Hi nerdlordz, and music, with Emily Hall.

Around the interwebs,

• [fr] Science Étonnante - La dualité onde-corpuscule, où je comprends enfin l'utilité de mes TPs d'interférométrie de classe prépa. Désolé, chers ex-profs de physique subissant les cancres comme moi.
• [fr] Louis Marion - L’emprise de la machine : une critique décroissanciste de la domination technique.
• [fr] UQAM: Raccourcis - Guide pratique des biais cognitifs.
• VOC-25, a vocal synth made with 25 sets of plastic teeth, well yes. Via waxy.
• SMBC: Heaven.
• Tech:
  • HN comments on an article about toxic / fake / artificial positivity have good examples of varying expectations & perceptions of "toxic positivity" (yes, there is such a thing) in work / social contexts, depending on cultural & education priors. Skip the commented Bloomberg article and go straight to the HN comments.
  • Google's centralized "Sandbox" cookie replacement. HN.
  • Bruce Schneier: Russia’s SolarWinds attack is a great summary for those like me who didn't follow this closely. Also, Schneier: Russia’s SolarWinds attack and software security.
  • Arch Linux's newest public service: a manual pages indexing site at man.archlinux.org that publishes the man pages of all packages. "While there are other man page indexing sites out there, it is our hope that publishing man pages matching the versions of our released packages further improves Arch accessibility and documentation.". Cool!
  • Drew DeVault: History will not remember us fondly. HN.
  • The U.S. House electronic voting system looks R·A·D.

Hello old friends. The weekly music is old-new Grandaddy: The sophtware slump .​.​.​.​. on a wooden piano, merci Berthe.

On the news,

• [fr/qc] Radio Cadenas : Une rare entrevue télé de Pierre Foglia avec son fils. Via Nouveau Projet.
• Felix Colgrave: THROAT NOTES. Also watch DOUBLE KING if you haven't yet. Via waxy.
• Tech:
  • Drew DeVault: A megacorp is not your dream job, 👏👏👏. HN.

Happy whatever, folks! And music with Nicolas Jaar in Against All Logic.

On the news,

• [fr] La construction du métro de Montréal en couleurs (1963-1966).
• Tech:
  • Doc Searls: We've seen this movie before, excellent bit of ad / tracking industry history, and links to current research & standardization attempts: Spec for Global Privacy Control (GPC), GPC reference test server, IEEE P7012 - Standard for machine-readable personal privacy terms.
  • bert hubert : Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, thx Heinz.
  • Ian Bicking: Firefox was always enough. HN.

Hello, weirdos. Have some new Moor Mother.

On the news,

• xkcd #2395: Covid precaution level.
• [fr] Monsieur Phi - Deux expériences de pensée de Judith Jarvis Thomson sur l'avortement.
• [fr] Science Étonnante - Le repliement des protéines : résolu par AlphaFold ?
• Kottke: The art of traditional Japanese wood joinery.
• How to self-rescue if you fall through thin ice.
• Ghosts of segregation, via Kottke.
• Map showing which countries support or oppose the Covid IP waiver at WTO, by Médecins Sans Frontières.
• Tech:
  • 9to5Mac: Apple releases iOS 12.5 for older iPhones with support for COVID-19 exposure notifications. 👏👏👏 for this, Apple.
  • DF: Facebook takes out full-page newspaper ads to attack Apple’s changes strengthening iOS privacy (EFF comments). On that note, Google is pulling the same trick to react to Google hit with third major bipartisan antitrust lawsuit from 38 US states. Looks like "Oh noes, tearing down my monopoly will harm Thee Good Honest Modest People" is the best our modern overlords have to say as defence.
  • GitHub blog: No cookie for you (HN, r/prog). Good job.

Hello frendz, and music, with older GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES!

Around the interwebs,

• Excellent Zeynep Tufekci: The pandemic heroes who gave us the gift of time and gift of information and Small data, big implications.
• What is “protein folding”? A brief explanation.
• Judgement on COVID-19 goes HEAVY METAL [Kenneth Copeland Remix] [I Demand], via waxy.