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Phil Ochs – Automation Song

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People have been talking about automation since the 1950s. Has anything really changed since then? Technology has gotten more efficient, smaller, and able to process many more inputs quickly then in the past. But many jobs aren't easy to fully automate, due to the unpredictability of life. Computers are good at doing repetitive tasks accurately, but not very good at dealing with unexpected circumstances or widely varying materials and conditions. Microcontrollers only do what they are programmed to do, they can't do anything they aren't told to do.

Why Printers Add Secret Tracking Dots

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Why Printers Add Secret Tracking Dots

These “microdots” are well known to security researchers and civil liberties campaigners. Many colour printers add them to documents without people ever knowing they’re there.

Dots from a HP Laserjet printer, illuminated with blue light. Credit: Florian Heise/Wikipedia.

In this case, the FBI has not said publicly that these microdots were used to help identify their suspect, and the bureau declined to comment for this article. The US Department of Justice, which published news of the charges against Winner, also declined to provide further clarification.

Post No. 195212

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There is no reason to be sadistic when it comes to coding… 👿

If something can be implemented at the command line using PHP and its easy and fast to do it that way, I might as well do it that way. 

In The 2010s, We All Became Alienated By Technology

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In The 2010s, We All Became Alienated By Technology

I’ve spent six years reporting on deeply alienated people on the internet, during which time I’ve come to see conditions of disconnection and frustration everywhere the Digital Nation touches: on social media, in search algorithms, in the digital economy. In myself. The feelings of powerlessness, estrangement, loneliness, and anger created or exacerbated by the information age are so general it can be easy to think they are just a state of nature, like an ache that persists until you forget it’s there. But then sometimes it suddenly gets much worse.