Principles of Rotoscoping

A very cool rotoscope of me from the old Screen Savers.http://aka-static.vox.com/.shared:v35.4:vox:en_us/flash/VideoPlayer.swf

Thanks to theone3 on the TWiT forums for reminding me about this video!

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How Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline Today 25 June 2019

This was the equivalent of Waze routing an entire freeway down a neighborhood street — resulting in many websites on Cloudflare, and many other providers, to be unavailable from large parts of the Internet.

Why AirPods—and Earbuds Like Them—Are Especially Bad for Your Hearing 25 June 2019

This style of earbud, which rests next to your ear canal but not quite inside it, offers practically zero noise isolation. In other words, AirPods, by far the most popular wireless earbuds, do a poor job overpowering noise like chattering colleagues or teens on the subway. The natural response is to turn the volume louder […]

The Internet Has Made Dupes—and Cynics—of Us All | WIRED 25 June 2019

The internet is increasingly a low-trust society—one where an assumption of pervasive fraud is simply built into the way many things function.

Once More With Feeling: There Is No Legal Distinction Between A 'Platform' And A 'Publisher' | Techdirt 23 June 2019

So, let's be clear, once again and state that there is no special legal distinction for "platforms," and it makes no difference in the world if an internet company refers to itself as a platform, or a publisher (or, for that matter, an instigator, an enabler, a middleman, a gatekeeper, a forum, or anything). All […]

YouTube under federal investigation over allegations it violates children’s privacy - The Washington Post 23 June 2019

The possibility of a hefty penalty against YouTube — including a settlement forcing YouTube to change its practices to better protect kids — could signal a new phase in the FTC’s enforcement of the child-privacy law, which many critics say has grown weak amid technological changes over the past two decades.

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