple TV apps so two or more TVs won’t have the same applications?

Developing AI systems is the trend today - however, building them properly is not easy. onezero.medium.com/a-i-is-so…

Thanks, Hector! The infosec world needs more folks like you. :) appleinsider.com/articles/…

Fools! what do you expect? Why would the greedy dictator give up power? #deletefacebook tech.slashdot.org/story/21/…

Tonight’s total Lunar eclipse is simply spectacular. I wish I have the equipment to capture a decent photo of this beauty.

I think the Apple vs EpicFAIL remedy will be that Apple will have to drop the provision that prevents developers from informing users that there is an alternative way to purchase, but not open up the ecosystem by forcing Apple to allow alternative app stores nor side-loading.

Was trying to figure out why port forwarding was not working on pfsense, only to find out that my telco hid me behind CGNAT!! Good thing I got it removed.

Anybody using Apple Podcast app? Does it sync with the other devices, I.e., I can start on iPhone, continue on iPad and then HomePod and back?

People, if you are ditching WhatsApp (you should!), choose Signal and not Telegram. www.wired.com/story/tel…

iOS 14.6, iPadOS 14.6, watchOS 7.5, MacOS 11.4, tvOS 14.6 applied… now updating HomePods to 14.6.

Yay for rain ☔️

Ok - done with pressure cooking beef ribs using the instant pot. All up to my kids to cook whatever they’re planning for dinner later. :)

Waiting for an APNIC webinar to start…

Time to back-up your Apple devices. New OS updates dropping in less than 24 hours. :)

Wagyu Banh Mi for afternoon snack?

Yay! Mom and sister got their first AstraZeneca jab.

What is the best Chromebook make and model that can be totally nuked and installed with Linux?

Almost forget that I have Ubuntu running on an old Acer laptop. Time to update. :)

1mm of rain in the next 12 hours? Can we make that 1cm please?

Iced coffee with a drizzle of cold milk :)

Today, I will be lazy hahah but I am praying that my mom and sister will be fine after getting their first vaccine dose later today.

When will iOS 14.6 drop?

Fifteen (15) days to fix?! Haha good luck with that!

China calls out ByteDance, Kuaishou, and LinkedIn for illegal data collection - South China Morning Post

EPICFAIL wants developers to sell apps either exclusively on their store or on multiple stores with different fees - more effort, too. And no, if EPICFAIL hosts half of the App Store - good luck curating it!

TGIF! I get to work on my Raspberry Pi weekend project

When replying to an email and you are quoting it, don’t be lazy! Remove everything after the signature - the disclaimer and all the other garbage, like company logos, etc.

FINALLY, much needed rain!

Let’s get real — NOBODY could, even if they want to. Only greedy Zucka can. #DeleteFacebook If Mark Zuckerberg won’t fix Facebook’s algorithms problem, who will? - Vox

Stop believing Facebook! Whatever they do that is for the good of everyone should not be taken seriously, unless it increases their revenue. themarkup.org/citizen-b…

MYOB! :) Mind Your Own Business

Whew! That meeting was excruciating!

The search is on for a sugar-free, gluten-free and dairy-free ice cream. Boring much? Hahaha

If you can search it, browse it or watch it, we can record it, process it and earn off of it whilst altering your behavior? LOL Google Safety Center - Stay Safer Online

Why not an option to NOT collect data at all, can you do that, Google? Highly doubt it www.slashgear.com

Anybody can make a difference in this world, if they want to, right? www.thelily.com

Just because you can means you should! This is what happens when you fire your Ethical AI team. www.techradar.com

Will coffee be enough to fuel me for the 5 Zoom meetings marathon tomorrow? Zoom meeting drains you fast, add the summer heat and your energy depletes faster. think I will need to sit on a block of ice to survive!

I wish that iOS 15 on-boarding allows us to select default search engine, browser, mail client, music app, and podcast client.

Android 12 has features that I’d want Apple to copy for iOS 16 (iOS 15 feature set is a done deal with WWDC next month), such as, camera and mic on/off toggle, privacy dashboard, too.

Am so not looking forward to tomorrow’s meeting line-up — 5 consecutive (2 even overlap!) Zoom meetings!

Anybody here tried and still using apps.apple.com/us/app/su… ? Curious.

Is this is a face-saving marketing ploy for inclusiveness after, you know, that Ethical AI team brouhaha? Besides, this should have been done on DAY 1, right? Remember the gorilla pics? www.theverge.com/2021/5/18…

Had this this morning :)

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So that is why the M1 Macs are faster. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2…

Interesting streaming music scene play by Apple - lossless audio at no additional cost, unlike others. I don’t care about lossless, really, am waiting for spatial audio more. :)

Anybody ever asked the Chinese living in China if this is ok? https://daringfireball.net/2021/05/nyt_apple_china_icloud

THIS is great news! Now if the ASEAN countries will do the same. #DeleteFacebook www.theverge.com/2021/5/14…

Just tested this using a YubiKey on an iPad Pro and it worked. I wish that FaceID (and TouchID) works as well.

blog.cloudflare.com/introduci…

Growing slowly… a few more days before we harvest.

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Found my old geek group at #linux-ph:matrix.org — if you know PLUG, join us there :)

Summer heat kills! Hydrate! Hydrate! Hydrate!

TGIF! Yay!

Huzzah!!! #MythicQuest 📺

Fourth and final season of Castlevania 🦇 🧛‍♀️ 🧛‍♂️ 🧛 📺

It looks like the ruling will be that Apple must allow developers to inform users where they can pay for services, games, etc., outside of the App Store, without requiring Apple to allow third-party app stores.

Victory for women and people of color at @Apple - no room for someone like AGM at Apple! Bet he is welcome back at FECESBook. www.theverge.com/2021/5/12…

Subscription services (newsletters, podcasts, etc.) claim that you pay so you won’t get tracked, but their add-on service is a Discord service that collects and tracks anyway.

Checking out this new secure communication tool, Crossclave by SpiderOak. An enterprise version of Signal, but not open source? @SpiderOak

Goodbye Armchair Expert. thanks for all the fish. www.theverge.com/2021/5/12…

Earthquake that lasted a few seconds made our planning workshop facilitator to pause for a bit with each participant who felt it sounding off.

Woke up and am 12 minutes short of my deep sleep goal. Affected my morning jog - was 2 minutes/mi slower than usual.

Excited to see a new Micro.blog feature, Bookshelves. Now what about those who love watch TV series and movies? :)

It is time for Apple to awaken the beast and release the kraken that is the M1 iPad Pro when they announce iPadOS 15 next month! So much potential, shackled by the restricted OS.

Dang! I miss steak & kidney pie 🥧. Wondering where I can order one locally. Hmmm.

Wish someone will gift me this nitro cold brew kit

A couple of friends are having their first babies and this guide might help them preserve the memories created every second, every minute. Just don’t be a SHARENT. news.smugmug.com/new-to-ph…

This is awesome! Now do Mosquito Coast :) 📺 apps.apple.com

The Mythic Quest Team’s Essential Apps: Which apps would power the team behind the world’s biggest game? Tap to see.

