The Weekly Weird - 2020-10-23
- Good news everyone! Kessler syndrome has been delayed again.
- Turns out there's a lot of 'smart home' devices that, despite using proprietary networks and backends, are just ESP8266 chips. You can flash those with whateer you want like this open firmware that supports MQTT and TLS.
- Perception is hard.
- On the "worth going to space to manufacture" list: Bulk Metallic Glass.
- Fortunately, there's water in them there hills!
- I'm shocked, shocked, that redditors failed a turing test.
- Is there anywhere taking bets on whether a multinational decade-long project or a plucky startup saves the world first?
- I believe that the 3310 can survive a metorite impact so this is the logical choice for building a cell network on the moon.