Well that's good. Fantastic. That gives us 20 minutes to save the world and I've got a post office. And it's shut!
Friday, May 03
Daily News Stuff 3 May 2019
Let's Try That Again Edition
Let's Try That Again Edition
Tech News
- Do you miss all those old Flash/Shockwave/Java/Silverlight/weirdproprietarycrap browser games?
Wish you could go back and play penguin golf one more time?
Flashpoint is a universal player that handles all those games.
455MB download, or 102GB bundled with 14,000 games.
- Azure went indigo for a couple of hours due to a DNS screwup. (ZDNet)
Pixy's Law of Inexplicable Application Outages: It's probably DNS.
- Turns out porn was the only valuable thing on Tumblr. (One Angry Gamer)
Who knew?
- Facebook has banned a range of far-right figures including Louis Farrakhan leaving newspapers and wire feeds scrambling to fix their headlines. (Bloomberg)
- Only 112 years to save the planet. (Ars Technica)
Disclaimer: There was more, but my browser crashed. Actually, there wasn't more, but my browser crashed anyway.
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Thursday, May 02
Daily News Stuff 2 May 2019
Node.js And Ethereum Edition
Yeah, it's the Enoden again. 90% of Japan lives within walking distance of Enoshima, as far as I can tell from watching anime.
Node.js And Ethereum Edition
Tech News
- Node.js still sucks.
$ npm install
added 768 packages from 928 contributors and audited 14853 packages in 69.649s
found 1 high severity vulnerability
run `npm audit fix` to fix them, or `npm audit` for details
$ npm audit fix
fixed 0 of 1 vulnerability in 14853 scanned packages1 package update for 1 vuln involved breaking changes(use `npm audit fix --force` to install breaking changes; or refer to `npm audit` for steps to fix these manually)
$ npm audit fix --forcenpm WARN using --force I sure hope you know what you are doing.
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Facebook flunks the use/mention distinction much like other simplistic robots. (TechDirt)
Except... The post that Facebook took down for racism actually was racist. TechDirt are playing Social Justice Warrior here rather than Free Speech Warrior. I don't think it should have been removed, but TechDirt is making all the wrong arguments.
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GNU Guix 1.0 is out.
What is Guix? I don't know. It might be a package manager. I think it's a package manager. It might be a hot dog bun steamer for all that web page tells you.
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Apple is fighting against California's right-to-repair legislation on the grounds that you could poke your eye out. (ZDNet)
Or something very close to that.
Anime Opening and I Wonder if the Vimeo Tag Still Works of the Day
Yeah, it's the Enoden again. 90% of Japan lives within walking distance of Enoshima, as far as I can tell from watching anime.
Music Video I Didn't Know Existed of the Day
Disclaimer: Don't ask me how my day was. That NPM output was my day.
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Wednesday, May 01
Daily News Stuff 1 May 2019
Everyone Gets A Woodchipper Edition
Everyone Gets A Woodchipper Edition
Tech News
- That backdoor in Huawei's equipment was apparently Telnet. (TechDirt)
Which admittedly should not be active on anything built since 2000 or so, but is not in itself malicious.
- Search 300 million Creative Commons licensed images, most of them terrible.
- Apple cares about your privacy because they don't want anyone else taking away that potential ad revenue. (ZDNet)
- Speaking of Apple, iPhone revenues for Q1 2019 are down 17% from the same quarter last year. (Thurrott.com)
Despite or because of the price increases?
- Facebook is redesigning the worlds busiest web site to not look like hot garbage. (The Verge)
Whether they'll succeed is another question.
Anime Update
Charlotte: Nope.
Asobi Asobase: Nuh-uh.
No Game No Life: No way.
No Game No Life: No way.
Hanayamata: Ya, maybe. And it's on AnimeLab so it's click-and-watch.
Disclaimer: Woodchippers and 6:30 AM do not mix. Seriously, what the fuck?
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