User:Woozle/linkdump/2020

January

• https://www.overleaf.com/ - proprietary (but highly-recommended) WYSIWYM LaTeX editor web service (free for single user)
• https://www.reddit.com/r/bullcity/comments/ejxh2i/old_wimpys_grill_in_durham_is_reopening_with_a/
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-doomed-mouse-utopia-that-inspired-the-rats-of-nimh
• Why can't I remember the name of the Dunning-Kruger effect half the time??
• https://www.3dbuzz.com/ - lots of free video courses for download (paid site has shut down), don't know how long they'll be available
• https://github.com/synesthesiam/rhasspy "an offline, multilingual voice assistant toolkit inspired by Jasper that works well with Home Assistant, Hass.io, and Node-RED."
  • https://hackers.town/@drwho/103438566197854182
• https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted - self-hosted software - list of what's available in many categories
• https://www.quora.com/I-was-at-McDonald-s-and-I-noticed-that-customers-were-choosing-to-wait-in-line-to-order-with-the-cashier-instead-of-using-the-available-kiosks-Why-do-you-think-that-is - bad retail-automation design
• https://means.tv/
  • https://toot.cat/@woozle/103455740711404993
• https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50841104 - hydrogen power for transportation
• https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51014148 - Greenland
• http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ -- online SF/F mag
• https://www.popsbackdoorsouth.com/
• https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/zipcar-into-the-wilderness/597217/
• https://social.bau-ha.us/@aurora/103467073698637618 - deleted eastern bloc TLDs
• http://www.whatisemerging.com/
• https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle
  • YouTube alternatives:
    • https://about.d.tube/
    • https://bittubers.com/
• Durham intentional community:
  • https://www.durhamcoho.com/
  • https://www.bullcitycommons.com/faq
  • http://www.solterra.net/
  • https://www.bruderhof.com/en/where-we-are/united-states/durham - religious
• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/01/linus-torvalds-zfs-statements-arent-right-heres-the-straight-dope/
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/is-lab-grown-meat-really-meat - cultured meat
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-america-s-new-apartment-buildings-all-look-the-same - five-over-one construction
• https://icosahedron.website/@bstacey/103495577870332223 - ethics of data-scraping and Mastodon/federation
  • https://likeable.space/notice/9qwGoknsLbUGV0M5lQ
  • https://medium.com/@maloki/on-scraping-mastodon-dffd83139bc1
    • https://elekk.xyz/@maloki/103556619704616134
• https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615059/these-living-bricks-use-bacteria-to-build-themselves/
• https://venmo.com/about/product/ - like PayPal but maybe less evil? Nope, it's owned by them.
• https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51014028 - active recruitment of neurodiverse individuals
• https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/12/10/emily-dickinson-love-letters-susan-gilbert/ (via) - another true love example
  • https://toot.cat/@woozle/103510672341620910
• Pixelfed
  • https://social.tchncs.de/@jookia/103322629792648647 "So in conclusion: Don't use Pixelfed, the main developer refuses to investigate or fix bugs and will close and lock issues without explanation."
• https://hackaday.com/2020/01/19/trs-80-clone-uses-modern-parts/ - TRS-80
• https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/frontier-an-isp-in-29-states-plans-to-file-for-bankruptcy/
  • https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/01/20/2129246/frontier-an-isp-in-29-states-plans-to-file-for-bankruptcy
• https://mydeveloperplanet.com/2018/10/31/git-lfs-why-and-how-to-use/ - Git LFS
• https://store.pine64.org/
  • https://www.pine64.org/gettings-started/
• https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/design-and-ux/responsive
• https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/access-intimacy-the-missing-link/
• https://www.wired.com/story/behind-the-scenes-rotten-tomatoes/ - might offer some thoughts on crowdsourcing of value-judgement
• https://sentient-lang.org/library/array - AI language for solving math/logic problems
• https://www.imperial.co.uk/about-us/# - company that handles parking tickets in some areas of UK, as well as school truancy fees
  • https://www.apollo.io/companies/Imperial-Civil-Enforcement-Solutions-Limited/54a1357d69702d36c9eed900%3F__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=98444309c62f7c23033f4dc2ac4894ce63b6c0c6-1580140428-0-AY07pLPOris5xmIBYwTHJbFE-wUxM5T2ohUFo8pcZYrbnTYxgXbb0UeuPqVOGbAunj8ax3beU3jax0BdR5ovgFMhUh8xJ5NrLBCM-EdWCzbkruHaKyQRvUiyqtk0dqqgQrNAXq_xR3W8vdlQQdZ1RR8zU7dNAA5eMzvKj15-_kyJ2smCCx9KrswUi5mJKLdkvvnJMMwL6C1fy3oe6x7dg16gHWEupz_t18CTfIMRZXN8MhAV6OaRdtxxcsH601k3wEQCeMnzSSnrVvr4KJYviLGrrqrjpc303Lk6wdaSZLBOLUgQ-bdm3bW-1hqdtMCJQLi0HSfjtUHcEC51nwvmxKQQBvvL6w_5L616a2QGiVS8WlaoL8gjtU0LIIsdX9gMlni3NT9NpN3vnFai3mMjMC9mIxC-94oXhsTIryLLdh6e?chart=count
  • https://www.localgov.co.uk/Imperial-Civil-Enforcement-Solutions-Limited/48663
    • https://www.volarisgroup.com/
• https://geo.coop/articles/why-we-dont-need-cooperative-uber
  • https://social.coop/@GuerillaOntologist/103556482804631461
• http://www.openculture.com/2011/12/neil_degrasse_tyson_8_books_every_intelligent_person_should_read.html - free ebooks
  • https://tooot.im/@OpenCulture/103557524021667264
• https://askubuntu.com/questions/789465/generate-white-noise-to-calm-a-baby - SoX formula
  • https://social.diskseven.com/@Jo/103558465554225461
• https://www.madinamerica.com/2020/01/transgender-children-development-consistent-current-gender-not-sex-assigned-birth/ "These findings, therefore, provide preliminary evidence that neither sex assignment at birth nor direct or indirect sex-specific socialization and expectations (e.g., rewarding masculine things and punishing feminine ones for assigned males) in alignment with early assignment necessarily define how a child later identifies or expresses their gender," the authors write.
  • https://girlcock.club/@maeve/103563686078039695
• https://twitter.com/jxxf/status/1219009308438024200 - earliest known y2038 problem incident, in 2018; also, how complex financial calculations are done
• https://www.netmeister.org/blog/ops-lessons.html
• https://floss.social/@Valenoern/103566381531722185 - the secret knowledge of making .deb files
• https://reclaimthenet.org/nextcloud-hub/
• https://turn-me-into-a-girl.com/ - self-affirmation tools for egg trans girls
• https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/30/linux_5_6_2038/ - Y2038
• http://www.drellenlittman.com/pb/wp_b4f2c210/wp_b4f2c210.html - ADHD articles

