Weeklog for Week 6: February 05 to February 11
Progress
Not as much as I'd hoped.
Articles
- Netflix: Piracy is Difficult to Compete Against and Growing Rapidly * TorrentFreak
- The man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy case -- Games -- The Guardian
- Blog - How I Also Hacked my Car
- Viral protein fragments may unlock mystery behind serious COVID-19 outcomes -- UCLA
- Why Isn’t the \<html> Element 100% Supported on CanIUse.com? -- anderegg.ca
- Relativistic Spaceship
- Pluralistic: Apple to EU: “Go fuck yourself” (06 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- The Big Cloud Exit FAQ: A company exiting the cloud, as I'd predicted long ago.
- Puzzling prehistoric artifacts served a practical purpose: ropemaking -- Science -- AAAS
- RustPython
- Ensuring euro money transfers arrive within ten seconds -- News -- European Parliament
- Disney invests $1.5 billion in Epic to create ‘persistent universe’ tied to Fortnite - The Verge
- Search results from the database Page: 1: The British Museum’s Portable Antiquities Scheme “records archaeological finds discovered by the public,” assisted by a network of national and local partners. Its database contains 1.1 million records describing 1.7 million objects. “All have been found by everyday people by chance, most through metal detecting.” And these are 1359 objects tagged with "SWORD".
- Finding The Air Cannon (with triangulation): They do brute-force scanning of the target area, which works. But it's much cruder than simply drawing a few circles.
- The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. - Our World in Data
- Simple Precision Time Protocol at Meta - Engineering at Meta
- Anchovy Sex Is a Force of Nature -- Hakai Magazine
- OpenRouter: Use the same API/payment interface for interacting with all kinds of LLMs.
- OpenAI compatibility · Ollama Blog
- I accidentally Blender VSE · Aras' website
- No Vehicles In The Park
- Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed
- (Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup · Jack's home on the web
- GitHub - AboutRSS/ALL-about-RSS: A list of RSS related stuff: tools, services, communities and tutorials, etc.
- How a Nuclear Weapons Lab Helped Crack a Serial-Killer Case
- GOODY-2: It's so safe, it won't answer anything!
- How To Write Stuff No One Else Can – The Write to Roam
- Speak Friend and Enter – Do people actually use movie passwords? -- Kobi's Blog
- 100% user-supported (on Obsidian) — Steph Ango
- Notes on my Remarkable Tablet: What a great pun, haha!
- Vladimir Lukyanov’s Water Computer -- Amusing Planet
- M&Ms and Skittles sorting machine – Willem Pennings
- Balancing cube – Willem Pennings
Libraries, programming, etc
- What does "with continuation" mean? - #3 by f_m_fmbg - Computer Science - Snap! Forums
- ContribAuthImprovements – Django
Books
- Revelation Space
Games
- Raft
- Neptune's Pride: I love/hate this game, even though I'm OK at it. It's too long, and too short, and too demanding and there is so little to do at at time. I'm already thinking about this kind of game and how it could be even better. If there is one thing that the game has taught me it is this: the most potent weapon is diplomacy.
Board games
- Kleine Fische Ganz Groß
Other media
- Be gentle with the Apple Vision Pro - ITS PLASTIC!! - YouTube
- Very Large Array Antenna Transporter Ride! - YouTube
- Ferrets: The World's Cutest Working Cable Guys -- Superpets - YouTube
- What are those black-and-white discs on the ground for? - YouTube
- Investigation: Who’s Telling the Truth about Disco Elysium? - YouTube: What a brutal mess this thing is. It's beautiful, and such a fitting ending to Disco Elysium, almost like it escaped from its frame and turned into the real world. Almost like in theater, almost like they do this on purpose to give the Elysium world more meat. Amazing!
- The Ridiculous Journey Of The First Email From Space - YouTube
- Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED - YouTube
- Transport Tycoon PS1 Gamplay - YouTube: The original Transport Tycoon had a Playstation1 release -- and it was fully in 3D.