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
• https://www.quora.com/What-are-narcissists-weaknesses#ans93408337 - narcissism
• https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/upshot/women-with-male-twins-are-more-likely-to-face-penalties-at-school-and-work.html
• https://youme.social/home?group=0 - like MeWe? Can't tell if it's proprietary or an instance of some open-source package
• https://hub.toot.cat/display/b64.ZGYxODFlYTAyY2FiMDEzNzAzN2EwMDUwNTYyNjQ4MzU -- CSS for multicolumn streams in numerous social platforms
• https://artsandculture.google.com/theme/eAJS4WcKh7UBIQ - history of the WWW
• https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep#installation - improved grep
• https://i.imgur.com/csi4PcD.mp4 - animation: US population density by county by year
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6848127/Estrogen-therapy-boosts-transgender-womens-brains.html
• https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/health/woman-pain-anxiety.html
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-sea-was-never-blue
• https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/28/rare-condition-makes-woman-grow-huge-beard-get-mistaken-man-8951414/ - another example of biological gender diversity
• https://medium.com/@devonprice/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e312d01

April

• https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/5/18287318/youtube-logan-paul-pewdiepie-demonetization-adpocalypse-premium-influencers-creators
• http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190401-why-theres-so-little-left-of-the-early-internet - a bit of AOL history is mentioned
• https://twitter.com/samdylanfinch/status/1112075410697674752 - people-pleasers and abuse
• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/google-is-back-meet-the-enterprise-focused-google-currents/
• https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/03/18/gaugan-photorealistic-landscapes-nvidia-research/
  • https://pluspora.com/posts/1077660
• OpenBook (manifesto) - open source
  • https://pluspora.com/posts/12e146a03c8001377c3b005056264835
• https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2013/12/high-speed-trains-are-killing-the-european-railway-network.html
• https://dayssincelastfacebookscandal.com/
• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/23/greta-thunberg-autism - intersection between autism, activism, and rationalism
• https://www.bryanlarsen.com/gallery/ - includes a lot of optimistic-SF-themed work