Entries tagged with software

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Interesting Links for 04-08-2024

1. Butterflies accumulate enough static electricity to attract pollen: (tags:electricity butterflies )
2. Why are British place names so hard to pronounce?: (tags:UK history names location video )
3. Neil Gaiman Sexual Assault Link Round Up and Timeline: (tags:neilgaiman assault )
4. A bit more context on the Olympic shooting competition.: (tags:olympics guns )
5. The massive transphobic fuss over Imane Khelif seems to lead back to...Russian corruption.: (tags:russia corruption bigotry lgbt transgender OhForFucksSake sports olympics )
6. "We ran out of columns" - The best, worst codebase: (tags:software development )
7. What happened to the swans in St Margaret's Loch (in Holyrood Park): (tags:swans disease Edinburgh Scotland death )
8. How to visualise (and display) incredibly long periods of time. The vast sparseness of the visualisation is overwhelming.: (tags:time visualisation )
9. Olympic women's boxing eligibility controversy is a reminder of the harm in trusting bad faith actors: (tags:Olympics bigotry Russia )

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Interesting Links for 24-05-2024

1. New pylons to be installed across the UK in National Grid's £30bn green upgrade: (tags:uk electricity infrastructure )
2. For whom Good Omens is being written: (tags:neilgaiman terrypratchett alzheimers TV writing )
3. Football Association resists government pressure to change its transgender inclusion policy: (tags:football UK transgender LGBT GoodNews sports )
4. The next food marketing blitz is aimed at people on new weight-loss drugs: (tags:food weight drugs )
5. Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking for first time in US: (tags:marijuana alcohol usa )
6. The Suit Died, but for Good Reasons: (tags:history clothing UK monarchy class USA )
7. Managers - what are they good for?: (tags:management engineering software )
8. Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue: (tags:Reddit Google ai OhForFucksSake safety advice headline epicfail )

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Interesting Links for 06-03-2024

1. French decision to protect right to abortion shows 'real fear far-right populists could gain power': (tags:abortion rights France )
2. How much effort it takes to clean a professional kitchen (and how much the cook will hate you if you walk in 10 minutes before closing): (tags:restaurant cleaning )
3. More than one-quarter of scholarly articles are not being properly archived and preserved: (tags:research academia fail viaPatrickHadfield )
4. Why Edinburgh's potholes are winning: (tags:edinburgh roads weight )
5. How Hugo ballots used to be counted: (tags:software hugo awards )
6. Sugary drinks increase your risk of a heart condition by 10%. Drinks with sweeteners raise it by 20%: (tags:sugar drink heart doom )
7. The man who spends £8,500 a year to live on a train: (tags:trains germany viaDanielDWilliam )
8. This is The Longest Train Route in the World (as of 2024): (tags:trains china Russia Spain Portugal )
9. What is your objective?: (tags:advice life )
10. European Court of Human Rights Confirms: Weakening Encryption Violates Fundamental Rights: (tags:encryption privacy Europe rights )
11. Racism is embedded in LLMs (in this case, based on dialect): (tags:racism ai )

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Interesting Links for 19-05-2023

1. A history of LGBT communities and how (some) radical feminists attacked them: (tags:history LGBT OhForFucksSake )
2. 94% of people don't want to be tracked online - why are sites still asking for consent to do so?: (tags:cookies surveillance web )
3. Post-Brexit India deal could cut thousands of jobs in Leave-voting areas, and hike food prices: (tags:uk europe india trade rice )
4. Edinburgh's Water of Leith nature project sees floating habitats placed to support wildlife: (tags:edinburgh rivers nature )
5. The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code: (tags:europe security software )
6. Ikea Tarot Deck: (tags:tarot ikea awesome )
7. The best Covid tracker website is finally shutting down. I am so grateful for the work they put in over the last few years: (tags:Pandemic visualisation )
8. Why is Africa the way it is? - part 2: (tags:Africa viaDanielDWilliam )
9. Why is Africa the way it is? - part 1: (tags:Africa )

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Interesting Links for 18-05-2023

1. Why did the Southern States secede?: (tags:USA history civilwar slavery )
2. When a Far Right Shitposter Runs a Social Media Platform: (tags:USA politics fraud disinformation socialmedia ElonMusk Twitter )
3. The Dangers of Google’s .zip TLD. Can you quickly tell which of the URLs is fraudulent?: (tags:hacking security web )
4. Alastair Campbell seems to have come around on fixing the voting system: (tags:politics voting reform labour )
5. Titanic: First ever full-sized scans reveal wreck as never seen before: (tags:titanic 3d scanning )
6. Why did the UK do so badly at Eurovision?: (tags:eurovision music UK )
7. Meet the people who carry out virtual relationships for money - two minutes at a time: (tags:relationships fraud business )
8. 94% of people don't want to be tracked online - why are sites still asking for consent to do so?: (tags:cookies surveillance web )
9. Post-Brexit India deal could cut thousands of jobs in Leave-voting areas, and hike food prices: (tags:uk europe india trade rice )
10. Edinburgh's Water of Leith nature project sees floating habitats placed to support wildlife: (tags:edinburgh rivers nature )
11. The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code: (tags:europe security software )

