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January
- https://nextcloud-talk.readthedocs.io/en/latest/TURN/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/02/health/coronavirus-smell-taste.html
- https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/01/after-embracing-remote-work-in-2020-companies-face-conflicts-making-it-permanent/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190821233208if_/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/08/21/feature/my-life-with-face-blindness/ - prosopagnosia
- Nextcloud one-click migrtion:
- https://mastodon.infra.de/@galaxis/105498883403636006 - Kobo hacking
- https://twitter.com/mattmay/status/1344728355912880129 - Flash and platform design
- https://pureos.net/ - OS designed to be friendly on both desktop and mobile hardware
- https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ - modular phone that runs PureOS (very expensive, though)
- https://scantailor.org/ - automatic fixing of photographed documents
- https://github.com/blackle/mastodon-data-viewer.py - Mastodon export data viewer
- https://vulpine.club/@rey/105510069682660487 - how to get the data
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustinefou/2021/01/02/when-big-brands-stopped-spending-on-digital-ads-nothing-happened-why/ - digital advertising not actually that effective
- https://soatok.blog/2020/05/09/how-to-de-anonymize-scam-knock-off-sites-hiding-behind-cloudflare/
- https://www.sciencealert.com/autopsies-reveal-the-terrible-damage-coronavirus-can-inflict-on-your-brain
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLP_L7Mgz6M - repurposing old laptops & components
- OPEN ME UP! HP DV6 7000 series and HP Envy 15 Disassembly
- https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/in-774-ad-the-sun-blasted-earth-with-the-biggest-storm-in-10000-years
- https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/12/956051995/why-you-should-still-wear-a-mask-and-avoid-crowds-after-getting-the-covid-19-vac
- https://www.stereogum.com/2112251/the-number-ones-janet-jacksons-when-i-think-of-you/columns/the-number-ones/ - Janet Jackson
- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/health/covid-cdc-variant.html
- https://www.vox.com/22220301/covid-spread-new-strain-variants-safe-grocery-store-n95-masks-vaccine
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-lungs-scarring-smokers-lungs/
- http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20210117-stromatolites-the-earths-oldest-living-lifeforms - stromatolite, Australia
- https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/about - Ojibwe People's Dictionary
- A curious observer's guide to quantum mechanics:
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/a-curious-observers-guide-to-quantum-mechanics-pt-2-the-particle-melting-pot/
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/a-curious-observers-guide-to-quantum-mechanics-pt-3-rose-colored-glasses/
- https://arstechnica.com/features/2021/01/a-curious-observers-guide-to-quantum-mechanics-pt-4-looking-at-the-stars/
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/a-curious-observers-guide-to-quantum-mechanics-pt-5-catching-a-wave/
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/a-curious-observers-guide-to-quantum-mechanics-pt-6-two-quantum-spooks/
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/23/business/package-didnt-order-brushing/index.html - scams on Amazon
- https://www.vulture.com/article/an-oral-history-of-disney-the-emperors-new-groove.html
February
- https://twitter.com/sky_evangeline/status/1356103619481894913?s=20 - Discord MP4 vulnerability
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/1/2013258/-The-Good-News-you-are-NOT-hearing-about-the-vaccines
- https://www.quora.com/What-did-the-Apollo-11-astronauts-see-on-the-moon-that-had-them-so-shaken-up/answer/John-Flavin-1 - first Lunar landing, Apollo 11
- https://fortune.com/longform/iowa-covid-derecho-thunderstorm-2020-election-trump-biden-polarization/
- https://feministkilljoys.com/2021/01/27/apologies-for-harm-apologies-as-harm/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/our-14-400-year-old-relationship-with-bread
- MusicBrainz: comprehensive music database
- https://undark.org/2021/02/10/the-enduring-mystery-of-critchfields-spruce/ -- pleistocene North America
- https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210128-right-to-repair-how-the-french-are-fighting-avoidable-waste
- https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/feb/12/50-years-of-carole-king-tapestry - Carole King/Tapestry
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/5-languages-that-could-change-the-way-you-see-the-world
- https://twitter.com/ekverstania/status/1362343044301922306 - autism and RSD
- https://www.wired.com/story/researchers-levitated-a-small-tray-using-nothing-but-light/
- https://books2read.com/ - indie books
- intersex:
- http://www.talkingelectronics.com/projects/100%20IC%20Circuits/1-100_IC-Ccts.html - IC circuits
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/middle-high-school-bully-depression_n_602c0800c5b65259c4e52240 - bullying
- Library Genesis (libgen.gs; libgen.lc; libgen.li; genesis.lib)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/do-certain-sounds-enrage-you-neurologists-may-know-why - misophonia is real
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-do-narcissists-lose-popularity-over-time
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-led-zeppelin-came-to-be
- https://www.quora.com/What-interesting-thing-did-you-read-today/answer/Vignesh-Atm - Nicki Minaj
- https://theattic.jezebel.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-joss-whedon-and-the-myth-of-the-h-1846288271 - Joss Whedon
- https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/02/how-know-when-pandemic-over/618122/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/chills-and-thrills-why-some-people-love-music-and-others-don-t - psychology of music
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=138y6mtgll8 - Sia, autism...
