weekly reel July 17, 2022
👋 and music with a new live of The Armed.
ULTRAPOP: Live at the Masonic by The Armed (bandcamp.com)
News
[fr] Science Étonnante - Mécanique quantique et mesure.
Tech
Michael Stapelberg: Why I wrote my own rsync. Cool stuff, and gokrazy seems pretty rad to develop “easy-embedded-ish” stuff running a minimal { Linux, Pi firmware, your-golang-program } stack.
Rejoice! Engadget: You can now play 'Doom' inside 'Doom II'! (GitHub repo). And rejoice again! You can now befriend Cacodemons.
Replicating the styles of well-known portrait photographers with DALL-E 2, via waxy.
Pokemon-inspired cellular automaton battle, via waxy.
Shitty tech ℹ️
jwz: Texas is now too hot for bitcoin mining.
Bruce Schneier: On the dangers of cryptocurrencies and the uselessness of blockchain.
SFGate: Restaurant and private members lounge to be built controversially in San Francisco’s “public” Salesforce Park, via jwz.
Facebook now encrypts links to counter privacy-improving URL stripping.
RPS: UK gov. threatens to legislate on loot boxes if games companies don’t step up parental controls. Skip the threat and just goddamn regulate!
Ross Scott - Dead Game News: Ubisoft / Game journalism zeitgeist or something.