Peter Murray @dltj@code4lib.social

🔖 Russia Is Censoring the Internet [inside Russian borders], With Coercion and Black Boxes: Quietly built over two years, the Kremlin’s censorship infrastructure gives it sweeping power to block sites. Many fear a new age of digital isolation | New York T https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/22/technology/russia-internet-censorship-putin.html

🔖 COVID-19 and the Future of the Annual Meeting | Ithika S•R https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/covid-19-and-the-future-of-the-annual-meeting/

🔖 [bash script using FFmpeg for turning a video file into a] gif | Ed Summers’ blog https://inkdroid.org/2021/10/21/gif/

🔖 Nonprofit Websites Are Riddled With Ad Trackers | The Markup https://themarkup.org/blacklight/2021/10/21/nonprofit-websites-are-riddled-with-ad-trackers

🔖 Everybody Lies: FBI Edition [advice on talking to law enforcement officers thinking that "I'll just tell the truth" or "I have nothing to hide"] | Ken White https://www.popehat.com/2017/12/04/everybody-lies-fbi-edition/

🔖 The Unvaccinated May Not Be Who You Think [Opinion] | New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/opinion/covid-vaccines-unvaccinated.html

🔖 Cybersecurity Experts Sound Alarm on Apple and E.U. Phone Scanning Plans: A group of researchers said the “dangerous technology” was invasive and not effective at detecting images of child sexual abuse | New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/business/apple-child-sex-abuse-cybersecurity.html

🔖 Raya and the Promise of Private Social Media | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/raya-and-the-promise-of-private-social-media

🔖 The Environmental Impacts of SpaceX's Oil and Gas Gambit [at Starbase in Boca Chica] | ESG Hound https://esghound.substack.com/p/the-environmental-impacts-of-spacexs

🔖 “Hacker X”—the American who built a pro-Trump fake news empire—unmasks himself | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/10/hacker-x-the-american-who-built-a-pro-trump-fake-news-empire-unmasks-himself/

🔖 Mechanical sympathy for QR codes: making NSW check-in better [optimizing URL QR codes] | Huon on the internet https://huonw.github.io/blog/2021/10/nsw-covid-qr/

🔖 Worst Case [could AWS' us-east-1 region "go away"? a list of scenarios and their likelihood] | Tim Bray https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2021/10/08/The-WOrst-Case

🔖 Real-world String Comparison: How to handle Unicode sequences correctly | ACM Queue https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3478522

🔖 IoT Hacking and Rickrolling My High School District | WhiteHoodHacker https://whitehoodhacker.net/posts/2021-10-04-the-big-rick

🔖 The Uncertain Future of Ham Radio | IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/ham-radio

🔖 It’s Not Misinformation. It’s Amplified Propaganda. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/disinformation-propaganda-amplification-ampliganda/620334/ 🗒 annotated https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/disinformation-propaganda-amplification-ampliganda/620334/

🔖 Working From Orbit. VR Productivity in (or Above) a Work-from-Anywhere World | by Paul Tomlinson on Immersed’s blog https://blog.immersed.team/working-from-orbit-39bf95a6d385

🔖 Something Weird Is Happening on Facebook [seemingly innocuous posts feeding user analytics into big ad networks] | Political Orphans https://www.politicalorphans.com/something-weird-is-happening-on-facebook/

🔖 It’s Time to Stop Paying for a VPN: Many virtual private network services that were meant to protect your web browsing can no longer be trusted | New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/technology/personaltech/are-vpns-worth-it.html

🔖 Cloudflare doesn’t have to cut off copyright-infringing websites, judge rules: Judge rules content-delivery service doesn't "contribute" to copyright infringement | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/cloudflare-doesnt-have-to-cut-off-copyright-infringing-websites-judge-rules/