Month: December 2018
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Chromedge and headcount
So Microsoft is going to retire EdgeHTML and use Chromium instead for Edge while not really answering the question if the web [is] better off with less engine diversity. This upset people, and Mozilla, especially, is worrying about the future:
Will Microsoft’s decision make it harder for Firefox to prosper? It could. Making … -
Letters For Lucardo
by Erika Moen
Oh Joy Sex Toy
Click through for the full review. I've always loved me some Oh Joy Sex Toy, but I've rarely been inclined to buy something off the back of one of Erika's recommendations until now. -
Posted a note for GC7QG1Z Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three
This checkin to GC7QG1Z Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Visited GZ as part of maintenance; all well here, although the "obvious" path to the cache continues to become increasingly overgrown - a fallen tree in the way almost but not quite justifies putting the terrain …
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Enabled GC7QG1Z Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three
This checkin to GC7QG1Z Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Ran the trail myself, all looks good now!
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Made-maintenance OK045A Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three
This checkin to OK045A Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three reflects an opencache.uk log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Replaced Waypoint #2 and checked on final stage. All well and ready to go!
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Performed maintenance for GC7QG1Z Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three
This checkin to GC7QG1Z Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Replaced Waypoint 2. Trail should be followable again.
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Second Factor Safety Net
If your phone is your second-factor, what happens when you lose it? Dan shares his backup strategies and encourages you to think about your own.
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Temporarily disabled GC7QG1Z Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three
This checkin to GC7QG1Z Oxford’s Wild Wolf Three reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. User Sapphirites advises that Waypoint #2 is missing. I plan to perform maintenance later today to bring this series back into working order.
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The Case Against Quantum Computing
by Mikhail Dyakonov Quantum computing is all the rage. It seems like hardly a day goes by without some news outlet describing the extraordinary things this technology promises. Most commentators forget, or just gloss over, the fact that people have been working on quantum computing for decades—and without any practical results to show for it.
We’ve … -
Dune
Trudy & Doug (Oglaf, Patreon) -
Toto - Africa (Chicken cover)
Big Marvel (youtube.com)
Big Marvel (YouTube)
One man - who appears to be afraid of chickens - plays Toto's Africa on a rubber chicken, with backup from a real chicken. Congratulations: if you watched this, you just won the whole damn Internet. -
Browser diversity starts with us
Jeffrey Zeldman (zeldman.com) ...
Even if you love Chrome, adore Gmail, and live in Google Docs or Analytics, no single company, let alone a user-tracking advertising giant, should control the internet.
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Diversity is as good for the web as it is for society. And it starts with us.
Jeffrey Zeldman
Yet more fallout from the Microsoft … -
Long-forgotten virus could help solve antibiotics crisis
Alexander Belcredi (TED)
Fantastic lightweight introduction to bacteriophages and how they can potentially be our next best weapon against infection as we approach the post-antibiotic age. Plus an interesting look at the history and the discovery of bacteriophages! -
Goodbye, EdgeHTML
Microsoft is officially giving up on an independent shared platform for the internet. By adopting Chromium, Microsoft hands over control of even more of online life to Google.
This may sound melodramatic, but it’s not. The “browser engines” — Chromium from Google and Gecko Quantum from Mozilla — are “inside baseball” pieces of software that actually … -
Poly Parents Evening
Ruth, JTA and Dan went to a school parents' evening as a trio. And everything was fine.