Still using Gmail? well, read this - www.theguardian.com/technolog…

Got a refurbished iPhone 7 and 8, but will wait a couple of weeks for it to get to me. 📱

Another Starbucks summer drink. Nothing special. I’d stick with their iced tea.

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To all mothers (and those who stand in as moms), happy mother’s day.

So glad that I did not subscribe to Hey.com and also allowed my Basecamp account to expire and get deleted. www.theguardian.com/commentis…

Stop RETWEETING without validating! Trolls must die! www.nytimes.com/2021/05/0…

FECESbook is notorious for being the prime source and PROMOTER of fake news! STOP USING IT! #DeleteFACEBOOKNOW www.nytimes.com/2021/05/0…

There are very few services these days that don’t use recommender systems. Glad that micro.blog is one of them, right @manton and @jean? :)

twitter.com/jjcollins…

Which animation do you prefer when you hit that @Duckduckgo fire button? I prefer the Inferno!

Watching one of my favorite cop families. Blue Bloods S11E14. 📺

Today’s afternoon snack is frozen avocado with chia and a drizzle of honey.

If (when?) Macbook Pros and Macbook Airs come in color, give me that pacific blue model please.

Fecesbook is the primary distributor of disinformation - ivermictin, anti-vaxx, you name it, Fecesbook promotes it. themarkup.org/citizen-b… #DeleteFacebook

#WorldPasswordDay create protonmail.com account, enable multi-factor authentication and save it on @1Password. Subscribe to @simple_login (save credentials on @1password) and link your protonmail.com account. Now create unique aliases to subscribe to online services.

For change, instead of having cold-brew coffee, I am having hot lemon-ginger tea. :)

Apple having an App Store “preferred developers club” debunks their “every developer is treated the same”.

TGIF!

Ouch! www.wired.com/story/vas…

Made pork adobo for dinner. Can’t wait for the twice cooked adobo flakes version on garlic 🧄 fried rice 🍚 tomorrow

Home-made avocado ice cream 🥑🍦verdict — will make one again LOL.

Don’t forget, enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and avoid using SMS when possible. #WorldPasswordDay

Pair a unique password with a unique email address. I use @1Password and @Simple_login #WorldPasswordDay

The avocado ice cream I made is frozen solid that I now have to wait for it to thaw a bit so I can taste it. 🥑🍦

I blame this on the local telcos for being anti-net neutrality and favoring Facebook (aka Fecesbook), on @Deped_PH @PhCHED and @DICTgovPH for enabling schools, colleges and universities to subject students to FB

Filipino Youth vulnerable to fake news, misinformation

That was it? #LineOfDuty finale was rushed and a bit disappointing. Was expecting a different “H”… oh well, will miss the AC12 Team and Kate :) 📺

FECESbook was quick to shutdown the ads of Signal, but couldn’t be that fast when it comes to disinformation. Why?

If you value your freedom of expression, then own your content - create your website or a blog, self-host if you can - don’t be held hostage by the likes of FECESbook www.wsj.com

Epic: Why 30% fee? Apple: huh? same as others, didn’t you know that? Epic: but Apple is different because you have lots of profit, so gimme a piece of that pie ROTFL www.ped30.com/2021/05/0…

ROTFL. Because iOS and iPadOS browsers do not provide that many trackers for Google. twitter.com/counterno…

This clearly shows #EPICFAILGAMES is doing this for them and not every developer. Purely powered by greed. If Apple gives them a deal, #EPICFAILGAMES will abandon the Coalition members LOL. twitter.com/MacRumors…

So happy that I stuck it out with Fastmail and Protonmail instead of getting swayed by the marketing of Hey.com!

Looking for a local supplier of ostrich meat. Any leads? :)

From now on, I will refer to it as Fecebook, too. Thanks, Steve Jobs! :) 9to5mac.com/2021/05/0…

Genius, @signalapp! signal.org/blog/the-…

Wow! Imagine having multiple Teslas on the road controlled by a swarm of drones? Resistance is futile! LOL www.securityweek.com/tesla-car…

House and Senate should pass this ASAP!

Net Neutrality in PH

Success! Wyze cam is back online - now where to put this… :) Data saved locally.

Reviving an old Wyze cam… now flashing new firmware.

I wonder how my home-made avocado+chia+allulose ice cream is doing… will be tasting it later. :)

Wow… just wow! www.platformer.news/p/-how-ba…

The Melinda and Bill divorce - will that mean that the patent for one of the vaccines will be waived and shared with the world now?

Apple’s decision not to implement every single web standard (which was influenced by Google mostly) is not because it hates its users, but because of the potential for abuse. Google implements them all in Chrome, and Firefox (which is funded partly by Google) does the same.

If anything, I hope that Apple reduces the commission to 12% as well.

Wow! I hope that he recruits more ethical AI scientists for Apple. www.appleworld.today/2021/05/0…

Your Mac needs some fixing, too. MacOS 11.3.1 now available. Update now.

Serious bug fixes. Update now. iOS 14.5.1 and iPadOS 14.5.1 available.

May the Fourth be with you!

Despite the issues of the app store, I am still rooting for them against the greedy #EPICFAIL. Create your own device!

Apple needs to fix the app store – the review process is inconsistent and the rules are not clear. The App Store needs to weed out scam apps and malware. Apple needs to make auto-renewal of subscription to have a toggle that users need to set and it should be OFF by default.

The iOS App Store approval process is the one that is highly contested. Apple needs to work on this and make it more transparent and consistent.

As for the fee, it is reasonable to have it - the infrastructure (hosting, payment gateway, keeping it secure) it provides costs something (not to mention they’re trusted by users). As to whether or not 30% is reasonable is up for debate.

The iOS App Store is not perfect and Apple needs to invest in weeding out scam apps and malware — they should incentivize reporting of scam apps and malware to help keep the store clean, similar to a bug bounty.

It is so much easier on the iPhone and iPad with just one store. Imagine having multiple app stores, maintaining different accounts, trusting different app stores, and there is no guarantee that these app stores will be malware free or scam free either.

It is so much easier and convenient to get software on the Mac App Store. If it is not on the MAS, I think twice or thrice before handing my personal details to the developer. It is easier (and to me safer) to get it from one App Store.

Every time I get a new Mac, I install everything from scratch. It is a pain to look for those license codes, and sometimes you need to look for the receipt to get the software from the developer. Yeah, I keep them on @1Password.

The Dept of Labor and Employment and Civil Service Commission should start crafting guidelines for government agencies www.spot.ph

Yay! Replacement iPad Pro Magic Keyboard is here!

Waiting for the replacement iPad Pro Magic Keyboard to arrive.

Installed FreedomBox from the repo on a fresh RPiOS lite, but had some configuration issues. Will have to park it and try again another day.

Tried FreedomBox.org on a RPi 3B+ that I have and for some reason, the FreedomBox crashes after booting up.

Can we extend the weekend for another 24 hours at least?

