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Revision as of 23:32, 8 October 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):
- 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
- Known: site
- HumHub: site, about (Wikipedia)
- Tiki Wiki: site, software overview and model (Wikipedia)
- 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/
- https://restofworld.org/2022/el-salvador-bitcoin/
- GoLang:
- https://www.uradmonitor.com/ - global radiation monitor map
- Palmitoylethanolamide in Autism Spectrum Disorder
- https://encyclopedia.pub/ - add to list of reference works
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-many-lives-of-leonard-cohen-s-hallelujah
- https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/sideloading.html - on the "iOS: love it or leave it" mentality
- https://theconversation.com/with-teen-mental-health-deteriorating-over-five-years-theres-a-likely-culprit-86996 - sure, blame the messenger
- Owncast:
- https://owncast.online/releases/owncast-0.0.11/ - federates with ActivityPub
- US Military Manual Collection
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQk-h9xWmpM - Beau describes
- https://www.npr.org/2022/03/27/1088140809/fake-linkedin-profiles - AI-generated profiles for marketing
- https://www.vulture.com/article/blue-man-group-oral-history.html - Blue Man Group
- https://www.popsci.com/technology/researchers-plan-subsea-cable-installation-antarctica/ - Antarctica internet
- https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/overview
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKToLGYN0QQ - Beau teaches self-defense (2020)
April
- https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/mar/19/hannah-gadsby-autism-diagnosis-little-out-of-whack - Hannah Gadsby, autism
- https://theconversation.com/adhd-looks-different-in-adults-here-are-4-signs-to-watch-for-178639 ADHD
- https://merveilles.town/@neauoire/108074724876226042 - permacomputing
- https://creacher.club/@beehiveth/108068862689602194 - full set of moderation policy emoji
- https://post.lurk.org/@freebliss/107889233183211150 - self-hosted static HTML alternative to Bandcamp, written in Rust
- 2018-11-08 The Curse of the Honeycrisp Apple
- https://www.facebook.com/RainbowCollectiveforChange/ - Durham, NC LGBTQ+ group
- https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/04/pathways-language-model-palm-scaling-to.html
- https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/108080911700424137 «in this post Google's AI team describes replacing code that doesn't compile with code that does compile, does something different, and now includes exploitable buffer overflow errors as "advancing the state of the art."»
- https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1049061/dalle-openai-gpt3-ai-agi-multimodal-image-generation/amp/
- https://kolektiva.social/@decolonialatlas/108070053443789347
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/7/2090611/-Fossils-of-animals-killed-by-the-asteroid-found
- https://twitter.com/Azure_Husky/status/1420177932518137862 - trans SF
- https://nodum.org/antonov-an225-mriya/
- https://phys.org/news/2022-02-scientists-material-absorb-enormous-amounts.html -- materials science, energy storage
- https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57318294 - PayPal, eBay
- https://www.guilded.gg/ - proprietary Discord clone
- https://tildegit.org/ploum/offpunk
- https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-saddest-truth-about-poor-people/answer/Jess-Burde-Mahler - some food for thought re money management and poverty
- transcription footpedals (via):
- https://news.mit.edu/2022/thermal-heat-engine-0413
- https://hbr.org/2022/04/onboarding-can-make-or-break-a-new-hires-experience
- https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/23003195/immunocompromised-immunosuppressed-covid-pandemic
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/bci-lets-completely-locked-in-man-communicate-with-his-son-ask-for-a-beer/
- https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#release-files - yt-dlp: apparently a better-maintained and more powerful alternative to youtube-dl
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/nukes-nubs-and-coners-the-unique-social-hierarchy-aboard-a-nuclear-submarine - life in a nuclear submarine
- https://www.thedrive.com/news/33645/the-incredible-story-of-the-us-armys-earth-shaking-off-road-land-trains - land-trains
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/04/shameful-insteon-looks-dead-just-like-its-users-smart-homes/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-problem-with-hey-guys
- https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-ask-for-help-without-discomfort-or-apology - asking for help
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-vindication-of-cheese-butter-and-full-fat-milk - drinking whole milk isn't bad for life-expectancy, who knew.
