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AirBNB Fraud
Some listings are shady landlords doing bait-and-switch. AirBNB doesn't seem to police it very well
2019-10-31 airbnb • hotel • travel • fraud • scam • via:hackernews • tootme
The Mint Julep
David Lynch meets Southern Gothic in this hell of a mixology performance
2019-10-31 drinks • poetry • mintjulep • neworleans • tootme
Guido van Rossum retiring
Python creator and steward is retiring from Dropbox
2019-10-30 dropbox • python • guido • software • tootme
North Carolina gerrymandering
Another pro-Republican map found unconstitutional. State court does what the Supreme Court refused to do.
2019-10-30 gerrymandering • politics • nc • northcarolina • votingrights
Paris Olympics logo
For once an Olympics logo that doesn't suck!
2019-10-29 paris • olympics • design • logo • tootme
Tether: The Story So Far
Excellent summary of the continuing fraud-seeming backbone of all cryptocurrency exchanges
2019-10-29 tether • bitfinex • bitcoin • fraud • tootme • via:jmason
Phones don't work without power
Details on why cell phones, AT&T landlines, and VOIP phone services like Comcast all don't work when the power is out (answer: deregulation)
2019-10-29 phones • emergency • communications • att • pge • power • tootme
Hellvetica.ttf
A font just in time for Halloween
2019-10-28 fonts • keming • kerning • funny • tootme • halloween
80×25
A lovely investigation of the evolution of technology from demand note currency to 80x25 computer terminals
2019-10-28 history • computing • terminals • tootme
The 43 Group
When fascists and Jews battled on the streets of London (in the late 40s)
2019-10-28 london • antifa • jews • politics • violence • freespeech • tootme • history
Making yourself a home
Lovely essay on videogames that make you feel like you're creating a home. Minecraft, most importantly
2019-10-28 games • minecraft • home • via:metafilter
Trump booed
A reminder Trump never appears in unscripted environments; when he does the people hate him
2019-10-28 trump • politics • washington • funny • worldseries • tootme
Alice's Restaurant
At 84 and Skyline, near Woodside, CA. A biker bar of sorts.
2019-10-27 california • restaurant • guthrie • arloguthrie • bikerbar • tootme
City of Bell scandal
California fraud case from ~2010; local officials passed a law making the tiny town inside LA a charter city, then started siphoning money out
2019-10-27 bell • california • politics • scandal • tootme • losangeles
Trump Golf Count
Detailed record of all of Trump's golfing as president
2019-10-27 trump • golf • politics
Rebuttals on American slavery
Some factual answers to stupid arguments about American slavery
2019-10-27 america • slavery • history
Houston Freeways
A whole book made with love about one of America's most clearly designed freeway systems
2019-10-26 freeways • houston • transportation • books • tootme
Twitter silencing dissent
Anti-government protestors in Egypt had their accounts disabled
2019-10-26 egypt • politics • twitter
Mozilla Location Services
Crowdsourced maps of cell tower locations, etc
2019-10-24 maps • geolocation • wifi • mozilla • location • tootme
Student vote suppression
Republicans working to make sure young educated people don't vote
2019-10-24 voting • votingrights • politics • elections • students
Lindelhof on Watchmen
Amazing letter where Lindehof defends the hubris of making a TV extension of the beloved comic
2019-10-24 watchmen • lindelhof • fandom • comics • tv • tootme
GitHub / NSA
National Security Agency publishes some open source tools
2019-10-23 opensource • nsa • software • government • tootme
Beckville Network
A DIY wireless ISP in Grass Valley plugging in to an underused fiber backbone
2019-10-23 grassvalley • nevadacounty • isp • internet • wireless • fixedwireless • tootme
Peteypedia
Companion web site for The Watchmen tv show
2019-10-22 watchmen • tv • comics • tootme
Unshaky
Not a joke: software to work around Apple's shitty keyboards
2019-10-21 apple • badtech • keyboard • tootme
Scientology buying Clearwater
Most downtown commercial real estate was purchased by church members in the past few years. Now sitting idle.
2019-10-21 scientology • clearwater • realestate • cult • florida • tootme
Programming Fonts
Test drive webapp for a whole lot of monospace fonts for programming
2019-10-20 fonts • programming • monospace • fixedwidth • tootme • fixed
Skin for your iPhone
Long live the new flesh
2019-10-20 skin • phone • mobile • us • interface • cronenberg • creepy • tootme • sensor
North Korea Tech
Blog focussing on technologies available in the DPRK. Definitely not a pro-DPRK blog but more about tech than politics
2019-10-20 northkorea • dprk • korea • tech
American child stealing
Kids separated from parents at the border get permanently taken under the guise of adoption. Note this is reporting on Obama-era abuses, but there's reason to fear this will happen to Trump-era stolen kids too.
2019-10-19 children • immigration • politics • adoption
Quandries
Hilarious government training game from 1998; various ethical scenarios.
2019-10-18 games • dosbox • government • ethics • funny
Consistent frame rates
Clear explanation on how to set up FPS, G-Sync, etc to have a clean consistent framerate
2019-10-18 games • fps • framerate • gsync • freesync • tootme
UK PornBlock
Tweet thread on the failure of the UK to impose a "you must be 18 to look at porn online" law. Verifying age online turns out to be super hard.
