Reposting: Katie Notopoulos on Twitter
“Something I’ve been thinking a lot is how much of the pre-2010 internet has been totally obliterated during this decade. Photos deleted, social profiles gone forever, old sites and blogs just wiped out. https://t.co/oUTceC05fW”
Reposting: Blerds Online on Twitter
“Shout out to Tom from MySpace. Homie cashed his check, and bounced. He never tried to influence elections, be an advocate for "free speech," purchase competitors, sell our information or any of that. Just taught us all some basic HTML and rolled out.”
I couldn’t in good conscience leave my #PaintHammer2019 count at 99 for the year, so I speed painted Da Red Gobbo to round me out at 100. Not my best, but I’m going to enter him in a contest tomorrow anyway.
On the subject of new boots: the Sam Vimes ‘Boots Theory’ of socioeconomic unfairness doesn’t really apply to me; cheap boots or expensive boots, they all wear out within 3-6 months due to the amount of walking I do.
“On January 1, YouTube videos for kids will look much different. But will it be better?”
“But you’ll still need to enroll in MFi to sell devices.”
Interesting. Disconnected my work laptop from the VPN briefly, and it continued to resolve at a different IP to my home network 🤔
“Facebook told US senators it tracks users’ location even after they’ve turned those settings off. Don’t be shocked, we learned this exactly a year ago.”
“How the new Star Wars movies made the best lightsabers ever.”
“Hope you didn’t like multitasking too much.”
I had thought I’d seen this bug reemerge. I wasn’t affected by it last time, but I’d noticed I was seeing the loading splash screens of most of my installed apps a lot more often than I used to.
“In using the web, and listening to “12 days of Christmas” my mince pie addled brain decided it would be neat to do a list of things that annoyed me that were clearly crappy in web products. Except I crapped out at 10… so, yeah, there’s 10.
Hence my list of faux pas, mashed with christmas, thus fau…”
I’m in agreement with 100% of these; items one, three, four, and five are my personal biggest pet peeves that I come across on the web. I also can’t believe four, six, seven, and nine are still a thing so many years after they were first identified as user-hostile.
“Version 4.2.0 of Syndication Links was released today. This version refactors the site to icon mapping to try to improve accuracy. It also includes: Adds support for generating a custom feed to syndicate to Micro.blog and pull back the links to your posts Add support for Bridgy Mastodon, courtesy …”
“Factchecking has become politicised during this election campaign. But what does it really add to public awareness?”
“Profits from far-right groups and individuals posting unacceptable content on the social media giant about Muslims may be the reason why it’s not taking action to remove it.”
Random, unstructured, thoughts on the state of play on the last day of the election campaign:
“The Welsh independence movement lags far behind the Scottish version. Why?”
“We don’t even notice it anymore — “link in bio”. It’s a pithy phrase, usually found on Instagram, which directs an audience to be aware that a pertinent web link can be found on that user’s profile. Its presence is so subtle, and so pervasive, that we barely”
“The country could have lessons for the United States.”
“Okay, just deployed a new version of Lwa . It comes with a lot of new little features but only direct replies work, lol. I’m refactoring how reactions work so you can properly syndicate them when desired. That’ll personally help me syndicate a link to the Fediverse or Twitter when needed. I’m also g…”
“We were promised that USB-C would solve all our connectivity problems.
Instead, I have two USB-C ports on this laptop, only one of which is Thunderbolt, which is worse because they look identical but act different. Also apparently only some USB-C cables support Thunderbolt too. “
The one USB-C port on my work laptop provides the full range of Thunderbolt/USB-C functinonality, and plugs into a dock at work to simplify connectivity. My partner’s work laptop also has one USB-C port, supports Power Delivery and peripherals, but it doesn’t support display-out on some model revisions… guess which one she has. A fact we only discovered after I bought a dock for home.
As far as the dock, it promised “full Power Delivery pass-through,” but caps the PD output to 45w, meaning both our laptops complain on boot about insufficient charging capacity – but otherwise charge fine. It took buying multiple differently rated PD chargers to discover this.
I’d dreamed of having single cable connectivity letting us share a single desk setup instead of having two desks in the house (We work from home on different days), but that isn’t going to happen.
Decorated some gingerbread people with the kids. Can you guess which one is mine? 😅
This year’s “Mega Edition” release from Black Library is the new Blood Angels novel from Guy Haley, Darkness in the Blood. I don’t know much about the plot yet (the book flew under my radar until very recently), other than it follows on from Dante and the events of Devastation of Baal, and features both Dante and Mephiston – two of my all-time favourite Warhammer 40,000 characters.
The Mega Edition is very reminiscent of last year’s Spear of the Emperor1: a sturdy, themed, presentation box contains a gorgeous hardback copy of the book, and packed in under the book is a whole set of goodies. From the design printed on both the box and the book cover, the main theme is of Dante and Mephiston as reflections of each other (or them representing the two sides of the Blood Angels themselves?) – Dante is the virtuous, golden-lit angel, while Mephiston is dark, sinister, and somewhat daemonic. Either way, it looks cool.
As far as extras go, I personally think this year has even more value than last:
Like in all of my recent book unboxings, I’m impressed with the high quality of both the materials used, and the overall presentation from Black Library. This box set feels special in a way that a lot of “special editions” across most media don’t nowadays. Everything has a weight to it, and as I mentioned in my Solar War unboxing, it’s all very “tactile”. Take a look at the pictures below for an idea of everything crammed into the box. Unfortunately the photos don’t convey just how nice all this stuff is to hold.
I can’t wait to dive into the story now!
“Michael Clark Jr was officially welcomed into his new family on Thursday – with friends from school cheering him on.”
Something heartwarming, to send you into the weekend.
“The law has been developing rapidly in places like Ireland and France. UK employers need to watch out.”
“Caching media files, especially images, seems like an obvious way to improve performance, but should we? To provide a more performant UX without abusing users’s network connections or hard drives, …”