- https://indyweek.com/news/durham/durhams-harriet-tubman-ywca-will-be-renovated-for-affordabl/ - Reinvestment Partners
- https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/why-you-should-upgrade-your-face-mask-to-an-n95.html
- https://twitter.com/peytonology/status/1516612189687324673?t=kh_71YyHPDlhKkCwLWmLpw&s=19 - Louisa May Alcott was very likely a trans man
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8103230/ - Dunbar's number and such
- https://transferfile.io/#/ - free filesharing over IPFS, up to 32 GB per upload
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/apparently-the-bronts-all-died-so-early-because-they-spent-their-lives-drinking-graveyard-water - an example of the importance of basic public health measures
- https://www.vulture.com/2022/04/netflix-bad-decisions-have-caught-up-with-it.html
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-2-billion-mall-rats - shopping malls and Wall Street
- https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/04/20/1093153651/a-4-year-old-can-run-errands-alone-and-not-just-on-reality-tv - parenting
- https://jarv.is/notes/cloudflare-dns-archive-is-blocked/ - Cloudflare is actually being the responsible party here
- https://birb.site/@charlag/108223370773398915 - thing to enable on Mastodon
- https://mastodon.nz/@pezmico/108241387013565809 - lawns
May
- https://incompetech.com/wordpress/ - royalty-free music, graph paper...
- AIML: syntax for chatbots, because apparently that's what AI means now
- https://mastodon.social/@SexyCyborg/108246685520763168 - open-source virus-zapping UV lamp
- https://bookwyrm.social/ - federated book-reviewing, alternative to GoodReads
- https://www.otherpower.com/off-grid-battery-guide
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rechargeable-molten-salt-battery-freezes-energy-in-place-for-long-term-storage/ https://archive.ph/HAFbq
- alternative search engines (h/t):
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/03331024221097932 - some science on migraines
- https://www.openculture.com/2022/05/two-decades-of-fire-island-dj-sets-get-unearthed-digitized-put-online.html - disco history
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-delete-facebook-instagram-and-whatsapp-and-take-your-data-with-you
- https://interestingengineering.com/blue-green-algae-computer-six-months
- https://tilde.zone/@dzwdz/107541375234701530 - Actually Simple Syndication: non-XML alternative to RSS
- https://broken.graphics/@alinanorakari/108282798008700316 - autism late self-diagnosis
- https://tastecooking.com/the-utopian-promises-and-novelty-cheese-of-a-discount-grocery-store/
- https://news.ki.se/video-games-can-help-boost-childrens-intelligence - it's a pretty small effect, though, and they didn't look at any other possible consequences
- http://www.pmail.com/newsflash.htm - GMail basically closing off IMAP access to indy developers
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/05/google-backtracks-on-legacy-gsuite-account-shutdown-wont-take-user-emails/
- https://hackers.town/@feonixrift/108320971183635520 - Bitcoin was literally a textbook example of a bad idea
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25-U3jNWM - Nina Simone: "Mississippi Goddam" live
- https://www.nola.com/news/hurricane/article_14819230-d6d8-11ec-84fc-df8c1567a278.html
- https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity - built-from-scratch *nix distro, looks like Win98
- https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/21/23079058/apple-self-service-iphone-repair-kit-hands-on
- https://hackers.town/@lori/108339956075222356 «this is a fucking joke, apple»
- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/14/internet-infrastructure-needs-updating-more-blackouts-will-happen
- https://www.discoverdurham.com/
- https://www.durhamnightmarket.com/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/narcissistic-relationships-how-to-identify-the-4-subtle-steps-a-narcissist-takes-before-invading
- https://www.thebeachmart.com/ - Holden Beach, NC
- https://www.comicsbeat.com/opinion-kickstarter-wont-explain-their-blockchain-protocol-so-i-will/
- https://www.bullcityfamilymedicineandpediatrics.com/family-medicine/
