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* https://codeberg.org/swiso/website/issues/141 - reasons why LiberaPay and OpenCollective are unethical (but some of the reasons are kinda sus, making the whole argument a bit sus) | * https://codeberg.org/swiso/website/issues/141 - reasons why LiberaPay and OpenCollective are unethical (but some of the reasons are kinda sus, making the whole argument a bit sus) | ||
** https://freeradical.zone/@koherecoWatchdog/108001837176780212 | ** https://freeradical.zone/@koherecoWatchdog/108001837176780212 | ||
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Revision as of 13:39, 23 March 2022
January
- https://sixcolors.com/link/2022/01/microsoft-exchange-finds-a-y2k22-bug/
- https://my.tilaa.com/en/configure-vps - another virtual hosting service
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/octopuses-rolling-on-mdma-reveal-unexpected-link-to-humans - octopi, serotonin, MDMA, animal intelligence
- https://www.villagevoice.com/2021/12/27/the-strange-history-and-vibrant-players-of-the-hammond-organ/ - history of the Hammond organ
- COVID:
- https://www.shazam.com/ - song-recognizer app
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/goldfish-can-learn-to-drive-and-navigate-terrestrial-environments/ - animal intelligence «Not only were the goldfish able to cope with those changes, but they were also able to approach targets from different angles, suggesting that the animals have an internal representation of the world around them.»
- https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59859817 - centralized tech, but also durable tech
- Proof of Forestry: a currency with a smart contract to combat climate change
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-fixes-nightmare-android-bug-that-stopped-user-from-calling-911/
- https://www.inverse.com/innovation/blinking-cursor-history - history of the blinking cursor... but seems a bit cursory; ignores the existence of blinking cursors on video terminals, which I'm pretty sure were a thing by 1971 (didn't the VT52 have one? or at least the VT100?)
- https://sabre.io/ - DAV tools in PHP
- https://nextdoor.com/p/wpjyqKXX-CxG?view=detail - roundabouts (aka traffic circles) vs. traffic lights
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-7-safest-mushrooms-to-forage-and-eat - edible mushrooms that are supposedly safe for amateurs to identify
- https://obsolete29.com/posts/2022/01/07/in-further-defense-of-auto-update/ - wifi routers
- https://www.bespokesynth.com/
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/the-most-important-computer-youve-never-heard-of/ - history of military computing
- https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/01/05/1070046189/a-texas-team-comes-up-with-a-covid-vaccine-that-could-be-a-global-game-changer
- https://www.wired.com/story/energy-vault-gravity-storage/ - mechanical-gravity energy storage
- https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/107610535365298363 - a bit of clarity on MySQL vs. UTF-8
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-maya-ruins-at-uxmal-still-have-more-stories-to-tell - mesoamerican prehistoric civilization
- https://expmag.com/2022/01/star-trek-has-tractor-beams-so-do-we/
- https://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/006812.html - recipe (original?)
- https://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/006812.html#95609 - another recipe in a comment
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-13/covid-loses-most-of-infection-capacity-after-20-minutes-in-air $
- https://medium.com/@sergiointoronto/macos-is-hot-garbage-6f3909835b0f
- https://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-a-ring-of-millions-of-metal-needles-orbiting-the-Earth/answer/Vincent-Branley
- https://thewire.in/tekfog/en/3.html
- https://blog.mollywhite.net/blockchains-are-not-what-they-say/
- https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=2022-01-09-0
- https://www.thedrive.com/news/43223/cincinnatis-unused-subway-system-is-a-century-old-dream-that-wont-die - abandoned subway tunnels
- https://singularityhub.com/2017/07/09/this-mini-wind-turbine-can-power-your-home-in-a-gentle-breeze/ - wind turbine for home use. Still $5k for a whole system, but that's cheaper than a lot of solar panel layouts.
- https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32757505913.html - individual turbines are bout $600 -- much more affordable on an incremental basis.
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/larping-your-job - self-evaluating productivity in information work
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcWVL4B-4pI - "Blinded by the Light" performed live on Midnight Special, confirming that it's probably just a Fender-Rhodes
- https://www.firstpost.com/health/france-detects-new-covid-19-variant-ihu-more-infectious-than-omicron-all-we-know-about-it-10256521.html
- https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-11th-and-12th-gen-chips-cant-play-4k-blu-rays/
- https://www.eatgoodbowls.com/mission - frozen foods made from NC-sourced ingredients -- but are they a co-op?
