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Covid vaccine and viral load
People who still got infected with Covid after a vaccine had enormously reduced viral loads, suggesting they are likely much less infectious
2021-03-30 covid • disease • coronavirus • vaccine • antibody • viralload
Knockoff NFTs!
Harper Reed is a naughty man
2021-03-30 harper • funny • nft • art • tootme
Trump Covid lies
Information starts coming out about how all the collaborators inside the White House new how awful Trump's Covid response was, but said nothing
2021-03-29 trump • politics • covid • lies • collaborator
ODroid
Nice tiny ARM system for < $100, would make a great Linux server or router
2021-03-27 linux • arm • rpi • rapsberrypi • server • networking • router
Tony Hsieh's fall
Tragic cautionary tale of drugs and having too much money with no grounding.
2021-03-27 zappos • tonyhsieh • drugs • techindustry • founders • tragedy
Lil Nas X - MONTERO
Another floridly imaginative video, this one more fantasy than SF. Also explicitly shows Lil Nas X being a bottom which is a refreshing turn on so much hip hop machismo
2021-03-26 lgbt • sex • bottom • lilnasx • fantasy • video • music • fun • tootme
Avalanche Rescue
Very intense video but the ending is happy. CW: suffocation, buried alive.
2021-03-24 avalanche • skiing • accident • burial • rescue • tootme
EVERGREEN
A ship is wedged sideways in the Suez canal and all traffic is blocked
2021-03-24 shipping • suez • egypt • evergreen • via:metafilter • tootme
ROCKPro64
ARM based tiny computer for small Linux servers
2021-03-23 linux • arm • arm64 • sff • computer • hardware • tootme
Rarible NFT marketplace
NFTs are stupid, but the art aesthetic on display is sure an interesting distillation of Internet culture
2021-03-20 art • nft • cryptocurrency • crypto • gallery • internet
US Covid death map
Every dot a Coronavirus death
2021-03-19 maps • covid19 • coronavirus • disease • death • visualization • america • unitedstates
Individual voting data
Very detailed data set for 180M individuals on partisanship in American voting
2021-03-19 voting • politics • america • data • precinct • maps
A Mind Is Born
Breakdown of the famous 255 byte C64 demo
2021-03-19 games • demos • music • c64 • programming • via:hackernews • tootme
Peak map
Nice webapp for drawing terrain with lines as a peak map
2021-03-18 maps • plotter • drawing • peakmap • joydivision • tootme
Plotter art tools
Various apps for generating line art for use in plotting
2021-03-18 plotter • art • generative • tootme • axidraw
Kip Macy, open source programmer
Awful history of a well known FreeBSD and WireGuard contributor. He also is a psychopathic landlord who skipped bail and fled the United States
2021-03-17 wireguard • freebsd • software • kipmacy • crime
Simple IP Config
A tool for quickly changing IP address configurations in Windows
2021-03-16 windows • networking • ip • starlink • code • tootme
Cat-ullus
Cat memes from classic Roman text
2021-03-16 catullus • classics • memes • funny • cats • tootme
NFT scam
Undisclosed: the buyer of Beeple's $69M art is a business partner of Beeple's and they are specifically working together on some cryptotoken backed by this piece of art.
2021-03-14 crypto • fraud • scam • nft • cryptocurrency • art • beeple
Republicans vs democray
"everybody shouldn't be voting". "have to look at the quality of votes". Elected GOP official says the quiet part out loud, although he manages to avoid direct racism
2021-03-11 politics • republicans • voting • votingrights • gop
OpenMPTCProuter
Open source channel bonding
2021-03-11 internet • networking • mptcp • multipath • bonding • starlink • tootme • openwrt
SF tech cliche
Hilarious little clip
2021-03-09 sanfrancisco • tech • parody • funny • tootme
Starlink / DLS bonding
One user's setup for smoothing over Starlink unreliability with a second ISP and bonding via a VPN
2021-03-09 bonding • starlink • networking • vpn
Right Up Our Alley
Beautiful drone video
2021-03-09 drone • flying • video • bowling • funny • tootme
Codpieces
Silly little history tour of padded bras for men
2021-03-08 codpiece • penis • clothing • fashion • funny • tootme • masculinity
PS5 control latency
No evidence that wireless controller adds any latency. Some games have ~30ms latency from button press to action
2021-03-08 games • latency • ps5 • controls • wireless
SVG Cropper
Crop an arbitrary SVG graphic to a specific area. Does a lot of sophisticated SVG rewriting and geometry to remove the parts you aren't drawing
2021-03-08 svg • plotter • math • crop • tool • software • tootme
occult vpype plug-in
SVG tool plugin to remove masked lines
2021-03-07 masking • occultation • plugin • vpype • python • plotter • tootme
vpype SVG tool
Command line program for manipulating SVG files. Useful for preparing pen plots.
2021-03-07 plotter • svg • art • axidraw • tootme
Kentucky Ridge Mine
An 1851 Nevada County mine worked by Black slaves. There's a "Kentucky Ridge Mine Rd" now in the general area.
2021-03-07 slavery • history • nevadacounty • mining • goldmine • kentuckyridgemine
Extending Starlink cable
Success with 75 feet of 23AWG Cat 6
2021-03-06 starlink • ethernet • poe • hardware • networking • tootme • dishy
Cultural map of Paris
Popular cultural sites laid out against a metro map
2021-03-06 paris • map • metro • culture • tourism • travel • tootme
SF Corruption
Details of Recology and the SF Public Works Director Nuru
2021-03-05 bribery • corruption • politics • sanfrancisco • recology • nuru • garbage
Historica Wiki
A pseudo-historical Wiki as if events from video games were real history
2021-03-05 games • wiki • history • tootme • assassinscreed • crusaderkings
Redistricting: Score a Plan
Software tool for understanding gerrymandering
2021-03-05 gerrymandering • redistricting • politics • migurski • planscore • tootme
David Brooks scandal
Dumb right wing NYT columnist has had an undisclosed second job for years. He writes about that work without telling readers he's paid to work on it.
2021-03-04 weave • aspeninstitute • davidbrooks • nytimes • ethics • journalism
The city is ours
Mat Honan waxes rhapsodic about San Francisco
2021-03-03 sanfrancisco • mathonan • city • politics • culture • tootme