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Something to think about
Imagine, a couple of years from now.
Apple’s patent to block recordings is reality and in operation. At some event such as Pukkelpop. During a crisis.
No one, as the infrared is beaming light into every smartphone, telling it to shut down the camera, is able to record or take pictures of what’s going on. Countless of proof is lost (or never made). Nothing on Twitpic, nothing on Youtube. No proof of how severe the storm/crisis actually was. No usable data for journalists and researchers to reuse afterwards. Unable to see whether the roof/screen/pillar/sound system/… fell before or after the whole tent actually collapsed…
https is win for spam
Well, here are some stats for a longer period of time since moving to HTTPS.
So moving to HTTPS lowered the average from ~1000ish to ~200 spam comments per month (I implemented HTTPS near the end of 2011-02).
And yay, for Akismet's graphs being back. For some reason they'd been broken for ages on this blog.
Feature request: Circles plugin
A plugin, for Wordpress and the likes, to display only content to certain circles.
Depending on your current logged in Google profile, looks up whether you’re in one of my approved circles, and depending on the result shows the content.
Idem dito for Flickr, Facebook (lololol), LinkedIn, …