Nelson's Linkblog 2019-11

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Open source home automation

2019-11-30 hacking • home • automation • smarthome • iot • tootme

For when your shortwave radio is out of reach

2019-11-30 wwv • time • hacks • fun • nist • tootme

More Quadriga weirdness

Founders of a Canadian crypto company have a long history of fraud. One's death in India looks less plausible now.

2019-11-30 quadriga • fraud • bitcoin • scam • tootme

Allegations that NordVPN is working with a malware company to use unwitting people's computers as VPN endpoints

2019-11-29 vpn • network • privacy • nordvpn • oxynet • badtech • tootme • via:hackernews

50 best PC strategy games

An idiosyncratic list!

2019-11-29 games • pc • strategy • tootme

DDR home movies

415 hours of archival film from East Germany. Tragically bad user interface but lots of amazing video

2019-11-29 video • berlin • germany • ddr • eastgermany • history • 8mm • tootme

Independence Day (Hawaii)

Today is the anniversary of Hawai'i being guaranteed its sovereignty in a treaty with Great Britain and France

2019-11-28 hawaii • history • sovereignty • hawai'i • tootme

Spencer's statement

Fired Navy Secretary writes his view of what happened with Trump intervening to protect a war criminal

2019-11-28 trump • military • warcrimes • politics • corruption • navy

Only out LGBT player the big American sports, nice photo of him with his boyfriend

2019-11-26 lgbt • gay • happy • sports • nfl • ryanrussell • tootme

Former Manhattan non-white neighborhood, wiped out by urban renewal to make room for Lincoln Center

2019-11-26 newyork • urbanrenewal • history • nyc • manhattan • racism • lincolncenter

Watchmen Recap, Episode 6

Excellent summary. Spoilers of course, also content warning for lots of anti-Black violence

2019-11-26 watchmen • tv • recap • lynching • violence

Broader impeachment context

A simple list of various forms of Trump corruption adjacent to the Ukraine bribery that no one is investigating

2019-11-26 trump • corruption • politics • bribery • treason • ukraine

Queer like Pete

An explanation of the type A-gay that Pete Buttigieg represents. It's legitimately queer, just different from what straight America is used to

2019-11-26 america • gay • lgbt • identity • buttigieg • politics • tootme

California DMV sells you out

They make about $1.50/Californian/year selling your DMV data to companies

2019-11-25 dmv • privacy • california • tootme

RIPE's last IPv4 addresses

The Internet is officially out of IPv4 space now. Or at least, everything's allocated and now it's a reseller's market.

2019-11-25 ipv4 • internet • ripe • addresses • tootme

Trump corrupts the Navy

A dangerous escalation in Trump's expanding circle of awful actions

2019-11-25 military • navy • trump • politics • corruption

Romanov costume ball

Photos from 1903 showing lavish Russian costumes at a party. (Modern colorization)

2019-11-25 russia • costume • romanov • history • fashion • tootme

Navy Sec'y Spencer's resignation

Eloquent, honorable letter of a military man resigning because his Commander in Chief keeps interfering to defend a war criminal

2019-11-25 politics • america • military • navy • spencer

City shoe repair

Old shoe shop in Santa Fe; also sells great red chile

2019-11-23 chile • santafe • newmexico • shoes • businesses • history • tootme

Lao Gan Ma Chili Crisp

Enormous details about the Chinese (Guizhou) sauce

2019-11-23 food • guizhou • chili • chilicrisp • sauce • tootme

Latinx humor from San Antonio

2019-11-22 funny • latinx • sanantonio • texas • tejas • tootme

Immigrant culture in the US has a pirate radio like thing going using conference calls as the medium

2019-11-22 hmong • culture • radio • via:metafilter

Cybertruck precedents

Photos of various ridiculous concept cars from the 70s and 80s

2019-11-22 cars • design • cybertruck • funny • tootme

ICANN / .org corruption

Evidence from the sale and commercialization of the .org domain. Names Fadi Chehade at the middle of it.