- https://www.statnews.com/2022/05/25/viruses-that-were-on-hiatus-during-covid-are-back-and-behaving-in-unexpected-ways/
- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01458-9 - lost civilization in the Amazon
- https://mastodon.social/@SexyCyborg/108246685520763168 = open-source virus-zapper UV lamp
- Holden Beach, NC:
- https://todon.eu/@maxi/108356307151802104 - how to prevent scrollbars from hiding in Firefox
- https://mylordshesacactus.tumblr.com/post/170401018158/please-make-a-post-about-the-story-of-the-rms - the story of the RMS Carapathia's rescue of the Titanic survivors
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-again-of-msg - monosodium glutamate
- https://clyderathbone.substack.com/p/in-good-company?s=r - feels like they were solving the wrong problem, and have now been rewarded for that
June
- https://www.avclub.com/elliot-page-reflects-juno-premiere-wearing-a-dress-1849007458 - transgendrity
- https://hackers.town/@theruran/108406341268339672
- https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201117-clean-shipping-the-carbon-negative-cargo-boats-made-of-wood
- https://toot.cat/@Coreyja/108324481610755129 - tldr, command-line help tool which gives examples
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fDJXmqdN-A - AI music video
- https://github.com/git-noter/gitnoter - open-source alternative to Evernote
- https://pitchfork.com/features/article/the-obsessive-world-of-digital-music-collectors/
- https://pitchfork.com/features/article/everything-you-need-to-build-your-own-digital-music-collection/ - are they promoting "music collecting" as a thing now?
- https://www.npr.org/2022/05/27/1096584260/clean-energy-hydrogen-energy-climate-change
- https://www.kialo.com/ and https://www.kialo-edu.com/ - debate platform. Its problem seems to be that it sees truth-finding as a flat weighing of arguments against each other
- https://resist.org/ - activism org
- https://hbr.org/2020/03/whats-really-holding-women-back
- https://www.quora.com/Why-do-many-Tesla-owners-say-theyll-never-go-back-to-another-brand/answer/Max-Poshusta
- https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a40011366/elliot-page-umbrella-academy-euphoria/ - being trans
- https://www.404pagefound.com/ - still-active vintage web sites
- https://g.livejournal.com/10829.html
- https://www.thecut.com/2022/06/pain-in-gynecology-practice-exams.html
- https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2022-06-07/novemeber-rain-guns-n-roses-music-video-making-of-30th-anniversary - November Rain
- https://www.openculture.com/2019/01/free-download-thousands-of-ottoman-era-photographs-that-have-been-digitized-and-put-online.html
- https://www.openculture.com/2022/06/the-history-of-the-byzantine-empire-or-east-roman-empire.html - visual geographical history of the Byzantine Empire
- https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/06/american-high-school-later-start-time/661211/
- http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html - naming of UNIX system folders (/bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, etc.)
- https://openinframap.org/ - infrastructure-oriented view of OpenStreetMap
- guess I should start collecting links about civilizational collapse:
- https://blogbyjoshcogliati.blogspot.com/2021/05/public-domain-books-to-restart-computer.html
- https://kotaku.com/bethesda-zenimax-fallout-76-crunch-development-1849033233
- https://toot.cat/@FiXato/108475889866135772 - some personal tech history: video game rental
- https://curtistreeclimbing.com/ - Durham; recommended by someone in StringThng
- https://zagria.blogspot.com/ - lots of trans/genderqueer history
- https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-the-clone-wars-chronological-episodeorder - Star Wars: The Clone Wars official chronological episode order
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-battle-mold-and-mildew-in-your-home - mold and mildew removal
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/20/yoko-onos-art-of-defiance - Yoko Ono
- https://geekd-out.com/andromeda-fall-federation/ - a post-Federation Star Trek by a different name
