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July 03, 2018
June 29, 2018
VirusTotal Monitor, a service to mitigate false positives (to be used by software developers)
http://blog.virustotal.com/2018/06/vtmonitor-to-mitigate-false-positives.html?m=1
“One of VirusTotal’s core missions is to empower our antivirus partners. By building better tools to detect and study malware, VirusTotal gets to make a dent in the security of billions of users (all those that use the products of our partners). Until now we have focused on helping the antivirus industry flag malicious files, and now we also want to help it fix mistaken detections of legit files, i.e. false positives.”
June 26, 2018
June 21, 2018
June 17, 2018
The Most Honest Out-of-Office Message
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/out-of-office-message-email/562394/
“What if you deleted all your emails during vacation and never looked back?”
June 10, 2018
Debunking the 6 biggest myths about “technology addiction"
https://www.salon.com/2018/05/26/debunking-the-6-biggest-myths-about-technology-addiction_partner/
"I am a psychologist who has worked with teens and families and conducted research on technology use, video games and addiction. I believe most of these fear-mongering claims about technology are rubbish. There are several common myths of technology addiction that deserve to be debunked by actual research."
June 09, 2018
Rise of the deepfakes
http://theweek.com/articles/777592/rise-deepfakes
"New technology makes it alarmingly easy to make realistic videos of people saying and doing things they've never done. Here's everything you need to know."
"New technology makes it alarmingly easy to make realistic videos of people saying and doing things they've never done. Here's everything you need to know."
June 02, 2018
May 25, 2018
May 22, 2018
May 20, 2018
May 10, 2018
May 05, 2018
May 03, 2018
April 22, 2018
April 14, 2018
Tube: minimalist YouTube search
"Madeline Cameron's Tube is a minimalist YouTube search engine: no recommendations, no nonsense, just a search bar, a list of results with thumbnails, and clean chromeless full-screen video embeds."
April 03, 2018
March 30, 2018
March 29, 2018
What Is Phubbing? Why It's Bad for Relationships and Mental Health
“Phubbing” — snubbing someone you’re talking to to look at a cell phone — may not be part of your everyday vocabulary, but it’s almost certainly part of your everyday life. Just think about how often a conversation stalls because your friends (or you) have pulled out a phone and descended into an Instagram black hole.
March 20, 2018
March 17, 2018
February 20, 2018
February 17, 2018
January 31, 2018
January 18, 2018
January 15, 2018
December 28, 2017
The 2018 internet resolution everyone should have: Bring back your browser bar
The 2018 internet resolution everyone should have: Bring back your browser bar: "Facebook created the newsfeed, and then turned to publishers/media outlets, and said: Guess what? Everyone's on Facebook. You want a piece of the action? You're gonna play ball with us. You'll put share buttons on all of your stories. You'll participate in our Facebook Instant Articles program. You'll advertise with us! When we tell you that we're going to start promoting video over articles, you're going to start making video. And then when we tell you what kind of video, you'll make that video too! And if you don't want to play ball, fine. Your competition will.
As a result, everyone started writing click-ier headlines. Maybe even misleading ones! Then, they started making video. You hate video on the internet? Tell that to Facebook, which realized it could charge advertisers more money for running video ads. "
December 17, 2017
How to know you're guilty of 'sidebarring' people
How to know you're guilty of 'sidebarring' people: "Sometimes we prioritise these electronic connections over what's happening in real life. In fact, if you're always messaging someone else when you're having dinner with a friend, at an event, or on a date (shame on you), there's a word for that. It's called "sidebarring.""
December 14, 2017
"...we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric..."
"I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works. The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops we’ve created are destroying how society works. No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth. You are being programmed"
December 11, 2017
December 09, 2017
November 27, 2017
Email Is Broken. Can Anyone Fix It?
"The brutal truth seems to be that the only way to fix email is to fix our insecurity, neediness, and faux sense of urgency. Which seems unlikely. All developers can do in the meantime is try to help you climb the email mountain a little more easily."
https://www.wired.com/story/email-is-broken-can-anyone-fix-it/
November 25, 2017
November 20, 2017
November 14, 2017
Step-by-step guide to locking down your Facebook account
"If you're still using Facebook (I don't), your data is being used to profile you in seriously creepy ways; the best thing you can do is delete your Facebook account, but second-best is locking down your account, using the deliberately confusing, overly complexified privacy dashboard."
