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09/30/2023 KnockKnock 2.5.0:
https://github.com/objective-see/KnockKnock/releases/tag/v2.5.0
09/30/2023 Bob Picardo - I'm Not a Fan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnod05PNC2Y
He's wearing a SG:A hat!
09/30/2023 CERN confirms antimatter falls down just like regular matter:
https://phys.org/news/2023-09-antimatter-embraces-earth-falling-downward.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-09-mysterious-antimatter-falling.html
https://www.sci.news/physics/antimatter-gravity-12309.html
09/28/2023 Disable Favicon's in Safari 17's Favorites bar:
https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/show-hide-favicons-safari-favorites-bar/
1. Right Click on the favorites bar
2. Uncheck "Show Icons" in the pop up menu
09/28/2023 Little Snitch block lists:
https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-mini/blocklists.html
09/25/2023 Autumn Gradients desktops from Basic Apple Guy:
https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/autumn-gradients
09/24/2023 Ditch that else:
https://preslav.me/2023/09/22/ditch-that-else/
Generally a good approach.
09/23/2023 Why fields don't have mass / weight:
https://profmattstrassler.com/2023/09/23/mass-weight-and-fields/
09/22/2023 Automatic sinks are messing with us:
https://www.hedgerhumor.com/messing-with-us/
09/22/2023 Tuning electro-chromatic windows:
https://phys.org/news/2023-09-material-users-tune-windows-block.html
09/22/2023 A history of Unix (and Plan9) shells:
https://egopontem.com/blog/shell-ancestry
09/21/2023 Surface Laptop Go 3:
https://www.inverse.com/tech/microsoft-surface-laptop-go-3-hands-on
Reminds me of the 12in Retina MacBook, which
is one of my favorite MacBooks of all time
(along with the PB 180, the Pismo, the TiBook,
and the M1 Air).
09/18/2023 A remake of the Murder on the Orient Express game is coming soon:
https://www.agathachristie.com/games/murder-on-the-orient-express
I'll probably give it a try, but, based on the
screenshots, I think they probably aren't going
to have David Suchet voice Poirot, so my guess
is that I'll end up preferring the 2006 version
(which, like the other two Agatha Christie games
by The Adventure Company - And Then There Were
None, and Evil Under the Sun - runs fine on MacOS
under CrossOvers).
09/18/2023 A brief history of vi/vim:
https://pikuma.com/blog/origins-of-vim-text-editor
I had no idea that vim started out on Amiga.
09/17/2023 How to disable Windows Copilot:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/17/how-to-disable-windows-copilot-in-windows/
09/17/2023 Meansort (a quicksort variant):
https://craftofcoding.wordpress.com/2023/09/17/what-is-meansort/
09/15/2023 Other approaches to detect gravitational waves:
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gravitational-waves-detection-lasers-atoms
09/14/2023 Postmodern Jukebox covers:
https://www.youtube.com/@postmodernjukebox/videos
Some good ones include:
Uptown Girl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddyCCqjcpG0
Power of Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roh7bM3QAXc
Don't Stop Believin':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRa-8Do2bdA
Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EbLlgKFk9c
Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUlRavyDP6o
Ice Ice Baby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anx5IctHVGU
09/14/2023 Honda is making an electrical Motocompo:
https://www.inverse.com/tech/honda-motocompacto-electric-scooter-price-release-date
Time for YUA:TNG?
09/12/2023 Which BSD did you start on?
https://rubenerd.com/which-bsd-did-you-start-on/
My first full BSD was SunOS 4.1.1 on a SS2. In
terms of BSD userland, it is a toss-up between
MachTen or Domain/OS.
As an aside, the SS2 is one of my favorite Sparcs.
The others I fondly remember are the SS10 and the
Ultra 1.
09/12/2023 Ice water may help you cool down more efficiently:
https://www.inverse.com/health/cold-water-cool-body-off-hydration-experts-explain
09/12/2023 Eisenhower, Vinson, and Warren:
https://stevevladeck.substack.com/p/44-eisenhower-vinson-and-warren
"There's quite a lot of debate ... on what would
have happened if Vinson hadn't died) about
whether Vinson, a native Kentuckian (and Southern
Democrat) would have voted to desegregate public
schools. ... We'll never know, of course. But
part of the story is not just Vinson's untimely
demise; it's who replaced him. On October 2,
[1953,] President Eisenhower, making his first
appointment to the Court since taking office in
January, named California Governor Earl Warren as
the Court's 14th Chief Justice."