- https://thenextweb.com/media/2012/05/21/how-pixars-toy-story-2-was-deleted-twice-once-by-technology-and-again-for-its-own-good/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J52mDjZzto - heat pumps, part one
March
- https://nautil.us/issue/17/big-bangs/the-family-that-couldnt-say-hippopotamus - natural language
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ2czFuIYmQ - problems with vinyl records
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/milestone-experiment-proves-quantum-communication-really-is-faster
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjrBTcnnK6c - Marmite
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-70-percent-alcohol-disinfects-better-than-91-percent-according-to-a-microbiologist
May
June
- https://www.cityam.com/virgin-media-o2-promises-market-shake-up-after-31bn-merger/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/use-the-magic-5-1-ratio-to-improve-all-your-relationships
- http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20210527-the-woman-who-walked-around-the-world
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-vitamin-pills-don-t-work-and-may-be-bad-for-you
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/stronger-than-steel-able-to-stop-a-speeding-bullet-it-s-super-wood - super strong wood and transparent wood
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33439749/ - sublingual estradiol
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/this-is-the-most-bizarre-grammar-rule-you-probably-never-heard-of - adjective-order grammar rule
- https://www.quora.com/What-does-it-mean-when-Costco-says-it-only-sells-Top-Tier-gasoline-How-does-it-differ-from-regular-gas/answer/Charles-Sendicker - gasoline
- https://decrypt.co/73302/bitcoin-lightning-network-twitter-only-matter-time-jack-dorsey? -- Twitter, Jack Dorsey, Bitcoin
- https://torrentfreak.com/wormhole-instant-encrypted-file-sharing-powered-by-webtorrent-210611/
- https://decrypt.co/73440/bitcoin-miners-lock-in-privacy-focused-taproot-upgrade -- what could possibly go wrong
- https://hbr.org/2021/06/my-fixation-on-time-management-almost-broke-me -- time management
- Jellyfin -- like Plex but libre
- https://twitter.com/newworlddd555/status/1403692131429064704 - animal friendship in the wild
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-grand-unified-theory-of-rogue-waves - rogue waves
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/jimi-hendrix-s-are-you-experienced-10-things-you-didn-t-know
- https://www.orionsarm.com/ - Orion's Arm shared fictional universe
- https://nadeko.bot/commands - Nadeko, a Discord bot
- https://bananominer.com/ - earn Banano by contributing to medical research (like Folding@Home)
- https://colony.io/
- https://colony.io/product/app/ - Tools to Organize and Incentivize Collaborators, Contributors, and Communities. / Organize your colony into teams, projects, departments, or whatever structure suits you.
- https://blog.colony.io/colony-v2-launch/
- https://docs.requarks.io/en/rendering - looks interesting but not clear on what it actually is/does
- https://www.coingecko.com/en - like Coindesk
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-case-for-the-humble-garbage-disposal
- https://www.depositaccounts.com/blog/zelle-review.html - about Zelle
- https://youtu.be/aWMyFfRxB_4 - Scanlime does a teardown of the Ring doorbell camera ("It's not good.")
- https://github.com/propublica/politwoops-tweet-collector
- https://gitlab.com/finnoleary/discord-thread-bot
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/office365-pro-plus-wont-hijack-your-search-engine-after-all/
- https://www.circle.com/en/circle-account?hsLang=en
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ebp4/how-pizza-took-over-our-freezers - frozen pizza. hot pockets
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-make-kung-pao-chicken-that-tastes-better-than-takeout
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/anatomy-of-a-car-crash
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-american-obsession-with-lawns
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/gentle-parenting-explainer-no-rewards-no-punishments-no-misbehaving-kids
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-obsessive-life-and-mysterious-death-of-the-fisherman-who-discovered-the-loch-ness-monster Loch Ness monster
- https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/20/health/supernatural-encounters-pandemic-loved-ones-blake/index.html
- https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/06/the-beatles-get-back-exclusive-deep-dive-peter-jacksons-movie
- https://www.sciencealert.com/our-planet-has-a-27-5-million-year-old-pulse-says-study-we-don-t-know-what-causes-it
- https://www.bustle.com/life/youve-been-scrambling-your-eggs-wrong-heres-how-to-do-it-right - scrambled eggs
- methylphenidate hydrochloride:
- https://woob.tech/applications/bank - online banking-scraper code (mostly EU banks, looks like)
- https://twitter.com/teacup_art/status/1408808105698267141?s=20 - Jeffrey Catherine Jones
- https://www.datasketch.co/ - proprietary data-visualization service (has free tier)
- https://letterboxd.com/ -- looks like GoodReads, but for films
- https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/21/22538240/google-chat-allo-hangouts-talk-messaging-mess-timeline - Google chat services
- parenting:
July
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/mathematician-finds-easier-way-to-solve-quadratic-equations
- https://nautil.us/issue/104/harmony/plants-feel-pain-and-might-even-see
- https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/1353 - Audacity again
- https://www.wired.com/story/trucks-move-past-cars-road-autonomy/ - self-driving trucks
- https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-just-looked-inside-mars-heres-what-they-found/ - Mars
- COVID-19:
- https://www.theringer.com/2021/7/21/22586870/google-reader-ode-end-of-the-good-internet - Google Reader
- https://www.elle.com/culture/books/a36843667/melissa-febos-proposal-relationship-essay/ - love
- human space exploration:
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-international-space-station-is-more-valuable-than-many-people-realize
In 1984 when President Reagan directed NASA to build a permanently occupied space station, no one could have predicted the critical role it would play in human space exploration nearly four decades later.
