The fine folks at Coiled just sent me the best mug I’ve ever owned — and more!

Thanks Ron Guida and Christiana Cromer!

Finally, the template for user stories is out

https://twitter.com/ScrmsAllegiance/status/1443691133322809355?s=19

Amen

“Effective distributed collaboration is not pretending to be in an office while staring into a webcam all day.”

https://xahteiwi.eu/resources/presentations/no-we-wont-have-a-video-call-for-that/

If your LinkedIn profile says you’re a Climate Change enthusiast, does it mean you’re enthusiast climate is changing or what

This must be the creepiest product photo I have ever seen, on the Adobe Captivate website

What happened with the head? What happened with the head?

https://www.adobe.com/products/captivate.html

OK, a week has passed by and the most surprising findings are (🥁🥁🥁):

• No access to camera, location, microphone, photos from unexpected apps. This is to be expected, iOS is pretty bad ass with keeping tabs on this
• The Economist and the Xiaomi home app are absolutely awful in the number of requests they make to various tracking domains
• Youtube — together with the Xiaomi home app, albeit less frequently — is the king of connecting to bare IP addresses, instead of using domain names. Why do they do it? Because it’s impossible to block these at DNS level, you have to block at the firewall level. This is something not all “normal” people can do: you need special gear at home
• The identifier of Twitter for iPhone is still com.atebits.Tweetie2. Bonus points if you know to what it refers!
• Lots of apps use Firebase (https://firebase.google.com). No surprises, Firebase tagline is “Firebase helps you build  and run successful apps”

What did I do with all this information?

Mostly, I blocked extra domains at the DNS level.

I also have a couple of apps where I might want to investigate further what they do and why, and maybe block a couple of IP addresses on a DNS level.

The results of course are not shocking as I try to vet most apps I install, I don’t use Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook, etc., if an app is ad-based I usually look into a payed alternative, etc.

I can only imagine what you get on platforms — ahem Android — where privacy is not a USP 🙈

With iOS 15 Apple added App #Privacy Report.

You can record app activity for 7 days, and then see a report.

I think of myself as a very privacy conscious individual when it comes to installing apps on my phone and giving them permission.

So I turned it on today, and I’m going to use https://github.com/johnspurlock/app-privacy-report-viewer to report back in a week.

It’s going to be interesting!

Pretty nice article by Eugene.

TLDR: become familiar with the data and the problem you’re trying to solve before calling model.fit().

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/first-rule-of-ml/

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