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· Dec 19, 2018 at 2:07 pm

Facebook also allowed Spotify, Netflix and the Royal Bank of Canada to read, write and delete users’ private messages, and to see all participants on a thread — privileges that appeared to go beyond what the companies needed to integrate Facebook into their systems, the records show.
Oh good.
#facebook #privacy
tcr!
· Dec 15, 2018 at 2:22 pm
I can’t go to any Christmas parties for the next few weeks. I was plucking my eyebrows earlier and got carried away. Because there always come a time when one tweezes too much. And today I crossed the line. Now I look like Whoopi’s Goldberg. But white. And younger. And more attractive.
#eyebrows #fail
tcr!
· Dec 15, 2018 at 7:24 am
I’ve been playing around with Google’s Flutter and have low-grade prototypes built for iPhone and Android. Right now they just parse the Blog’s JSON file, loops through the articles, and renders them. I’d like to do the same for the Podcast, Media Galleries, and Products.
I’m not a big fan of Dart and absolutely hate Android Studio but what I hate even more is giving control of my content to the social media and podcasting app landlords.
Flutter doesn’t have built-in HTML rendering so I’m converting it to Markdown via html2md and the displaying that. The good news is that the links don’t work 🙄 and the horizontal rules are fat and ugly. 🤮
If I can get the view rendering to look half way decent I may actually release the apps.
#tcrNative
tcr!
· Dec 14, 2018 at 9:06 am
Taking a good photo and making it better.
1- I took the original as I was walking down to the garage on my way to work.

2- It’s not bad but I didn’t like the bottom greenery, it’s too big and blurry. The left side was also too busy so I cropped the whole photo tighter.

3- The garage’s gutter cluttered the picture, too, so I nuked it.

4- The colors were okay but they felt bland. I dropped the Shadows down to -0.35 and bumped the Saturation up to 0.21. Now I love it!

5- I did this all in Photos for macOS in less than 5 minutes. To remove the gutter I used the Pixelmator Retouch extension with the default settings. Yes, your whole life has been a lie.
6- Life is all about making things less complicated, less cluttered. Noise just distracts me from what’s important.
#photos #raindrops #protip
In related news…
He’ll be fine once they update his hard drive.
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