Home-made Ube latte

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Glad to know that fellow faculty members are now getting their vaccination schedules. Am still waiting for the time they allow dependents to be vaccinated — until then, I can wait.

Oh C’mon! 39C and rising… this weather is killing me. Freezer can’t make enough ice for me and my brood. Tsk tsk.

At the Spring Loaded event, Apple teased us with Ted Lasso’s shortbread recipe. The internet found the complete recipe online, so asked my daughter to whip up a batch. :) End result ain’t bad. Best paired with cold-brew coffee.

Tomorrow - my own take on the Ube latte. :)

Home-made shrimp, garlic and moringga pizza 🍕 for lunch. No fresh basil, so used sub instead.

Was not quick enough to take photos. Yum!

Is this why they lost a lot of their cases? What is the DICT doing? Shouldn’t they be ensuring that government servers are secure?

The Philippines government exposed 345,000 sensitive legal docs online - Rest of World

Whoa! Rails is in trouble, too? No Basecamp iOS team, so good luck with app updates (but then again, they hate iOS/iPAdOS anyway).

Wow! An exodus of talents - clearly a failure of management. Maybe they should spin off another company, Bye.com. :) www.theverge.com/2021/4/30…

Just to run Chrome? Hell no! apple.news

Would you pay $30 a month for a faster web browser that eats less battery? - The Verge

Gotcha! ⌚️ April challenge #AppleWatch

New social media strategy starting tomorrow. Don’t ask me about the strategy. Haha. :)

Did not get much sleep last night due to hot and humid weather. Soaking in the sun right now to get some vitamins.

Apple’s International Dance Day Challenge is the Apple Watch challenge that I skipped - I don’t dance! LOL

Daughter growing pineapples haha - I think this is the fourth or fifth already.

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Fastmail vs Hey - look - www.fastmail.com/hey-fastm…

So why do you want it on the iOS app store, if you think that Apple is bullying you? One thing - GREED. Hahaha. www.imore.com/fortnite-…

Currently listening to the Data Diva and prof. @carissaveliz overcast.fm

What timing - I just let my Basecamp account, albeit free, get auto-deleted (was not using it anyway) for inactivity. www.theverge.com/2021/4/27…

Hey! Yo! Yoohoo! Did I made a good decision NOT to subscribe to Hey.com? janeyang.org/2021/04/2…

Whoa! Why, Google, why? Give the researcher the bounty! This clearly is a big deal, c’mon! Your Exposure Notification framework exposes logs, and it is NOT good! themarkup.org/privacy/2…

Don’t wait for this to be exploited and affect you. Upgrade to MacOS 11.3 as soon as you can. www.wired.com/story/mac…

On iOS 14.5, toggle these two settings to OFF

Anybody successfully calibrated video and audio on their Apple TV 4K? @reneritchie? @imore?

Hmm was able to calibrate the Apple TV HD but the Apple TV 4K and iPhone 12 Pro won’t sync for some reason. Rebooted both already. Hmm… any ideas?

Must upgrade to macOS 11.3 techcrunch.com/2021/04/2…

It is “kick Facebook in the nuts” day! Upgrade to iOS 14.5 and ipadOS 14.5. ytprivate.com/watch

Please make tomorrow the “kick Facebook in the nuts” day. iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5 please.

Yay 🌧 🌧

If you don’t want to get those notifications asking you about app tracking after you get iOS 14.5 or iPadOS 14.5 later this week (tomorrow?), then make sure this is OFF. No nagging and definitely NO tracking period.

Does Apple act as a proxy when you download podcast episodes using the Apple Podcast app?

Episode 2 of Shadow and Bone 📺

Trying out @ControlDNS global proxy feature and it works! :)

Trying out this Lola Nena Cold Brew coffee. Not bad. :)

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Whoa! Did not know that they studied this, too. The number of babies you have can make you age slower.

Bookmarking this for future purchase – need some kind of physical switch for HomeKit lights :) www.belkin.com/us/p/P-WS…

Security tip: If you updated to Firefox 88, type “about:config” and search for “pdfjs”. Look for pdfjs.enableScripting and toggle it to FALSE. This protects you from automatically executing embedded javascripts on PDFs!

I miss Costa Coffee’s Cold Brew Mojito

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Shots fired! Love this! It is payback time. Now, will Apple get Moxie as expert witness? This will be interesting. signal.org/blog/cell…

Can’t really trust Clubhouse. Protecting your users’ privacy should be designed in at the start, not as a hack. www.wired.com/story/clu…

continue collecting more data. Now will @PrivacyPH do the same? Highly doubt it. TikTok sued for billions over use of children’s data - BBC News

Uh-oh, another “scraping” incident? Stop using Facebook! Brace yourselves. Facebook has a new mega-leak on its hands - Ars Technica

So sneaky Chrome sometimes uses Google’s DNS instead of what you have configured. Whilst I don’t use Chrome, I am blocking Google’s public DNS nonetheless.

Using @Overcastfm to download @MacBreakWeekly but it is requiring a connection to chtbl.com, a tracker, which is blocked by NextDNS.io and Pi-Hole.net (but not @ControlDNS). This is NOT good.

Anybody using the iOS Micro.blog app? Having issues with Share Sheet - hit or miss for me. Wish Gluon has Share Sheet support.

So we wait until June’s WWDC event for the higher-end Macbook Pro and higher end iMacs (iMac Pro?) - are we getting M2 chips?

Anybody tried running Raspberry Pi OS on Parallels on M1 Mac? How is it?

New summer drink from @StarbucksPH

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Wow! Who knew? Don’t worry - Philippine Armed Forces even welcome them INSIDE their camps! National security? What national security? www.theguardian.com/technolog…

Err, I don’t agree. Nations must protect their citizens. Companies like Facebook and Google don’t care about people - they care about money ONLY! www.wired.com/story/nat…

Zucka will be on Platformer’s Sidechannel to go on full-on PR campaign before Apple releases iOS 14.5, which will negatively affect Facebook’s tracking and third-party data collection.

What do you know? Tinkering with NextDNS.Io again, (after checking out ControlD.com) since it is cheaper than controlD, and my NextDNS issue has been resolved. Nice.

Updated pfSense router, rclone.org installs and searx instance – Linux servers all updated, too. #MondayVibes

Is this week the kick Facebook in the face week? Can’t wait for iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5 to drop.

Ah, in the Philippines, this is on Facebook AND Viber. www.nbcnews.com/news/mili…

Can’t innovate anymore? ROTFL www.vox.com/recode/20…

Only Denis is a career undersecretary, when the law says TWO of three must be. And the law defines three, and now how many undersecretaries are there at DICT? What is the Senate and House doing about this disrespect of the law?

newsbytes.ph

Let’s protect our children. Thanks @Flickr for doing something about it. blog.flickr.net

Vanessa is gone from the series? Time to leave, too. #VanHelsing 📺

Next up - The Year Earth Changed on  TV+

tv.apple.com/us/movie/…

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Watching HBO Documentary, The Last Cruise 📺

www.imdb.com/title/tt1…

Huzzah!!!!! #MythicQuest 📺

Pre-season 2 episode is up #MythicQuest 📺

Another reason why I don’t use Spotify - Apple pays artists more. www.appleworld.today/2021/04/1…

Cooking chicken adobo for dinner. Do you prefer adobo with sauce or without sauce (fried)?

