There will be a surge in “nobody wants to work anymore”.

That’s an embargo.

A blockade is military stopping traffic. “Effectively a blockade” is an embargo.

Samsung TVs

Threes

Fun puzzle game that got ripped off by 2048 and it’s endless clones. They wrote a blog post on how shitty mobile game development can be.

That’d be it.

Honestly it’s super interesting to watch even if you know the moon landings happened for the history of tech he talks about.

No, they’re saying regardless of if the signal was encrypted or whatever format it was in, anyone with a directional antenna could triangulate where the signal was coming from. If there were only a repeater on the moon that NASA was transmitting to that was then sending the signal back, that would also have been able to be determined.

Both the Russians, who had a vested interest in embarrassing the US, and every other amateur and professional radio operator on the planet agreed that the moon landing was being transmitted from the moon.

King of the Hill

a nightmare of garish bullshit that makes the entire work look like utter dog shit

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Open and close? Fingernails and toenails?

“Don’t want automated looms? Stop buying clothes. Buy material and make your own, as your forefathers did. Surely your neighbors will be open to your message of time and effort instead of ease.”

Stop assuming the tragedy of the commons can be avoided by scolding the people talking about wanting to avoid it.

It disables scrolling. I’m sure there’s a use case but mostly it’s annoying. I don’t think every program/OS respects it anymore either.

RSS feeds are so nice. I’m still frustrated that Facebook moved away from an in-order timeline. (Or would be if I used it for anything other than family chats)

An ordered list of things you haven’t seen yet on <topic> instead of a mostly random list from everywhere. Amazing.

Technique yes, technology I would question.

Wireless keyboards go to sleep and can disconnect. Modern ones are sometimes smart/quick enough to send the first keypress but older ones less so. Also if the computer’s off spamming caps lock won’t turn on the light and let you know to hit the power button.

At least according to this it’s ~8% of the state’s electrical capacity all by it’s lonesome which doesn’t seem too bad. By the stats on it’s own wiki it’s pretty active.

My grandparents had an 8 track collection. That doesn’t make me a 60s kid.