09/12/2023 Reasons why fever helps fight infections:
https://theconversation.com/how-does-fever-help-fight-infections-theres-more-to-it-than-even-some-scientists-realize-210240
09/12/2023 Beavers are back in the south bay:
https://phys.org/news/2023-09-baby-beaver-sighting-california-comeback.html
"[A beaver] kit sighting in Matadero Creek ...
marks the first time in decades - if not more
than a century - that a beaver colony has taken
up residence in this region south of the San
Francisco Bay."
Welcome back!
09/11/2023 AWK 2nd Edition is coming on Oct 1, 2023:
https://awk.dev/
Pre-orders (Amazon, B&N):
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0138269726
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/awk-programming-language-alfred-v-aho/1122685951?ean=9780138269777
09/11/2023 Pixelmator Pro 3.4 with enhanced PDF editing:
https://www.pixelmator.com/blog/2023/09/11/pixelmator-pro-3-4-brings-advanced-support-for-pdf-files/
09/11/2023 Lightweight (27g) emergency iPhone battery backup:
https://diglloyd.com/blog/2023/20230909_1200-Battarix-SOS-charge-card.html
09/11/2023 MAC address database:
https://maclookup.app
CSV: https://maclookup.app/downloads/csv-database
JSON: https://maclookup.app/downloads/json-database
XML: https://maclookup.app/downloads/cisco-vendor-macs-xml-database
09/09/2023 SoftGPU for Win9x VMs in Bochs, VirtualBox and Qemu:
https://github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu
Looks interesting as an alternative to Voodoo
emulation in Dosbox-X.
09/09/2023 Disable in-app rating and reviews:
$ defaults write com.apple.appstore InAppReviewEnabled -bool false
From: https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2023/07/20/disabling-in-app-review-requests-for-apps-installed-from-the-macos-app-store/
09/09/2023 C-shaped surge protector for desks:
https://www.core77.com/posts/125678/This-U-Shaped-Power-Strip-Clings-to-Things
09/08/2023 Quartz:
https://hackaday.com/2023/09/06/mining-and-refining-quartz-both-natural-and-synthetic/
09/08/2023 Project 8 - measuring neutrino mass using tritium beta decay:
https://phys.org/news/2023-09-elusive-neutrino.html
09/08/2023 Samsung ViewFinty S9 Review:
https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/09/review-27-inch-samsung-viewfinity-s9-display/
Guess I'll have to stick to my LG 24" UltraFine
for the foreseeable future.
09/08/2023 How changing a ZFS filesystem's recordsize affects
existing files:
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/ZFSRecordsizeChangeEffects
09/08/2023 YA exploit blocked by lockdown mode:
https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/blastpass-nso-group-iphone-zero-click-zero-day-exploit-captured-in-the-wild/
Lockdown mode really ought to be enabled
by default.
09/08/2023 Long-Baseline news for August 2023:
https://www.hep.anl.gov/ndk/longbnews/2308.html
09/06/2023 New icons from the Iconfactory:
https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/09/an-iconic-anniversary/
09/06/2023 Of course the Stig drives a Lancia
(and a Delta Integrale at that):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B0NMLoTfMs
09/06/2023 Voyager returns in Lower Decks Season 4:
https://trekmovie.com/2023/09/06/watch-the-uss-voyager-returns-in-star-trek-lower-decks-season-4-premiere-clip/
09/06/2023 Wikimedia DNS (DNS over HTTPS (DoH) & DNS over TLS (DoT)):
https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_DNS
DNS Server IP: 185.71.138.138
09/06/2023 Carbon Copy Cloner v.6.1.7 with Sonoma support:
https://bombich.com/kb/ccc6/release-notes#6.1.7
09/05/2023 G5 Upgrades:
https://lowendmac.com/2023/maximizing-the-agp-power-mac-g5-into-space-and-beyond/
The G5 tower was a nice machine. I liked it a
lot. Other Macs that I regret selling are my
Sawtooth G4, my Quicksilver G4, and my Pismo.
The one Mac that I would like to have owned is
a Lampshade iMac. Other Macs that might have
been nice to own are a SE/30 and a Quadra 700.
09/01/2023 Surviorship / selection bias:
https://nautil.us/this-wwii-story-made-us-better-thinkers-353414/
Obligatory related xkcd:
https://xkcd.com/2618/
09/01/2023 Electronic signatures:
https://www.hedgerhumor.com/ridiculous-moments/
09/01/2023 Espresso drinks and iced coffee drinks explained:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epMDcqKoQys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHKRQSZ_SFQ
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