TIL: When you make a reservation with OpenTable, it might track how much you spend and then show tags to restaurant workers
support.opentable.com/s/article/Un...
Hello from the passenger seat on a long car ride. Passed some time by putting a game that I made for a Win95 Visual Basic class back in high school on the web: foote.pub/dungeon/
It uses bits of github.com/copy/v86. A pretty cool project.
Hope everyone is doing good out there ☀️
Growth of undersea fiberoptic cables since 1989: map.kmcd.dev
How I removed YouTube Shorts from my kid's YouTube feed:
1. Remove the YT app
2. Configure plugin
3. Re-configure Screen Time
4. Allow YT in Safari
Works for grown-ups too :)
More detail here: foote.pub/2025/03/02/b...
Pennsylvania is trying to pass some crap data privacy law :(
www.wesa.fm/politics-gov...
looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.
I exported a session from ChatGPT where I used it to help me fiddle with an experiment on Next.js. Which I'm new to.
Then, I re-imported the session into a new chat. And asked ChatGPT what an expert should know if they wanted to help me ("Joe").
After a little back and forth, the spectre emerged 😅
Wait, how does that work?
> Excalidraw server and third parties can't read the content.
They generate crypto keys in your browser and put them the URL. Things after "#" aren't sent to the server. But they are there when you paste the URL to your friend 👍
plus.excalidraw.com/blog/end-to-...
bright-sdk.com has a carousel of apps that have integrated with the BrightData SDK.
When kids (or whoever) install these apps, the app nudges them to consent by offering coins etc. So then bots can run commands through their device.
BrightData then sells that access to bot makers.
Shout out to @obsidian.md. I use it every day.
Just helped me recall questions for a doctor before a long-awaited appointment.
echo "I still will never understand" | awk '{print $1 " " $3 " " $5;}'
read.cv is shutting down :( But they are doing something cool on the way out -- they let you export your entire site as a NextJS project. Props to @andy.posts.cv and the team for enabling that.
Short write up on re-hosting: foote.pub/2025/01/18/r...
My beard froze on the walk from the car to the terminal this morning
TIL www.tumblr.com/ourincredibl... lists startups that get acquired, thank users for supporting them on an Incredible Journey, and then shut down their services 🪦
That's all! Notes and technical details that led to these conclusions here: foote.pub/2024/12/30/p...
Google doesn't provide any bot signal with PSTs, and their third-party cookie deprecation stalled due to EU pushback, so PSTs may be slower to gain real traction
The Google PSTs ecosystem is more open than Apple's, which is nice. You can see the list of token issuers (and sign up to be one) via github: github.com/GoogleChrome...
Safari doesn't allow third party cookies, and Apple hides your IP via Private Relay, so PATs aren't going away anytime soon. I'd expect usage to grow.
Privacy tech is nice, but the main reason PATs are valuable to sites is because they are a signal from Apple that the web client isn't a bot
Caught up on my favorite third-party cookie replacements over the break: Apple Private Access Tokens and Google Private State Tokens.
foote.pub/2024/12/30/p...
My first bsky thread, four-ish takeaways:
When Apple Time Machine backups are stuck or slow try quitting Google Drive / Dropbox / other streaming file services.
Fixes a bug present since Sonoma.TIL.
Apple deployed some slick privacy technology for its new Enhanced Visual Search feature. No notice and consent tho 🙈
Uses ML, HME, OHTTP and PIR to let you search by point-of-interest (like "Washington Monument") while minimizing data shared with servers.
machinelearning.apple.com/research/hom...
