It's kind of weird when I try to set a new password and the website tells me the password is longer than their arbitrary maximum password length. So I need to shorten my password to make it less secure.
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Pretty wild this is the verification/login screen for a $25b company. I had to check the SSL certificate to make sure I wasn't being scammed 😩
"We no longer "search" Google, but barter with a seedy search box to try and coax out a result that isn't either a search engine-optimized half-answer or an attempt to trick us into clicking an ad." Great read: wheresyoured.at/the-great-loot…
They're Looting The Internet
Last week, Meta revealed (in a motion trying to dismiss an FTC anti-monopoly lawsuit) that Instagram made an astonishing $32.4 billion in advertising revenue in 2021. That figure becomes even more shocking when you consider Google's YouTube made $28.8 billion in the same period. Bloomberg reports that the
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Researching email newsletter platforms. Are there any notable ones I might be forgetting about? I really like Loops at work but looking for something for personal/side project use that isn't so $$$ I have a few self-hosted services but mostly I'm interested in hosted platforms.
Instead of switching all my buttons back to 3d/skeumorphic, I'll just wait another 10 years until flat design comes back into trend.