2019-10-17 porn • uk • id • identity • tootme
Giant Military Cats
Giant cats with military hardware
2019-10-17 funny • cats • military • tootme
Futures fraud with Trump
Someone's making perfect bets ahead of Trump actions
2019-10-17 trump • politics • money • fraud • futures
Hiking the Arizona Trail
Notes from a grueling 53 day hike
2019-10-16 arizona • hiking • outdoors • trekking • tootme
Trump tax cheats
Well documented evidence of telling lenders one thing, tax authorities another
2019-10-16 trump • fraud • politics • taxes
Ukraine backstory
A heroic effort to explain 15 years of Ukrainian corruption and how it led to the Trump scandal
2019-10-15 trump • ukraine • corruption • politics
Morels: The Hunt
A game about walking through the forest picking mushrooms and taking photographs
2019-10-15 games • chill • morels • tootme
Calibre and Python 3
lololo "I am perfectly capable of maintaining python 2 myself. Far less work than migrating the entire calibre codebase."
2019-10-15 python2 • python • python3 • calibre • ebooks • software • tootme
Ohio disenfranchisement
Random citizen hobbyist discovers 40,000 people who were about to incorrectly purged from voter roles
2019-10-15 ohio • voting • votingrights • politics • voterfile
Scott Wiener's 2019
A run down of the bills San Francisco's state senator wrote / got passed
2019-10-14 wiener • scottwiener • politics • california • tootme
Total Replay
An Apple ][ retrogaming all-in-one
2019-10-14 games • apple • retrogaming • apple2 • apple][ • tootme • roms
Apple + Tencent
iOS sends info on what sites you visit to the Chinese company. For security.
2019-10-13 apple • tencent • browing • safety • google • badtech • tootme
Homework Radio
Nice live Youtube channel of chill music
2019-10-13 music • lofi • background • tootme
ipify
Very simple web service for getting your IP address
2019-10-13 ip • networking • service • goodtech • tootme
NROL-39
Badge for a US surveillance mission
2019-10-13 surveillance • government • politics • funny • octopus • tootme
Heterosexual Undertones in Top Gun
It takes a close reading, but turns out the film is not entirely queer
2019-10-13 lgbt • gay • funny • topgun • movies • tootme
objc_msgSend
Fascinating detail for the core low-level message dispatch function in Objective C. The new type is absolutely wrong in all circumstances, forcing programmers to cast it
2019-10-12 objc • objectivec • languages • programming • apple • via:hackernews • tootme
Getting Sherlocked by Apple
What to do when Apple muscles in on your product. "But all along, we really should have been worried about our platform provider, Apple"
2019-10-12 apple • business • via:hackernews • software • competition • tootme
Where is Wendy Carlos?
Thoughtful essay on the slow disappearance of an electronic music pioneer
2019-10-11 music • electronic • moog • lgbt • trans • wendycarlos • tootme
Mace of the US House
Congress has its own ceremonial weapon
2019-10-11 america • congress • politics • mace • tootme
MacOS Catalina
A large litany of broken things
2019-10-10 macos • software • badtech • apple • tootme
Wildfire Risk map
A house-by-house map of fire risk in California, something a little like the proprietary FireLine scores that insurance companies use
2019-10-10 fire • california • map • fireline • insurance • wildfire • tootme
Ellen remix
Nice bit of agitprop
2019-10-10 ellen • bush • smarm • politics • torture
Prove you are Black
A subreddit rule guaranteed to piss off some white people
2019-10-10 reddit • race • socialmedia • tootme
Unsworth v Musk
Looking seriously bad for Elon here
2019-10-08 elonmusk • musk • tesla • pedoguy • thailand • cave • rescue
The moment of crisis
This is it; the executive branch is completely ignoring the powers of the legislative
2019-10-08 trump • politics • impeachment • constitution • crisis • constitutionalcrisis
RealClear Media's other business
They run a disgusting far right extremist Facebook group
2019-10-08 realclearmedia • facebook • hategroup • politics
WhatFreeWords status update
Free clone of What3Words is being bullied by the company.
2019-10-08 maps • what3words • whatfreewords • dmcs • copyright • licensing • tootme
BunnyCDN
A simple, cheap CDN with low minimum monthly costs
2019-10-07 cdn • hosting • internet • server • tootme
Joint statement on GNU
GNU maintainers step up against Stallman remaining in charge of GNU
2019-10-07 gnu • fsf • stallman • sexism • tirefire • tootme
The end of progressive taxes in the US
Richer Americans now pay *lower* tax rates than average Americans
2019-10-07 taxes • america • politics • flattax • progressive
Text Rendering Hates You
A roundup of difficulties rendering text correctly
2019-10-07 text • fonts • rendering • typography • browsers • via:metafilter • tootme
Satie's Vexations
An impossible piano piece. "fascination morphs into agitation, which gradually morphs into all-encompassing agony. But listeners who withstand that phase enter a state of deep tranquility."
2019-10-07 satie • vexations • meditation • via:metafilter • cage • johncage • tootme
III FR80
A 1970s computer for scanning and printing film. Company was founded by Edward Fredkin.
2019-10-06 fredkin • computer • film • 1970s • westworld • retro • triplei • tootme
Dub Gnossiennes
Sort of horrifying version of the Satie classic
2019-10-06 music • dub • funny • satie • gnossiennes • tootme • via:metafilter
The Homosexual Society
1958 British book that's the source of the funny list of types of homosexuals
2019-10-04 gay • lgbt • culture • history • homophobia • tootme
L to the OG
A close reading of the rap from Succession
2019-10-02 succession • tv • funny • rap • kendallroy • whiteboy • white • tootme
Will Trump Ever Leave the White House?
A sober, responsible read on a very dangerous question
2019-10-02 trump • politics • coup • election
Trump Facebook ads
A view into what ads the Trump campaign are buying, using Facebook's excellent Ads Library tool
2019-10-01 facebook • ads • propaganda • politics • trump
Name US cities
A little game where you type in all the names of cities you remember
2019-10-01 cities • america • game • maps • via:metafilter • tootme • geography