If you follow (or did) the basketball player the professor, he tore his Achilles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUy4JTe2dK8

Today in #Android is awful: turned on an old tablet and need to push it through three OS updates. No way to simply install the latest. During each update, it spends many more minutes "optimizing" my apps, making the whole process take far longer. And utterly useless, since all the apps are going to be updated next.

LibU cancels Jerry Falwell Jr.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2020/08/07/falwell-absence-liberty-university-photo/

Redefining the eight minute mile to be the pinnacle of performance.

DZ: county politics in Michigan so you know it's going to be just great

“No, I don’t regret calling it an n----r,” Eckerle said. “A n----r is a n----r is a n----r. That’s not a person whatsoever.”

Totally normal public policy from an elected official.

https://www.interlochenpublicradio.org/post/leelanau-county-road-commissioner-unapologetic-about-using-n-word-does-so-repeatedly

Creating a new blog where posts are identified by number, binary encoded into the url using . and +.

Critical PGP bug just disclosed: if an attacker responds to an encrypted message with "This doesn't decrypt for me, could you try without PGP", the sender will be unsurprised and provide the attacker a copy of the encrypted message in plaintext
XMPPwocky

Here's a genius police move. Somebody tweeted a picture of an unidentified cop, who nobody identified. Police department now charging tweeter (and retweeters!) for le cyber harassment, in the process revealing the name of the previously unidentified cop. Nobody knew who was until now!

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355999/twitter-cyber-harassment-felony-charges-police-protests-retweet

#Today in entomology, I've learned the weird jumping moths that are all over #philly are the spotted lanternfly. Never saw them before this summer, now they're everywhere.

https://www.pennlive.com/life/2020/08/spotted-lanternfly-reports-up-nearly-500-percent-in-2020.html

https://www.agriculture.pa.gov/Plants_Land_Water/PlantIndustry/Entomology/spotted_lanternfly/Pages/default.aspx

Anyway, I used to get paystubs emailed to me in the form of a password protected pdf. The password was your last name. The point wasn't impenetrable security, but to make it so you wouldn't accidentally open someone else's file with just a double click in case they clicked forward on the wrong email or some other silly mistake.

Failed at the very adult task of moving clothes from the washer to the dryer in a timely manner, so now it's dank week here in the house of honk.

I can't believe Twitter is only 2.7 KB of compressed javascript. For reference, honk includes 2.5 KB of compressed js. They're really doing wonders fighting the bloat.

I also award 🌶🌶🌶 to everyone saying intel123 is a terrible password.

Think I'll wait a day and let someone else dig in and tell me what the intel backdoors are.

People struggling to understand that excel date parsing wasn't introduced in 2020.

Washington Post reviewed 14 brands of tortilla chips, and spoiler alert, Whole Foods and Trader Joe's house brands were the four worst in the bunch with some very low scores. Costco number two, classic tostitos number three. Corn santitas for the win (by a point; 1, 2, 3 were all close.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/voraciously/wp/2020/08/06/who-makes-the-best-tortilla-chips-we-tasted-and-ranked-14-popular-brands-to-find-out/

In related news, I am 2.46 times taller than the atmosphere.

Is there any basis in economic theory for directly comparing individuals' wealth to national GDP, or is it simply a matter of two numbers ending in B so they look comparable?

Calling up r/thathappened to tell them a bird pooped on my laptop bag.

1981

New band name: Energetic Monopropellant and the Oxidizers.

So how's it going with those misinformation moderation tools?

Twitter is now locking the accounts of people fact-checking Trump
ParkerMolloy

failed to handshake: ssh: no common algorithm for client to server cipher
client offered: [aes256-cbc rijndael-cbc@lysator.liu.se aes192-cbc aes128-cbc arcfour128 arcfour 3des-cbc none] 
server offered: [aes128-gcm@openssh.com chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com aes128-ctr aes192-ctr aes256-ctr]

Get out of here with that none crap. Though I wonder what client that is.

Alexa, buy a waterproof laptop. And a bag of rice.

Friend Owl here with an important message about the dangers of twitterpation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qq-dGMVOzc

Lol, a woman just dumped out a large bucket of waste water off her fourth story fire escape into the alley below. Living that 16th century dream.

Ok, mention all seems to work. But it feels dirty.