February

• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0925492716301561 - ADHD and trauma/PTSD
• https://gizmodo.com/do-you-think-in-words-1841390135
  • https://ryanandrewlangdon.wordpress.com/2020/01/28/today-i-learned-that-not-everyone-has-an-internal-monologue-and-it-has-ruined-my-day/ - inner monologue
• https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Main_Page - the Plexodus Wiki (G+ migration wiki)
• https://aeon.co/essays/simone-de-beauvoirs-authentic-love-is-a-project-of-equals - philosophy of love; also cultural sexism in the 20th century
• https://www.opensource-socialnetwork.org/
  • written in PHP
  • downside: asks for gender, offers only binary options
• https://www.gq.com/story/greenland-food-in-face-of-climate-change - Greenland
• https://phys.org/news/2013-09-scientists-never-before-seen.html - photonic molecule
• https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/f0orf3/considering_the_absolute_state_of_this_app_right/ - Discord app going downhill
• https://twitter.com/commaficionado/status/1225138645839073286?s=19 - "Autism and the eternal feeling that you're letting everyone down": a thread
• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explain-why-planes-stay-in-the-air/
• http://adhd-alien.com/ - cartoons about ADHD
• https://blog.revolut.com/swift-sepa-how-international-money-transfers-actually-work/
• https://developer.squareup.com/reference/square/catalog-api - Square/API
• https://opensource.com/article/20/2/why-developers-code-night - focus-work and interruptions
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/top-10-myths-about-bedbugs
• https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/29608/why-is-it-better-to-use-usr-bin-env-name-instead-of-path-to-name-as-my - shebang usage and env
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyTqo4mCUUY - how to build a wood gasifier to fuel a generator (presumably propane)
• https://www.armakuni.com/ak-thinking/2020/1/27/how-to-spend-1000-in-2-days-using-aws-lambda
  • https://mastodon.technology/@PurpleBooth/103658908026960728
• https://ethicalsource.dev/licenses/ -- a collection of source-code licenses requiring ethical use
• https://social.sunshinegardens.org/objects/b70551bc-72d4-4235-b17f-bb8e5e6a8977 - video about NDN
  • https://toot.cat/@eryn/103664822068484534
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KyL1-0A0Gw - $50 DIY water turbine
• https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-lost-notebook/
• https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/18/ada-lovelace-note-g.html
  • https://torrentfreak.com/dont-use-the-word-did-or-a-dumb-anti-piracy-company-will-delete-you-from-google-200216/ - this article apparently matches some takedown-bot's algorithm for infringement
• https://bittersoutherner.com/southern-perspective/2020/charles-bess-greensboro-woolworth-sit-ins-civil-rights - history, civil rights, US/NC/Greensboro
• https://www.npr.org/2020/02/10/803011944/preparing-for-the-end-of-the-world-on-a-budget
• https://twitter.com/saraislet/status/1229562901347762177 - public key infrastructure (PKI)
• https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a-solar-powered-website.html - site is actually solar-powered and sometimes goes down, so archive.org
  • https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-lowtech-website.html (archive.org)
• https://blocktogether.org/ - another crowdsourced blocklist like Shinigami
  • https://blocktogether.org/show-blocks/rBV_y88jgNURvZ0e89pDIluMxVrNrMRQqE_tkiEl
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-talented-people-don-t-use-their-strengths - seems accurate
• https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/cd-vinyl-distribution-crisis-950327/
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-underground-inferno-that-created-a-ghost-town - US/PA/Centralia, coal fire, mandatory evacuation
• https://www.unix.com/man-page/Linux/1/mmv/ - mmv: recursive mv, kinda
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/anna-dostoyevskaya-on-the-secret-to-a-happy-marriage - Anna Dostoyevskaya: love, partnership, happiness
• https://mastodon.xyz/@douginamug/103704710344914802 - looking for an open-source quadratic voting app
• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/02/gopher-when-adversarial-interoperability-burrowed-under-gatekeepers-fortresses
  • https://octodon.social/@kensanata/103704243528687820
• https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/17/james-taylor-i-was-a-bad-influence-on-the-beatles-lennon-love-and-a-life-in-song -- James Taylor, addiction, parenting
• https://www.wired.co.uk/article/airbnb-scam-london - Airbnb
• https://vaneyckt.io/posts/safer_bash_scripts_with_set_euxo_pipefail/ - bash
• https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/digital-government/open-source-software/guide-for-publishing-open-source-code.html - open source licenses and Canada
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest
• File:Emmengards Suicide Scale.jpg
• https://wheretofind.me/
• That other way of doing databases in PHP: PDO
  • https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.pdostatement.php
  • https://www.php.net/manual/en/pdo.connections.php
• Nextcloud stuff:
  • https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/#what_is_code
  • https://opensource.com/article/19/5/mobile-apps-nextcloud
• https://worxprinting.coop/ - union print shop - t-shirts etc.
• https://morethanone.info/ - plurality
• http://www.openculture.com/?p=1050885 - Feynman lectures on physics now available online (free)
  • https://tooot.im/@OpenCulture/103734864458763469
• https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615226/were-not-prepared-for-the-end-of-moores-law/ - Moore's law
• https://opencollective.com/create - fundraising site (somewhat like Patreon), not sure what the ups & downs are except that their login system is annoying
• https://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au/
• https://jshint.com/ - JavaScript code-quality checker tool
• https://www.elle.com/culture/music/a29683686/lady-gaga-haus-laboratories-elle-interview/ - Lady Gaga, mental health, kindness punk
• Fiat Fiendum should have a page here, since we don't seem to have a web site anymore
  • https://www.muckrock.com/organization/fiat-fiendum/
  • https://www.patreon.com/fiatfiendum
  • https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.profile&ein=611686259
  • https://medium.com/through-the-courts/robert-mueller-report-the-department-of-justice-broke-law-in-reply-to-freedom-of-information-act-bc5c9b477239 - cites Sai (but misgenders them) and Fiat Fiendum