- https://docs.flutter.dev/get-started/install/linux - I think this is a desktop IDE for Android development
- https://www.grid.news/story/science/2022/06/13/the-giant-black-hole-at-the-center-of-our-galaxy-isnt-all-that-gentle/ - Sagittarius A*
- https://www.theringer.com/movies/2022/6/14/23166006/up-first-10-minutes-making-of - Up
- https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jun/11/does-anyone-ever-really-feel-grown-up-i-ask-older-people-to-find-out - aging, adulting
- https://lifehacker.com/what-to-say-when-a-recruiter-asks-your-salary-requireme-1849058068 - salary negotiation
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-captain-beefheart-s-trout-mask-replica-still-sounds-like-tomorrow - Trout Mask Replica
- https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/comments/vf7yu2/found_sesame_street_847_margaret_hamilton_wicked/ - banned(?) episode of Sesame Street featuring Margaret Hamilton as The Wicked Witch
- https://www.openculture.com/2022/06/george-harrison-breaks-down-abbey-road-track-by-track-on-the-day-of-its-release-september-26-1969.html - Abbey Road
- https://www.openculture.com/2022/06/an-introduction-to-stanislaw-lem-the-great-polish-sci-fi-writer-by-jonathan-lethem.html - Stanislaw Lem
- https://passiton.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page - UK orgs which accept items to "pass on"
- https://timotijhof.net/posts/2022/internet-archive-crawling/
- https://www.altogetherautism.org.nz/a-time-and-space-for-takiwatanga/ - autism, Maori, NZ
- https://apnews.com/article/technology-entertainment-music-rick-astley-72dc7faf85f3e2b907df74a9a227bf52 - Rick Astley, rickroll, "Never Gonna Give You Up"
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-monster-ships-that-changed-how-we-travel - history of cruise ships
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/overexposed-a-history-of-fotomat - Fotomat
July
- https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-better-economically-to-run-a-car-into-the-ground-before-buying-a-new-one/answer/Steve-Baker-100 - cost-per-year of owning a car, depending on how long you keep it
- https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/singular-they-history
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/thai-red-curry-noodle-soup
- https://indieweb.social/@web3isgreat
- https://cybre.space/@niconiconi/108537922723555050 - ITU; open-access alternative to ISO and IEC.
- http://pilimi.org/ - pirate library mirror (includes something called zlib)
- https://monzo.com/us/ - UK-based but now offering services in US
- Crowdcube: equity crowdfunding
- https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/isrib-drug-reverses-age-related-mental-decline-within-days-in-mice/ - aging reversal
- https://github.com/digitalworkersguild/banchan - Banchan Art, a product of the Digital Workers Guild [1]
- https://www.ueunion.org/stwd_tipsrununmtg.html - how decisionmaking IRL meetings can go bad, and some better rules (if you have to do things IRL)
- https://cybre.space/@artemis/108619462121309751 - firmware bug causes certain SanDisk model to self-brick after about 40k hours
- https://www.quora.com/If-someone-just-left-a-cruise-ship-floating-in-the-open-sea-how-many-years-would-it-take-to-sink-out-of-disrepair/answer/John-Turner-579 - construction of cruise ships
- https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/failed-squad-goals/ - Spotify, organizational management
- SMS API services:
- https://www.onlineathens.com/story/news/local/2021/05/13/athens-brooklyn-cemetery-revitalized-thanks-advocates-families/5025349001/ - revitalized cemetery in US/GA/Athens
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/when-did-shaking-hands-become-a-standard-way-of-greeting-someone - hand-shaking
https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/scientists-turn-nuclear-waste-into-diamond-batteries-that-could-last-1-000-s-of-years- https://xtramagazine.com/love-sex/why-are-queer-people-so-mean-to-each-other-160978 (archive.ph) - in case I didn't already stash this link
- https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-biggest-design-flaw-to-ever-occur-in-history-How-was-it-fixed-if-it-was/answer/Lynda-Rea - is this in Wikipedia?