November 05, 2017
7 Tips for Presenting Bulleted Lists in Digital Content
"Summary: Bullet points help break up large blocks of text, make complex articles and blog posts easier to grasp, and make key information stand out."
Flat UI Elements Attract Less Attention and Cause Uncertainty
"Summary: Flat interfaces often use weak signifiers. In an eyetracking experiment comparing different kinds of clickability clues, UIs with weak signifiers required more user effort than strong ones."
November 04, 2017
The Ignorance of the Crowd
"Our social networks are like the biosphere: we don’t fully understand them; they’re changing rapidly; and these changes could lead to global collapse"
November 02, 2017
Batch file to check for new or changed files in a folder (including subfolders)
I created this batch file to check for new or changed files in a folder including subfolders.
1. ::Written by Jeff Gillman
2. @echo off
3. MODE CON COLS=172 LINES=50
4. color 3e
5. ::define the log file
6. set log=C:\Users\[username]\filechecker\checker.log
7. ::write a date/timestamp to the log file
8. date /t >>%log%
9. time /t >>%log%
10. ::text that will be displayed at the beginning
11. echo.
12. echo FileChecker: checks for new/udpated/deleted files in specific folders
13. echo New = new file
14. echo Newer = file updated since previous scan
15. echo *EXTRA = file deleted at source
16. echo.
17. echo.
18. ::block 1 (first folder)
19. set source=c:\users\[username]\desktop
20. set target=c:\users\[username]\filechecker\desktop
21. echo.
22. echo ........... Checking for new files in %source%
23. robocopy %source% %target% /s /e /create /njh /njs /l /ndl /ns /purge | find /v " Changed"
24. robocopy %source% %target% /s /e /create /njh /njs /ndl /ns /purge | find /v " Changed" >>%log%
25. ::color change to help user detect progress
26. color 4b
27. set source=\\[server1]\[folder1]
28. set target=c:\users\[username]\filechecker\[folder1]
29. echo.
30. echo ........... Checking for new files in %source%
31. robocopy %source% %target% /s /e /create /njh /njs /l /ndl /ns /purge | find /v " Changed"
32. robocopy %source% %target% /s /e /create /njh /njs /ndl /ns /purge | find /v " Changed" >>%log%
33. color e5
34. ::block 2 (second folder)
35. set source=\\[server2]\[folder2]
36. set target=c:\users\[username]\filechecker\[folder2]
37. echo.
38. echo ........... Checking for new files in %source%
39. robocopy %source% %target% /s /e /create /njh /njs /l /ndl /ns /purge | find /v " Changed"
40. robocopy %source% %target% /s /e /create /njh /njs /ndl /ns /purge | find /v " Changed" >>%log%
41. color f9
42. ::block 3 (third folder)
43. set source=\\[server2]\\[folder3][folder3]
44. echo.
45. echo ........... Checking for new files in %source%
46. robocopy %source% %target% /s /e /create /njh /njs /l /ndl /ns /purge | find /v " Changed"
47. robocopy %source% %target% /s /e /create /njh /njs /ndl /ns /purge | find /v " Changed" >>%log%
48. ::final display of info
49. echo.
50. color 4f
51. echo \
52. echo \\
53. echo \\\ The above is also logged to %log%
54. ::reset variables to null
55. set log=
56. set source=
57. set target=
58. echo.
59. echo Press any key to exit.
60. ::wait for keypress, hide text because we're using custom text above
61. pause>nul
62. exit
- It uses Robocopy to build a local representation of the files and directory structure, but all files are 0-byte files for speed and storage efficiency
- It shows results on the screen, and adds everything to a log file for later perusal.
- This example contains 4 blocks of the checker code, and only the first is set up to check one folder (my desktop), but you may add more as you wish (my real one monitors 4 folders).
