Current Entries --------------- 04/28/2023 Battery powered microwave oven: https://laughingsquid.com/battery-powered-portable-microwave-oven/ 04/28/2023 Fluidic Telescopes bigger than JWST: https://phys.org/news/2023-04-fluidic-telescope.html 04/25/2023 Star Trek - Resurgence: https://www.engadget.com/star-trek-resurgence-launches-may-23rd-on-most-platforms-170248699.html Looks promising, perhaps a bit like DS9 - The Fallen (which I really liked), or TNG - Final Unity (which was also quite good). Too bad no Mac release is mentioned. 04/24/2023 When there were ten Justices: https://stevevladeck.substack.com/p/3-the-tenth-justice https://stevevladeck.substack.com/p/19-when-there-are-nine "[T]here were two brief periods in the Court's history in which there really were ten Justices: from May 20, 1863 to October 12, 1864; and from December 15, 1864 to May 30, 1865. ... When Congress created a new Tenth Circuit in 1863 to encompass California, it likewise created a tenth seat (which President Lincoln promptly filled with Justice Stephen Field[) ... Field joined the Court on May 20, 1863. From then until Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney's death on October 12, 1864, there were ten commissioned Justices (Taney, Wayne, Catron, Nelson, Grier, Clifford, Swayne, Miller, Davis, and Field), although it's not clear, given various illnesses and other absences, whether all ten participated together at any point during the Court's December 1863 Term. And from the swearing in of Salmon Chase as Chief Justice on December 15, 1864, until the death of Justice John Catron on May 30, 1865 (so, most of the Court's December 1864 Term), the Court also appears to have had ten Justices at the same time." How did I not know about this?!? 04/20/2023 Return to oral exams? https://theconversation.com/why-universities-should-return-to-oral-exams-in-the-ai-and-chatgpt-era-203429 My contracts professor made us stand and answer questions in class. I thought it was great. And most PhD programs still have an oral thesis defense. Starting this early might make it less scary. 04/20/2023 Lockdown mode prevented zero-click exploits: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/04/new-zero-click-exploits-against-ios.html I have been using Lockdown mode since it first became availabe and the only feature that I've seen that doesn't work when Lockdown mode is enabled is importing boarding passes from a text message / iMessage into to Apple Wallet. This is a minor inconvenience at most. Lockdown mode ought to be the default (and notifications should be defaulted off, especially on the lock screen). 04/20/2023 MacOS meets Van Gogh (desktop pictures): https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/macos-van-gogh 04/17/2023 Who was "Not Even Wrong" first? https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13455 04/17/2023 Classic Sibling Arguments: https://www.hedgerhumor.com/national-siblings-day-2/ 04/17/2023 Results of a KeePassXC audit: https://keepassxc.org/blog/2023-04-15-audit-report/ https://www.ghacks.net/2023/04/16/keepassxc-security-audit-published-recommends-this-security-setting/ 04/02/2023 New isotope of Uranium (U-241) discovered https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/s40 Earlier Entries --------------- 03/##/2023 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/03/motd.txt https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/03/index.html 02/##/2023 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/02/motd.txt https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/02/index.html 01/##/2023 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/01/motd.txt https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/01/index.html ##/##/2022 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/motd.txt https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/index.html