China closes 17,488 Net cafes
This is the sort of thing that happens when the government tells you what you can and can’t read, and what is appropriate for you to be informed about and what is “subversive”. .
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Linked: The Third Web
Here’s the thing. I’ve been around the internet, and the Web, a long time. Long enough to remember when HTML was going to “democratize” publishing and when blogging was going to “democratize journalism” and when social media was going to be the thing that finally “democratized” the Web and gave everyone a voice.
None of that proved to be true. Each and every iteration of Internet technology eventually wound up with a couple of big winners, and some sort of monopoly.
What is it about Web3 that makes people think this will end any differently?
Linked – Best practices for passwords updated after original author regrets his advice
Yeah, so everything you know about passwords? It might be wrong…. “Burr’s eight-page password document, titled “NIST Special Publication 800-63. Appendix A,” advised people to use irregular capitalization, special characters, and at least one numeral. That might result in a password like “P@ssW0rd123!” While that may make it seem secure on the surface (neglecting, of…
Linked – Twitter’s Rolling Out its New ‘Bookmarks’ Feature to All Users
Something that seemed like an obvious feature years ago, but hey, at least they’ve gotten around to it. “Bookmarks provide an alternative to liking a tweet that you might simply be marking as something you want to check out later (instead of actually liking it). “ Looking forward to bookmarking some things to read later…
Linked – The business case against overtime
“A long workday hides many hidden costs. It’s a fallacy to assume that the longer employees work, the more they’ll produce. “Working hours and outcome do not correlate,” Komuro says. In fact, she has observed precisely the reverse relationship among some of her hardest charging clients. As employees scaled back their hours, managers were surprised…