I'm not part of the hive mind, but I couldn't help noticing you've been posting some unorthodox opinions recently.

The Feed has gone from interesting premise to full on stupid with every character now making maximally idiotic decisions. I'm now subtracting a full star for each episode of this ongoing catastrophe.

Killing your sockpuppet with covid is a great way to convince the skeptical to take the pandemic seriously.

TouchBar Macs aren’t the first Apple computers without an Escape key

@tedu every supercar has a supersphincter, does any other kind of person buy them?

Am I alone in not desiring a supercar with a supersphincter?

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/08/gordon-murray-says-the-his-new-supercar-is-the-most-driver-centric-ever/

"In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved"

We all need to do our part to keep the hardware treadmill churning.

Two kinds of driver out today, the "it's just a puddle" driver and the "no, it's not just a puddle" driver. The first kind of driver goes first, then everybody after becomes the second kind of driver.

"No, I don't know what that cloud is called. Do I look like a fourth grader?"

Went out for second coffee and now it's bright and sunny. Some pretty cool cloud formations though. And the river's running a touch high.

Watching The Feed, a ten hour long episode of Black Mirror.

Stepped out for a coffee and it is raining hardcore parkour.

Adding support for audio attachments to honk, but restricting it to .au files.

Precision focusing. Holding a finger up at arms length and closing alternating eyes to estimate parallax using an ancient rangefinder technique pioneered by ansel adams, I have determined that the subject is somewhere between three feet and infinity.

We have now reached "which rooftop bar will be open tomorrow" group text levels of hurricane preparation.

The emoji substitution thing is pretty dumb and annoying to fix. I'm inclined to say, oh just don't do that, but I'm not convinced it's safe to leave incoming posts mangled.

Intersection of features is always a disaster.

How do mastodon and pleroma treat emoji in urls? Like https://example.com/:emoji:/ but with emoji replaced with a local instance emoji. Is the url mangled?

(Honk mangles it something special.)

Ostrich theory of self awareness: if I'm not aware of other people, other people can't be aware of me.

Contemplating how effective VR goggles would be for desktop work outside. Laptop screen at 100% brightness is both too dark and killing battery. Sitting on a park bench coding away with a headset would be peak dork. But maybe actually useful?

Clang complaining about my code: this doesn't do what you think

Me: I don't think what you think I think

The imminent collapse of CPU performance improvements has been predicted for quite some time, but it does seem we're increasingly clutching at straws to keep things going.

Adding turbo clocks was a good way to avoid limiting performance to worst case thermals. But then that become a game to push ever higher for ever shorter durations, without doing much for sustained performance. Now we're picking a single golden core on a die to be the chosen one to get a few extra hundred MHz.

It seems the captain can only order engineering to divert power from life support to warp engines so many times.

Wonder what implications will be for Wirth's Law. Will software keep getting slower?

WSJ reporting from the frontlines of the coffee stonk market.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/coffee-drinkers-stay-home-hitting-some-beans-harder-than-others-11596453907

Today's featured bloat request: integrated grep regex syntax for shell globs.

So I could run ls *.txt/banana to list all text files with bananas. Probably half or more of my grep runs are to construct a list of files as argument to another command.

The appendix explaining the priority rules to determine whether slash is treated as a regex or directory should only be a few dozen pages. Easy peasy.

?utm_source=digg

Tainted url.

An artist stopped posting protest photos online to shield activists from police. Then, he was arrested.

Terrible headline. Spoiler alert: he wasn't arrested because he stopped posting.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/03/philadelphia-arrest-protest-photos/

Well done, HN, well done. Out of 100 comments, you managed to make one (1) actually pertain to the latest mastodon release.

For chrome users...

chrome://flags/#enable-text-fragment-anchor

Pretty amusing to watch a camera review on youtube and catch at least three other notable reviewers wandering through the background as well. Did you maybe forget to mention this was a sponsored event?

Is Le Tote the first YC covid bankruptcy?

Ann Taylor and Lord & Taylor are separate companies, but you could be forgiven for any "I thought that was the bankrupt one" confusion, because they're both bankrupt.

Headings are probably less useful than lists, but any day now I hope to publish a microblog post requiring six levels of subdivision.

heading 1

h2

h3

h4

h5

h6

Definitely not the best street for the more typical lambo.