• Why the Cybertruck looks dumb.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  The answer actually make some sense.  Also, they do the saved-you-a-click themselves so I'll give them that credit and won't say here that it's because it's a unibody truck.
  
  Oops.
  
  
• Sacha Baron Cohen is wrong about everything.  (TechDirt)
  
  Cohen recently came out in favour of censoring the hell out of everything.  Turns out that his premises are false, his reasoning is faulty, and his solution is guaranteed to backfire massively.
  
  ZDNet meanwhile think his ideas are just peachy.  There are only two certain things in the world: Taxes and journalists supporting censorship.
  
  
• Another ZDNet writer meanwhile blames the tech industry for his own private dementia.
  
  
• Google bans political ads containing "false claims".  (Ars Technica)
  
  Google is run by idiots.
  
  
  Memories of the Summer Solstice by くっか
  
  
• A Chinese spy has defected to Australia and even far-left Melbourne paper The Age is treating it as big news.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  The Age and its sister papers are running an exposé on Chinese influence and espionage in Australia starting...  Well, it says tomorrow but there's an article right there.
  
  It's odd to see the lefties waking up to the communist threat after 102 years in a coma.
  
  
• Pixy's Law of VPNs: If you are using a free VPN, your data is being sold to the highest bidder.  If you are using a paid VPN, you data is probably being sold to the highest bidder.  (Reddit)
  
  Culprit this time is Private Internet Access.  If you've watched Linus Tech Tips videos, they're a major sponsor.  Expect scrambling just as we saw last month when the NordVPN hack news came out.
  
  
• Microsoft's REST API guidelines aren't complete nonsense.  (GitLab)
  
  I love this example of a bad URL:
  
  https://api.contoso.com/EWS/OData/Users('jdoe@microsoft.com')/Folders('AAMkADdiYzI1MjUzLTk4MjQtNDQ1Yy05YjJkLWNlMzMzYmIzNTY0MwAuAAAAAACzMsPHYH6HQoSwfdpDx-2bAQCXhUk6PC1dS7AERFluCgBfAAABo58UAAA=')
  
  I've seen too many APIs like that.
  
  
  
  Stingray Bus Stop by Bearbrickjia
  
  
• Just click here.
  
  
• Microsoft's Edge browser, based on Google's Chrome, has a big red "kick Google in the nuts" button.  (ZDNet)
  
  Technically its "tracking prevention" but 25% of what it blocks are Google ads and tracking cookies.
  
  
• Scientists may have detected the axion, a particle predicted 40 years ago as a result of quantum chromodynamics.  (LiveScience)
  
  Unless they haven't.
  
  
• Apple doesn't owe patent troll VirnetX $503 million.  (Cult of Mac)
  
  Though the decision hasn't been overturned, just the amount awarded.

Posted by: Rick C at Sunday, November 24 2019 06:26 AM (Iwkd4)

Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Sunday, November 24 2019 07:07 PM (5iiQK)

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