Notices by Kent Brewster (kentbrew@xoxo.zone)

How to disable that thing in Sequoia where windows jump to full size if you drag them near the top of the screen: in Settings: Desktop & Dock, scroll way, way down, and uncheck Tile by Dragging Windows to Screen Edges. #sequoia #macos #annoyance

@annika I got the kettle corn one. It's buttery, syrupy, and salty! Just crazy good.

Strongly recommended: the popcorn latte at Exquisite Creatures, about 900 feet from Hotel Grand Stark. #xoxofest

@annika waaaaant

Quoth the six-year-old grandson, after watching me pop open, fix, and button up one of those automated paper towel dispensers in a public restroom: "That was actually pretty good! It's almost like you're an engineer or something!" #kids #nohigherpraise

Infosec friends are unanimous: if you're using Chrome, you want to visit chrome://settings/adPrivacy and turn off Ad Topics, Site-Suggested Ads, and Ad Measurement.

IMPORTANT: you must do this for each of your Chrome profiles, since it's not a global setting.

#chrome #privacy #enshittification

Every time I see one of those maps showing a huge difference in Factor X in the USA, with it being much worse in the southeast, I am reminded of the 1860 census map of enslaved persons. IT'S THE SAME DAMN MAP EVERY TIME, people! #uspol #poverty

@JamesGleick “Capitalism is the machine that will do whatever it takes to prevent us from turning it off, and the most successful weapon in its arsenal has been its campaign to prevent us from considering any alternatives.” In just a little while this definition will also be true for AI.

A couple of Andys kick off XOXO, 12 September 2014.

#throwbackThursday

A picture of nine empty QR codes, so you can see what the backgrounds look like. All version 4, error correction level M. No mask, then masks 1 through 8.