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https://rknight.me/blog/please-rate-your-experience/

https://www.roughtype.com/?p=8935

Facebook, it’s now widely accepted, has been a calamity for the world. The obvious solution, most people would agree, is to get rid of Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg has a different idea: Get rid of the world.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66993647

The US government has issued its first ever fine to a company for leaving space junk orbiting the Earth.

The Federal Communications Commission fined Dish Network $150,000 (£125,000) for failing to move an old satellite far enough away from others in use.

https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/04/21/parrots-talking-video-calls/

Parrots learn to make video calls to chat with other parrots, then develop friendships, Northeastern University researchers say

https://coryd.dev/posts/2023/i-block-ads/

https://www.theverge.com/23648726/hp-officejet-printer-region-how-to-change-why

I moved across the ocean and took my printer with me. Then I discovered it was region-locked. A wiser man would have bought a new one.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/01/27/the-enshittification-of-all-things/

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/21/22989339/protestware-attacks-russia-sberbank-open-source

The move comes after an anti-war developer sabotaged a popular open-source code library

https://www.economist.com/1843/2021/08/10/the-perfectionism-trap

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/technology/computer-energy-use-study.html

The giant tech companies with their power-hungry, football-field-size data centers are not the environmental villains they are sometimes portrayed to be on social media and elsewhere.

Shutting off your Zoom camera or throttling your Netflix service to lower-definition viewing does not yield a big saving in energy use, contrary to what some people have claimed.

Even the predicted environmental impact of Bitcoin, which does require lots of computing firepower, has been considerably exaggerated by some researchers.

Those are the conclusions of a new analysis by Jonathan Koomey and Eric Masanet, two leading scientists in the field of technology, energy use and the environment.

https://termsandconditions.game/

https://digitstodollars.com/2021/03/05/youre-on-allocation/

The current shortage is driven by two things: Covid and manufacturing is hard. Last year, factories in China started shutting down early in the year. By the time they started re-opening later in the year, factories everywhere else had shut down, or at least drastically scaled back. So many Chinese factories did not scale production up in a hurry. The result was reduced output everywhere. Then early this year it became clear that pandemic was under control in China and vaccines were coming soon everywhere, and that demand for many electronic devices was stronger than ever. Companies across the supply chain suddenly had to race to catch up, but often found their suppliers were not back to producing at full scale. This caused wrinkles to spread across the industry. Finally, it appears now that shipping has become a bottleneck with air freight prices sky high (pun intended) and US ports still dealing with scaled back working conditions. You could probably also throw in the US-China Trade War, but let’s not go down that particular rabbit hole now, just chalk it up to further complicating the situation.

The best example of this, and one we commonly hear, is the proverbial $2 electric motor which prevents completion of a $50,000 car. Now multiply this by 10,000 companies all hindered in their ability to ship because of some shortage from someone else’s factory.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/magazine/trump-coup.html

A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump, the mob and what comes next.

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/12/29/22205055/boston-dynamics-robots-spot-atlas-handle-dancing-video

https://stratechery.com/2020/rethinking-the-app-store/

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200731-how-to-build-a-nuclear-warning-for-10000-years-time

The nuclear waste buried far beneath the earth will be toxic for thousands of years. How do you build a warning now that can be understood in the far future?

http://paulgraham.com/conformism.html

One of the most revealing ways to classify people is by the degree and aggressiveness of their conformism.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/2020/05/19/the-public-doesnt-understand-logarithmic-graphs-often-used-to-portray-covid-19/

the logarithmic scale graphs that the media routinely use to display this information are poorly understood by the public and affect people’s attitudes and policy preferences towards the pandemic.

https://holzschu.github.io/Carnets_Jupyter/

A standalone Jupyter notebooks implementation for iOS.

https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/01/apple-in-2019-the-six-colors-report-card/