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It has long been know that Meta/Facebook has gone to great lengths to get their “pixel” tracker embedded in every possible web page. But their latest abuse of users demonstrates a gross lack of ethical judgement. By exploiting the ability of browsers to connect to locally hosted services, Meta knowingly and willfully ignored every indication that a user wanted privacy by breaking out of sandboxed environments, bypassing history/cookie preferences and DNS sink-holes, and tracking user activity even in privacy mode.

Bill Atkinson, creator of the Mac GUI, dead at 74 Permalink

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Rectangles with round corners don’t seem like a big deal today, but before the technique for drawing them on a computer diplay was invented by Bill Atkinson, some, including the inventor himself, had deemed it impossible. Bill was a pioneer of the GUI and his techniques will forever influence human interfaces.