• ProtonMail, it’s time has come.

    ProtonMail launched its own .onion address to fight censorship and DDoS attacks, as well as to increase its users’ security and privacy. via ProtonMail Over Tor Can Now Increase Privacy, Security, And Censorship Resilience — News Tom’s Hardwar I cannot wait to try out the free version of ProtonMail over Tor using their .onion address. This…

  • Yeah, I’m a hafta opt out of that,… (overdraft “protection” racket)

    Fifteen months after Minnesota-based TCF Financial revealed it could face legal action from federal regulators related to alleged unfair and deceptive overdraft practices, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has finally taken legal action against the bank. The CFPB on Thursday announced its latest effort to rein in financial institutions using illegal and abusive overdraft policies to……

  • Go, go, Gogia! (from the Messy Thinking Blog)

    I originally created and published A Little Bird Told Me: Maximizing Your Learning on Twitter in 2015. The one page list of strategies was my first ever pinned tweet. It has been one of my more successful online endeavors, capturing thousands of views and hundreds (maybe close to a thousand if you count across platforms)…

  • Go Canada!

    Connie Kuhns’s spotlight on revolutionary female musicians who creates Vancouver’s underground music scene was a National Magazine Award finalist. via Strange Women: Vancouver’s Female Punk Visionaries — Longreads

  • New SSD format showing promise

    MyDigitalSSD shows Boost and claims it as the world’s fastest portable SSD. The drive ships with two Samsung mSATA SSDs in RAID 0 and delivers a fast, flash-based backup destination for any USB-enabled device. via Meet Boost, MyDigitalSSD’s Fastest Portable SSD From CES 2017 — News Tom’s Hardware I’m seeing a trend now that started back…

  • Educational Research in the real world

    Paul A. Kirschner & Mirjam Neelen The book “Urban Myths about Learning and Education” by Pedro de Bruyckere, Paul A. Kirschner, and Casper Hulshof ends with a section on why myths in education are so pervasive and stubborn. One of the most remarkable examples was drawn from Farhad Manjoo’s book True enough: Learning to live […]…

  • Apple’s first original documentary ‘808: The Movie’ now available for Apple Music subscribers — From: 9to5Mac

    The original documentary ‘808: The Movie’ which covers the history and broad influence of Roland’s TR-808 drum machine is now available for Apple Music subscribers. more…Filed under: Apple via Apple’s first original documentary ‘808: The Movie’ now available for Apple Music subscribers — 9to5Mac Excellent News! I had heard this documentary was coming for a while.…

  • Microsoft and Qualcomm Collaborate to Bring Windows 10 & x86 Emulation to Snapdragon Processors

    Source: Microsoft and Qualcomm Collaborate to Bring Windows 10 & x86 Emulation to Snapdragon Processors This is a more interesting story than the previous one re: Qualcomm’s server chips running Windows 10. No instead, this article from Anandtech goes into back story, history leading up to today’s announcement. In particular I enjoyed very much the…

  • From Tom’s Hardware:Qualcomm Debuts 10nm FinFET Centriq 2400 Processor With 48 Cores

    Qualcomm announced today that it has already begun sampling of its first 10nm 48-core server processor. Source: Qualcomm Debuts 10nm FinFET Centriq 2400 Processor With 48 Cores Very interesting announcement from mobile phone cpu designer Qualcomm. They’ve been a licensee of ARM designs for quite some time. I didn’t know they had server CPUs in…

  • From Alan Levine: You(Tubers) Dissin’ My Dead Drops?

    Drawing conclusions about human nature based upon a small spike in YouTube comments is maybe as questionable as predicting election results based on polls. But hey, this is my data! For a likely in… Source: You(Tubers) Dissin’ My Dead Drops? I like Alan’s projects no matter what form they take. And unlike the bozos commenting…