- https://homeholidayguide.quora.com/Did-anyone-ever-fly-Concorde-before-it-was-terminated-in-2003-Was-the-experience-much-different-from-a-regular-commerci-27 - Concorde experiences
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-trailblazing-doctor-who-helped-a-mob-boss-cheat-death-and-changed-history - touches on a lot of stuff
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/they-could-be-the-visionaries-of-our-world-do-overemotional-people-hold-the-key-to-happiness - apparently a reprint from The Guardian, 2021-11-15
- TI/TMS9900:
- https://spectrum.ieee.org/chip-hall-of-fame-texas-instruments-tms9900
- https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-inside-story-of-texas-instruments-biggest-blunder-the-tms9900-microprocessor
- https://hackers.town/@vertigo/108655563785474197 - IEEE article above may be an example of what this is talking about
- https://www.unige.ch/medecine/nouspikel/ti99/tms9900.htm
- Texas Instruments TMS9900
- https://medium.com/@jankammerath/a-tale-from-30-years-of-html-ef4d11069d28
- https://pijul.org/
- https://archive.ph/wHGRS - why is Git so hard to learn?
- https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220710-the-empire-the-aztecs-couldnt-conquer - «The P'urhépechas were one of the only indigenous groups in Mexico the Aztecs failed to conquer – but despite that feat, they were nearly lost to history.»
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-biggest-ancient-city-youve-probably-never-heard-of-is-in-illinois - Cahokia Mounds
- https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-controversial-plan-to-unleash-the-mississippi/ - Mississippi River, US/LA
- https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/10/tech/bluetooth-technology-headache/index.html
- https://trivialfis.github.io/linux/2018/06/10/Using-guix-for-development.html Guix
- Toki Pona
- https://www.vox.com/recode/23270179/sea-machines-mayflower-self-driving-boats-autonomous-ai
- https://dzuk.zone/emoji - free emoji packs
- https://www.quora.com/I-m-curious-as-to-why-auto-manufacturers-need-to-continue-making-cars-with-computers-in-them-Seems-that-we-COULD-go-back-to-cars-that-were-purely-mechanical-They-were-much-easier-to-work-on-Is-it-just-a-matter-of/answer/Brad-Post-1 - how computers make cars better
- https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/taimen/install "they seem to have boiled it down to a single page here" ... "usually the hard part is getting adb/fastboot installed on the pc in the first place after that it's just pushing bits around" - for Nexus 2xl (aka "taimen")
- https://expmag.com/2022/07/remnants-of-ancient-civilizations-are-all-around-us-how-much-can-we-uncover/
- https://maps.dot.gov/BTS/NationalTransportationNoiseMap/ - transportation noise map
- https://system7.app/ - MacIntosh System 7 simulator in a web page
- https://www.quantamagazine.org/two-weeks-in-the-webb-space-telescope-is-reshaping-astronomy-20220725/ -- JWST
- https://www.businessinsider.com/james-howells-wants-2-robot-dogs-help-find-bitcoin-dump-2022-7
- https://www.axios.com/2022/07/25/sunset-social-network-facebook-tiktok
August
- https://news.mit.edu/2022/ultrasound-stickers-0728 - interior view of the body
- https://lifehacker.com/how-your-teenager-s-friendships-can-impact-their-adulth-1849326001 - not a deep analysis, but at least acknowledging a truth that is often denied.
- https://github.com/mifi/editly - CLI video editor, seems to be at least trying for usability...
To rotate a video 90 degrees, try:
$INPUTVIDEO='input.mp4' $OUTPUTVIDEO='output.mp4' ffmpeg -i $INPUTVIDEO -metadata:s:v rotate="-90" -codec copy $OUTPUTVIDEO
- note that the "rotate" parameter is absolute. The meta on the file may already be -90, if the video was recorded on a phone in photo-orientation, so you'd want to use 0 or 180.