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Season 2 of “Tiny World” and “Earth at Night in Color” are now up on  TV+ 📺

Wow! Now this I want to try — Ube Latte ☕️ youtu.be/T4X9VL2m2…

Watching #ForAllMankind 📺 but checking out if the special episode of #MythicQuest is now live… where is it?

Will this start the first lunar war? S02E09 #ForAllMankind 📺

What are the chances that apache and nginx will have this header by default? plausible.io/blog/goog…

If you maintain web servers, please ensure that you have this header set. PROTECT your users. plausible.io/blog/goog…

Ohh… optimized battery charging for Airpods Pro… did not notice this before. Nice.

Oh, I’ve seen this before… where’d I see it first? 9to5google.com/2021/04/1…

Woot! Pi-hole FTL v.5.8, Web v.5.5 and Core v.5.3 released - bug fixes, improvements and new darker theme (love this). Updated my instance, update yours now.

Turon (fried plantain/banana spring roll) but without sugar

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To Google, #FlocOff! - stop tracking users!

Can’t wait for the #AppleEvent next week - AirTags and iOS 14.5! Bring it!

The high cost of switching is what PH telcos are familiar with - they’re stalling the implementation of mobile number portability, right? And they are in bed with Facebook, too. Double whammy for Filipinos! www.wired.co.uk/article/s…

This is great news for Facebook! :) www.bloomberg.com/news/arti…

Why of course! Your health data is the next frontier for Google! Imagine how much advertising money it can charge pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, etc. www.theverge.com/2021/4/12…

This is a good read @LTFGuia www.theguardian.com/technolog…

Why am I not surprised? Revealed: the Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harass their citizens - Facebook - The Guardian

Where are our rights activists? Why are you not complaining? mashable.com/article/f…

woot! @netnewswire ios beta rocks! Now I can test FreshRSS sync between MacOS and iOS.

I miss having my RSS newsreader download feeds from a list of personal blogs from friends and writers I follow. And no, I will not follow them on Facebook or Instagram. If you have an active personal blog, micro or otherwise, please let me know. :)

Been planning on getting an e-bike for quite some time already, but with nowhere to go (yeah, I’d rather just stay at home than get infected), I guess I have to wait longer. So, should I just get a Nintendo Switch then? :)

Just in case, PH Dept. of Health - look at this www.theguardian.com/technolog…

The PH Dept of Health needs to understand that partnering with the likes of Facebook to battle anti-vaccine and other COVID-19 related disinformation is useless. Facebook promotes the disinformation more than the fact-checked articles. Tell citizens to STOP using Facebook!

Heating-up leftover pizza for morning merienda.

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Just deployed my own FreshRSS.org instance in preparation for NetNewsWire support on iOS. Mac version already pointed to my own FreshRSS.org instance. :)

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Forty mm Apple Watch series 5 battery at 44% 12-hours running (35 minute workout included). Is it within normal range?

There are a number of Filipino politicians affected as well — and THEY ARE CLUELESS EU privacy chief victim of Facebook data leak – POLITICO

Hello long weekend. :)

Other countries are struggling to get their vaccine supply, because rich countries are hoarding (and throwing away) vaccines left and right. Hope this fixes it.

www.nytimes.com/2021/04/0…

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Be careful. Make sure your OS is updated. This man thought opening a TXT file is fine, he thought wrong. macOS CVE-2019-8761 - Paulos Yibelo - Blog

Why keeping your data private matters. https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Your_Data.pdf

Don’t use the app or web to watch YouTube videos time.com

Amazing! #DeleteFacebook How I got your phone number through Facebook - by Inti De Ceukelaire - intigriti - Medium

Coded Bias is now on Netflix. Watch it. 🎥

C’mon, @Apple. I don’t dance - how can I get that International Dance Day challenge badge????

Ever reliable and always trusted haveibeenpwned.com (HIBP) now allows you to check if your mobile phone number is part of the 533M Facebook data leak. I can vouch that the PH numbers are there now. haveibeenpwned.com

When doing the ethical thing is not a priority of the organization, best to leave. www.theverge.com/2021/4/6/…

It is Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation!!! Greed is the only reason I could think of — I don’t know how they sleep at night. They Pledged to Donate Rights to Their COVID Vaccine, Then Sold Them to Pharma - Kaiser Health News

Is this the same Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation? Pluralistic: 31 Mar 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Congratulations @manton and @jean 100 Micro @monday episodes!

Yes, Facebook, deflect and hope that this goes away. 879,699 Filipino accounts compromised. Phone numbers (and some email addresses) made available to election campaigners and malicious users. www.geekculture.com/joyoftech…

Now is a good time to deGoogle, you know www.wired.co.uk

I remember several research projects trying to recognize and identify emotions when students take exam, play games, etc. I avoided doing something like it for ethical reasons. www.theguardian.com/technolog…

Are there @halidecamera app users here? What’s your workflow like? So used to the stock camera app that the workflow is overly simple. :)

Due to one missed configuration, I ended up moving my domain’s nameservers (been planning to do this for quite sometime, though). Glad that I did transfer and also transferred another work domain off of a shared account. :)

if you haven’t seen Calls on Apple TV+, go binge-watch it. :)

Nuke your Facebook account… whilst you are at it, do the same for Instagram and WhatsApp. appleinsider.com/articles/…

Happy Easter!

weekend tasks - moving nameservers from one to another. tsk tsk.

Philippine media needs to learn from this, too. This News Publisher Quit Facebook. Readership Went Up. : NPR

Now I have pfSense running in front of the main Eero gateway node. Gives me room to do more on the network.

Took this opportunity to re-configure my home network right after telco (@PLDT_Cares) fixed my Fibr connection after 5.5 days! (½)

Open Your Hymnal’s Stations of the Cross episode - for Catholics who celebrate the Holy Week

overcast.fm/+I4OtUTZt…

This month’s challenge is quite easy to complete. 31 days to complete all three rings.

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BFN Hey.com. See you in 6 months - 14-days to get used to the workflow is simply not enough haha. I guess the next thing to try is Sanebox.

Now @pusakat, did you back this? www.indiegogo.com/projects/…

I don’t like using Clubhouse as at this point, it is discriminatory (Android users are discriminated against). Now add this issue, and it becomes worse. medium.com/forbes/cl…

Couldn’t believe that I’d miss the Mabuhay Lounge arroz caldo

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When will we be able to eat out again?

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“Test from Shortcut. HT @moondeer for the tip. Was missing the post-status, that was why i was getting errors”

I’d start a microcast but I figured that I don’t like hearing my own voice… and I laugh too much. :)

Thanks @jean and @manton for the Micro Monday feature! :)

Is this the start of something bigger?

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I wish @StarbucksPH will offer this again. So yummy!

