Nelson Minar @nelson@lgbt.io

Windows 7 BEEP.SYS • An old story about how funky old backward compatibility made all sorts of messes in Windows https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/larryosterman/whats-up-with-the-beep-driver-in-windows-7 #linkblog #windowsbeepadastickykeystechnologytootme

BBC Micro Bot • Tweet programs to the bot and it responds with a video of it running an emulator https://www.dompajak.com/bbcmicrobot.html #linkblog #emulationsoftwarehacktootmeart

Cell tower location • Guide to various ways to find out which cell towers are near you https://www.weboost.com/blog/how-to-find-cell-towers-near-you #linkblog #cellularcelltowermobileattverizonlteinternettootme

Chuck Feeney is broke • Billionaire philanthropist has given essentially all his wealth away https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2020/09/15/exclusive-the-billionaire-who-wanted-to-die-brokeis-now-officially-broke/#3262e3213a2a #linkblog #moneyphilanthropycharitylivingvaluesdfstootme

SmoothTrack • Cheap PC head tracking by pulling data off a mobile phone camera pointed at your face http://www.inflightassistant.com/smoothtrack/index.html #linkblog #headtrackinguihcitootmemobilegamestrackir

Magic Wormhole • Simple Python command line tool for securely sending files from A to B https://pypi.org/project/magic-wormhole/ #linkblog #pythonsecurityfilesharingtoolstootme

TLD list • Authoritative (?) list of all top level Internet domains. It's even dumber than you thought. http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt #linkblog #internetdnsreferencetldianavia:hackernewstootme

Apple ][ and lower case • Woz on why the first Apple ][s didn't support lowercase (he couldn't afford the keyboard or computer time to make it happen) https://web.archive.org/web/20200910152535/http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/2833/why-the-apple-ii-didnt-support-lowercase-letters #linkblog #applehistorycomputerdevelopmentlowercasetootme

Coffin Confessor • Guy paid by dying people to speak the truth at their funeral https://www.newsweek.com/coffin-confessor-tell-secrets-beyond-grave-1529381 #linkblog #funnydeathculturefuneraltootmevia:hackernews

Solar cause for earthquakes? • New study finds a strong correlation between solar emissions and earthquakes with one day advance warning https://astronomy.com/news/2020/07/powerful-eruptions-on-the-sun-might-trigger-earthquakes #linkblog #earthquakesolarsciencetootmeearth

Guizhou photos • Beautiful images of a more rural province in southwestern China https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/09/scenes-from-chinas-guizhou-province/615943/ #linkblog #chinaguizhoutourismphotostootme

3rd gen Ryzen performance • Detailed CPU benchmarks; AMD cut a weird corner and memory write speed is awful, but it probably doesn't matter much https://www.techspot.com/article/1876-4ghz-ryzen-3rd-gen-vs-core-i9/ #linkblog #ryzenamdcpubenchmarktootme

Number Stations • Detailed websites on mysterious and often creepy radio stations probably used for spies and crypto https://priyom.org/number-stations #linkblog #radionumbersstationscryptocoldwarhistorytootme

How to vote in every state • Details of deadlines, voting by mail, etc https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/2020-voting-guide.html?via=rss #linkblog #votingamericaelectionpoliticstootme

htop handoff • Nice note from an open source author who outgrew his project https://github.com/hishamhm/htop/issues/992#issuecomment-683286672 #linkblog #htopsoftwareopensourceforkhandofftootme

Jetpack at LAX • Someone's flying stupidly near big airplanes https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36096/airline-pilots-landing-at-lax-report-a-guy-in-jetpack-flying-alongside-them-on #linkblog #aviationjetpacklaxflyingfuturetootme

Big Freedia on identity • The Queen speaks https://www.theroot.com/big-freedia-if-i-had-known-the-queen-in-queen-diva-wou-1844905001 #linkblog #bigfreediamusicbouncelgbtqueertootme

Butch gay bottom (NSFW) • Old friend talks about the masculinity of being fucked https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/08/29/take-me-please/ #linkblog #gaymasculinelgbttootmensfwgender

How viruses shape the world • Excellent long form science journalism on what viruses are and how they work https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/08/22/how-viruses-shape-the-world #linkblog #sciencevirusdiseasepandemictootme

Nina Compton profile • Excellent article about a New Orleans chef working to make it during Coronavirus. You may remember her from Top Chef. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/a-new-orleans-chef-navigates-disaster #linkblog #comptonstluciafoodcookingtopcheftootme