March

• https://www.facebook.com/430719097107277/posts/1392387474273763/ - Jillian Johnson's FB page
• https://wrongplanet.net/forums/ - autism/neurodiversity forum
• https://it-kollektiv.com/wrong-signal-das-falsche-signal-engl/ - problems with Signal
  • https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/103756019261890808
• https://ianring.com/musictheory/scales/finder.php (via)
• https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge - provides an RSS feed for sites missing one; written in PHP
• https://www.polygon.com/comics/2020/3/6/21166717/noelle-stevenson-fire-never-goes-out-book-review-nimona-lumberjanes-comics-memoir-she-ra - Noelle Stevenson
• mail server things to avoid having outgoing messages spammed: SPF, DKIM, ARC (openarc)
• https://thunderboltsortofapenny.tumblr.com/post/190543643374/god-i-found-another-article-about-why-adhd-kids - ADHD, alexithymia
• https://www.quora.com/How-does-being-very-strict-on-your-children-affect-them/answer/Mark-Mostow - anecdote: effects of disciplinarian/authoritarian parenting
• https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/mar/05/invisible-city-how-homeless-man-built-life-underground-bunker-hampstead-heath - homelessness in UK
• https://www.reddit.com/r/DrWillPowers/comments/fcxboa/the_story_of_how_i_screwed_up_a_dose_calculation/ - cis dude doctor experiences dysphoria
  • https://cybre.space/@astraluma/103794630616589641
  • https://archive.ph/T2SNX - some analysis and critical appraisal of Powers's work
• https://weirder.earth/@raye/103794913046260636 - how to distinguish Coronavirus from other ailments with similar symptoms
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/let-s-colonize-titan
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/gentle-parenting-explainer-no-rewards-no-punishments-no-misbehaving-kids - parenting
• NPC International: LinkedIn corporate site employment site
• Radiohead
  • http://www.openculture.com/?p=1073432 → http://www.openculture.com/2020/01/the-radiohead-public-library.html
    • https://twitter.com/openculture/status/1220018690109739014
    • https://tooot.im/@OpenCulture/103527954163482292
• Discord alternative: Euphony protocol
  • https://github.com/knuxify/euphony-project
    • https://nulled.red/@knuxify/103402898925523119
• https://hbr.org/2018/07/5-mistakes-companies-make-about-growth-mindsets - growth mindset
• https://hbr.org/2020/03/stop-feeling-guilty-about-your-to-do-list
• https://www.reddit.com/r/ipv6/
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-problem-with-hey-guys
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/growing-up-with-steve-miller - Steve Miller
• https://alexgaynor.net/2020/feb/18/scaling-software-development/
• https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/why-victims-abuse-become-abusers
  • https://social.wxcafe.net/@amphetamine/103828032929788266 - also part of the amygdala hijack thread
• https://www.programmableweb.com/category/grocery/api
• https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/23/fiona-apples-art-of-radical-sensitivity Fiona Apple
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-four-things-that-make-practically-everyone-feel-loved-according-to-a-new-survey
• Informix Wingz -- superior product with inferior marketing; possibly something like Wikcess?
• https://markfgriffin.com/2015/02/need-help-identifying-song/ - song identification, Discogs
• https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox - for bypassing paywalls
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/details - potentially useful tag HTML/details
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/rebecca-solnit-on-hope-in-dark-times-resisting-the-defeatism-of-easy-despair-and-what-victory-really
• http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
• https://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/ - Markdown library for PHP
• https://9thstreetjournal.org/
• http://www.openculture.com/2020/03/linked-jazz.html
  • https://tooot.im/@OpenCulture/10386879590378832
• https://www.sparkleshare.org/ - self-hosted (serverless?) file-sharing
• https://getsession.org/ - appears to be a fork of Signal but without the phone number requirement
• https://libcom.org/
• https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/mar/17/real-estate-for-the-apocalypse-my-journey-into-a-survival-bunker
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/entertainment/sinead-oconnor-still-in-one-piece/ -- Sinead O'Connor
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-being-bullied-affects-your-adulthood
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-inner-voice - thinking in words
• https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/23/820274501/her-incredible-sense-of-smell-is-helping-scientists-find-new-ways-to-diagnose-di
• https://www.fastcompany.com/90479846/the-untold-origin-story-of-the-n95-mask
• https://monsterpit.net/@Brainship/103902068135322938 - about Autism Speaks
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-doomed-mouse-utopia-that-inspired-the-rats-of-nimh - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH inspiration
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-most-common-type-of-incompetent-leader - experienced this at Pierce
• https://www.whatismystic.com/ - solar-powered distillery now producing hand sanitizer
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/bullcity/comments/fr4gde/sanitizer_available_at_mystic/
• https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/06/arts/this-is-fine-meme-dog-fire.html - the this is fine meme

April

• https://cybre.space/@vantablack/103796094845930042 - visual guide to Nine Inch Nails
• Some of my anxious/depressed patients are feeling unexpectedly better than before (reacting to covid-19)
• https://www.cnn.com/style/article/lawns-american-yard-us/index.html - lawn alternatives
• https://grocy.info/ - home grocery tracker thingy
• https://tidbits.com/2020/04/03/every-zoom-security-and-privacy-flaw-so-far-and-what-you-can-do-to-protect-yourself/ - Zoom security holes, many of which have been fixed
  • https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/04/zoom-china-mistake
• OpenELEC - open source entertainment center. There's also a fork for the Raspberry Pi, LibreELEC
• https://aeon.co/essays/marriage-is-dead-long-live-marriage-how-will-we-couple-up
• https://marker.medium.com/what-everyones-getting-wrong-about-the-toilet-paper-shortage-c812e1358fe0 - pretty much not hoarding; supply chain logistics, particularly production for commercial use vs. home use
  • https://getpocket.com/explore/item/there-s-plenty-of-toilet-paper-so-why-are-people-hoarding-it -- but apparently a lot of people still think it's hoarding
• https://www.propublica.org/article/what-we-need-to-understand-about-asymptomatic-carriers-if-were-going-to-beat-coronavirus - COVID-19 technical info
• https://actionnetwork.org/toolset
• https://ragmask.com/ragmask.pdf
• https://pitchfork.com/features/article/listen-to-music/ - seems relevant to GnuMusiq
• https://ncase.me/contact-tracing/ - how contact tracing works (without compromising privacy)
• https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-oio-160-a-dozen-more-things-you-didn-t-know-nextcloud-could-do
• https://medium.com/@alexhowlett/youtube-accidentally-permanently-terminated-my-account-4b5852c80679
  • https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/103982161319859277
• https://durhamdistillery.com/
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/bullcity/comments/fz88gx/hand_sanitizer_made_in_a_distillery_due_to_covid/
• https://www.whatismystic.com/ - local (solar-powered!) distillery selling sanitizer
• https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/diy-cloth-face-coverings.html - guidelines for DIY masks
• https://www.themarysue.com/bad-reviews-for-quibi/ - Quibi
• https://springhole.net/writing/protagonist-centered-morality.htm
• https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/disinfecting-your-home.html - CDC guidelines for COVID-19 disinfectant
• https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52264743 - Apollo 13 photos
• https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52286165 - Greenland
• https://www.space.com/trump-moon-mining-space-resources-executive-order.html
• https://medium.com/@froger_mcs/senior-software-engineer-these-skills-are-expected-from-you-286c8a0334d0
• https://dragon.style/@frameacloud/104014513234625426 - organ transplants for medical transition
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-hypersane-are-among-us-if-only-we-are-prepared-to-look
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/coming-to-grips-with-the-implications-of-quantum-mechanics - wave-particle duality
  • https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.06722.pdf
• https://getgrav.org/downloads
  • https://getgrav.org/downloads/skeletons
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-dark-history-of-our-obsession-with-productivity - we're ready for the next automation-driven productivity revolution
  • https://www.wired.com/story/question-productivity-coronavirus/ - seems related
• https://501manifesto.dev/
  • https://mastodon.social/@yogthos/103975713124934809
• https://www.dailyxtra.com/why-are-queer-people-so-mean-to-each-other-160978 - also seems relevant here
• https://wattenberger.com/blog/react-and-d3
• https://jsonresume.org/schema/ - résumé data format
• https://social.holdmybeer.solutions/notice/9qUixYpXahRuFgcIJE RSS bridge project?
• Corona and the Commons
• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/well/live/coronavirus-contagion-spead-clothes-shoes-hair-newspaper-packages-mail-infectious.html - COVID-19 practicalities
• https://www.vulture.com/2020/04/fiona-apple-fetch-the-bolt-cutters.html - Fiona Apple
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/is-lab-grown-meat-really-meat - artificial meat
• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/technology/zoom-security-dropbox-hackers.html
  • https://twitter.com/KimZetter/status/1252223836256210944
• Sources for audio production equipment:
  • https://www.bhphotovideo.com/
  • https://www.sweetwater.com/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r51YroAFPds - DIY no-sew face mask
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/grace-o-malley-the-fearless-16th-century-irish-pirate-queen-who-stood-up-to-the-english - badass women
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhRQxk9QA-o - ideal plan for reopening
• https://www.quora.com/I-found-inappropriate-images-on-my-14-year-old-son-s-computer-What-should-I-do/answer/Hannie-Ferch - a 16yo girl answers
  • Absolutely cannot log in to upvote this.
• https://slate.com/business/2020/04/yeast-shortage-supermarkets-coronavirus.html
• https://merveilles.town/@s_ol/104016278284439336 - interesting thread about the state of computing system software
• COVID-19:
  • https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/coronavirus-immune-response/610228/
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/coronavirus-sequencing.html
  • https://www.vox.com/2020/4/17/21213787/coronavirus-asia-waves-hong-kong-singapore-taiwan
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/should-quantum-anomalies-make-us-rethink-reality
• https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/c6n1wd/let_me_unpack_some_of_the_subtle_and_vicious_ways/ - ADHD
• https://emsenn.net/makhasa-nursery/ - in US/NC/Chapel Hill
  • https://toot.cat/web/accounts/181437
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/24/strokes-coronavirus-young-patients/
• https://www.blackandpink.org/
  • https://notbird.site/@applejuice/103960178168842781
• Krazy Kat:
  • https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-gender-fluidity-of-krazy-kat
  • http://www.openculture.com/2019/07/krazy-kat-now-digitized-put-online.html
• https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/27/how-to-avoid-amazon-the-definitive-guide-to-online-shopping-without-the-retail-titan - Amazon.com
  • https://toot.cafe/@peter/104071342349581052
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-eternal-revenue-stream-of-led-zeppelin - how the music industry looks at copyrighted "properties"
• https://inessential.com/2020/04/27/a_coding_challenge_cant_show_how_i_solve - the manifold problems with job-interview coding tests
• http://getpocket.com/explore/item/misophonia-when-certain-sounds-drive-you-crazy - misophonia (what is the relation to hyperacusis?)
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/04/28/more-serious-analysis-of-online-conferencing-please-its-our-future/ - online conferencing on larger scales
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/104076471609000259
• Durham County Coronavirus Data Hub