- I use Task Scheduler to run it every day; that could be less or more often as you wish.
1. ::Written by Jeff Gillman
2. @echo off
3. MODE CON COLS=172 LINES=50
4. color 3e
5. ::define the log file
6. set log=C:\Users\[username]\filechecker\checker.log
7. ::write a date/timestamp to the log file
8. date /t >>%log%
9. time /t >>%log%
10. ::text that will be displayed at the beginning
11. echo.
12. echo FileChecker: checks for new/udpated/deleted files in specific folders
13. echo New = new file
14. echo Newer = file updated since previous scan
15. echo *EXTRA = file deleted at source
16. echo.
17. echo.
18. ::block 1 (first folder)
19. set source=c:\users\[username]\desktop
20. set target=c:\users\[username]\filechecker\desktop
21. echo.
22. echo ........... Checking for new files in %source%
23. robocopy %source% %target% /s /e /create /njh /njs /l /ndl /ns /purge | find /v " Changed"
24. robocopy %source% %target% /s /e /create /njh /njs /ndl /ns /purge | find /v " Changed" >>%log%
25. ::color change to help user detect progress
26. color 4b
27. set source=\\[server1]\[folder1]
28. set target=c:\users\[username]\filechecker\[folder1]
29. echo.
30. echo ........... Checking for new files in %source%
31. robocopy %source% %target% /s /e /create /njh /njs /l /ndl /ns /purge | find /v " Changed"
32. robocopy %source% %target% /s /e /create /njh /njs /ndl /ns /purge | find /v " Changed" >>%log%
33. color e5
34. ::block 2 (second folder)
35. set source=\\[server2]\[folder2]
36. set target=c:\users\[username]\filechecker\[folder2]
37. echo.
38. echo ........... Checking for new files in %source%
39. robocopy %source% %target% /s /e /create /njh /njs /l /ndl /ns /purge | find /v " Changed"
40. robocopy %source% %target% /s /e /create /njh /njs /ndl /ns /purge | find /v " Changed" >>%log%
41. color f9
42. ::block 3 (third folder)
43. set source=\\[server2]\\[folder3][folder3]
44. echo.
45. echo ........... Checking for new files in %source%
46. robocopy %source% %target% /s /e /create /njh /njs /l /ndl /ns /purge | find /v " Changed"
47. robocopy %source% %target% /s /e /create /njh /njs /ndl /ns /purge | find /v " Changed" >>%log%
48. ::final display of info
49. echo.
50. color 4f
51. echo \
52. echo \\
53. echo \\\ The above is also logged to %log%
54. ::reset variables to null
55. set log=
56. set source=
57. set target=
58. echo.
59. echo Press any key to exit.
60. ::wait for keypress, hide text because we're using custom text above
61. pause>nul
62. exit
October 16, 2017
October 14, 2017
October 09, 2017
October 08, 2017
How to Track and Monitor Every System Change in Windows
I just used this to track where Chrome saved a web page with the To Be Read Light extension. I used to use InCtrl5 for this, but it doesn't work so well on Windows 10.
October 06, 2017
October 05, 2017
Antivirus companies cause a big headache to small developers.
The linked article is depressing, because I have come to rely on VirusTotal to keep me safe. So I guess now I can only count on VirusTotal if it indicates something is completely clean. [sigh]
October 01, 2017
September 29, 2017
September 24, 2017
September 23, 2017
September 17, 2017
September 09, 2017
September 08, 2017
September 06, 2017
My Attention Disorder Was Brought On by my iPhone
"But I have a condition just as debilitating, marked by an inability to remain focused on a single task without getting distracted by something that catches my eye or floats to the top of the running to-do list in my head."
September 05, 2017
August 29, 2017
August 27, 2017
August 20, 2017
August 05, 2017
July 25, 2017
July 21, 2017
June 24, 2017
The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques
"Summary: Modal ads, ads that reorganize content, and autoplaying video ads were among the most disliked. Ads that are annoying on desktop become intolerable on mobile."
June 23, 2017
Batch file to check for new/changed/deleted files in folders
I created this batch file to check
for new or changed files in a folder including subfolders.