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Ah… Hey.com reminding me that my trial is almost over…

Just found a Notion alternative that does not have trackers and can be self-hosted focalboard. Will give it a try when I get my Fibr back up.

Some changes on my home screen - notice only one telco signal instead of two? Well, iOS 14.5 with dual-SIM 5G support is still not released. C’mon.

We need more cases like this all over the world - sue Facebook and Google for those trackers and data collection outside of its assets. www.verdict.co.uk/gdpr-appl…

iOS 14.4.2 iPadOS 14.4.2 watchOS 7.3.3 now out. Must upgrade to fix possibly actively exploited security vulnerability.

Sunbathing…

whew good thing I don’t use the top 20 privacy invasive apps. blog.pcloud.com/invasive-…

Calls 📺 on  TV+ s one heck of a production. Like a podcast but watch the visualizations as well. Binge watch worthy. :)

YouTube uses image recognition on videos to identify objects (and faces, landmarks, etc.). All the more reason NOT to use it. support.google.com/youtube/t…

Good thing I did not invest time (and photos) on Dispo mashable.com

Currently listening to music.apple.com

Hoping that I’d have an extended streak, it only lasted for three consecutive nights last week. Time to revisit what I did last week that gave me full 8 hours of sleep.

Congratulations, PH start-up Moveup.app for winning Asean Startup Awards. Now if you please do the ethical thing and remove the trackers that leak data to Facebook and Google, then it’d be better. themarkup.org/blackligh…

Experiment number 3: steaming pampano in Instant Pot for 25 minutes. Let’s see how this goes. LOL

Another report on zero-days. Tsk tsk. appleinsider.com/articles/…

Tiktok feeling the crunch. Revenue stream issues? www.theverge.com/2021/3/17…

Google follows Apple’s lead. www.theverge.com/2021/3/16…

Google tracking your movements in bed. Creepy? Bwahaha. www.theguardian.com/technolog…

Philippine-strain of the COVID-19 virus is now in the UK. ARGH! Borders need to be closed off again!

People love shiny, new things, but without regard to safety (theirs and those who they subject to it). Well trained by the likes of Facebook and Google, I must say. world.hey.com/jonas/how…

Been saying this for quite some time already - move away from SMS-based 2nd factor. www.vice.com/en/articl…

swell.life is also swarming with trackers and third-party cookies. themarkup.org/blackligh…

Swell, a personal audio broadcasting app, is getting featured by tech media as a different take on audio-only social network. However, check this out - themarkup.org/blackligh… trackers and third-party cookies galore. The app collects Location info.

Another hit by Joy Of Tech. Yes, Facebook is the cancer of society - affects both online and real-life. Time to rid us of this menace. www.geekculture.com/joyoftech…

For a moment there I thought I read “techJOKING” Ha!

Clubhouse is finally allowing those early adopters to request the deletion of the contacts data hoovered by the app. Is it time to revisit it? :)

His Holiness @Pontiflex celebrates Holy Mass and commemorating 500 years of Christianity in the Philippines

Thanks to micro.blog/Burk I got OpenAudible and have downloaded audiobooks for conversion and archiving. Weird that even with 32GB RAM and 4GB Radeon GPU - converting is extremely slow.

Another night, another 8-hours of #sleep. Need to keep this streak going…

Eat your greens 🥦

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When people thought they can change Facebook from within, they’re in for a ride. www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/1…

quick question: how does your website or blog looks like when accessed using a text-based browser like lynx?

Again, this one works only if you are using Chrome on the M1 Macs. Ditch Chrome, not good for you! appleinsider.com/articles/…

OK. Did a quick scan of the paper arxiv.org/pdf/2103…. and yes, it is probably the first M1 side-channel attack… if you are using CHROME! appleinsider.com/articles/…

This is interesting. Will need to read the full paper first. appleinsider.com/articles/…

Look here - vaccine, regardless of country of origin, is better than none at all. Up to our experts to vet it. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/0…

Why is there a shortage of lentils? Can’t seem to find one at Landmark, Shopwise and S&R.

With summer fast approaching, this cactus will surely love the super hot weather.

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Repeat after me - Instagram is facebook! Instagram is facebook! - just different look and feel. www.theguardian.com/technolog…

Frankly, I’m all for technologies from all over. However, with China and the rest, I wish that you will release these technologies as free, open source hardware/software. www.nytimes.com/2021/03/1…

Must install updates iOS 14.4.1 iPadOS 14.4.1 watchOS 7.3.2 and macOS 11.2.3 - don’t wait up, do it now.

Another super informative article by Prof. @zeynep - something the IATF might want to read and TRY to understand www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc…

Why would you want to turn a powerful machine into a tracking tool? www.androidcentral.com

Now THIS is a great idea, don’t you think? @pusakat what do you think? LOL www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/20…

Nice try, Google! It is still tracking, you know. www.geekculture.com/joyoftech…

But, of course! Delete Instagramonezero.medium.com

I trust Twitter more than Clubhouse.

This is another great news! I use What3words.com and I wish that @GrabPH will teach their partners how to use it for more accurate pick-up/delivery destinations. Now it is even better. 9to5mac.com/2021/03/0…

New free Nikon NX Studio available! Is it for Apple Silicon? appleinsider.com/articles/…

Ohhh Plex app now adds Apple TV app support! Awesome! Up Next won’t be the same. haha.

All about the tracking… for itself, not for others www.inc.com

This is good - if done correctly, i.e., implemented locally by the browser, Chrome. So, just ditch Chrome, right? www.eff.org/deeplinks…

Watching Debris premiere episode 📺 to wind down…

Oh hello there, Micro.blog pins :)

Thanks for this @Flickr and @SMugmug, but we need a better mobile app please. blog.flickr.net/en/2021/0…

March 2021 Photoblog Challenge

Day 2: orange 🍊

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Micro.blog February 2021 Photoblog Challenge extension

Will the force protect my privacy?

Day 30: privacy

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Everytime you access the PH SEC Payment Portal, Google knows. Yes, as most Philippine government websites, it leaks information to Google or Facebook, or both. themarkup.org/blackligh…

The government really loves giving citizen data to Facebook and Google. s-pass.ph has trackers from Google and Facebook. Check themarkup.org/blackligh…

March 2021 Photoblog Challenge

Is he telling the truth?

Day 1: truth

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Micro.blog February 2021 Photoblog Challenge

I use this when I jog outside at dawn

Bonus Day (29): light

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Facebook doing what it does best - lie. www.inc.com/jason-ate…

Micro.blog February 2021 Photoblog Challenge

No way to go but…

Day 28: Up

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Just found out that Facebook has a new mobile application called BARF eerr BARS. Stay away!

The semester starts tomorrow. ARGH!

This is why I don’t use Clubhouse. Also, didn’t share my friends’ number WITHOUT CONSENT. www.inc.com

Micro.blog February 2021 Photoblog Challenge

⌚️ badges 💪

Day 27: Pompasetting

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ROTFL Clubhouse LOL mashable.com/article/c…

Thanks @1Password and KeePass for not being spies! Haha! appleinsider.com/articles/…

Micro.blog February 2021 Photoblog Challenge

The Apple Watch ⌚️ is one of my favorite Apple tech today.