May

• https://phys.org/news/2020-02-green-technology-electricity-thin-air.html
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2010-9 (paywall)
    • https://sci-hub.tw/10.1038/s41586-020-2010-9 (not paywall)
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/maintaining-eye-contact-while-talking-overwhelms-the-brain
• https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/30/opinion/coronavirus-covid-vaccine.html
• https://www.mail-tester.com/test-tiw6kazrn - email server test
• Ithkuil -- interesting artificial language
• https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/05/me_on_covad-19_.html - Bruce Schneier is highly skeptical of tracing app usefulness
• https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/stop-waiting-miracle/610795/ - COVID-19
  • https://mastodon.cc/@info_activism/104098281802620371
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-we-ll-forget-john-lennon - collective memory or cultural memory
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-day-treva-throneberry-disappeared - very messed-up kid seeks love repeatedly, but is stuck in mental loop
• https://sevish.com/scaleworkshop/ - playing around with musical temperament
• https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-05/mutant-coronavirus-has-emerged-more-contagious-than-original
• Jet propulsion by microwave air plasma in the atmosphere
• https://themicrogreenery.com/ https://squareup.com/store/the-microgreenery/ - US/NC/Durham
• https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-have-conducted-the-first-thorium-salt-experiments-in-over-40-years - thorium nuclear power
• https://www.economist.com/business/2020/04/23/microsoft-embraces-big-data
• https://www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them - practical COVID-19 advice
• http://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-1-minute-face-mask-diy-that-requires-zero-sewing - another no-sew face mask design
  • https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-make-a-cloth-face-mask - another mask
• https://www.outsideonline.com/2412963/how-to-cook-chicken-breasts
• https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-marcus-hutchins-hacker-who-saved-the-internet/
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-the-world-s-only-feudal-lord-outclassed-the-nazis-to-save-her-people
• https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/5/8/21244090/pentagon-ufo-videos-navy-alexander-wendt
• COVID-19:
  • https://www.vox.com/2020/5/22/21266756/coronavirus-pandemic-covid-risks-social-distancing-chart - general safety info
  • https://covidactnow.org/us/nc/county/durham_county_orange_county
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/world/europe/coronavirus-italy-recovery.html
    • https://twitter.com/JHMarble/status/1261537309402394627
  • https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/weird-hell-professor-advent-calendar-covid-19-symptoms-paul-garner
    • https://twitter.com/JoanBloggs/status/1261507655543091200
  • https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/may/13/coronavirus-patient-dna-study-could-tell-us-why-some-fare-worse
    • https://twitter.com/mrs_tachyon/status/1261629148272791555
  • https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cities-bounce-back-coronavirus-pandemic-moodys-144452350.html - US/NC/Durham in best position to recover
    • https://nextdoor.com/news_feed/?post=147944290
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-trillion-worlds
• https://www.futurity.org/deep-neural-networks-early-bird-artificial-intelligence-2369432/
  • https://twitter.com/jehummel2/status/1262778388378521600
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/daryl-bem-proved-esp-is-real
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/8-facts-about-the-animals-of-chernobyl
• https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/9s78fh/sick_of_getting_restart_required/e8mtfj0/
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/dismantling-my-dreams-one-brick-at-a-time - house-flipping
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/19-things-emotionally-intelligent-people-do?utm_source=pocket-newtab -- emotional intelligence
• non-offending pedophilia:
  • https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talking-about-trauma/201603/non-offending-pedophiles-suffer-isolation
  • https://www.virped.org/
  • "nomap"?
• https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2020/5/15/21252544/coronavirus-covid-19-hustle-work-productivity-ambition-loss
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-first-lesson-of-marriage-101-there-are-no-soul-mates
• https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/05/26/psychologists-dont-really-believe-that-do-they/ - the triune brain myth
  • https://octodon.social/@pzmyers/104234979309331187
• https://www.expressionsofchange.org/reification-of-interaction/
  • https://eldritch.cafe/@enkiv2/104237491869868322
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-20/after-60-years-i-95-is-complete - US/I-95
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/nobody-knows-what-lies-beneath-new-york-city -- mapping infrastructure; US/NY/New York
• https://arstechnica.com/features/2020/05/the-story-of-cheaper-batteries-from-smartphones-to-teslas/
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/unraveling-the-many-mysteries-of-neil-diamond-s-sweet-caroline - Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond
• https://medium.com/invisible-illness/spoon-theory-and-fork-theory-fce7b5602f1a - fork theory
• https://github.com/omarroth/invidious - another alternative YouTube front end
• https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/05/estonia-america-congress-online-pandemic/612034/ - Estonia and digital living
• bed bugs:
  • https://www.doyourownpestcontrol.com/bed-bugs.htm - seems like a mix of useful (but somewhat obvious) stuff, conflict-of-interest ("you need to buy this stuff that we can sell you"), and scare tactics ("the common Bed Bug can not be seen with the naked eye." -- uh, wut? Even freshly-hatched bugs are easy to see. They may be difficult to distinguish against a complex or dark background, but size is not the problem there).
  • https://www.epa.gov/bedbugs/pesticides-control-bed-bugs
  • https://fibertrap.com/product/fibertrap-v1/
  • https://getpocket.com/explore/item/top-10-myths-about-bedbugs

