Terence Eden
Person on 4 sites
British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee; blogs at shkspr.mobi.
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
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4 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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9 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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It seems easy to con or bribe a worker into giving scammers access to a booking system, and "reservation hijacking" is now common. (opens korrents.com)
“It seems depressingly easy to con or bribe a worker into allowing scammers access into a booking system. This sort of "reservation hijacking" is now depressingly common.”
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A device with always-on WiFi and a default password that users are unlikely to change is not adequately secure, and the maker's reply that users can change it does not fix that. (opens korrents.com)
“I think that might be against the law. The password can be changed by the user - but I wonder how many people will bother? When I mentioned this to Mokin, they replied:”
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Hardware that connects to the internet should tell its users who its data provider is and what the privacy policy says. (opens korrents.com)
“At the very least they should tell users who their weather provider is and what their privacy says.”
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It seems easy to con or bribe a worker into giving scammers access to a booking system, and "reservation hijacking" is now common. (opens korrents.com)
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7 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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ActivityPub (opens rcmnd.app)
“Evan Prodromou has the unenviable task of making the whole ecosystem easy to understand. Thankfully he does that well. Things are logically laid out, there are comprehensive descriptions of even the most obscure parts…”
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An Immense World (opens rcmnd.app)
“This is a funny, heartfelt, and (perhaps overly) thorough book. It will gleefully send you down rabbit holes”
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Coding Literacy (opens rcmnd.app)
“This is a disappointing and frustrating book - not least because it so nearly hits the mark. The subtitle is "How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing" - but it never gets close to discussing that topic, let alone…”
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ActivityPub (opens rcmnd.app)