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Written by Craig Stuntz on 2024-12-29 at 04:36

Elsevier eliminates copy editor at journal, starts editing articles using AI, introducing errors not present in submitted articles.

https://retractionwatch.com/2024/12/27/evolution-journal-editors-resign-en-masse-to-protest-elsevier-changes/

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Written by Craig Stuntz on 2024-12-20 at 13:08

Woah, I need to up my impact factor before tenure review. This is bad! https://mastodon.academy/by/@CraigStuntz@discuss.systems

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Written by Craig Stuntz on 2024-12-18 at 21:19

The Wirecutter: You should buy a TP-Link router!

US government: We’re going to ban TP-Link routers because they are so full of security bugs as to be a national security risk

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/12/report-us-considers-banning-tp-link-routers-over-security-flaws-ties-to-china/

It feels to me like The Wirecutter’s recommendations just aren’t very well researched?

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Written by Craig Stuntz on 2024-11-03 at 18:53

Workers are generally more productive when working remotely, but IT workers are especially more productive when working remotely, per BLS study: https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-13/remote-work-productivity.htm

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Written by Craig Stuntz on 2024-11-01 at 14:28

Truly amazing how many outright scammy Chrome extensions (as in: Claims to do one thing, actually records your browsing and rewrites affiliate links) with hundreds of thousands of downloads are just available for download in the Chrome web store. One can only conclude that Google just doesn't care? https://palant.info/2024/10/30/the-karma-connection-in-chrome-web-store/

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Written by Craig Stuntz on 2024-10-11 at 17:48

AT&T continues to innovate in the mobile carrier space by compromising your security before your phone is even delivered! https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/using-inside-info-iphone-thieves-arrive-at-your-house-right-after-fedex/

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Written by Craig Stuntz on 2024-09-24 at 20:13

Just a reminder that you can swap "https://fonts.bunny.net/css" in place of "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css" on your website's source code and then Google won't be able to track your viewers via fonts.

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Written by Craig Stuntz on 2024-09-20 at 17:05

This belongs in someone’s dark patterns catalog: “We realize that you don’t want notifications about Offers & Deals. But what if we sent you the same ads for the same offers via email? Then you would want to see them, right?”

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Written by Craig Stuntz on 2024-09-06 at 14:33

The Wirecutter's guide to home routers recommends a couple of TP-Link routers, but doesn't mention that TP-Link has a completely atrocious security record. I know that any router can have bugs, but TP-Link has CVSS 10.0 sloppy bugs. Seems worth noting?

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Written by Craig Stuntz on 2024-08-30 at 20:38

City of Columbus sues researcher who found leaked PII and gave it to the media after the mayor claimed "the majority of the data came by the threat actor is unusable." You're not allowed to contradict the mayor, buddy!

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/researcher-sued-for-sharing-data-stolen-by-ransomware-with-media/

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Written by Craig Stuntz on 2024-08-29 at 16:38

I am reading about some disagreements between Rust and C Linux kernel developers which sort of boil down to the Rust developers saying "fix your bugs and make your spec correct" and the C developers saying "just do what everyone else does and you'll be fine." Let me say that I personally am much more inclined to agree with the Rust developers on principle, but... I can kind of see where the C developers are coming from? The "test the code into oblivion and then never do anything different" approach kind of works for legacy code, even though we might feel gross about it. The point is that I think there's a reasonable case for the C developers' approach, if you must program in C, which is unsafe. I don't like it, and I agree much more with the "Rust approach," but there is a certain logic to what they're saying.

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