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Apple II – Apple Vision (1978) by Bob Bishop
I think I actually saw this circa 1982. It was amazing. Via https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/03/25/original-original-apple-vision
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APL: A Programming Language
I never really got my head around APL but I wish I had; perhaps these tools might help me do so, in my copious free time. https://tryapl.org/ https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
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So many folk (e.g. Ryan, attached) amazed that Apple would licence Google Gemini, seem to be ignoring a fairly obvious possible explanation…
If you’re a trillion-dollar company in a litigious global environment, why race to market in a new product space with a service that regulators will crawl over and demand changes to in the name of protectionism the consumer, and pundits will do naught but compare it unfavourably to all the other equally unfavourable solutions in
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The Risks of Internet Regulation | How Well-Intentioned Efforts Could Jeopardize Free Speech | @davidakaye in Foreign Affairs
David lays out a pointed critique of the common and systemic problems with different nations’ approaches to purportedly improving online safety & security; he brings his own prejudices regarding the desired outcome but this nonetheless is good stuff: Although a focus on safety and trust is legitimate, it alone cannot succeed if it puts at
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CA police dept anonymises suspect images using LEGO heads | LEGO requests cease & desist on IP grounds
The police department was supposedly doing this in order to comply with a new Californian privacy law. The images alone are worth a click. https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1bk790d/police_post_photos_of_criminal_suspects_with_lego/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesfarrell/2024/03/23/california-police-department-stops-using-lego-heads-for-suspect-photos-after-viral-posts-heres-why/ https://www.foxnews.com/media/lego-instructs-california-police-department-stop-using-lego-heads-mask-identities-suspects
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GPS jamming & interference map | Flightradar24
Fun stuff. We are wondering what the two red spots are on the Germany-Poland border; it seems a bit far to be caused by Kaliningrad. Defensive jamming? https://www.flightradar24.com/data/gps-jamming
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Better Preparation of Bacon
Anyone who is sufficiently foodie knows that products like meat often are injected with water to bulk-out the mass which is sold over the counter. This is particularly common with products like supermarket bacon, and I used to complain about it a lot – not to mention the steam and white gunk that would boil
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Meta Encryption Privacy Fight Begins in Nevada State Court | …waiting for the other shoe to drop from today’s proceedings
News coverage at: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/meta-encryption-privacy-fight-begins-in-nevada-state-court Twitter zeitgeist at: https://github.com/alecmuffett/ready-made-twitter-searches#nevada-attempting-to-ban-end-to-end-encryption-for-minors
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“The Inspector-General has found significant failings in the GCSB’s hosting of a foreign partner’s system”
There’s a PDF linked in this tweet from the NZ Inspector-General of Intelligence Services, vaguely detailing how (presumably: US, UK, AU or CDN) foreign spooks parked a spooky surveillance “capability” on NZ soil and ran it without telling anyone, nor (worse) keeping proper records. Both are typical* but the latter deserves calling out as it’s