June

• COVID-19:
  • https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-05-28/coronavirus-lockdown-crushed-economies-jobs-energy-and-shops
  • https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-to-social-distance-as-america-opens-back-up
  • https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/practical-mindfulness/202005/prepare-behavioral-disaster-wave-resilience-if-and-when-covid-19
  • https://slate.com/technology/2020/06/advice-on-reopening-activies-er-doctor.html
  • https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/12/876224115/coronavirus-second-wave-nope-were-still-stuck-in-the-first-one
  • https://rt.live/ - US infection spread rates by state
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/11/coronavirus-chronic/
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/16/1953549/-Anti-inflammatory-steroid-proves-effective-in-reducing-deaths-from-serious-case-of-COVID-19
  • https://durhampublichealth-durhamnc.hub.arcgis.com/ - COVID-19 in US/NC/Durham
  • https://www.ft.com/content/d68d6292-0486-4bfc-bf5c-54ce850a3f7a - in South Korea
• http://named-data.net/project/archoverview/ - named data networking
• http://www.openculture.com/2014/01/isaac-asimov-predicts-what-the-world-will-look-in-2014.html - predictions (includes links to other sets)
• https://twitter.com/nickyhcastillo/status/1266243707797303296 - huge privacy issues in TikTok
• https://narratively.com/confessions-of-a-30-something-hanson-fanatic/
• https://www.cgdev.org/blog/kiva-not-quite-what-it-seems - Kiva
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/until-i-was-a-man-i-had-no-idea-how-good-men-had-it-at-work - workplace gender bias / sexism
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/saying-i-do-and-saying-farewell - love and grieving
• https://gefiltergate.com/ - General Electric water filter DRM
• https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/openzfs-removed-master-slave-terminology-from-its-codebase/
• http://www.openculture.com/2020/06/a-rare-smile-captured-in-a-19th-century-photograph.html - history of smiles in portraiture
• https://getsession.org/download/ - secure open-source messaging, possibly supports group chats?
• https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/comments/h995fd/whatfiles_log_what_files_are_accessed_by_any/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1-Ef54uTeU - photorealism in 3d rendering
  • https://dev.glitch.social/@blackle/104320007725728359
• https://matrix.itasoftware.com - flexible flight search
• http://eshop.sintech.cn/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7_12&products_id=933&zenid=9rrpa4eb79pc6tjl7b0ufeihd2 - in case of desperate need for a PCI slot and all you have is PCI-E express X1
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-can-you-do-when-you-re-flattened-by-depression-plan-for-it - depression
• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/pinebook-pro-review-a-200-foss-to-the-hilt-magnesium-chassis-laptop/
• LG G W100 smartwatch:
  • https://www.lg.com/us/support/help-library/lg-g-watch-w100-turn-watch-on-off-CT30013120-1404330554420
  • https://www.lifewire.com/restart-turn-on-android-watch-1616065
• https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200615-the-record-breaking-jet-which-still-haunts-a-country - a fork in history that didn't happen
• https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/supermarkets-are-a-miracle/612244/ - supermarkets
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/my-dad-taught-me-how-to-deal-with-bullies-because-he-was-one - bullying
• Git:
  • https://queer.party/@valenoern/104276804696068667 - practical semi-technical issues/reviews
  • https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-github-now-open-source-developers-get-one-linter-to-rule-them-all/
• https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-sewage/italy-sewage-study-suggests-covid-19-was-there-in-december-2019-idUSKBN23Q1J9
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-scientist-still-fighting-for-the-clean-fuel-the-world-forgot - (haven't read) biofuel, probably
• https://writefreely.org/features/ - federated long-form Markdown blogging platform, written in Golang
• http://undergroundhousing.com/
  • Idaho modern oldtimer builds underground & solar $50 houses
• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/youtube-music-library-transfers-your-purchased-music-is-not-welcome-here/
• IntelliJ IDEA - Java IDE
• https://radical.town/@felix/104410618372421043 - Peertube not being a great citizen
• https://twitter.com/clpolk/status/1277327365597626368 - love-bombing
• Technology Connections uses a Lumix G7 camera
• https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/06/the-stranger-than-fiction-secret-history-of-prog-rock-icon-rick-wakeman - Rick Wakeman
• https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/share/de28935c-4e4c-40fa-bf06-b7a583ac9777 - Strange Fruit
• https://htyp.org/User:Woozle/linkdump/2020#June - Qt licensing issues
  • https://mastodon.sdf.org/@cadadr/104463080650899067

July

• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/let-s-colonize-titan
  • "We can live underground on Earth. What’s the advantage to doing so on Mars?" -- to start with, all of Earth is owned by someone or other. Would it be legal to start an underground habitat in the Sahara?
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-four-stages-of-life
• https://www.linphone.org/products - e2e encrypted video calls, audio conferencing (but not video conferencing)
• https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-the-chronically-ill-re-mission-filmmaker-jennifer-breas-life-after-unrest/ - living with chronic illness
• COVID-19/vaccine:
  • https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/07/meet-the-4-frontrunners-in-the-covid-19-vaccine-race/ - COVID-19
  • https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/24/1963291/-Why-one-vaccine-is-already-a-sure-loser-and-also-a-sure-winner-in-the-race-to-inoculate-the-world
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/researchers-translate-bat-talk-turns-out-they-argue-a-lot - animal communication
• https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/21/chris-frantz-talking-heads-david-byrne - Talking Heads
• https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/ai-machine-learning-light-speed-artificial-intelligence-a9629976.html - artificial intelligence
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/could-air-conditioning-fix-climate-change - futuristic solution for carbon uptake & fuel production
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/people-constantly-underestimate-how-much-they-benefit-from-being-kind - not sure how useful this is, but it's not the usual message
• https://www.derricklawfirm.com/blog/the-10-worst-insurance-companies-in-america.cfm - Allstate is worst, State Farm is #4
• https://www.cjr.org/analysis/nytimes-subscriptions-local-publishers-compete.php
  • https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1289311630715547649

