Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Joined March 2008
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
we can recognize the recklessness and seriousness of the Trumpian upping of the tech war without ignoring the fact that China launched it in the first place.
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I cleaned it out with a corner of a folded thick piece of paper, as suggested in support.google.com/pixelphon…
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I think someone (but I forget who) told me that cable connections to my phone's USB-C jack were loose and not connecting well because there was lint etc. in the jack. I didn't believe it at the time, but it turns out they were right. So thanks, whoever it was.
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I also dislike using the dateline for this, and would prefer relative to where I live (and the range of longitudes I've traversed the least), giving:
E: Stockholms östra station, Stockholm, Sweden
W: Ngong Ping, Hong Kong, China
If I use a broader definition, then some would change to:
N: Umferðarmiðstöðin BSÍ, Reykjavík, Iceland (an airport bus)
S: Invercargill Airport, Invercargill, New Zealand (an intercity bus)
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If I restrict to a narrow definition of public transit:
N: Badebakken, Oslo, Norway
E: either Greenlane or Ellerslie station, Auckland, New Zealand
S: Kelburn cable car station, Wellington, NZ
W: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
A twist on that furtherest N, S, E, W you've been meme... the furtherest you've been using public transit (E/W determined by intl. date line).
Mine:
N: Copenhagen
S: Melbourne
E: Sydney (Brisbane if we count interstate trains)
W: Portland, OR
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- I specifically said "should be" rather than "is".
- I wasn't referring to all combination of data, just this one specifically, which has a clear public purpose in its favor.
- The "amazing split" quoted above makes me question the strength of that prevailing consensus.
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I think that's a reasonable thing Google should be able to do without additional consent.
And I think there should be limits on people's ability to block useful science that benefits society as a whole, in the name of privacy, without articulating the harm caused.
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If it's that, given that it has that information with appropriate consent, it can't combine it to report to county health authorities its suspicions about restaurants that have food poisoning?
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Which part do you consider the privacy violation?
If it's that Google needs better user consent to gather/store the information about search or location history, that's entirely reasonable. That's also not the "this" I was referring to.
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In addition to "Enable Original Sound" that many have suggested, another factor here is that it helps if everyone uses headphones.
This avoids the computer doing echo cancellation to prevent the sound that comes out of the speakers from going back into the mic (which is bad).
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
As we head closer to peak of Atlantic hurricane season, ocean temperatures are at/near record high levels in key region. Seasonal forecasts have suggested high risk of severe hurricane season in 2020, and current level of potential "hurricane fuel" in MDR certainly supports that.
Not to beat a dead horse but, the Atlantic Main Development Region is exceptionally warm atm. Here's a plot of the OISSTv2.1 SSTa percentiles for the week ending July 20th.
Grid points that exceed the 95th percentile (within the top 3 ranks) are contoured in white
#Tropics
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
was bad for you & bad for everyone. If your understanding of the rights at stake is that those rights are & ought to be reserved for citizens, & that this protects citizens, you now have very immediate and tangible evidence for why this is a problematic way to think about rights.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Some people's takeaway from the Portland fiasco will a commitment to dismantling CBP, ICE, and/or DHS.
This is not wrong. BUT...the real takeaway should be this:
Largely ignoring what DHS has been doing when your understanding was that they were doing it to non-citizens
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This sounds like an excellent use of the data Google has. It prevents real people from getting sick. Consent shouldn't be needed for this. The only harm I see is encouraging us to like that one company has all this information.
you know:
- google knows where you are
- google knows what you search
you probably don't know: when you search for food poisoning symptoms, google looks back in your location history the time that food poisoning takes to incubate and guesses which restaurant poisoned you
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This is quite the map (courtesy @NHC_Atlantic) for still being in July. It's well before the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season, already up to H, with one Cape Verde tropical storm now and maybe another one coming.
