Day: February 23, 2021

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Don’t write much

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I don’t write much about owning my own land these days because while day by day, I put a little more money away and I continue to read, research and learn, truth be told there isn’t a lot to report. I still stay the course and don’t need to focus too much on tomorrow as most of the habits I have today will build towards a better tomorrow.

Red Herring

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Red Herring

2/19/21 by WNYC Studios

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/119351249
Episode: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/radiolab_podcast/radiolab_podcast21redherring.mp3

It was the early 80s, the height of the Cold War, when something strange began happening off the coast of Sweden. The navy reported a mysterious sound deep below the surface of the ocean. Again, and again, and again they would hear it near their secret military bases, in their harbors, and up and down the Swedish coastline. After thorough analysis the navy was certain. The sound was an invasion into their waters, an act of war, the opening salvos of a possible nuclear annihilation. Or was it? Today, Annie McEwen pulls us down into a deep-sea mystery, one of international intrigue that asks you to consider the possibility that maybe, just maybe, your deepest beliefs could be as solid as…air.

Been doing a little research this evening on FultonSearch

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Been doing a little research this evening on FultonSearch.org, the new and improved website of that old microfiche collector who scans in old newspapers for everybody to browse on the Internet. His site works well, and has some old jewels of stories, but it is buggy and slow (well, the same is true with my blog at times). I’ve been researching the Pine Bush in 1960s and also the Albany Landfill and the Erastus Corning Administration.

New browser-tracking hack works even when you flush caches or go incognito | Ars Technica

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New browser-tracking hack works even when you flush caches or go incognito | Ars Technica

The prospect of Web users being tracked by the sites they visit has prompted several countermeasures over the years, including using Privacy Badger or an alternate anti-tracking extension, enabling private or incognito browsing sessions, or clearing cookies. Now, websites have a new way to defeat all three.

The technique leverages the use of favicons, the tiny icons that websites display in users’ browser tabs and bookmark lists. Researchers from the University of Illinois, Chicago said in a new paper that most browsers cache the images in a location that’s separate from the ones used to store site data, browsing history, and cookies. Websites can abuse this arrangement by loading a series of favicons on visitors’ browsers that uniquely identify them over an extended period of time.