Tabs for September 22nd 2023
- US customs will stop buying mobile phone data. Shitty meta-data purchases are big, weird business. But it’s mostly pointless.
- Meduza software vuln used against critics of Putin. At time of linking, the irony, there’s an nginx error on the domain.
- Wales to drop speed limits
- A century of pronouns in sci-fi & fantasy
- Elephant carer on life
- Apple’s polishing cloth supports new phones
- Musk interview with All-In podcast
- Tim Cook interview
- The Rijksmuseum has Digitized 709,000 works of art. Incredible.
- You can’t do more with less. While I agree here, there is a delicate art between asking for too much, and optimising.
- A literary history of fake texts in Apple’s marketing materials
- McGonagles, Dublin: An icon of a gloriously shabby golden age
- Astonomy pic of the day. Stellar. Literally.
- Understanding the origins and evolution of vim
- Obsidian for lab scientists. No relation to anything I do other than using Obsidian, but this is pretty cool!
- Fab video on making coffee for groups. This is my life.
- 38TB of data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers
- Gruesome story on how Neuralink’s monkeys died.
- Dall-e3 is here. And artists have to manually upload their work to “opt out.” Which isn’t much of an “opt out” at all.
- Salad Fingers ep13. TIL Newgrounds is still a thing.
- Klaviyo goes public. Congrats to the folks I know over there!
- Lessons learned from 3 years of Platformer. Good insight into the Substack ecosystem.
- Internet Archive’s emulation station hit a big milestone
- Interesting notes from lean agile Scotland
- Quantum resistance & the Signal protocol. Cool to see how future-proofed they’re attempting to be.
- Hyperloop in 2023, where are they now?. Musk used this as a distraction to not get public transport into Californian’s hands. Gross.
- Public transport in Ireland is going well!. I’ve noticed an uptick in usage, and a huge uptick in cycling. Hoorah!
- The entire financial system is held together by one man
- Open source initiative
- Research into distant galaxies yields interesting results
- Dropping the iPhones decent iFixIt scores. 4 out of 10 still seems high.
- ‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla — Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota — Flunks Privacy Test
- SANS ICS HyperEncabulator. “Despite zero interest from industry, the SANS ICS security team has taken it upon themselves to develop an entirely new level of encabulation; unresponsive to the needs of the average consumer.”
- Widget spinner
- David Brooks
- What’s it like to compete against Google?
- Mastodon 4.2