Day 26: Favorite

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Here’s the shortcut code - unfortunately, I couldn’t post the pseudocode without preserving the format.

Micro.blog February 2021 Photoblog Challenge

Using this Shortcut code to generate the Flickr URL for the image and post it on Micro.blog

Day 25: code

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Anybody here use hey.com? Curious if you were able to use its SMTP feature on Google Workspace and Office 365 accounts using app-specific passwords

would be interested to know what you think of this new experiment, world.hey.com? @manton @gargron@mastodon.social

Didn’t like that RaspberryOS pings MSFT repository every time you do an update, so I blocked packages.microsoft.com on the network.

Micro.blog February 2021 Photoblog Challenge

Chamaecostus cuspidatus or insulin plant 🪴 babies

Day 24: baby

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Isn’t this clear that the Australian law isn’t a “link tax” that is claimed to end the open web? www.wired.com/story/opi…

Make sure you check your Macs www.cultofmac.com

Micro.blog February 2021 Photoblog Challenge

We don’t have banana 🍌 today, as we ate them all already. Today’s challenge had me order a slice of Starbuck’s banana loaf. 🙂

Day 23: 🍌 banana

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Micro.blog February 2021 Photoblog Challenge

Can they spell? wink

Day 22: spell

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Micro.blog February 2021 Photoblog Challenge

Need to buy ink refills for these pens.

Day 21: colors

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Micro.blog February 2021 Photoblog Challenge

Love this weather - a bit cloudy, windy and cool.

Day 20: weather

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1. Link Tax is bad for the open web
2. Displaying text snippets and images from links helps prevent click through (source does not get readers to visit their site), which translates to possible loss of revenue for source

Just 2 cents worth.

For All Mankind season 2 is now live 📺  TV+

Deleted 15GB of encrypted data off of the Google Drive. A couple of Zoom recordings remain - around 4GB.

Micro.blog February 2021 Photoblog Challenge

Need proof of life before they become lunch later

Day 19: alive

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I wonder if this weather is courtesy of the typhoon or it is just windy today. Love this kind of weather. :)

This is so true! Facebook bans legit news sites - no biggie for them, because they profit more from fake news anyway. www.geekculture.com/joyoftech…

Micro.blog February 2021 Photoblog Challenge

In bed whilst attending an online meeting. Can only be done at home. WFH 🙌

Day 18: at home

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Turn away from sin and believe in the Gospel

It is the time of year. #Lent

Micro.blog February 2021 Photoblog Challenge

I don’t drink sugar water anymore, I prefer just plain still water, but every once in awhile, I miss the fizz, so I just make fizzy water.

Day 17: still

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Another #EPICFAIL appleinsider.com/articles/…

Micro.blog February 2021 Photoblog Challenge

Day 16: erudite

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This is so spot on! www.geekculture.com/joyoftech…

Micro.blog February 2021 Photoblog Challenge

Day 15: Reflection

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Micro.blog February 2021 Photoblog Challenge

Compassion is not a distinct emotion (Shaver, et.al. 1987)- but is it a combination of the very basic ones?

Day 14: Compassion

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Apple Music playlist – Lego® White Noise - music.apple.com/us/album/…

Another weapon for makers and creators.

Micro.blog February 2021 Photoblog Challenge

Day 13: Make

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I had the luxury of using a dev phone for Clubhouse. Did not allow it to access the Contacts until @ajdumanhug was looking for an invite. Good thing his number is the only one there (aside from mine). App deleted for privacy reasons.

Just goes to show the kind of company Facebook really is - www.theguardian.com/technolog…

Zuckerberg is a one-hit wonder. This is why he is scared the heck out of privacy moves by Apple and regulation by gov’t www.inc.com

Not surprised! in.mashable.com

You know how scared @intel is 9to5mac.com

Micro.blog February 2021 Photoblog Challenge

Today’s (Day 12) word is “sporg” - that organism that grows on spent coffee grounds (note: I made this up).

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Fake Friday feels – procrastinating. LOL. Long weekend ahead.

Micro.blog February 2021 photoblog challenge

Day 11: ** machine **

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Netflix app on Apple TV 4K keeps on logging out. Anybody figured out how to fix this? It is super annoying.

Time to generate and store some energy

Micro.blog February 2021 Photoblog Challenge

Day 10: energy

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It is drizzling this morning. Took a quick shot of this puddle. February 2021 Photoblog Challenge

Day 9: muddy

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When will the PH legislators ban facial recognition? Oh yeah, priority is to change how we greet each other. Tsk tsk www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/0…

ROTFL. This is an amazing product… NOT! www.geekculture.com/joyoftech…

You know there is something going on when technology companies sponsor events and influence the event agenda. Yes, Google and Facebook sponsoring SAFER INTERNET DAY events - so their tactics will not be revealed to the public.

EU’s Vestager falls to the F.U.D. tactics of Zuckerberg. www.reuters.com/article/u…

Dear @tim_cook time to walk the talk. Ditch Google NOW Forget Zuckerberg and Cook’s hypocrisy – it’s their companies that are the real problem - Facebook - The Guardian

Created a @Flickr album for the Micro.blog February 2021 Photoblog Challenge - just in case you miss a photo on the Discovery/mbfeb collection.

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Micro.blog’s February 2021 photoblog challenge day 8: hope

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Day 7: craving

I wish I can have a hot bowl of Happiness Ramen for lunch today. 🍜

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I remember reading that an Android smartphone on Airplane mode will continue to collect location data and upload the collected data once it goes back online. BE CAREFUL! www.nytimes.com/2021/02/0…

Just when PH legislators are pushing for prepaid SIM card registration… edition.cnn.com/videos/wo…

If Facebook isn’t admired, then to make of those who work there? Simply for the money no matter the cost? www.inc.com/jason-ate…

Is Space Sweepers any good? 🎥 🍿

Can’t wait for the next episode of Resident Alien 👽 📺

Back when VainGlory was still a thing…

Day 6: Sport (eSport?)

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Teacher’s Pet

Day 5: pets

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If you are on @Flickr, please post your Flickr profile URL on this thread so I can add you to my to-follow list? Thank you.

Did not make the first cup of coffee for today - a kind soul offered to go to Starbucks, so I got a soy cappuccino. The second cup awaits… in the ref, brewing for an hour more or so.

February goal is to finish this, and maybe offer it as an elective course next semester. @shehackspurple

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Need more nights like last night. GREEN! Also ran faster this morning. Ha! 🏃‍♂️ 💤

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One of the favorite suppliers of the Philippine government :P - www.theverge.com/2021/2/4/…

My kind of layers. :)

Day 4: Layers

We had COMELEAK. Have we learned a lesson? olhardigital.com.br/en/2021/0…

Facebook, what say you, Google going to make it difficult for non-Google advertising companies? Oh wait, you have secret deal with Google, got it! www.wired.com/story/chr…

I’m hungry…

Day 3: comfort

Facebook doing what it does best - restofworld.org/2021/how-…

Competitors catching up, huh? Nice! Better up your game, too, @DuckDuckGo www.theguardian.com/technolog…

Why aren’t you telling users that Viber collects data and monetizes it thru third-party partners? www.businessinsider.com

Australia, we are rooting for you! theconversation.com

Of course, Facebook will complain haha www.businessinsider.com

Facebook spreading F.U.D. www.inc.com

OK, now it is time to prepare my fizzy lemon water. :)

Right after breakfast - a cuppa joe - on an old Ember mug.

