The Weekly Weird - 2019-07-26
- A strong contender for the scariest pair of words in the English language has got to be "Bluetooth Pacemaker" (not that the previous stack was necessarily better). At least they're not plutonium powered anymore.
- Back in the mists of time, when the Internet was dewy-eyed with optimism, 640k really was enough for everyone, we still thought that connecting people was good, and IP addresses flowed like water, a smidge of IP address space was set aside for amateur radio use. 44/8 was...not consistently made use of and its governance was always a bit fuzzy. Recently, folks noticed that some of those 16 million addresses had been split out. It turns out that Amazon made a deal. This has not been received with unmitigated positivity by the community.
- Remember that the cloud is just other people's ransomware-locked computers.
- Adversarial street signs and ... lumps?.
- I guess the global game of sanctions-chicken has one positive outcome: RISC-V chips from China.
- The best minds of our generation are bio-engineering hair farms.
- Specifically mindful meditation is not better than sham meditation. However, even sham meditation generated 'significant increases in mindfulness dispositions and critical thinking scores'. I am not sure how to evaluate this information. (h/t Mike 1).
- Something something anime catgirls (sfw, h/t Mike 2).
- The PinebookPro ($200 Arm laptop) is up for preorder.
- Major downside to commercial software: sudden dectoupling of license costs.
- "Have you tried turning the plane off and then back on again?"