- possibly additional tips & tricks here:
- https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sqlite
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/record-short-days-could-speed-up-debate-on-leap-seconds/
- https://lobste.rs/about - technically-oriented link aggregator/discussion
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/let-s-cut-the-b-s-around-bone-broth-here-s-what-it-is-and-how-to-make-it-yourself - bone broth
- https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-have-solar-panels-installed-on-your-homes-roof-Are-the-savings-worth-it-What-are-some-of-the-drawbacks-and-what-are-some-things-most-people-wouldnt-realize-unless-they-had-experience-with-solar-panels/answer/Thom-Westergren-1 - thing to watch for / design around
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/grace-paley-on-the-art-of-growing-older - Grace Paley, aging
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-witnesses - UFOs
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-maya-ruins-at-uxmal-still-have-more-stories-to-tell
- https://obsidian.md/
- https://www.optimistdaily.com/2021/09/rotterdam-becomes-home-to-the-worlds-largest-floating-office/
- https://www.optimistdaily.com/2022/08/norwegian-cohousing-encourages-social-connection-and-sustainable-living/
- https://slate.com/culture/2022/08/beyonce-renaissance-lizzo-spaz-ableist-slur-lyrics-history.html - the only time I ever heard the word "spastic" used to refer to a disability was when I lived in England, 1973-4. There was a "spastic" kid at the school. His name was Bobby; he got around on crutches and it looked very difficult and maybe painful. I don't remember anyone ever explaining to me what "spastic" actually meant, beyond "the thing Bobby has".
- https://extrowerk.com/2022/07/31/OpenStick/ - hacking a wifi-hotspot modem
- https://www.thecut.com/2022/08/helping-my-mom-make-friends.html - friendship and aging
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/man-who-built-isp-instead-of-paying-comcast-50k-expands-to-hundreds-of-homes/
- https://truthaboutrussia.quora.com/Why-would-Finland-not-just-give-up-if-Russia-invaded-them-They-would-lose-so-why-kill-your-own-population-16 - nuclear bunker designed to house entire population of Helsinki
- SQLite:
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-to-tell-if-you-re-being-breadcrumbed-in-a-relationship-friendship-or-at-work
- https://www.stylist.co.uk/relationships/how-to-identify-narcissistic-relationships/611159
- https://www.wired.com/story/machine-learning-reproducibility-crisis/
- https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/8/10/23300032/air-conditioner-planet-climate-change-heat-pumps - seems to focus on A/C's power-draw as the main issue, but if we move to locally-generated solar, doesn't that become less of a problem? ...especially for smaller buildings.
- https://permacomputing.net/
- https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1559233605850783744 - Signal security hack enabled by Twilio phishing attack
- The desktop app doesn't have that option, as far as I can tell.
- I guess I'm irritated enough at Signal's habit of treating desktop as a second-class target (and tying everything to phone numbers, which seemed like a bad security call from the very beginning) that I'll just deal if someone manages to re-register a device with my phone number. That would be the one time I'd be glad that new devices can't import old data/contact (though I still wish existing devices could explicitly send that data over).
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-heat-pumps-can-help-fight-global-warming
- https://social.coop/@jonny/108835379495867720 - deeply insecure voting at Hackernoon
- https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/18/23206110/james-webb-space-telescope-javascript-jwst-instrument-control
- https://www.quora.com/Whats-good-about-being-eighty-years-old/answer/David-McPhee-1 - aging
- https://www.digitalbazaar.com/about-us «As a non-venture capital backed design house, we have a fairly unique approach to the business of technology creation. Being privately held, and focused on the long-term, we are able to give extra attention to enriching the public good.»
