Tabs for September 1st 2023
- Being glue. Recognisable patterns for engineers but... everyone else?
- Google moderating sync'd tabs
- Resurrecting an 11" MBA with Linux
- Grotesque human body implosion animation
- Aqueous Photographs by Maria Svarbova Synchronize Swimmers Within Cavernous Soviet-Era Pools
- ‘Oh my god’: live worm found in Australian woman’s brain in world-first discovery
- A group of Philadelphians erased $1.6 million in local medical debt. They celebrated with an unofficial debt burning.
- Gossip on the Tusky project
- UK air traffic shit the bed. Who knew that the system everyone said was going to be bad, was bad?
- Detect missing adblock plugin. A popup warning to warn you that you don't have adblock installed!
- Loch Ness Monster search ends without evidence of existence
- How Midjourney Reads a Mugshot
- Dee Forbes signs off on accounts for private gated community after ill health prevents attendance at Oireachtas hearings into RTÉ. The grift is real.
- Tesla light adjustment tutorial. Actually useful.
- Web scraping for me, but not for thee
- Adding Waste Coffee Grounds Makes Concrete 30 Percent Stronger
- Growing use of AI in cybersecurity reveals new possibilities
- How to brew v60
- The Gist: How Smart Is Your Meter?. I have a home with a smart meter, and a holiday spot with an old day/night meter. I can assure you, the old tech is better.
- Use OSM for wildfire tracking
- Dublin pubs: Popular boozer Bernard Shaw slapped with closure order over food safety breaches. I know this spot well. Oof.
- Young people might own a house now if they hadn’t watched so many Star Wars spin-offs. Laughed a lot at this.
- Ugly Numbers from Microsoft and ChatGPT Reveal that AI Demand is Already Shrinking
- OpenTF fork
- Noma opens it's shop
- Elon pays out €12m to laid off Irish Twitter employees
- University of Michigan on IA
- Japan struggling to innovate
- Disney+ won't air its already-completed Spiderwick Chronicles show. I know nothing of this show but it shows that streaming platforms are becoming a race to the bottom.
- The mystery of a bridge. Mundane on the surface but this is a brilliant post.
- DDoS posts. Archive of DDoS-acquired data for journalists.
- Cybertruck has serious manufacturing flaws. It's such a specific design with weird materials that any slight imperfection shows up super obvious and wonky.
- Nish Kumar blasts ‘pathological’ obsession with transgender people
- Threads app probe
- Bay leaf conspiracy
- Futuristic movie timeline. It gets worse.
- Software CEO worth almost $12 billion says he goes into the office ‘about once a quarter,’ bucking the return to office trend in Big Tech. To be fair, Atlassian's whole value prop is collaborating via software.
- Model 3 refresh looks great
- Lavoie buys Van Moof. Good to see it saved. Not sure about what the new owners will do different, though.
- IRC turns 35
- Full text search being merged into mastodon. Woo!
- Organic maps
- USB numpad for Linux drawing