User:Woozle/linkdump/2019

January

• https://www.waveapps.com/ - alternative to PayPal
• https://sandstorm.io/how-it-works#semantic - apparently there is good integration between apps
• https://www.passport.service.gov.uk/overseas/information/usa/first/adult/canada -- applying for UK passport from overseas
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/every-successful-relationship-is-successful-for-the-same-exact-reasons
• https://www.thecut.com/2019/01/marie-kondos-tidying-up-shows-how-bad-we-are-with-money.html - I am skeptical

February

• https://thedailywtf.com/articles/classic-wtf-flawless-compilation - "but it compiles!": how even a "programmer" can totally not understand what they're doing
• https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/how-anna-delvey-tricked-new-york.html - abusive behavior and wealth
• https://www.thecut.com/2019/01/how-can-i-control-my-spending-and-save-money-in-2019.html - compulsive spending
• https://www.networkworld.com/article/3337516/linux/the-linux-command-line-cheat-sheet.html
• https://www.bbc.com/news/disability-47064773 - online socializing vs. normal people
• https://www.heraldsun.com/news/local/article226226240.html - Sage & Swift / Watts Grocery filing for bankruptcy
  • http://archive.fo/XfM1r
• https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/2/6/18214046/flickr-free-storage-ends-digital-photo-archive-history
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v129rsjYGeI - a guy speaks/raps eloquently about how body-image affects female people
• autistic/disbled blogger Amanda Baggs https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/about-2/
• https://www.pluralpride.com/playbook
• https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9195133?hl=en&authuser=0 - Google+ going away 2019-04-02
• https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612974/once-hailed-as-unhackable-blockchains-are-now-getting-hacked/
• https://www.wirefly.com/content/phone-plans -- place to search for cellphone plans
• https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1100254079089930240 - ADHD
  • my cargo train metaphor -- it takes a long time for the train to get up to speed. Once it gets up to speed, it can go anywhere -- but every interruption means starting over from a dead stop, and that takes more fuel, and sometimes I just run out before getting anywhere at all.

March

• https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/style/modern-love-talking-to-my-fiance-about-my-new-girlfriend.html - polyamory, marriage
• https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cable-tech-dick-cheney-sex-dungeon_us_5c0ea571e4b06484c9fd4c21
• https://medium.com/@wilw/my-name-is-wil-wheaton-i-live-with-chronic-depression-and-generalized-anxiety-i-am-not-ashamed-8f693f9c0af1
• https://www.theautisticadvocate.com/2018/05/an-autistic-burnout.html
• https://www.non-compete.com/its-time-to-leave-facebook-for-mastodon/
• https://themighty.com/2017/07/childhood-emotional-abuse-adult/?fbclid=IwAR3zzU1S-PkK_x6LMJOueqIUR_SXVTYWAhfQK3YPd_0IZ5tzh3Uhx200GSE
• https://ktn.fyi/blog/posts/20190208-mastodon-is-not-just-a-server
• http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Flawless-Compilation (in case I hadn't already stashed this): some people who supposedly are qualified at coding totally don't understand what they're doing
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/love-after-life-nobel-winning-physicist-richard-feynman-s-extraordinary-letter-to-his-departed-wife - grief, and how love doesn't die when the beloved does
• https://medium.com/@markweinstein/google-plus-users-find-a-new-digital-home-at-mewe-d05f8365e574
• https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted - list of self-hosted FOSS software packages
• Taiga (project management)
  • https://taiga.io/
  • http://taigaio.github.io/taiga-doc/dist/setup-production.html#_introduction
• https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/14/iridium-aireon-satellites-gave-faa-key-data-in-737-max-investigation.html
• https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/13/685533353/a-playful-way-to-teach-kids-to-control-their-anger
• for mapping mouse buttons:
  • xinput
    • xinput get-button-map [device]
    • xinput set-button-map [device] [list of all button targets, in order]
    • xev
      • see help text to filter for button events only
    • buttons 1 and 3 are usually L/R; use xev (button events only) to see what other buttons map to
• https://www.visible.com/plan - unlimited data, hotspot enabled, Verizon network, $40/month
• https://www.ofa.us/ - Obama-sponsored activism org
• http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1944.html - explains wave-particle duality but I am skeptical of the claim that "It was essentially impossible to explain the photoelectric effect any other way - in particular, if light was a wave it wouldn't work that way."
• Report of Fertility in a Woman with a Predominantly 46,XY Karyotype in a Family with Multiple Disorders of Sexual Development
• https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/a-little-poly-story-by-danielle-corsetto/ -- polyamory
• https://gizmodo.com/when-google-fiber-abandons-your-city-as-a-failed-experi-1833244198
  • https://pluspora.com/posts/942360
• https://prismaticspeech.com/telepractice/ - trans voice training in Greensboro, with remote option