Nelson Minar @nelson@lgbt.io

Robinhood is predatory • Stock trading company pushes its users to gamble frequently on the market rather than investing responsibly https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/technology/robinhood-risky-trading.html #linkblog #robinhoodinvestingfraudpredatoryscamtootme

Comet Neowise • Comet visible to the naked eye in the evening https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/comet-neowise-could-be-spectacular-heres-how-to-see-it/ #linkblog #cometneowiseastronomyspacetootme

Land of Enchantment • Nice photoset of New Mexico https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/07/new-mexico-photos/613795/ #linkblog #newmexicophotosphotographytootme

spatialite vs GDAL • Beloved simple spatial database isn't updating with respect to GDAL and PROJ, the crucial spatial computation libraries. Fork discussed. https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2020-July/052387.html #linkblog #gdalprojspatialitesoftwaregisopensourceforktootme

Hoyt’s Crossing • Lovely 360 panorama of my favorite swimming hole https://www.google.com/maps/@39.3030695,-121.0801811,3a,90y,327.67h,108.44t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOlKu7Nco3OIPVeysuxwhlYBtw0R49dKIGyp9Mo!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOlKu7Nco3OIPVeysuxwhlYBtw0R49dKIGyp9Mo%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya176.7661-ro-0-fo100!7i8698!8i3678 #linkblog #grassvalleynevadacitynevadacountyyubariverswimmingtraveltootme

Pirating Hamilton • Matt Haughey writes about the well known mediocre quality bootleg of the play from 2015 https://a.wholelottanothing.org/2020/07/02/the-curious-case-of-the-pirate-hamilton-video/ #linkblog #hamiltonbootlegpiratemovietootme

Bugchasing • 2014 scientific article on HIV+ men deliberately getting or giving HIV with others https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4768590/ #linkblog #hivaidsbugchasingsextootme

Encrochat hack • European police hacked a secure phone system and recorded zillions of criminal messages https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3aza95/how-police-took-over-encrochat-hacked #linkblog #policeencryptioncryptoencrochatcrimevia:metafiltertootme

London/Calcutta bus • 6 weeks, a bus with beds and food service https://twitter.com/RKDasgupta/status/1277694020916056064 #linkblog #travelindiabus1970stootme

NIN - Closer But It's Funkytown • The forbidden mashup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS3mJ5pFndk #linkblog #musicfunnyninmashuptootmecloserfunkytown

Discord vs Nazis • How the social media company got on top of a trust and safety problem https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2020/06/30/discord-was-once-the-alt-rights-favorite-chat-app-now-its-gone-mainstream-and-scored-a-new-35-billion-valuation/#18e826a5b6b2 #linkblog #discordcommunitytirefirenazismoderationtrustsafetytootme

Sexuality in WoW • Detailed reading of queerness in World of Warcraft, but you have to look real hard for it. No major LGBT characters. https://wow.gamepedia.com/Sexuality#Homosexuality_and_bisexuality #linkblog #lgbtgaywowgamestootmeworldofwarcraft

Games Logos in Arabic • Fun project to make typographically matching logos for video games but in Arabic https://www.behance.net/gallery/36426655/GLAM-Vol2 #linkblog #languagearabicgamestypographycalligraphytootme

Android's OS update problem • Google created a mess where phone manufacturers see no need to ship OS updates https://www.androidcentral.com/apple-once-again-crushes-android-makers-update-support #linkblog #googleandroidiosupdatesphonetootme

K-pop stans • Details on how a group of teenagers have become expert at manipulating social media metrics https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/05/1002781/kpop-fans-and-black-lives-matter/#Echobox=1591563402 #linkblog #kpoppoliticstrumpcultureinternetsocialmediatootme

Golf On Mars • Sequel to the perfect mobile video game, Desert Golf https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.captaingames.mars #linkblog #golfdesertgolfgamesandroidtootme

Sridhar's search company • Former senior engineer manager at Google starts Neeva, a search company without ads. Based on Bing https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/technology/google-neeva-executive.html #linkblog #binggooglesearchadstootme

Reefjs • Very minimal Javascript DOM manipulator. Will update DOM efficiently based on changes to data, but otherwise doesn't do all the complicated stuff React or Vue do https://reefjs.com/ #linkblog #reefreefjsjavascriptprogrammingreactdomwebtootme

MongoDB isolation failures • The amateur enthusiast NoSQL database continues to have problems with transactions http://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-4.2.6 #linkblog #nosqlmongodbtransactionsdatabasesbadtechtootme

Cleaning for anal sex (NSFW) • Funny cartoon guide to rectal douching https://howtocleanyourass.wordpress.com/ #linkblog #sexanalsexdouchingshitlgbtgaytootme