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Interesting Links for 12-04-2023

1. How Nicola Sturgeon's departure has helped to open the floodgates for anti-trans policy in UK politics: (tags:politics uk transgender lgbt OhForFucksSake bigotry )
2. 'Alien Calculus' Could Save Particle Physics From Infinities: (tags:quantum mathematics )
3. Russia's civilian economy is down around 50% as the country shifts to a war economy: (tags:russia war economics )
4. Voters want more compassionate politicians, survey suggests amid Labour ad row: (tags:politics uk OhForFucksSake )
5. Wind turbine blades recycling breakthrough: (tags:windpower recycling GoodNews )
6. No, current AI is not the solution to healthcare: (tags:healthcare ai )
7. Europe and Ukraine have repulsed Russia's attempts to weaponize energy - so far.: (tags:energy russia europe ukraine war )
8. UK economy to shrink by 0.3% this year, the worst performance in the G7: (tags:uk economy doom )
9. Nearly three quarters of Conservative voters want the UK to build more social housing: (tags:UK housing conservatives polls )
10. Truck carrying 40,000 pounds of toxic soil from East Palestine train derailment site crashes on highway (if you made this up then nobody would believe you): (tags:environment usa incompetence WTF pollution )
11. Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find, like all right-thinking programs?: (tags:software ux )
12. Traffic police roll out new way to catch reckless motorists - drones: (tags:drone traffic driving safety police UK )
13. EVE Online player uses obscure rule to pull off the biggest heist in the game's history (by buying shares and voting themselves into management): (tags:games crime mmorpg EveOnline )

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Interesting Links for 18-09-2022

1. Probably the best customer service email in the history of mankind: (tags:bakery food customerservice funny )
2. Research into who is in The Queue: (tags:Queen death polls )
3. If we don't get rid of the monarchy then can we at least get rid of its privileges?: (tags:monarchy law UK )
4. Labour MP Clive Lewis breaks ranks to criticise monarchist lies: (tags:monarchy politics uk )
5. Women's software contributions are accepted more often. Unless people can tell that they're from women: (tags:gender bias software )
6. American Dark Money, the Mercers and the Conservative Party: A Network of Influence: (tags:money conservatives )
7. Border conflict between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. I wonder about general destabilisation in the region: (tags:viaDanielDWilliam )
8. 18 incredible Edinburgh buildings we can't believe were demolished: (tags:Edinburgh history architecture viaDanielDWilliam )

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Interesting Links for 25-02-2022

Petition to require the Royal Mail to continue to accept non-barcoded postage stamps: (tags:royalmail petition )
This is pretty much how I feel when people say "There wasn't a sequel" because they didn't like it: (tags:StarWars sequels movies canon )
Interactive Modeling Software Designs Intricate Japanese Wood Joinery: (tags:japan wood craftwork design software )
The negative space of war.: (tags:war airplanes visualisation russia ukraine ViaDrCross )
Clarifying the mandates of the Scottish Human Rights Commission and the Equality and Human Rights Commission in Scotland: (tags:Scotland rights lgbt transgender )
Dear Esther dev 10 years on: "That was strange. That was quite a ride.": (tags:games history interview )
Britain at loggerheads with EU allies over cutting Russia from Swift bank system: (tags:Banking Russia UK Europe Ukraine )
Boris Johnson Allowed Russian Interference into the UK as Putin Prepared For War: (tags:UK RUSSIA Conservatives )
An asteroid killed dinosaurs in spring—which might explain why mammals survived: (tags:dinosaurs extinction paleontology )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4124053.html

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Interesting Links for 12-12-2021

This Digital Bank Is Designed for the LGBTQ+ Community: (tags:LGBT banking finance usa )
Covid pill being rolled out among vulnerable Britons could fuel dangerous mutations: (tags:Pandemic medicine Doom mutation )
The Prisoner Of War who escaped a Nazi camp in full naval uniform: (tags:wwii impressive viaDanielDWilliam )
The internet (and many large companies) are dependent on software maintained by people in their spare time, for free. This may not be sustainable: (tags:software opensource security )
Britney Spears: Muppet murderer!: (tags:BritneySpears Muppets )
Here's a collection of good news from 2021: (tags:GoodNews )
"It's hard to overestimate the impact Moominland Midwinter had on me" (looking forward to reading these to Sophia): (tags:books children )
A pictorial history of Santa Claus: (tags:Christmas pictures history )
McDonald's McRib NFT Project Links to Racial Slur Recorded on Blockchain: (tags:funny McDonalds blockchain race food )