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Between bad apps that try to scam customers, and good apps that are rejected for seemingly wrong reasons, shouldn't Apple deploy more and better reviewers to their App Store to justify their high margins? ~ Links: Browsers have...
As part of my quest to optimise my energy bills, I’ve been looking into power stations and building up my arsenal of energy storage. Whenever I spot a reasonably priced power station (and budget permits), I decide to grab them for my own...
This is one of the most infamous computer games from Japan ever made. You can mostly blame the 1967 film The Graduate. I’ll explain along the way– From the first issue of Genma Taisen, the original manga. Genma Taisen, the manga, was...
Dave and I went for an early Saturday morning walk. Afterward, we went back to the hotel to meet with Dave’s family and then to the konbini (convenience store) for breakfast. Though still early in the day, it was already getting quite...
First, there was the issue with Hide My Email exposing your actual email. Now, we discover that Apple's iCloud Private Relay may not be private sometimes. Not a good couple of months if you are relying on Apple to protect your anonymity....
This is the first half of the final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va) of our apparently five-part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized, in particular exploring the principle that armies...
POSSE, in the IndieWeb world, stands for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. It’s the idea that you post content to your own site first and then post copies or share links on other sites (for example, social media). I like...
Bit of eye candy for the lovers of low-brow, low shelf kaka from the former colonies of the Far East, and these are out there now, with Peter Evans having provided some, while I found the others locally. We've seen Red Deer before, but...
JACQUES MESRINE – The Death Instinct. Originally published in French as L’Instinct de Mort. Filmed as L’instinct de mort (released in English as Mesrine: Killer Instinct) is the first part of a 2008 French biographical crime film about...
Truly has become unbearable. Losing efficiency and my patience with it. Perhaps it’s time to try Codex. _ Reply via email
ECM Autumn Highlights is a sampler curated by Manfred Eicher and released in collaboration with the Italian magazine Musica Jazz. Drawing from ECM’s late-2017 catalogue, it covers a broad expressive range while retaining the sense of a...
WARNING: I'm not good at writing fiction [1], so the plot is mine but to save time, the story is partly AI-generated. [2][3][4] Greg Brawinski’s skull felt cramped, like it contained more than just his brain. Between the upcoming Series...
After Rails’ Dear Leader DHH once again espoused far-right views on his blog (which I’m not going to link to here), some of the Ruby community said “enough is enough” and decided to fork Rails into a project called Amiko. I don’t want to...
A couple days ago, I wrote the blog post titled "Five Interesting Indie Platforms You Might Not Have Heard Of". I was really happy with it—being able to share the work of others that deserve support and can help foster digital indie...
So the past couple of days have been SO much better, it just blows me away! Yesterday, I was not only well enough to go into the city for the stock up shopping at Costco, but felt well enough to keep on going after everything was put...