- Oh please.
- I always said it was an absolute crime that they let Skylab burn up, and it always seemed glaringly obvious how important it would be to have a waystation (better yet, make that plural) -- as long as we could be bothered to maintain it and build it out as needed.
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-international-space-station-is-more-valuable-than-many-people-realize
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-unexpected-philosophy-icelanders-live-by - life in Iceland
- https://twrp.me/ - some sort of recovery software for Android
- https://ew.com/movies/costume-designers-evolving-female-comic-book-characters-black-widow-loki/ - female costume design in movies; Black Widow
- https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210713-why-introverts-excelled-at-working-from-home - introverts, extroverts, and the pandemic
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/pommes-persillade-potatoes-with-parsley-and-garlic -- recipe
- https://decrypt.co/76424/circle-unveils-backing-behind-dollar-pegged-cryptocurrency - USDCoin
- https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/brain-signals-converted-words-speak-person-paralysis
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBHbLV7xEhc - modelling lunar orbital mechanics to determine if Eagle might still be in orbit
- https://kotaku.com/discord-buys-ai-company-to-combat-a-big-problem-harass-1847292114 - Discord
- https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1415991083939635200?s=19 - Telegram's crypto
- https://wiki.libravatar.org/running_your_own/ - Redmine is apparently compatible with this standard
- Odoo:
- https://twitter.com/AlexPetrovnia/status/1415670096761065472 - Appalachian mountains
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/pandora-s-vox - Pandora
- https://www.si.com/nfl/2021/07/07/jetpacks-willy-suitor-where-are-they-now-2021-daily-cover
- https://rys.io/covid/ - scariest COVID data
- https://www.vox.com/22559293/food-waste-expiration-label-best-before -- food expiration dates
- lawns:
- https://www.prisjakt.no/c/mobiltelefoner?b_11118=1 - cellphones with replaceable batteries
- OnePlus per-app notif sounds:
- https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/different-notification-sound-on-different-apps.854450/ - initial answer claims it's not possible; someone else posts screenshots showing how
- https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/notification-sounds.1359165/
- for some apps, like AquaMail, you may have to enable per-category sounds in the app
- https://www.theringer.com/movies/2021/6/30/22555687/terminator-2-judgement-day-t2-oral-history
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-2010s-is-the-decade-we-finally-stopped-obsessing-over-how-a-man-should-dress -- in case it comes up again...
- https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/110377/china-digital-yuan-test-programmable-chengdu
- https://decrypt.co/75035/what-dfinitys-internet-computer-means-for-the-future-of-crypto
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-alberta-won-the-rat-race
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/journey-to-antarctica-is-this-what-a-climate-catastrophe-looks-like-in-real-time -- Antarctica glacier melting
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/when-did-americans-lose-their-british-accents
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-get-rid-of-cockroaches-for-good-according-to-bug-experts - at least one claim in this article (that bug bombs are ineffective against cockroaches) is wrong. Also, it's still advising that you buy a ready-made formula rather than just making the stuff from household ingredients.
- https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/crows-are-self-aware-and-know-what-they-know-just-like-humans
- http://www.nostalgickitscentral.com/heath/heathkit.html Heathkit
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/5-ridiculously-easy-chicken-bites-with-only-2-ingredients
- https://twitter.com/v21/status/1412768526813827077 - Audacity fork maintainer stabbed by 4chan mob
- https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity - Audacity fork
- Bitcoin:
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbrett/2021/07/08/are-institutional-investors-undervaluing-the-taproot-upgrade-to-bitcoin/
- https://decrypt.co/75591/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-calls-bitcoin-mathematical-miracle
- https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/110916/jack-dorsey-square-bitcoin-hardware-wallet
- https://www.popsci.com/space/nasa-new-venus-missions-davinci-veritas/ - Venus
- https://www.quora.com/Why-is-USB-C-necessary-when-the-previous-USB-was-adequate-to-accomplish-everyday-tasks/answer/Andrew-Silverman-10
- https://symfony.com/doc/current/the-fast-track/en/index.html
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-boy-who-saved-batman
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-decade-of-music-is-lost-on-your-ipod-these-are-the-deleted-years-now-let-us-praise-them
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-long-linguistic-journey-to-dagnabbit -- taboo deformation
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-brontosaurus-is-back -- history of "brontosaurus"
- https://obsidian.md/features - proprietary, but may have some good ideas for Wikcess
- https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor/ - converts ASCII diagrams into SVG images
- the Loki TV show: