Nelson Minar @nelson@lgbt.io

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Starlink Ukraine financing • Details of the cost of providing Internet in Ukraine, and the US government's role in financing it https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/08/us-quietly-paying-millions-send-starlink-terminals-ukraine-contrary-spacexs-claims/ #linkblog #starlinkukraineinternetusaidtootme

Painting Robot • Adrian Bowyer is working on taking GAN-produced images and painting them in acrylic with a robot https://github.com/RepRapLtd/Painting-Robot #linkblog #artpaintingganreprapgenerativetootme

WebAuthn reality • Problems with a standard, supported system for authenticating without passwords https://sec.okta.com/articles/2020/04/webauthn-great-and-it-sucks #linkblog #securityinternetauthenticationpasswordwebauthntootme

Mozilla Fathom • AI code to parse a web page DOM and tag it with annotations about what the pieces of the page are likely for https://mozilla.github.io/fathom/intro.html#why #linkblog #webprogrammingcodemachinelearningfirefoxaidomtootme

Worldcoin investigation • MIT tech review takes a close look at Worldcoin's ops on the ground and finds a lot of lying and law breaking https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoin-cryptocurrency-biometrics-web3/ #linkblog #worldcoinscamcryptoprivacycryptocurrencysamaltmana16ztootme

Air Raid Sirens in Ukraine • A visualization of a daily and nightly horror https://observablehq.com/@mourner/sirens #linkblog #ukrainewarvisualizationairraidtootme

Musk and Twitter filings • Lots of evidence of late filings, wrong filings, things that all sure look like they add up to fraud to me https://www.ft.com/content/d95f6255-010d-4f1b-93db-1cc26bf40538 #linkblog #muskfraudtwitterstockstootme

Worldcoin going badly • Company that promised cryptocurrency in exchange for eyeball scans is having a bad time. Part of their business plan is exploiting local labor. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-crypto-eyeball-scanning-orb-problems #linkblog #worldcoinscamcryptocurrencycryptosamaltmana16ztootme

Thai leather map • Fun idiosyncratic map of the world from a restaurant in Thailand https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/txbtlb/leather_map_found_at_a_restaurant_in_thailand/ #linkblog #mapsthailandleatherfolkarttootme

NFTs are forever! • Stupid car racing game loses its F1 license, game and tokens become valueless https://kotaku.com/f1-formula-1-one-delta-time-nft-crypto-cursed-shut-down-1848748953 #linkblog #cryptoscamcryptocurrencynftsgamesformula1tootme

Apologies for any spam flood of toots. My Mastodon instance has been mostly down for a few weeks, and I think still not in the federation properly. Stuff delayed for many days all shows up at once.

Litestream • A lightweight streaming backup system for sqlite https://litestream.io/how-it-works/ #linkblog #sqlitedatabasereplicationbackupprogrammingtootme

Binance scams • Largest cryptocurrency exchange allows absurd levels of leverage, then screws its marks when its own systems fail https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/04/01/binance-may-19-lawsuit-cryptocurrency/ #linkblog #cryptofraudscambinancegamblingtootme

Placemark optimization • Nice details on making a modern, data-heavy webapp perform responsively https://www.placemark.io/post/engineering-round-up-optimization #linkblog #optimizationperformancedevelopmentwebapptmcwtootme

Flags in Unicode • Emoji committee no longer taking flag proposals; it's an impossible task https://jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/the-past-and-future-of-flag-emoji?s=w #linkblog #via:waxyflagsunicodeidentitytootme

Better Nate Than Ever • A Disney movie for kids starring a 13 year old boy who may or may not be gay but is proudly flamboyant https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/04/disney-just-released-gay-kids-movie/ #linkblog #gaylgbtdisneymovieskidstootme

Browser System 7 • Tech details of building a fast, usable 68k Mac emulator in the browser https://blog.persistent.info/2022/03/blog-post.html #linkblog #applemacmacosretrocomputingemulatorbasiliskdockertootme

Firefox blocked localhost ports • Security measure; Firefox blocks access to a few ports on localhost, you can override it https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/ttms50/since_when_was_this_a_thing_in_firefox_trying_to/ #linkblog #firefoxsecuritybrowserinternettootme

GOV.UK Design System • A government's official web design style, with code to implement it https://design-system.service.gov.uk/ #linkblog #designwebuihciusabilityaccessibilityukgovuktootme