February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge Day 2: morning beverage

Checked Exposing.ai to see if my Flickr account was used by facial recognition companies - good thing it wasn’t. Could not say the same for those I follow, though.

Minimizing what can be tracked when I’m traveling overseas, which I won’t be doing for quite some time.

February 2021 photoblogging challenge :)

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I’ve seen a lot of teachers and students use Canva. Now step back and check it out – themarkup.org/blacklight will tell you if you can trust it. #StopSurveillance

Enjoying a venti-sized home-made fizzy-cold brew after 90-minutes of garden clean-up. :)

Facebook content-moderators in the Philippines should do the same - they’re one of those who are paid so low and they need better PTSD coverage later. www.theverge.com/2021/1/29…

Weekend cooking. Done with the pancit canton for lunch. Ha! Pork sinigang for dinner later. :)

Initial observation — Smart’s 5G is fast when accessing YouTube, but slow as molasses when downloading from the iOS App Store. I exaggerate, but it is slow (like on 3G).

You know there is something going on when an “independent” oversight board, who is getting paid by Facebook, is outsourcing its job for free. www.theverge.com/2021/1/29…

With all these evidences about how Facebook fails its users, what do you call those who continue to use Facebook? www.wired.com/story/fac…

Clubhouse, the invite-only service, is, UNFORTUNATELY, another data surveillance company. Checking this out - www.linkedin.com/pulse/clu… (linked to another data vampire company, sorry)

ROTFL www.protocol.com/google-cl…

So glad that the Messages team continues to keep us safe. appleinsider.com/articles/…

This Week in Tech mentioned that ICQ is back – but then again, it is owned by MAIL.RU. Hmmm…

Time to ditch Facebook and stop using Google search. sixcolors.com/post/2021…

I hope that the Global Privacy Control (GPC) gets traction, unlike the DNT before it. www.theverge.com/2021/1/28…

Social media companies will stay as far as possible from doing the right thing if it affects their revenue. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/o…

No, Google isn’t out to protect your privacy – never did, never will. www.eff.org/deeplinks…

What do you think? Of course, Facebook is working with governments. twit.social/@twitnews…

Update your TOR Browser to 10.0.9.

I am not a security professional, but I have long ditched Telegram (and Viber), and you should, too. www.wired.com/story/tel…

Done updating to iOS 14.4, iPadOS 14.4, watchOS 7.3, and tvOS 14.4. :) Now updating HomePods.

Apple’s “Time to Walk” would be more interesting if they’d get the cast of Ted Lasso to start, followed by the stars on their Apple TV+ line-up. It might boost Apple TV+ subs as well.

Who is the Shawn Mendes invading my Apple Watch Workout app? How can I get rid of him?

Is the Synology DiskStation DS220j any good?

Merienda time #filipinofood

I cannot wait to see what @POTUS will do to protect the US and all other democracies in the world against Zucka Zuckerberg’s Biden problem - BBC News

Why having your DNA 🧬taken by third party for fun or curiosity is rarely a good idea #privacyfirst futurehuman.medium.com

Will this be protected from Google’s desire to control the open web? medium.com

So, Facebook user, which one are you? 🤣 level.medium.com

The first post did not attach the image. Here it is again - hoping this becomes a streak :)

All Apple IDs configured with 2FA before the deadline. :)

Not on the iOS 14.4 beta right now - those on beta, does 5G work when you have both SIMs active?

Project Loon just popped. tsk tsk. Typical Alphabet/Google.

Name that bug :)

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watchOS 7.3 will bring ECG support for Apple Watch series 4 and above sold in the Philippines!

Time to act on it, Congress! BAN MICRO-TARGETTING! mashable.com/article/f…

Will @DuckDuckGo please stand up? Haha. 9to5google.com/2021/01/2…

Interesting storage project - space.storage

Interesting project that Beep thing. For $10/mo that breaks Signal’s E2E encryption (only end to bridge encryption done), that might not be a good idea. Beep has E2EE to server, server has E2EE to Signal (but within the server is another thing).

Dismantled a Western Digital external drive that won’t mount anymore, and then I bought a $20 all-in-one HDD cloning device. Now I am copying its contents to another drive via the Raspberry Pi. :)

Both Apple and Google should support full end-to-end encrypted back-up on their cloud services. www.reuters.com/article/u…

This is bad. @apple @tim_cook - full end-to-end iCloud backup is necessary to protect users’ privacy. For the moment, use LOCAL encrypted back-up, not on iCloud.

Signal does not (and could not) censor whatever messages are sent through its network (by design). It can, however, be booted out by Google and Apple, and not to forget Amazon, since Signal is on the AWS infrastructure. tsk tsk

This is great news… let the exodus continue ‘Anti-Facebook’ MeWe social network adds 2.5 million new members in one week - ZDNet

In the next few hours it will be party in the U.S.A. w00t!!!!!

Yay for my Sugru re-supply. Now thinking where to setup this bulb. Hmm.

Rumour has it that Apple is bringing back magsafe for the Macbooks – how about a dual magsafe ring design to charge the power-efficient M-series chips? Merging the iPhone and Mac chargers.

what do you know - Plexserver on Raspberry Pi + Plex on Apple TV works better than using VLC on Apple TV + Samba share. Maybe it is time to remove samba on RPi - what do you think? :)

important security patch from the folks at pi-hole.net. run ‘pihole -up’ right away.

UNILATERAL! www.up.edu.ph/protect-a…

Listening to music.apple.com/us/playli… in the background…

Glad to see @joannastern feature @mewe as an alternative to Facebook www.wsj.com/articles/…

Facebook and YouTube’s algorithms promote hate. www.wsj.com/articles/…

This is a weird semester due to the pandemic, but the grades are all ready for submission. Will wait until Wednesday to see if some students can still submit the other requirements before I finally submit.

The same can be used to red-tag Filipinos. Tsk tsk. www.nbcnews.com/tech/soci…

Digital signature might be in the interest of @Apple @tim_cook in providing users with a secure and private way to sign documents, email, photos. billatnapier.medium.com/let-2021-…

Why you need to re-think that “immunity passport” - privacyinternational.org/long-read…

Streaming a file using VLC on the AppleTV from a Samba shared from the Raspberry Pi crashes the RPi. Installed PlexMedia - hoping that this will be better than VLC and won’t crash the RPi.

Does not help when schools and teachers force them to be on abusive social networks www.nbcnews.com

.@Signalapp is still down. Where’s my fax machine? Will the fax-modem work when connected to my iMac using a serial port to USB Type A to USB Type C adapter combo?

