Back in 2022, I covered the story of Tim Horton's settliing claims regarding nefarious tracking coming from its mobile app. While the story is old, I think that my advice for people to consider whether they really NEED a donut app is evergreen.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/leaf/tim-hortons-settles-claims-related-to-creepy-app/
#TimHorton's #App #Privacy #Tracking
Sometimes I write long essays. Other times I post a photo of a Dead End sign in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and write ahsort post about the location. This photo is back from when I was using my BlackBerry Classic as my phone camera.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-dead-end-sign-in-red-hook-brooklyn/
#StreetSign #NYC #Brooklyn #RedHook #BlackBerry #Photography
Many "alternative" search tools such as DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Qwant, and Swisscows rely either fully or in part on Bing's search index. I explored some of the downstream effects of the Bing dependencies in a 2022 article (and experienced them first-hand when my site was de-indexed by Bing for much of 2023).
https://thenewleafjournal.com/importance-of-bing-indexing-for-alt-search/
#Bing #DuckDuckGo #Qwant #Ecosia #SearchEngine #AlternativeSearch #Privacy
You can fish in New York City's East River from the waterfront Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook. However, a sign warns that while one can fish, certain people should refrain from eating East River fish and eels.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/dangers-of-eating-red-hook-fish-and-eels/
#Brooklyn #NYC #RedHook #Fishing #EastRiver
Last year, I wrote a dialogue expressing concern through my characters about New York City residents buying Christmas trees in November. I have seen more of the same in 2023. How do these people think this will look by Christmas?
https://thenewleafjournal.com/on-buying-christmas-trees-in-november/
#christmas #ChristmasTree
For the initiated: A gentle introduction to RSS and similar feed formats such as ATOM and JSON.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/an-introduction-to-rss-and-other-feed-formats/
#rss #atom #feeds #jsonfeed #feedreaders
Sometimes I engage in journalism. This 2020 piece on a pigeon standing in and drinking from a Brooklyn Heights rain puddle stands as one of the best examples.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-pigeon-in-the-puddle/
#Photography #Pigeon #Puddle #Bird #NYC #BrooklynHeights #Rain
My review of FrogFind, a DuckDuckGo-powered minimaliist search front-end designed for use on vintage computers and otherwise under-powered hardware.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/frogfind-vintage-computer-search-review/
#FronFind #search #searchengine #DuckDuckGo #VintageComputers
On the time an unsuspecting, seasoned, but not Twitter-savvy Israeli journalist asked his followers to confirm the rumor he was seeing that he had been re-tweeted by the President of the United States.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/technological-imbecile-retweeted-by-president/
#twitter #retweet #trump
A humorous a dialogue on the dangers of being a hero.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/justin-justina-the-dangers-of-heroism/
#dialogue #heroism #humor #armadillo #pedestrians
My 2021 review of /e/ OS on a Murena Teracube 2e. While the review may be slightly outdated (as is the Murena Teracube 2e), the general idea should be applicable since /e/ OS has not (to my understanding from using my Teracube 2e as a Syncthing node these days) changed too much other than some small and welcome improvements.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/review-of-e-an-android-alternative-for-mobile-phones/
#eos #murena #teracube2e #phone #aosp
My 2020 article on a distinctly Middle East put-down rising from the simmering tension between Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/camels-ticks-and-inter-middle-east-put-downs/
#MiddleEast #SaudiArabia #Qatar #Camels #Ticks
I think I saw an albino sparrow in Brooklyn Heights on one occasion. Unfortunately, as I explained in a short August 2020 piece, I could not ready my phone (at that time a BlackBerry Classic) in time to capture photographic evidence.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-maybe-albino-sparrow-in-the-heights/
#bird #birds #sparrow #nyc #BrooklynHeights
Recounting a January 1918 account by American soldier Carleton Burr about what it was like being placed under "double quarantine" after coming down with measels while serving in France.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/veterans-day-and-world-war-i-double-quarantines/
#worldwar1 #ww1 #greatwar #veteransday #armisticeday #quarantine
My history of a late nineteenth century (four-legged) American celebrity: Owney the Mail-Dog.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/a-contemporaneous-account-of-owney-the-mail-dog/
#history #ushistory #dogs #usps #mail
I posted my recent photo of a happy Halloween ghost scarecrow seen in Brooklyn Heights to Pixelfed Social. The post links to my short New Leaf Journal article on the photo, which in turn links to a number of my earlier Halloween decoration photo posts.
https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/627926942328104814
#halloween #ghost #scarecrow #myphoto #blogging #nyc #brooklynheights
I take a look at two letters by a pre-President Abraham Lincoln to his step-brother, John D. Johnston. In the letters, the first of which was penned on November 4, 1851, Lincoln insisted that Judd work before asking for money. Alas, as history would have it, Johnston did not follow Lincoln's well-reasoned advice.
https://thenewleafjournal.com/abraham-lincolns-1851-letters-on-work-to-john-d-johnston/
#AbrahamLincoln #history #ushistory #work #letters
I wrote a piece analyzing a 1966 U.S. immigration precedent decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals, Matter of Salama, 11 I&N Dec. 536 (BIA 1966). The Board held that a Jewish man from Egypt was entitled to relief in the form of former withholding of deportation on account of the likelihood that he would be persecuted in Egypt on account of his religion. The short decision, which was short on analysis, remains precedential today. I work through the decision and the few times it has been cited to in other precedential decisions.
#law #immigration #bia #usimmigration #egypt
Syncthing-Fork (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingandroid/) is the first thing I install on phones and tablets.