Interesting Links for 22-07-2018

[andrewducker]

'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' being rebooted, with black showrunner and lead

(tags: buffy tv )

This is my favourite take on The Last Jedi

(tags: StarWars nostalgia )

Rule Explainer: Why We Don’t Diagnose People Through The Internet

(tags: mentalhealth diagnosis internet advice )

Why Is Google Translate Spitting Out Sinister Religious Prophecies?

(tags: translation weird google ai hallucinations )

Psychedelics Promote Structural and Functional Neural Plasticity

(tags: neuroscience psychedelics lsd psychology brain )

Sex Pistols' John Lydon comes out in support of Trump, Brexit and Nigel Farage

(tags: music politics OhForFucksSake SexPistols Europe uk )

Millionaire landlord vows to evict single women if they get pregnant due to new rule

(tags: babies housing safety OhForFucksSake uk )

Why mobile phones are NOT a health hazard

(tags: phones cancer radio physics )

The weapon Pope Innocent II said would change the face of modern warfare forever and then had the Second Lateran Council ban: THE CROSSBOW

(tags: weaponry history bows )

Comments

[agoodwinsmith]

Drat - google article gone awol - nice horse, though.

[andrewducker]

I can still see https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5npeg/why-is-google-translate-spitting-out-sinister-religious-prophecies - is it not working for you?

[agoodwinsmith]

No, I still get "404 Horse, Page not found" and a link back to the front page, which shows the title for this article, which when I click on it, takes me back to the horse. Probably my aged browser.

[andrewducker]

Please, please don't use an aged browser, you leave yourself open to all sorts of hacking.

What are you using, and what's keeping you on it?

[agoodwinsmith]

Explorer 11 on Windows 7 on a machine dating from 2009. :)

Money: we now own a humble abode and motorized carriage - they need stuff continually. Also, one of my meds is not covered by my retirement medical plan - and it rates a Benny Hill boy-yoy-yoing for price.

SOGP keeps the Norton uptodate, and replacement is on our list - but first I want a deep freeze. :)

[andrewducker]

Can I persuade you to try Firefox? Recent versions are very good, fast, and use less memory.

[agoodwinsmith]

Yes. I will report back.

[dewline]

Money and time is generally the combined force keeping a lot of us from properly upgrading our home-usage gear.

[agoodwinsmith]

This.

[andrewducker]

Money isn't an issue here. Time definitely can be. And lack of knowledge in lots of cases.

[agoodwinsmith]

Lack of knowledge, yes. I had used Firefox at work for the last 5 or so years, and our IT people were very sniffy about it, so I wouldn't have thought of it as a current option.

[andrewducker]

IT people tend to not like Firefox because it's not designed with "Being installed onto hundreds or thousands of computers by a central team" in mind.

I can understand that. But it's still my favourite.

(Chrome isn't bad either, but I prefer Firefox for all of the options it has.)

[agoodwinsmith]

Firefox is AMAZING! Woo! Everything much speedier now. We may be able to delay the new machine for another year or so. Wooooo!

:)

[andrewducker]

Yaaaay!