Interesting Links for 06-01-2022

[andrewducker]

Wordle creator promises viral game will stay simple and ad-free (I'm enjoying it!)

(tags:games money )

A bird building a nest inside a box (semi time lapse, lovely to see)

(tags:birds video timelapse )

A detailed, personal, history of the famous battlefield relic of a chest plate with a cannonball hole

(tags:history war France )

Google fixes nightmare Android bug that stopped user from calling 911 (fascinating explanation of how it happened)

(tags:phones emergency android )

France fines Google a total of 150 million euros and Facebook 60 million euros for making it hard to refuse cookies

(tags:facebook google cookies europe france )

European (and UK) drivers will be automatically warned when breaking the speed limit from July

(tags:speed uk europe cars driving safety )

Comments

[simont]

European (and UK) drivers will be automatically warned when breaking the speed limit from July

That confused me! Turns out it means that new cars will all have to have that feature. Nobody is going to be going round installing extra gadgets in all the existing vehicles, or requiring people to do it as a condition of a valid MOT, or filling the whole of Europe with those roadside signs that flash red when you're speeding, or anything like that.

[andrewducker]

Sorry, yes, I should have been clearer. It'll take a while before it's every car.

[calimac]

Takeaway lesson from no. 4: Don't Get Apps.

[hilarita]

And even more specific: don't put MS Teams on your phone.

[calimac]

But the article says other apps might be doing this too. This comes on top of a steady stream of items showing that app stores are doing a terrible job curating their offerings and preventing malware. That freak interactions like this can turn an otherwise inoffensive app into malware only increases the danger.

[symbioid]

I think the only problem with wordle is that it's 1 a day. LOL. I can actually appreciate that, but also I want more.

(maybe he can do a "wordle plus" where we can pay to access previous ones or a weekly additional wordle or something). But honestly I can relate to just wanting a simple game without all the extra bells, as a dev, it's kinda sweet and nice that the dev isn't just looking to make money off it.

[poshmerchant]

Here's a multiple-a-day Wordle clone: https://octokatherine.github.io/word-master/

You lose the sense of shared experience and that one word being an event, but it is a fun puzzle

[symbioid]

Oh nice, thanks!

Wordle

[anef]

I'm enjoying it too (and it takes a lot less time than Sudoku!)