Links for April 2024
NYTimes: This Artificially Intelligent Pin Wants to Free You From Your Phone
Nope: "To unlock the device with a passcode, hold out your hand to project a green laser onto your palm. Pulling your hand outward increases the number while pulling it inward decreases it, and you select each digit by pinching two fingers on the same hand." #ml #humane
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Why did all the Little Chefs disappear?
Little Chef promise to swap your empty plate for our lollypop. Can't have been cheap. #littlechef
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San Francisco’s Train System Still Uses Floppy Disks - and Will for Years
“The system is currently working just fine, but we know that with each increasing year, risk of data degradation on the floppy disks increases and that at some point there will be a catastrophic failure,” - maybe save $400M with a floppy emulator and a USB stick? #sfmta #muni #sanfrancisco
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Links for March 2024
InfoWorld: White House urges developers to dump C and C++
Developers urge White House to dump Electoral College and supermajority cloture. #politics #electoralcollege #cloture #c #c++
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The New Yorker: What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain?
"In messages during the pandemic, he referred to ministers as “useless fuckpigs,” “morons,” and “cunts.” The inquiry’s lawyer asked Cummings if he thought his language had been too strong. “I would say, if anything, it understated the position,” he replied." This is a depressing but definitive read as we wait for the UK election to be announced. #politics #uk
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Links for February 2024
Trident missile test fails for second time in a row
We should be kicked off the security council until we can make this work. #uk #trident
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Links for December 2023
The Washington Post: “Do I Know You?” examines what it's like to have face blindness - The Washington Post
I'm on the who the hell are you end of this spectrum. #prosopagnosia
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Tom's Guide: By the way, did you know Alexa's annoying suggestions can be turned off? Here's how
Alexa, stop by the way apparently. Saving for future use. #alexa #shutup
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Bridgy Fed
The docs suggest just passing a fragment will post part of a page but this doesn't seem to work, so testing again with a parameter as well... #ithcwy
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San Francisco Examiner: How to download new Muni app on Apple App Store, Google Play | Transit
A new app and a new account... Is this just to escape the 2.8 rating? #muni #sfmta #sanfrancisco
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Links for November 2023
The 'New' label from the New Microsoft Teams Taskbar Icon.
Go vote for this! I can't cope without a notification icon badge in Teams.
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Links for April 2023
It’s Not ‘Deaths of Despair.’ It’s Deaths of Children.
Defund the #GOP
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Fuck the Monarchy
+1
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Links for March 2023
Why Poverty Persists in America
"In 2020, Americans spent $1.6 billion just to cash checks."
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Links for February 2023
Fuck You, You Fat-Headed Roald Dahl-Censoring Fuckers
#RoaldDahl
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Full Dianne Feinstein Resignation Speech
#DianneFeinstein resignation, worth watching in full.
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Links for December 2022
'5G makes my phone pretty worthless'
It does suck. Can we switch it off until it's working?
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Serious Eats: The Best Garlic Presses of 2022
This headline is exhausting.
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SFGATE: San Franciscans 'appalled' at New York Times crossword error
Typical Big Pear behavior...
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The New York Times: Berlin Hotel's Huge Aquarium Bursts, With 1500 Fish Inside
Avoid the fish special for the next few months...
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Review Geek: Can’t Hear Dialogue on TV? Here’s How to Fix It
Tell the children to shut the fuck up?
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Saved stories keep reappearing in Google News
My new hobby: trying to remove saved articles from #GoogleNews