1+ hour, 27+ min ago  (185+ words) The ways in which Google can lock you into their ecosystem are often obvious, but sometimes, they're incredibly sneaky and easily missed. CAPTCHA tests are annoying, but at the same time, they can help protect websites from bots. While these…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (524+ words) Email is like those creaking old Terminators from the "70s which continue to function without complaining. Designed for a world that doesn"t exist anymore, it has optional encryption, no built-in auth, three" retrofitted security layers bolted on top, an unstandardized…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (697+ words) What if you run a few online services for you and your friends, like a small git instance and a grocery list service, but you get absolutely hammered by "AI" scrapers? I cannot impress upon you, reader, that this is…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (317+ words) Have you ever tried clicking the back button in your browser, only to realise the website you're on somehow doesn't allow that? Out of all the millions of annoyances on the web, Google has decided to finally address this one:…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (763+ words) When Google said they were going to require verification from every single Android developer that would end the ability to install applications from outside of the Play Store (commonly wrongfully referred to as "sideloading), it caused quite a backlash. The…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (197+ words) Wikipedia editors have implemented new policies and restricted a number of contributors who were paid to use AI to translate existing Wikipedia articles into other languages after they discovered these AI translations added AI "hallucinations," or errors, to the resulting…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago  (149+ words) What started as a simple keyword filter quickly snowballed into users deliberately testing the restriction and posting variations of the blocked term. Accounts that included "Microslop" in their messages first got banned from messaging again. Not long after, access to…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (788+ words) Have you bought and set up a new phone for someone else lately, especially someone less technologically savvy? It's a bit of a nightmare, with an endless list of confusing steps and dark patterns trying to trick you into signing…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (175+ words) I've been a. com purist for over two decades of building. Once, I broke that rule and bought a. online TLD for a small project. This is the story of how it went up in flames. " Tony S. An absolute horror story about…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (693+ words) This must be a universal experience at this point for people who aren't swayed by the latest and greatest marketing hype around new phone models: there's just nothing out there that fits one's needs. When I walked into a phone…...