- https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld11/ - JSON-LD: JSON microformat for linked data (trees/webs)
- how to "destroy" "forever chemicals":
- https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/unix.html - a simple UNIX reference page
- https://www.curbed.com/2022/08/nyc-trash-landfill-incineration-recycling-compost-voyage-gross.html - what about garbage, where does it go
- https://annehelen.substack.com/p/what-to-actually-do-about-an-unequal - gender politics and domestic inequality
- https://readfrom.net/lois-mcmaster-bujold/page,1,355688-falling_free_vorkosigan_saga.html - free books online, including Lois McMaster Bujold's Falling Free
- https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2022/05/07/unix-cli/ - more UNIX stuff
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/ake3j5/why-does-everything-on-netflix-look-like-that - Netflix and video tech
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/29/john-and-yoko-take-manhattan - 1972 article about John and Yoko
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/quantum-leaps-long-assumed-to-be-instantaneous-take-time
- https://hub.vilarejo.pro.br/channel/gadgeteer?mid=b64.aHR0cHM6Ly9odWIudmlsYXJlam8ucHJvLmJyL2l0ZW0vNTRmMDVlNzEtODg2MS00YzM1LWE4NzItMWVlNzk4M2VmOTE3 - USB spy cable
- https://toot.cat/@clarfonthey/107902154041990847 - USB-C and DC power-delivery
- https://mastodon.social/@prokoudine/108753888023070247 - open-source audio editors that are not Audacity
- https://toot.cat/web/@SuricrasiaOnline@cybre.space/108889757610104107 - Blackle's Mastodon thread exporter
- https://toot.cat/@woozle/108895043055241572 - mspy, a parental spy app
- Linux/KDE development:
- https://github.com/OdyseeTeam - Odysee: apparently only the clients are open source
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-lot-fell-into-place-the-adults-who-discovered-they-were-autistic-after-their-child-was-diagnosed
- https://www.pcmag.com/picks/quitting-twitter-try-these-alternative-social-media-networks
- https://devforum.zoom.us/t/annoying-ibus-dependency-in-zoom-deb-files/67293/21 -- Zoom
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-thoughts-of-a-spiderweb
September
- https://spy24.app/ - another parental spy app
- They tried to set up a spam account on TootCat, too
- https://www.wired.com/story/cell-to-chassis-batteries-electric-vehicles/
- https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220826-why-plastic-doesnt-dry-in-the-dishwasher
- https://creator.nightcafe.studio/ - AI art generator
- https://www.science.org/content/article/voyager-steroids-mission-probe-mysterious-region-beyond-solar-system - interstellar probe proposal
- https://www.inquirer.com/transportation/a/septa-trolley-philadelphia-rebuilding-20220904.html - maintaining/resurrecting Philly's ancient trolley cars
- https://www.spectrum.net/support/internet/understanding-email-error-codes - Spectrum is also doing email defederation «If you’re a Spectrum customer using a Spectrum-issued IP, contact us. If you’re using an IP address other than one provided by Spectrum, blocks will remain in place until they expire.» Our server's address has been blocked for over a year.
- https://www.ietf.org/media/documents/IETF-114-COVID-Mitigation-Analysis.pdf
- https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a41083545/adhd-in-adult-women/ - ADHD
- https://time.com/6208598/nasa-moon-rocket-artemis-sls/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/personal-finance-books-wrong/671298/ - academic advice on personal finance does not take reality into account
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-length-of-earth-s-days-has-been-mysteriously-increasing-and-scientists-don-t-know-why
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/micromanipulation-the-covert-tactic-that-narcissists-use-in-arguments-to-reassert-control - narcissism
- https://cadence.moe/blog/2022-09-01-discontinuing-bibliogram - jumping through hoops to access Instagram
- https://waldenlabs.com/17-open-source-hardware-projects/ - some of these are metaprojects, i.e. collections of open-source hardware stuff
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-QxLAxwxkM - an audiophile hoax thoroughly squashed
- https://aspiechattr.me/@TechNews/108985557847555321
- https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform-browser-project/
- https://serenityos.org/ - SerenityOS: looks like Win98SE, but it's *nix; looks like there's no ISO yet, though. "runs on Linux"
- https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform-browser-project/
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/09/12/ive-experienced-brain-fog-and-no-thank-you-very-much/
- https://sundaylongread.com/2022/09/09/the-american-malls-long-goodbye/ - how mall culture has... changed? (evaporated?)
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-the-velvet-hammer-is-a-better-way-to-give-constructive-criticism - dispute communication
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-vindication-of-cheese-butter-and-full-fat-milk - dietary health beliefs «“I think the big news here is that even though there is this conventional wisdom that whole-fat dairy is bad for heart disease, we didn’t find that,” says Marcia de Oliveira Otto, the lead researcher of the study and an assistant professor of epidemiology, human genetics, and environmental science at the University of Texas School of Public Health. “And it’s not only us. A number of recent studies have found the same thing.”»