August

• https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53450688 - solar power in Afghanistan
• COVID-19:
  • https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7qpky/scientists-just-released-a-diy-coronavirus-vaccine-under-a-creative-commons-license
  • https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/30/a-huge-experiment-how-the-world-made-so-much-progress-on-a-covid-19-vaccine-so-fast/
  • https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/08/us/duke-university-face-mask-test-trnd/index.html
  • https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
  • https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.29.069054v2.full
  • https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-08-12/column-bill-plaschke-covid-19-experience - went to a restaurant one time and caught it
  • https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/06/covid-19-coronavirus-longterm-symptoms-months/612679/
  • and copper:
    • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/copper-virus-kill-180974655/
    • https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2020/06/25/copper-masks
    • https://www.insider.com/does-copper-kill-germs-and-viruses
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-a-thriving-civilization-in-malta-collapsed-4-000-years-ago
• https://www.themarysue.com/grrm-hugo-awards-debacle/ - George R.R. Martin
  • https://alis.me/x/honestly-im-just-tired/#identifier_0_34738 - related (Hugo Award, WorldCon)
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-true-story-behind-mrs-basil-e-frankweiler-and-her-mixed-up-files - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
• https://meridianmillhouse.com/ - based in US/NC/Ranlo
• https://www.pathway.com/blog/the-growth-of-gluten-sensitivity-and-the-genetics-behind-it/
• Starlink:
  • https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/23/elon-musk-says-starlink-internet-private-beta-to-begin-in-roughly-three-months-public-beta-in-six/
  • https://uk.pcmag.com/switches/128206/how-fast-is-spacexs-satellite-internet-beta-tests-show-it-hitting-up-to-60-mbps
• perfectswitch.com/isolators/single-rectifier-isolator-gen4-0/ - power storage equipment
• https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/21355768/gpt-3-ai-openai-turing-test-language
• https://www.additudemag.com/symptoms-of-add-hyperarousal-rejection-sensitivity/ - ADHD
  • https://mashable.com/article/what-is-adhd-myths-stigma/
    • https://www.themarysue.com/we-need-to-change-how-we-talk-about-adhd/
• https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/17/pizza-hut-to-close-up-to-300-locations-operated-by-bankrupt-franchisee.html
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/holy-grail-metallic-hydrogen-is-going-to-change-everything
• https://crysp.uwaterloo.ca/opinion/wire/ - Wire
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/does-parkinson-s-begin-in-the-gut - Parkinson's
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/men-do-see-the-mess-they-just-aren-t-judged-for-it-the-way-women-are - socialized gender difference
• https://thegalap.org/pledge-signers-2-0/ - therapists who have signed an informed consent pledge for surgery recommendations
  • https://mastodon.social/@pantransautie/104737585778127590
• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-twist-on-schroedingers-cat-paradox-has-major-implications-for-quantum-theory/
• adhd, "disability" vs. "superpower"
• https://www.npr.org/2020/08/19/903547253/a-tale-of-two-ecosystems-on-bandcamp-spotify-and-the-wide-open-future - Bandcamp, Spotify
• https://www.nngroup.com/articles/pdf-unfit-for-human-consumption/ - PDF
• https://typesetinthefuture.com/2020/08/17/startrek/ Star Trek fonts & graphic design
• https://time.com/5883081/covid-19-transmitted-aerosols/ - it's the aerosols
• https://newatlas.com/energy/nano-diamond-self-charging-batteries-ndb/ - safe nuclear battery?
• https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/25/firefox_android_update/ - Firefox
• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/why-slow-networks-really-cost-more-fiber
  • https://mastodon.social/@eff/104540995838094527
• https://beeware.org/ - write-once-deploy-everywhere for Python, seems to be open source
• https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/admt.202000226 - inkjet printing lightweight solar cells
• https://www.vogue.com/article/go-gos-40th-anniversary-beauty-and-the-beat-oral-history-belinda-carlisle - The Go-Go's
• mtr: dynamic TUI version of traceroute
  • https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/104778970223686118

September

• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/your-ability-to-focus-has-probably-peaked-here-s-how-to-stay-sharp -- attention and focus
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/people-with-creative-personalities-really-do-see-the-world-differently
• https://cleantechnica.com/2020/08/08/argonne-national-lab-breakthrough-turns-carbon-dioxide-into-ethanol/ - CO2 mitigation, sustainable fuel
• https://postmill.xyz/ Free, web-based, social link aggregator with voting and nested comments
  • https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill - written in PHP
• https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/first-modular-nuclear-reactor-design-certified-in-the-us/ - community-sized nuclear power
• https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EgVAkilXYAEwhAt?format=png&name=medium - chart showing relative risks of contracting SARS-CoV-2 under different circumstances
• https://blogs.psychcentral.com/permission-to-thrive/2020/01/the-narcissistic-mother
• https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-08-31/mark-mothersbaugh-devo-covid-19-coronavirus
• https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200904/08501145250/students-parents-figure-out-school-is-using-ai-to-grade-exams-immediately-game-system.shtml
  • https://icosahedron.website/@bstacey/104813954722764615
    • me: it's not AI if it has no comprehension
• https://www.pjon.org/ - Padded Jittering Operative Network - "open-source network protocol able to connect devices using most physical layers and media, such as wires (PJDL, Ethernet, Serial and RS485), radio (ASK, FSK, OOK, LoRa or WiFi) and light pulses (PJDLS)."
• https://www.drugsandwires.fail/ - alt-history cyberpunk webcomic
• https://covidtracking.com/data/charts/us-daily-positive - another COVID-19 data site
• https://liquidfeedback.org/index.en.html - liquid democracy platform, but where is the software?
  • https://www.public-software-group.org/liquid_feedback - seems to be the source code?
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/chris-farley-the-wild-ride-and-sad-end - Chris Farley
• https://www.fastcompany.com/90542917/zoom-is-failing-teachers-heres-how-they-would-redesign-it
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/this-emotional-intelligence-test-was-so-accurate-it-was-creepy - emotional intelligence
• https://www.aweigh.io/ - open navigation system (hardware) that doesn't use satellites
• https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200827-why-in-person-leaders-may-not-be-the-best-virtual-ones
  • paywalled; SciHub (warning: tested mainly on white people; ymmv)
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/finding-new-music-in-the-algorithm-age - more like "how the music industry works now"
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/whoa-this-is-what-happens-to-your-body-when-you-drink-enough-water - hydration
• https://on.substack.com/p/a-better-future-for-news - post-based Patreon for writers, kind of?
• https://twitter.com/shiraisinspired/status/1305226398387310592 - OCD
  • also: Turtles All the Way Down by John Green, who has OCD
• https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2020/08/better-goodreads-possible-bad-for-books-storygraph-amazon - Goodreads
• https://9thstreetjournal.org/ - US/NC/Durham
  • https://twitter.com/9thStJournal
• https://github.com/ddevault/fosspay - open source Patreonesque thing; uses Python and PostgreSQL
• https://www.bonappetit.com/story/velveting-meat- Chinese cooking technique
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/airplane-at-40-the-best-spoof-comedy-ever-made - Airplane!
• https://pitchfork.com/features/article/enya-is-everywhere/ - Enya
• https://en.everybodywiki.com/Everybodywiki_bios_and_free_wiki_for_everybody - a[nother?] site that rescues condemned Wikipedia pages
• https://www.wired.co.uk/article/netflix-originals-cancelled-oa-altered-carbon-sense8 - Netflix
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-math-trick-behind-mp3s-jpegs-and-homer-simpson-s-face - Fourier transform
• https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/24/crows-possess-higher-intelligence-long-thought-primarily-human/ - animal intelligence
  • https://monads.online/@caymanwent/104924066588182995
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-untranslatable-emotions-you-never-knew-you-had
• https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/09/25/how-covid-19-pandemic-ends-421122
• https://meltingasphalt.com/ads-dont-work-that-way/ - I'm skeptical of some of the analysis, but the psychology seems right
  • https://floss.social/@alcinnz/104939003488977917
• https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/28/new-super-enzyme-eats-plastic-bottles-six-times-faster - plastic recycling for realz
  • https://cybre.space/@Canageek/104949235839454005
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-pasta-sauce-hailed-as-the-world-s-best-is-surprisingly-easy-to-make-at-home - simple recipe, could use some tweaks

