Tabs for August 18th 2023
- No Boilerplate explains Obsidian; my text thingy of choice
- Car hacking village @ DEFCON31. I love the content that comes with each annual DEFCON. This is going to get scary, though.
- Our brains were not built for this much uncertainty
- Texts between Zuck & Elon. We are in Idiocracy.
- First ever proper study into period products
- Pi-hole. I hadn’t heard of this as a method to ban ads on the home network.
- AI dating apps are making men worse
- Mick Gordon - Rip & Tear tabs. Was playing this to my 3 year old and he had a great laugh. Especially with some synth tones through a VST.
- Meat Loaf, a flying wheelchair, and the greatest story ever told
- OpenAI may go bankrupt by 2024 with $700,000 daily spend. Christ that’s so inefficient.
- Archetype: Morello. One of my favourite guitarists.
- Trolling a crypto conference
- August flu is probably covid. I know a lot of people who’ve come down with flu’s as of late.
- Moronic billionaire trying to stay young
- LK-99 isn’t a superconductor. Not shocking but the internet ideas and explosive potential change was exciting.
- G-Shock standard time radio wave reception
- Free speech absolutionist throttled access to websites he doesn’t like, then removed the delay when people noticed
- What makes good company values?
- Linus Tech Tips controversy hots up
- Naomi Wu and the silence that speaks volumes. I didn’t know who this was before this week but it’s a fascinating story.
- Reducing the cost of building Twitter at their scale by 100x
- Merc disconnects RU customers
- Covid CTF from DEFCON
- Gardaí close access to ATMs after queues form following glitch with Bank of Ireland app. Ridiculous that people getting attacked doesn’t cause more physical policing presence, but a bank running an overdraft error does.
- You’re a Cyclist Who Was Just Struck by a Car Driver. Here’s Why It Was Your Fault
- AI is being trained on such stupid data
- Self-healing concrete may have preserved ancient structures
- Modular synthesis
- What happens when hackers go after AI
- ‘Muhammad Ali stood out most of all’ - Sir Michael Parkinson
- Managing difficult engineers