- https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220912-four-health-conscious-cities-putting-pedestrians-first - post-automobility
- https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-standing-in-the-floppy-disk-business/
- https://www.cnet.com/science/climate/features/the-ghosts-of-antarctica-will-haunt-the-end-of-the-world/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/technology/uber-hacking-breach.html
- https://kvlt.zone/@infernusgoatus/109008459350498279 - a good word-origins summary for "pound" and related stuff
- https://social.platypush.tech/@blacklight/109006602164997963 - formal paper: training neural nets on battery-powered devices
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-7-safest-mushrooms-to-forage-and-eat
- https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-7663-27b7-2b4d-337609516941 - on why "there were no autistic people in the past"
- https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/internet-archive-national-emergency-library-lawsuit.html
- https://harihareswara.net/posts/2022/what-you-miss-by-only-checking-github/
- https://medium.com/yardcouch-com/youtube-is-dead-and-something-new-is-replacing-it-14d061c2f0cb - argues that TikTok will replace YouTube. Maybe I'm just old, but... where is the value in only being able to post short videos? (and in portrait orientation, at that?)
- https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-there-is-an-ancient-alien-satellite-which-is-known-as-the-Black-Knight/answer/Tom-Watkins-11 - a debunked UFO
- https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/xn8ejc/whats_new_in_php_82/ - PHP 8.2
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/beloved-browser-extension-acquired-by-non-beloved-antivirus-firm/ - Avast, I don't care about cookies
- https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/09/darth-vaders-voice-emanated-from-war-torn-ukraine - Star Wars, Ukraine
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/09/experts-debate-the-ethics-of-linkedins-algorithm-experiments-on-20m-users/ LinkedIn
- https://neuroclastic.com/calling-level-3-support-needs-severe-autism-blocks-self-advocacy/ - autism
- https://www.tiktok.com/@orions_charge/video/7052732087740140847 - autism and hierarchy in the workplace; unspoken but enforced expectations; clear communication perceived as a threat
- https://fedi.monster/ - Mastodon managed hosting
- https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/09/reuse-old-iphone-recycle-electronic-waste/671459/ - basically, cellphones cannot be recycled
- https://octodon.social/@craigmaloney/108902620694660900 - some discussion of the impacts of Discord within the chat-software space. Note particular the thing about how IRC gives you an initial list of channels -- any Discord replacement should do something like that, possibly leveraging torrents/federation
- https://toot.cat/@anubis2814/109075076669459407 «Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 lowers the risk of long COVID after infection by only about 15%, according to a study of more than 13 million people» COVID-19/chronic
- https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/09/matrix-patches-vulnerabilities-that-completely-subvert-e2ee-guarantees/ - Matrix
- https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/09/never-before-seen-malware-has-infected-hundreds-of-linux-and-windows-devices/
- https://news.yahoo.com/why-rest-lot-covid-19-131540929.html COVID-19
- https://twitter.com/jeffgilchrist/status/1574709291520593923 - Jeff Gilchrist - COVID-19: Things everyone should know (Part 2: Transmission & Protection)
- https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220925-the-ancient-remains-of-great-zimbabwe - non-Eurasian archaeometropolis
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2022/09/25/music-taste-personality-traits/ - cognitive stuff that relates to musical taste
October
- https://tech.lgbt/@kolbychez/109088142664992618 - Go language
- https://twitter.com/VoiceQuills/status/1495242394249404420 - trans voice training
- https://ghuntley.com/fracture/ - VSCode, embrace/enhance/extinguish, and all kinds of fascinating interrelated Microsoft profitary BS
- https://thehustle.co/how-one-of-americas-last-piano-manufacturers-stays-alive/ - US piano manufacturing; Steinway, Mason & Hamlin
- Replicode
- https://www.saveur.com/techniques/how-to-use-fresh-herbs/ - storage and forms for usage
- https://www.ifixit.com/News/66194/apples-new-airpods-are-telling-users-to-replace-the-batteries-already-too-bad-thats-impossible - Apple AirPods are antisustainable
- https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/6/23391895/meta-facebook-horizon-worlds-vr-social-network-too-buggy-leaked-memo