2019-11-22 internet • dotorg • icann • registrar • dns • domains • tootme

Gossipy details about Adam Neumann

2019-11-22 wework • adamneumann • tirefire • cult • business • startup • tootme

Tim Cook <3 Donald Trump

New Trump promo / ad makes heavy use of images of Apple and its CEO.

2019-11-22 trump • politics • timcook • cook • apple

Privacy add-on that tries to block CDNs from tracking you by serving local copies of things instead

2019-11-21 cdn • privacy • ads • firefox • tootme

A more aggressive Privacy Badger. Doesn't just block stuff, it tries to make things expensive for tracking companies

2019-11-21 privacy • ads • browser • addon • firefox • tootme

Weasel collaborator

Zuckerberg and Thiel and their dinner with Donald Trump. So ashamed they kept it a secret

2019-11-21 facebook • zuckerberg • thiel • politics • trump • collaborator

Responses for loyal Nixonites

1973 Art Buchwald column about Watergate

2019-11-20 nixon • politics • trump • funny • buchwald • oped

Google Gets Social!

Brand new gaming product lets users fill in their profiles with long-dead IM platforms

2019-11-20 google • stadia • obsolete • social • incompetent • funny • tootme

Space Claw temporarily crippled

One talon removed for antenna upgrades.

2019-11-19 spaceclaw • sutrotower • sanfrancisco • tootme

Fallout 76 cannibals

Hilariously written article about player-created content

2019-11-19 games • cannibalism • fallout • funny • tootme

“Water” in European languages

Nice map and explanation of etymology

2019-11-18 language • etymology • maps • water • via:Reddit

VR finger tracking

Valve index controllers track motion of all fingers. Folks are using them to talk in ASL in VRChat

2019-11-18 asl • vrchat • vr • deaf • games • valve • tootme

Start Your Own ISP

A practical guide to starting your own Internet Service Provider

2019-11-17 isp • interenet • networking • tootme

Some 12% of women are genetically capable of seeing more than the usual 3 base colors

2019-11-17 vision • color • via:hackernews • tootme

nss-tls: A DNS over HTTPS resolver for glibc

Use DNS over HTTPS in the standard way a Linux system would expect

2019-11-17 dns • dnsoverhttps • privacy • internet • linux • resolver • tootme

A 2020 contested election

Simple explication of a nightmare scenario where Trump loses the election but refuses to honor the vote

2019-11-17 trump • politics • civilwar • america • 2020 • election

Sappho and her Friend

A subreddit devoted to humorous discussion of LGBT erasure

2019-11-17 gay • lgbt • lesbian • funny • reddit • tootme

Google Pixel 4 review

First deep, thoughtful negative review I've seen. Matches all the quick hot takes at launch; Google's phone just underwhelms.

2019-11-17 google • pixel • pixel4 • phone • smartphone • android • tootme

Google Search tweaking

Details on the various ways Google sculpts its search results

2019-11-16 google • search • ads • ranking • informationretrieval • tootme

Nine year old girl rocking the fuck out of her drum kit playing along with Nirvana

2019-11-16 nirvana • music • drumming • awesome • tootme

Trump pardons war criminals

Military men who committed murder pardoned

2019-11-16 trump • murder • warcrime • politics

More investigative reporting on the Vitamin E acetate that's killing some vape users. Traces the origin of a popular adulterant that's the culprit

2019-11-14 thc • vaping • health • marijuana • tootme

Ubiquiti acts shitty

Excellent networking hardware starts sending surveillance data from your network without your permission or any way to turn it off

2019-11-14 ubiquiti • network • privacy • badtech • tootme

Facebook camera spying

Evidence the iOS app turns the camera on while you're reading your feed

2019-11-12 camera • facebook • tirefire • privacy • scandal • badtech

Stephen Miller's white supremacy

A long list of emails demonstrating his hateful thought

2019-11-12 miller • politics • trump • immigration • stephenmiller • nazi

A new white supremacist group in America

2019-11-12 america • nazis • patriotfront • politics • via:metafilter

Painted Churches of the Texas Hill Country

Czech Catholics built some beautiful churches

2019-11-12 church • texas • czech • history • tootme • architecture

Naomi Wu on Metafilter

Famous tech reporter from China is in the middle of some stuff being done to her; she shows up on Metafilter to explain