October

• https://twitter.com/NomeDaBarbarian/status/1311687107128123393 - ADHD-PI
• https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/k-overlooked-variable-driving-pandemic/616548/ - COVID-19
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-north-carolina-is-the-most-linguistically-diverse-u-s-state - dialects in US/NC
• https://indyweek.com/news/durham/lgbtq-center-durham-host-home/
• https://www.openhab.org/ - open-source smarthome software
• https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/02/science/charting-a-coronavirus-infection.html - how coronavirus infection typically proceeds
• https://arstechnica.com/features/2020/10/the-space-operating-systems-booting-up-where-no-one-has-gone-before/
• https://nitter.net/about - uses a back-end language called Nim
  • https://nim-lang.org/learn.html
• https://www.buyforlifeproducts.com/about/ - no way to browse, though. (API?)
• https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-island-humans-cant-conquer/ - US/AK/St. Matthew Island
• https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a15615/how-eddie-van-halen-hacks-a-guitar/ - Eddie Van Halen
• https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ - salary negotiation
• https://github.com/wmurphyrd/guppe/tree/master/pub - groups for ActivityPub, written in JavaScript
• https://www.oprahmag.com/life/relationships-love/a34100347/noelle-stevenson-coming-out-story/ - Noelle Stevenson, love
• https://www.hughrundle.net/shiny/ - some good snarky definitions of IoT, Blockchain, biometrics
• https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/new-covid-19-test-doesnt-need-reagents-that-are-in-short-supply/4012562.article
• https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2019/02/26/cybersyn-and-allendes-semi-automated-luxury-socialism/ - Cybersyn
• https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/asynchronous/#async-30-at-gitlab - working asynchronously; GitLab
• http://www.thinkingautismguide.com/p/so-youre-doing-story-about.html
  • https://twitter.com/thinkingautism/status/1317164758798249984
• https://chapelboro.com/ - US/NC/Chapel Hill / US/NC/Carrboro
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/with-a-simple-twist-a-magic-material-is-now-the-big-thing-in-physics - apparently the "twist" is still difficult to do
• https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/first-solar-solar-panel-recycling-program/ -- First Solar, photovoltaic recycling
• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/10/google-chat-goes-free-in-2021-while-hangouts-loses-features-this-month/ - Google Chat, Google Hangouts
• https://adrian.geek.nz/docs.html - how various bits of software work
  • https://ecosteader.com/@emsenn/105070108216475946
• https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/10/23/facial-feminisation-surgery-us-military-doctors-transgender-troops/
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-the-tomato-was-feared-in-europe-for-more-than-200-years - tomato history
• https://fennel-lang.org/ - Fennel language
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/neuroscience-shows-that-our-gut-instincts-about-only-children-are-right - single-child-hood
• https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/18/tech/4g-network-moon-trnd/index.html
  • https://pluspora.com/posts/4630348
• https://hackaday.com/2020/10/18/duality-of-light-explored-by-revisiting-the-double-slit-experiment/
  • https://pluspora.com/posts/4600472
• https://www.mysk.blog/2020/10/25/link-previews/ - link preview
• Nebula video platform
  • https://watchnebula.com/
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-make-meatballs-the-easiest-simplest-method - cooking meatballs
• https://www.tiktok.com/@celebritykid/video/6880611097649417473 - music video against corporal punishment of children
• https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-28/a-room-a-bar-and-a-class-how-the-coronavirus-is-spread-through-the-air.html
• https://joinmobilizon.org/en/
• https://ajaxnwnk.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-abandoning-x-server.html
  • https://mastodon.social/@fribbledom/105128913775199280
• https://seedsofresistance.noblogs.org/resist/this-is-indigenous-land/