- It uses Robocopy to build a local representation of the files and directory structure, but all files are 0-byte files for speed and storage efficiency
- It shows results on the screen, and adds everything to a log file for later perusal.
- This example contains 1 block of the checker code, to check one folder, but you may add more as you wish (my real one monitors 3 folders).
- I use Task Scheduler to run it every day; that could be less or more often as you wish.
- I use a shortcut to it, with some changes made in Properties, to make it look better:
- Font tab:
Size=16
Font=Consolas - Layout tab:
Width (both)=196 (this is edge to edge on my display)
Screen buffer height=3000 (so I can scroll back if many results)
Window size Height = 40
Window position= zero and zero, with "Let system position window" unchecked - The code is below, and is somewhat ::commented for your ease of
understanding; you can place all this into a text file, change the things
that need to be changed, rename the file to anything.bat, and there's your
batch file. Make the shortcut to it if you want and style it in the way
mentioned above, and use that shortcut to run the file (either manually,
or scheduled via Task Scheduler).
::Written by Jeff Gillman
@echo off
MODE CON COLS=172 LINES=50
color 3e
::define the log file
set log=C:\Users\[username]\filechecker\checker.log
::write a date/timestamp to the log file
date /t >>%log%
time /t >>%log%
::text that will be displayed at the beginning
echo.
echo FileChecker: checks for new/udpated/deleted files in specific folders
echo New = new file
echo Newer = file updated since previous scan
echo *EXTRA = file deleted at source
echo.
echo.
::block 1 (first folder)
set source=c:\users\[username]\desktop
set target=c:\users\[username]\filechecker\desktop
echo.
echo ........... Checking for new files in %source%
robocopy %source% %target% /s /e /create /njh /njs /l /ndl /ns /purge | find /v " Changed"
robocopy %source% %target% /s /e /create /njh /njs /ndl /ns /purge | find /v " Changed" >>%log%
::color change to help user detect progress
color 4b
set source=\\[server1]\[folder1]
set target=c:\users\[username]\filechecker\[folder1]
echo.
echo ........... Checking for new files in %source%
robocopy %source% %target% /s /e /create /njh /njs /l /ndl /ns /purge | find /v " Changed"
robocopy %source% %target% /s /e /create /njh /njs /ndl /ns /purge | find /v " Changed" >>%log%
color e5
::block 2 (second folder)
set source=\\[server2]\[folder2]
set target=c:\users\[username]\filechecker\[folder2]
echo.
echo ........... Checking for new files in %source%
robocopy %source% %target% /s /e /create /njh /njs /l /ndl /ns /purge | find /v " Changed"
robocopy %source% %target% /s /e /create /njh /njs /ndl /ns /purge | find /v " Changed" >>%log%
color f9
::block 3 (third folder)
set source=\\[server2]\\[folder3][folder3]
echo.
echo ........... Checking for new files in %source%
robocopy %source% %target% /s /e /create /njh /njs /l /ndl /ns /purge | find /v " Changed"
robocopy %source% %target% /s /e /create /njh /njs /ndl /ns /purge | find /v " Changed" >>%log%
::final display of info
echo.
color 4f
echo \
echo \\
echo \\\ The above is also logged to %log%
::reset variables to null
set log=
set source=
set target=
echo.
echo Press any key to exit.
::wait for keypress, hide text because we're using custom text above
pause>nul
exit
June 04, 2017
May 29, 2017
May 26, 2017
May 01, 2017
Web developers: Stop Shaming Your Users for Micro Conversions
"Manipulinks make users feel bad about themselves in order to convince them to accept an offer or sign up for a newsletter."
April 25, 2017
April 24, 2017
April 19, 2017
April 18, 2017
April 17, 2017
April 12, 2017
April 11, 2017
April 07, 2017
Why Nothing Works Anymore
"Technology is becoming a force that surrounds humans—but not necessarily in the service of human ends."
April 02, 2017
March 30, 2017
February 26, 2017
February 21, 2017
February 15, 2017
February 13, 2017
February 12, 2017
February 07, 2017
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