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Short one today, just a random collection of gems. I am very slow catching up with my podcast back-log.
Technology
Ruby 3.0 brings new type checking and concurrency features [LWN] - some good new stuff, but I don't like of having type definitions in separate files. That was already annoying in C and C++. The concurrency features probably also need some work.
Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in - Internet of Dongs
Slack is getting Instagram-like stories and push-to-talk audio calls for the pandemic era - I wish I was in that meeting: "How could we make Slack waste more time so people finally use e-mail again?"
Flatpak - a security nightmare - 2 years later - I think this is true for many container based distributions of software
Random Thingspiele
Thingspiele - came to this through German Spiegel article. I never heard of these or the name before.
Working from home in UK over winter ‘will add £100 to fuel bills’ - my electricity bill is already higher, the winter will be worse
The Guardian's 2020 Climate Pledge - good to see this and more publication should follow this
COVID-19 and Acedia - Something different from Schneier"a sense of no longer caring about caring, not because one had become apathetic, but because somehow the whole structure of care had become jammed up."
224 Years of Election Hacking [Podcast] - not quite "unprecedented"
Should men-only private members' clubs still exist? [Podcast] - no? I always liked the idea of a private members club, sitting in a nice chesterfield armchair, reading a paper, sipping a whiskey (I don't drink) and smoking a pipe (I don't smoke). Maybe the idea is always better than the real thing.
What has Nobel done for the World? [Podcast] - talking about male clubs... it is probably doing more in making science popular than nominating the right peopel
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