November

• https://www.laptopu.ro/product/professional-laptop-battery-analyzer-nlba1/ - professional laptop battery analyzer
• https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/the-earth-is-pulsating-every-26-seconds-and-seismologists-dont-agree-why - the 26-second pulse
• https://element.io/ - semi-open-source text/video chat app
  • https://element.io/open-source https://github.com/vector-im
• Right temporoparietal junction underlies avoidance of moral transgression in Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • https://twitter.com/autismcrisis/status/1324891740269056001?s=19
    • https://twitter.com/commaficionado/status/1324303453649293313
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-history-of-ctrl-alt-delete
• https://abcnews.go.com/US/zoologists-puzzled-18-year-lioness-grows-exceptionally-rare/story?id=53283771 - gender variation in mammals
• youtube-dl:
  • 2020-11-05 Why Can't You Download Videos on YouTube? How a 20-Year-Old Law Stops youtube-dl Users AND Farmers
    • https://torrentfreak.com/deciphering-youtubes-rolling-cypher-in-your-browser-is-a-piece-of-cake-201030/
    • https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-takedowns-backfire-as-pirated-mp3s-now-surface-on-github-201104/
    • https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-obtains-subpoenas-targeting-40-youtube-ripping-platforms-pirate-sites-201029/
    • https://torrentfreak.com/riaas-youtube-dl-takedown-ticks-of-developers-and-githubs-ceo-201027/
• https://thebeet.com/off-the-wall-your-produce-is-growing-in-aisle-5-vertical-farming-has-arrived/
• https://daverupert.com/2020/11/technical-debt-as-a-lack-of-understanding/ - technical debt
• https://www.vice.com/en/article/akdzx5/an-oral-history-of-marge-vs-the-monorail-the-simpsons - The Simpsons
• https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54873105 - COVID-19 vaccine
  • https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1325866679318925312
  • https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/1325930868058312707
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/finally-a-problem-that-only-quantum-computers-will-ever-be-able-to-solve
• https://twitter.com/cassolotl/status/1325950502526476290 - gender census
• https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/07/931348023/secret-life-of-supermarkets-shines-a-light-on-bountys-dark-side - supermarket
• https://newatlas.com/energy/bavarian-brewery-carbon-free-renewable-iron-fuel/
• https://jezebel.com/when-surgeons-fail-their-trans-patients-1844774990 - GRS, Kathy Rumer
  • https://plush.city/@bunny_jane/105187679396677809
• https://norasamaran.com/2016/02/11/the-opposite-of-rape-culture-is-nurturance-culture-2/
  • https://toot.cat/@lindes/105194679777927940
• How to make Windows 7 USB flash install media from Linux?
• https://medium.com/@grist/solar-panels-are-more-efficient-than-youve-heard-this-material-could-make-them-even-better-c83073d9ab92
• https://hackers.town/@Anarkat/105133268877884882 - rechargeable batteries 101
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/fossil-discoveries-challenge-ideas-about-earth-s-start
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/when-a-dna-test-shatters-your-identity - a lot of people really identify heavily with their DNA?
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7qsxeQrKhg - 8 questions a narcissist cannot answer
• https://widgetbot.io/ -- allows embedding a live/interactive Discord instance on a web site
• https://github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-youtube-dl-is-back/ - GitHub, DMCA, youtube-dl
• https://twitter.com/cassolotl/status/1329425642216189952 - long coronavirus similarities to ME/CFS
• http://shimar.com/serviceitems.html - styrofoam (and other things) recycling in US/NC/Durham
• https://askubuntu.com/questions/789465/generate-white-noise-to-calm-a-baby/789472#789472 - generate calming white noise with sox
  • https://social.diskseven.com/@Jo/105243312170913604
• https://twitter.com/SylvanEsso/status/1330159637237293061 - Sylvan Esso in downtown US/NC/Durham
• https://www.theregister.com/2017/11/16/head_like_a_memory_hole/ - The Internet Archive
• https://twitter.com/jeymccreight/status/1328369104235884546 - resources for nonbinary identity
• https://www.scribd.com/document/485015148/SHE218-SaveTheCat-RecordDraft - She-Ra s5e5 script
  • https://twitter.com/Gingerhazing/status/1329514056055545857
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16gB2BDXwTo - lava lamp construction
• https://grafana.com/ - what actually does this do (server load stats?)
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-being-bullied-affects-your-adulthood -- bullying
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-a-thriving-civilization-in-malta-collapsed-4-000-years-ago - collapse of the Temple Culture on Malta
• https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/10/21/21515461/renewable-energy-geothermal-egs-ags-supercritical
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMV_iLv6LQo - Stranger Things, capitalism, liberalism
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RyjoXVDqUs - guitar strings on a piano
• https://apnews.com/article/pandemics-postal-service-france-coronavirus-pandemic-b6ca8343c7f67aaa4ed9de0915378ddd - COVID-19
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StrsvKSAbT8 - frontal lobotomy
• https://www.thecut.com/2020/11/covid-19-pandemic-kids-mental-health.html
• https://mobilizon.org/en/ - open source federated event organizer
• https://skepchick.org/2020/11/the-covid-19-vaccine-is-95-effective-what-does-that-mean-and-why-is-herd-immunity-via-the-vaccine-better-than-just-getting-the-virus/
  • https://twitter.com/rebeccawatson/status/1333156038548148224

December

• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-toto-s-africa-became-the-new-don-t-stop-believin
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-david-bowie-s-china-girl-taught-me-about-beauty
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/6-toxic-relationship-habits-most-people-think-are-normal
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/i-got-my-hip-replaced-at-39-here-s-why-that-might-get-more-common
• https://escargot.log1p.xyz/downloads - multi-client chat server, how does that even?
  • https://gitlab.com/escargot-chat/server
• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/centos-linux-is-gone-but-its-refugees-have-alternatives/
• https://mastodon.social/@cypnk/105356248894815573 - "joule thief" power-squeezer circuit
• https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-55279067 - Virgin Galactic space-tourism rocket/plane
• https://todon.nl/@isolategab/105362599835139257 - Gab left the ActivityPub fediverse, and is building their own
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/when-squirrels-were-one-of-america-s-most-popular-pets - squirrels as pets
• https://askinglot.com/why-is-my-maytag-dishwasher-beeping - how to reset from the control panel
• https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/105391132112074153 - works entering public domain in 2021
• https://www.businessinsider.com.au/niue-nu-internet-domain-reclaim-2020-12 - .nu Niue
  • https://ecosteader.com/@jak/105391735670309864
• https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/12/15/944184405/1st-patients-to-get-crispr-gene-editing-treatment-continue-to-thrive - medical progress
• https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/science-covid-19-manhattan-project/617262/
• https://forge.medium.com/be-a-schedule-builder-not-a-to-do-list-maker-396096a7486a
• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/hegra-ancient-city-saudi-arabia-untouched-for-millennia-makes-its-public-debut-180976361/
• https://chaos.social/@kernpanik/105311474328645051 - how ancient businesses in Japan have survived
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-most-common-type-of-incompetent-leader
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-bad-is-tech-use-for-kids-really
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2020/01/17/nextcloud-hub-launches-to-compete-with-google-docs-and-office-365/
  • https://mastodon.xyz/@nextcloud/105419357771076519
• https://aeon.co/essays/what-can-we-learn-from-the-lunar-pandemic-that-never-was
• Laura Jane Grace
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWoaB5-q6b4 - burning birth certificate in US/NC/Durham
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buFxD0n_7V8 - briefly tells the story of that
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geuTmeCVbLo - longer interview
• https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/11/the-oracle-of-britney-spears
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-make-diy-instant-noodle-cups
• https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.201663 - how facial coverings reduce droplet (but not aerosol) spread
• https://howtogeton.wordpress.com/2020/03/02/how-to-be-poor-in-america/
  • https://queer.party/@QueenMollyBones/105088765228746488
• https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/42046/what-do-the-dots-and-pluses-mean-when-openssl-generates-keys - OpenSSL trivia
• https://merveilles.town/@xj9/105047742291222504 - BeOS and Haiku
• https://alexschroeder.ch/cgit/gplus-browser/about/ - Google+ archive browser
• https://mints.cafe/thoughts-on-mastodon-and-how-it-really-is-crumbling-actually-take-it-seriously/
• https://groups.qoto.org/ - federated open-source group manager
  • https://qoto.org/@freemo/105169863142066078
• https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes - Tildes
• https://stitcher.io/blog/php-8-before-and-after - PHP 8
• https://cybre.space/@toni/105308801612552381 - .io and colonialism
• https://defangme.com/#about - reducing dependency on big tech
  • https://diode.zone/videos/watch/a52fe12d-8eae-4c6a-a3f9-44e320157618 - long video discussion
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxCHv7T_mao - Hank Green on COVID vaccine
• https://www.boringcactus.com/2020/08/13/post-open-source.html
  • https://octodon.social/@wohali/104688733609662852
• https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-install-and-use-the-new-nextcloud-forms-feature/ - Nextcloud forms
• https://getpocket.com/explore/item/bill-withers-the-soul-man-who-walked-away -- Bill Withers
• https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/isrib-drug-reverses-age-related-mental-decline-within-days-in-mice/