Called nearest Ace Hardware looking for CR1632 and was told they don’t carry it. Called nearest Toyota, was quoted PhP515 (USD10++) for one. Tsk tsk. It was PHP320 (USD 6.70) for 5 at Lazada.

Apple has been battling the VirnetX (ehem, troll) patent for quite some time. Why hasn’t Apple re-engineered itself out of the contested patent?

This Signal outage is taking quite some time to resolve. hmm…

Finally migrated to a mesh network at home. This weekend will fix the wires and cables. :)

Wonder why we are not hearing about the Philippines… wait, is it because the gov’t gives away the data to everyone already? Asking for a friend. thehackernews.com/2021/01/e…

Samsung intentionally used an iPhone to promote its event so media will not dwell on the fact that there’s no charger bundled with their phones, after mocking Apple. LOL

.@tim_cook teases an announcement on Wednesday (i’m from the future, it IS Wednesday already! ha) - wonder what it is (said it is not a new product). What do you think it’d be?

Warning to Android users - make sure that you only download and install applications from developers you trust. The Philippines is predominantly an Android country - be careful, this can happen, too. thehackernews.com/2021/01/w…

Wow! Will check if I still have private videos on YouTube. haha. bugs.xdavidhu.me/google/20…

Finally found a USB-C extension that works! Lesson - you get what you pay for. LOL.

Fitness+ trainer Betina reminds me of @margavsmachine — is she Filipino, too? She speaks Tagalog perfectly.

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ᴄʜᴇᴄᴋɪɴɢ ᴏᴜᴛ ʟᴜᴘɪɴ ᴏɴ ɴᴇᴛғʟɪx

ᴘʀᴇᴘᴀʀɪɴɢ ғᴏʀ ᴀɴᴛɪᴄɪᴘᴀᴛᴇᴅ ʜᴏʟʏ ᴍᴀss ʟɪᴠᴇ-sᴛʀᴇᴀᴍᴇᴅ ғʀᴏᴍ sᴛ. ᴀɢᴀᴛʜᴀ’s ᴘᴀʀɪsʜ, ᴄʀᴀɴʙᴏᴜʀɴᴇ ɪɴ ᴀᴜsᴛʀᴀʟɪᴀ

ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴄᴏᴍᴇs ɴᴇxᴛ ᴀғᴛᴇʀ sᴛᴀʀ ᴛʀᴇᴋ: ᴅɪsᴄᴏᴠᴇʀʏ sᴇᴀsᴏɴ?

This is currently my homescreen. Lost Swarm because of quarantine (no point in keeping it here).

The rule is to wait until X dollars generated per post before shutting it down www.buzzfeednews.com

Facebook protects small businesses? ROTFL www.businessinsider.com

Highly recommended! Got this yesterday and done reading. Sharing with @npf007 . thanks @carissaveliz - great resource for my classes. :)

Android users - do not forget to apply this patch. If your phone does not have it, then it is time to consider another make/model that does. threatpost.com/google-wa…

Anybody self-hosting @StandardNotes - would like to know if supports multiple users? HELP.

And now there are two! #shotoniphone

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I can’t wait. www.wired.co.uk

First 5K jog for 2021 this morning!

New year, so am updating the Linux laptop to the latest version of Ubuntu. Just couldn’t find the time to replace the distro at the moment, so this will do. :)

Daughter’s experiment - planted a persimmon seed

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Ditch Instagram now! medium.com/better-ma…

Cobra Kai Season 3 is on! 📺

Grateful that our family was generally healthy last year. Here’s to having better health this 2021!

Happy New Year!

“It is time for TED” - watching some select #TED videos right now.

Good morning, Mr. snail! Where is your cousin?

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Modified settings for Resilio Sync to continue backing up photo from new iPhone. Also modifying cron jobs to back-up photos on another drive and encrypting & backing up to two cloud storage services.

What kind of garden snail is this? posted on Flickr

Testing Shortcut on friend’s photostream. This photo was taken by @abbiereal

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How I wish that Hanamaruken delivers.

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Wrote a Shortcut to get the URL of a particular photo from my public Flickr photostream. Am planning to use Flickr more to get others to ditch Instagram for Flickr.

Testing the shortcut! :)

Sad that this Costa Coffee branch closed. Would surely miss this Sparkling Cold Brew Mojito

Something that I could not do at home… Starbucks Nitro Cold Brew #coffee

I miss visiting cafes.

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Second cup of ☕️ is brought to you by @Starbucks @StarbucksPH #coffee

Today’s second cup of ☕️ is brought to you by the coffee farmers in Benguet, Philippines 🇵🇭 #coffee

Saw Wonder Woman 1984 and my favorite parts are the first few minutes when Diana was a kid and the last seconds after the movie. Still prefer the origin story better - has lots of fight scenes.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Prepping for Christmas dinner - fixing potatoes, 🍰 baking in the oven, and soon firing up the grill :)

If your device can be updated, it is always best practice to update to the latest version - has security patches. appleinsider.com/articles/…

Good thing I do not have an Instagram account. www.theverge.com/2020/12/1…

Thank you, and we are looking forward to 2021, @smugmug and @flickr. The internet desperately needs an instagram replacement (without that darn tracking). Make it so please. blog.flickr.net/en/2020/1…

Facebook knows when you are sleeping, it knows when you are awake, it knows when you’ve been bad or good… offspring.lifehacker.com/kids-can-…

ROTFL

www.geekculture.com/joyoftech…

Apple and privacy in 2010. The open web is still here, right? It is not a threat to the open web - Facebook and Google are! invidiou.site/watch

If you cannot ditch GMail, at least ditch the application. Check out @SpikeNowHQ - free for education, too!

Filipinos should realize how Facebook is being used against them. www.theatlantic.com/technolog…

Telecommunications is highly regulated in the Philippines - with foreign ownership tightly regulated and controlled. What is the most popular communication media used in the Philippines? Facebook through the telcos. Isn’t there something amiss here?

If the left are truly after social good and against foreign colonialism, why aren’t they against Facebook, a digital colonialist, in the Philippines? When are they going to rally? www.theatlantic.com/technolog…

Facebook (at the moment) is all hands on deck, as Apple EXPOSES how much data Facebook, the data vampire, is sucking from their users. “Transparency is a good business model. If you have a problem with people knowing that you are using their data and giving them the option to opt out, there’s something wrong with your business model.” - John Gruber at www.loopinsight.com/2020/12/1……

Facebook is speaking up for small business, who they have not killed, copied or acquired yet, against Apple’s App Privacy Labels. Surfacing the data being collected and used by applications is being painted as bad for business – why? Because Facebook.

Boom! Another lawsuit against Big Tech. www.theguardian.com/technolog…

Facebook really scared! Hahahaha Facebook slams Apple’s new privacy measures in full-page newspaper ads - iMore

.@Smugmug it is time to build a new mobile app for @Flickr that rivals Instagram. When will you save us from the Facebook data vampire? :)

Facebook misled consumers, governments, and regulators! #DeleteFACEBOOK www.accc.gov.au/media-rel…