- https://www.openriskmanual.org/wiki/Main_Page
- https://vcvrack.com/Rack#explore - quasi-open-source synth
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-effective-dose-of-work-you-need-to-feel-fulfilled-is-surprisingly-low
- https://xmmc.de/touchdaw/drivers.htm - MIDI musical Android tablet thing
- useful Linux MIDI commands:
- amidi -l
- aplaymidi -l
- aconnect -lio
- https://www.wired.com/story/22-year-old-builds-chips-parents-garage/ - DIY ICs
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/
- https://mastodon.technology/@IzzyOnDroid/107671566267170704 - Android is now protecting us from our own data so that we have to rely on Google for proper backups
- https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity - Tenacity is a fork of Audacity
- https://philosophy.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/We%20Can%20Remember%20It%20for%20You%20Wholesale%20-%20Philip%20K.%20Dick.pdf - We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (complete text) by Philip K. Dick
- https://thewalrus.ca/when-my-wife-developed-alzheimers-the-story-of-our-marriage-kept-us-connected/
- Textpattern (Wikipedia (Textpattern)):
- https://us.creative.com/p/headphones-headsets/aurvana-se - recommended headphones, or maybe they were just the ones in my price-range i.e. cheapest
- https://docs.tildes.net/ - open-source social forum, seems to be written in Python
- https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-be-a-good-friend-to-an-autistic-person - acknowledges that autism is pathologized; long article, have only read part
- https://wandering.shop/@Nezchan/107678990597593029 - electric car "emissions" if you take mining/manufacturing into account
- https://boilingsteam.com/i-love-arch-but-gnu-guix-is-my-new-distro/ - Guix
- https://psychsafety.co.uk/about-psychological-safety/
- https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-omicron-upended-what-we-thought-we-knew-about-natural-immunity/
- 2021, APA PsycNet: Overly shallow?: Miscalibrated expectations create a barrier to deeper conversation.
- 2022-01-13 The Conversation: When Meeting Someone New, Try Skirting the Small Talk and Digging a Little Deeper (by the paper authors)
- https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:About - don't forget that this exists
- https://post.lurk.org/@pixouls/107707390539322794 "Books I settled on for my solar lab research:"
February
- https://news.mit.edu/2022/polymer-lightweight-material-2d-0202 «MIT chemical engineers have created a new material that is stronger than steel and as light as plastic, and can be easily manufactured in large quantities.»
- https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book - open hardware/software e-book reader
- https://www.askamanager.org/2022/01/the-new-hire-who-showed-up-is-not-the-same-person-we-interviewed.html
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/we-are-the-world-inside-pop-music-s-most-famous-all-nighter -- "We Are the World"
- https://www.circle.com/en/ - operates USD Coin (USDC), also provides merchant payments service
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228784151_Russell_L_Ackoff_iconoclastic_management_authority_advocates_a_systemic_approach_to_innovation
- https://comradery.co/ - Comradery: Patreon alternative, but still in beta
- https://www.npr.org/2022/02/06/1072406109/digital-dollar-federal-reserve-apple-pay-venmo-cbdc «With a digital dollar, you could in theory eliminate those middlemen.» -- well actually, you just switch from centralized middlemen to decentralized.
- https://miraheze.org/ - non-profit MediaWiki farm
- https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Help:Database_download - how to download an entire wiki at Fandom
- Possible social-networking packages:
- Elgg: site Wikipedia (Elgg (software))
- Known: site
- HumHub: site, about (Wikipedia (HumHub))
- Tiki Wiki: site, software overview and model (Wikipedia (Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware))
- Development portal
- git repository (they are apparently retiring Sourceforge/SVN)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR9d4ESlpHY - "My Pal Foot Foot": possibly the most messed-up song ever
- https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/02/07/1057245449/the-future-of-the-pandemic-is-looking-clearer-as-we-learn-more-about-infection
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/02/11/hey-apple-could-you-be-a-little-more-predatory-on-your-customers/ - Apple customer lock-in
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/micromanipulation-the-covert-tactic-that-narcissists-use-in-arguments-to-reassert-control - narcissism, micromanipulation
- https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-software-defined-cpu-support-coming-to-linux-518 - are the features already present and just disabled, or is this like a firmware upgrade? The latter seems more reasonable, somehow.
