Chess cheaters and those who Stan them
Not only do I believe Hans is an unrepentant and habitual cheat, I believe there is more than enough circumstantial evidence to bar this lying edgelord from professional chess for the rest of his life.
Category: Technology
When Algorithms are Too Big to Ignore
Fundamentally, modern media/social is different from everything that came before because of the economic feasibility of microtargeting.
Firefox and Politics
I know one thing: When I see a privacy-friendly organization saying we need more than deplatforming and to tweak feeds to suit political agendas, I bail.
Restoring your hacked Switch to stock without a NAND backup
You will have a stock switch at the end of the process, and assuming you were careful with your homebrew usage, your switch will not be banned either. I have done this personally a couple of times and can vouch for its effectiveness.
Community Moderation Philosophies
Over these years, I’ve picked up a few general rules.. call them philosophies, axioms, or whatever less-pretentious word you want, but it breaks down to some hard lessons I’ve learned the hard way
Microcorruption: Watching The Slow Decline of Reddit
Of course, with something so unambiguously good and useful, naturally, Reddit would find a way to ruin it
A Case for Increasing PEP8 Line Length Limits
Decades after glass terminals and punched cards fell out of use, why are we forcing their limitations on modern developers?
Why You Should Care About Tape Backup
Tape carries a number of benefits unmatched by any other storage medium.
The Certificate Authority Racket
That’s an awful nice website you have there, would be a shame if something were to happen to it.
On Mozilla & CEOs
While Eich is free to contribute to any political cause he sees as valid, the rest of the wold is also free to critically evaluate his actions and act accordingly.