Robert Winter @robert@social.winter.ink

Fabulous observation by the dean of counterculture comedians.

I learn today that a Tyrannosaurus is chronologically closer to an iPhone than it is to a Stegosaurus.

Well, I seem to have it working. 🙂

Required editing the NGINX and adding add_header Permissions-Policy interest-cohort=(); to a few locations. But a check on security headers shows its working. 🤓

https://securityheaders.com/?q=social.winter.ink&followRedirects=on

Today I mused on the madness that is the Dr Jordan Peterson as Red Skull saga and how trying to silence thinking that doesn't conform, often realises the very future activists imagine they are avoiding.

https://robert.winter.ink/hail-lobster/

Has anyone got a solid OCR workflow going on Linux?

To date, one of the reasons I keep a Windows PC running is for Acrobat DC as it makes PDF management (particularly OCR) a breeze. But hoping to remove one more reason why I keep Windows around...

So... after following some steps in this article I think I have opted-out of FLoC on my WordPress sites. But anyone know how this is achieved for a Mastodon instance?

https://plausible.io/blog/google-floc#how-to-opt-out-of-floc-as-a-web-user-dont-use-google-chrome

Returning to a theme from the other day... I mused tonight on the political aspects of #bitcoin

https://robert.winter.ink/bitcoins-dirty-little-secrets-political/

First fire of the season.

Today I rejoiced and lamented the joys and travails of 'Tool Time.'

https://robert.winter.ink/tool-time/

Perhaps it’s just a manifestation of my cynicism, but I only ever seem to get a ‘rate the call quality’ after video calls with excellent quality... 🤨

“Don’t be fooled. Privacy does not come from monopoly. No one came down off a mountain with two stone tablets, intoning “Thou must gather and retain as much user data as is technologically feasible!””

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/553000000-reasons-not-let-facebook-make-decisions-about-your-privacy