- https://thehill.com/changing-america/video/555961-how-detroit-residents-are-building-their-own-internet - US/MI/Detroit
- https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/energy/593700-first-neighborhood-scale-microgrid-in-us-to-go-online
- https://www.themarysue.com/moviepass-is-back-to-track-your-eyeballs/
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/so-nice-they-killed-it-twice-googles-business-pivot-is-dead/ - Google+ re-killed
- https://www.theverge.com/22923871/carvana-pandemic-used-car-prices-sold-online-chip-shortage - Carvana's buying algorithm
- https://joinfediverse.wiki/Main_Page - fediverse
- https://nitter.pussthecat.org/seanhecht/status/1493432613628825600 - compassion for algorithmically-trapped delivery robots
- https://medium.com/@laurajavier/google-slides-is-actually-hilarious-83c1ced857ee - Google Slides
- https://github.com/blackle/mastodon-data-viewer.py - Mastodon export-data viewer
- https://delphi.cmu.edu/covidcast/ - ongoing COVID stats for the US
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-most-dangerous-film-in-the-world - Chernobyl
- Quiet BPD
- https://archive.ph/4TYdA - "Embracing habit in an automated world"
- https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220220-valencias-la-huerta-spains-ingenious-water-maze - fairer crop irrigation, looks like
- https://www.reddit.com/r/craftsnark/comments/t18fxc/i_listened_to_the_knittingcom_guys_entire_podcast/ - knitting.com
March
- https://blog.bandcamp.com/2022/03/02/bandcamp-is-joining-epic/ - Bandcamp joins Epic Games
- https://mastodon.technology/@fifonetworks/107888099834575827 - The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/telegram-harm-reduction-users-russia-and-ukraine
- https://nextcloud.com/blog/rocket-chat-nextcloud-integration/
- https://newatlas.com/medical/drug-factory-beads-tumors-cancer-week/
- https://brave.com/static-assets/files/goggles.pdf «This paper proposes an open and collaborative system by which a community, or a single user, can create sets of rules and filters, called Goggles, to define the space which a search engine can pull results from. Instead of a single ranking algorithm, we could have as many as needed, overcoming the biases that a single actor (the search engine) embeds into the results.»
- https://www.quora.com/Were-old-jetliners-in-the-60s-flying-faster-than-today-Was-it-due-to-the-use-of-turbojet-engines-or-turbofan-with-lower-bypass-ratio
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-king-who-ordered-a-quarantine-to-flatten-the-curve-4-000-years-ago - history: quarantines, pandemics
- https://gitlab.com/rysiekpl/libresilient
- https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/03/linux-has-been-bitten-by-its-most-high-severity-vulnerability-in-years/
- https://www.afar.com/magazine/electric-planes-are-coming-sooner-than-you-think
- Shopify employment:
- https://www.popsci.com/science/nasa-artemis-inspector-general/ - NASA's moon program is not actually late, if you look at realistic projections; 2024 was a political goal
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/should-you-drink-cold-or-warm-water-the-benefits-of-drinking-8-glasses-of-water-a-day - about those 8 glasses of water...
- https://liberaforms.org/en
- https://social.growyourown.services/@homegrown/107803556253513969 - where's the main directory?
- https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/03/inside-the-succession-drama-at-scholastic
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/a-brief-tour-of-the-pdp-11-the-most-influential-minicomputer-of-all-time/
- https://ymcinema.com/2022/03/17/vimeo-we-are-a-b2b-solution-not-the-indie-version-of-youtube/
- TLD/.io:
- https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/cool-streets-cool-air/
- https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/03/behold-a-password-phishing-site-that-can-trick-even-savvy-users/
- Drugs & Wires
- https://codeberg.org/swiso/website/issues/141 - reasons why LiberaPay and OpenCollective are unethical (but some of the reasons are kinda sus, making the whole argument a bit sus)
- https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/james-webb-telescope-first-images/
