Interesting Links for 23-05-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Why are Scotland's councils so short of cash when tax is going up?

(tags:scotland tax )

2. Greenland Signs Lucrative Minerals Deal with Europe in Blow to Trump

(tags:Europe USA materials Greenland trade )

3. How I Beat NES Mario in 0.000005 Seconds (the nerdiest video I have ever watched. If you've seen something nerdier then do let me know)

(tags:video games programming technology mario )

4. Trump's image of dead 'white farmers' came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa

(tags:USA politics Africa southafrica )

5. Programmers spend 5% of their time editing code, the rest is mostly understanding it/the issue they're trying to solve..

(tags:programming research )

6. Which word made you old? (Mine was GOAT)

(tags:language age change comic )

7. Explaining "what a species is" turns out to be very very tricky

(tags:video ontology life )

Comments

[gingicat]

My Gen Z socially-conscious progressive kids use "based" a lot.

I too would be curious about your tool! I work for an organization that encourages disability inclusion and educates educators accordingly as well as providing direct services to students. They mostly use Chromebooks and tablets with students, though, as that's either what the school uses or what the students have for communication apps. In the office we have to use Microsoft Windows.

[simont]

Then you might be disappointed to find that it's specific to Unix-style terminals, and can't do anything with a GUI, where there's no similarly narrow channel that all colour decisions go through.

(But I suppose it might be possible to run it in a Windows console, now that those are – or can be – mediated through the same system of escape codes. Hmmm.)