Tuesday, July 03
Daily News Stuff 3 July 2018
Tech News
- Stylish browser extension steals your browser history. This is especially pernicious, because it was originally free of spyware, then was quietly updated.
- Philips offers a 43" 4K 8-bit + FRC 720 nit 4000:1 4ms 80 Hz 178° 97.6% DCI-P3 FreeSync HDR MVA quantum dot monitor with HDMI 1.4, DisplayPort 1.2 (mini and full size) and USB-C inputs.
Not cheap at $1000 on Amazon, but it's half the price of that 27" ASUS G-Sync monitor, and it has no notable flaws. It could be improved (with HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.4, and even Thunderbolt) but any such upgrades would increase the price.
- PixyLab still has no NBN. I shouldn't have looked at the map; my block of townhouses is at the very edge of the planned rollout this year; next door will have to wait until the end of 2019, and slated to get only cable rather than fiber. If they push things back that long I will scream.
- Uganda thinks they're Europe or something.
Video of the Day
Great trailer. Shame about the game. Focus-tested to death.
Pixy Is Watching
Magical Angel Creamy Mami. One of the early magical girl shows, it recently got a Blu-Ray release, and it looks amazing. I hope to see more of those for 80s and 90s shows. (Hint hint Slayers hint hint.)
Anyway, one episode in and one thing is already abundantly clear: This girl is nuts.
Anyway, one episode in and one thing is already abundantly clear: This girl is nuts.
You'd never guess that it was animated by the same studio that did Urusei Yatsura.
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"my block of townhouses is at the very edge of the planned rollout this year"
Don't you hate that? Back when I lived in the northern suburbs of Boston (1999) the phone company was rolling DSL (instead of dialup) up from Boston and down from New Hampshire. Neither line made it into my town; they stopped one town over.
A year or two after I moved away from that part of the company, my city got DSL, of course.
Regarding the Stylish thing, ugh. Guess I'd better replace it with Stylus. Aside: what the hell is it lately with sites using medium-gray text on white backgrounds, or worse yet, combining that with horrible one-pixel-wide sans serif fonts? Stop that, it's nearly impossible to read!
Don't you hate that? Back when I lived in the northern suburbs of Boston (1999) the phone company was rolling DSL (instead of dialup) up from Boston and down from New Hampshire. Neither line made it into my town; they stopped one town over.
A year or two after I moved away from that part of the company, my city got DSL, of course.
Regarding the Stylish thing, ugh. Guess I'd better replace it with Stylus. Aside: what the hell is it lately with sites using medium-gray text on white backgrounds, or worse yet, combining that with horrible one-pixel-wide sans serif fonts? Stop that, it's nearly impossible to read!
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