Interesting Links for 24-02-2021

[andrewducker]

The bitcoin blockchain is helping keep a botnet from being taken down

(tags:bitcoin malware )

Firefox enables Total Cookie Protection to stop you being tracked

(tags:Firefox privacy )

Chip shortage may threaten PlayStation 5 supplies at Christmas

(tags:PlayStation CPU )

Robot lumberjacks are terrifyingly impressive

(tags:robots trees video )

It is staggeringly hard for small businesses to export to the EU

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1364137289165791232.html
(tags:trade UK europe Doom )

Why can't we unlock now the most vulnerable are vaccinated?

(tags:pandemic vaccination )

Why the high court was right to deny standing to members of parliament to bring public law claims

(tags:law UK )

Nursing home deaths spike after private equity acquisitions

(tags:death age care OhForFucksSake viaCharlesStross )

Learning to program increases your creativity, maths, and ability to reason

(tags:thinking programming education )

50 terrible terrible sets of stairs

(tags:housing stairs design fail )

Scientists create new class of Turing patterns in colonies of E. coli

(tags:patterns biology AlanTuring )

Edinburgh councillors back call for buffer zones to protect women from abortion clinic protesters

(tags:abortion protest Edinburgh GoodNews Scotland )

Slug filmed descending from vertical thread of slime in never seen before behaviour

(tags:animals )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

The robot lumberjack does not hate you nor does it love you it just wants to leap from tree to tree as they float down the mighty rivers of British Colombia with its best girl by its side and it would sing, sing! SING!

[andrewducker]

I, for one, etc.

[snippy]

Wait, I've read that book. Oh, not quite, it was one about the Columbia River.

an odd thought to have

[darkoshi]

While scrolling down the page for that last link, I thought to myself, "No, I came here for a slug video."