2019-11-12 metafilter • naomiwu • lgbt • china • shenzen • tootme

Abar, The First Black Superman

1970s blaxploitation superhero movie. Possibly relevant to the new Watchmen show

2019-11-12 watchmen • superman • black • blaxploitation • movies • tootme

The white cat from the women-yelling-at-cat meme

2019-11-11 cats • memes • funny • culture • tootme

Transferring PC games

Instructions for all the different game launchers to let you copy a game's files to a new PC rather than re-download them

2019-11-10 games • steam • epic • bethesda • copy • download • tootme

Lovely photo essay on the evolution of the drag ball / house culture in NYC for LGBTQ / POC youth

2019-11-08 drag • photos • lgbt • gay • tootme

Optimizing C++ and Rust

Example of optimizing code for a modern CPU to take advantage of multiple cores, cache efficiency, SIMD, etc

2019-11-07 optimization • code • simd • programming • tootme

Alito and Kavanaugh are corrupt

Posing chummily with an anti-gay group who has submitted amicus briefs for cases that are currently before the court

2019-11-07 supremecourt • justice • america • politics • lgbt • outrage

Phantom text messages

Serious system glitch betrays that carriers are storing your SMS messages for _months_, then resending them spuriously

2019-11-07 text • message • privacy • sms • cellphone • badtech • tootme

Saudis plus Travis Kalanick

Massive sovereign wealth fund from the murderous nation funds sociopath to disrupt cooking. $400M series A in convertible debt.

2019-11-07 tk • travis • traviskalanick • saudis • funding • startups • tirefire

Remove the Mona Lisa

Provocative but on-point article about the stupidest problem at the Louvre. A museum full of excellent art and everyone goes to see one meh tiny portrait.

2019-11-07 louvre • paintings • monalisa • art • museum • tootme

Nevada County on power outages

Official letter details all the harm PG&E's outages have done to the local economy

2019-11-06 nevadacounty • grassvalley • politics • pge • psps • tootme

Linux performance over time

Analysis shows core functions slower or more variable than before, a combination of complexity and security mitigation

2019-11-06 linux • performance • systems • tootme • benchmarks

Command someone's Alexa with a laser from hundreds of feet away

2019-11-05 laser • voice • alexa • siri • privacy • badtech • tootme

De mi Rancho a Tu Cocina

Doña Angela's hit cooking show from Michoacan, as seen on NPR

2019-11-05 cooking • mexico • food • tv • tootme

A history of the key Internet protocol. Summary of Paul Vixie's talk: note he's an expert but biased historian

2019-11-05 vixie • dns • internet • privacy • tootme

Evidence some one individual using Tether manipulated Bitcoin price in 2017

2019-11-05 bitcoin • bitfinex • tether • fraud • crypto • tootme

Tether fraud, short explanation

Not as detailed as the Oct 29 article by another author, but a good readable summary

2019-11-05 tether • bitfinex • crypto • scam • bitcoin • tootme

This is the optical network terminal (aka fiber modem) my ISP gave me

2019-11-04 sonic • network • internet • fiber • tootme

Uighur Kristallnacht

Evidence of religious erasure in Western China

2019-11-04 china • uighur • muslim • religion • genocide

11,000 President Trump tweets

Detailed analysis. Over half his tweets are attacks.

2019-11-03 trump • twitter • politics

Build the Wall, for kids!

You have to indoctrinate children to be white supremacists, it doesn't just happen

2019-11-02 children • politics • whitehouse • immigration • hatred

Sleep Like The Dead

A mattress buying guide site that claims to be independent and not fraud

2019-11-02 mattress • sleep • shopping • tootme

Death Stranding review

Excellent writing by Heather Alexandra

2019-11-01 games • deathstranding • kojima • tootme

New-ish Linux performance monitoring, with CPU, IO, and Memory split into separate categories

2019-11-01 linux • performance • loadaverage • top • systems • tootme

Unusual VC fund is opening up to new investments

2019-11-01 indievc • vc • investing • startups • tootme

New Guinea singing dogs howl as a group

2019-11-01 newguinea • dogs • howling • music • animals • tootme