20 April

We’re a couple years away from production cars integrating digital advertising billboards and, honestly, it’s kind of surprising that it hasn’t happened sooner

# 2021/04/20 - 12:53 — published on @ff00aa

@fabi1cazenave:

On-board infotainment is WAY more dangerous than alcohol or cannabis, but apparently it’s okay to keep making it worse. [twitter.com]

# 2021/04/20 - 12:46 — original tweet by @fabi1cazenave

For over a year now I’ve happily played Microsoft Solitaire on iPad to keep my hands busy while I listened to podcasts or audiobooks.

I’ve ruined it last week by suddenly paying attention to my high score 🤦🏻‍♂️😫

# 2021/04/20 - 12:22 — published on @commandergaroo

@smdiehl:

This will drive all of our cloud hosting and server costs through the roof.

Cryptocurrency is a tax on the rest of civilization. And we all pay a horrible cost until it’s banned. [twitter.com]

# 2021/04/20 - 09:42 — original tweet by @smdiehl

@FTarlet:

Pour avoir été en première ligne pendant un an de pandémie et y avoir laissé leur santé, les soignants auront reçu des applaudissements.

Pour avoir mis des prunes à des gens qui sortaient leur chien, les policiers auront des primes, le train gratuit et 10.000 hommes en plus. [twitter.com]

# 2021/04/20 - 00:02 — original tweet by @FTarlet

19 April

@jankais3r:

This is what @Doom looks like on a holographic display. That’s right, you can peek around corners. #itrunsdoom

# 2021/04/19 - 23:21 — original tweet by @jankais3r

What could go wrong

# 2021/04/19 - 21:40 — published on @ff00aa

J’ai complètement décroché quand on est arrivés au moment cinétique au lycée, et je suis devant cette vidéo comme une poule qui a trouvé un couteau

# 2021/04/19 - 14:08 — published on @garoo

@Rainmaker1973:

SmartBolts are a fasteners with a built-in visual tension indicator. As a SmartBolts fastener is tightened, tension forces it to stretch, and its visual indication system correlates fastener tension with color [smartbolts.com]

# 2021/04/19 - 12:02 — original tweet by @Rainmaker1973

18 April

@mcclure111:

“I don’t have the energy to build up a following once again on a site I don’t own that can delete my career on a whim.… It feels like owning a hardware store for years and having to go work as a cashier at the Home Depot that put you out of business.” [rosalarian.tumblr.com]

# 2021/04/18 - 22:57 — original tweet by @mcclure111

Consider Phlebas (Iain M. Banks) — 7/10

If I’d remembered the cannibal island from when I first read this many years ago, I would not have listened to the audio version. And I have other reservations about the book’s contents. But what an interesting way Banks chose to introduce the Culture.

# 2021/04/18 - 21:54

@Rainmaker1973:

This 24 legged motor powered skateboard uses the Theo Jansen’s mechanism as a system of propulsion [source: [buff.ly]] [more about the Jansen’s linkage: [buff.ly]]

# 2021/04/18 - 18:18 — original tweet by @Rainmaker1973

@hmltn:

“The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel” [twitter.com]

# 2021/04/18 - 17:35 — original tweet by @hmltn

Silly me, I should have known that “content servers unavailable” actually means that my Microsoft account is in a Schrodinger state since I changed the password a couple weeks ago

# 2021/04/18 - 11:33 — published on @commandergaroo

@fakehistoryhunt:

What?

Oh yes, thanks for reminding me, this is a great excuse to share this one again, made by Richard Kingston.

# 2021/04/18 - 10:00 — original tweet by @fakehistoryhunt

17 April

Ah, never mind, the content servers broke down.

# 2021/04/17 - 22:30 — published on @commandergaroo

Ooh, didn’t know the Paris update was out. Time to install a 140GB update again, then forget to ever play it

# 2021/04/17 - 22:30 — published on @commandergaroo

Guards! Guards! (Terry Pratchett) — 6/10

# 2021/04/17 - 12:03

16 April

Pyramids (Terry Pratchett) — 7/10

In 2021 the more… colonial aspects of the world-building and jokes rankle a bit, but it’s a good story.

# 2021/04/16 - 18:20

@EveMoulinier:

Ma carte de presse est assez ancienne pour me rappeler des articles après la canicule de 2003 et de la culpabilité de ne pas assez prendre soin de nos aînés. Aujourd’hui, je lis que 100 000 morts, c’est pas grave car la plupart étaient vieux… Que nous est-il arrivé ? #COVID19

# 2021/04/16 - 14:58 — original tweet by @EveMoulinier

15 April

@OregonZoo:

Set the ice machine to ottermatic

# 2021/04/15 - 23:34 — original tweet by @OregonZoo

@HillaryMonahan:

Someone somewhere is a genius.

# 2021/04/15 - 23:28 — original tweet by @HillaryMonahan

Le livreur qui m’appelle (d’un 06), en décrochant je tombe sur un message enregistré “en raison de la réglementation sur le démarchage téléphonique, nous ne pouvons pas donner suite à votre appel.” Il rappelle, cette fois ça marche. WTF ?

# 2021/04/15 - 18:32 — published on @garoo

@JohnDiesattheEn:

The format is so perfect because it covers even horrific details in that detached Wiki style, and constantly makes passing references that you know would normally be linked to sources but not explained on that page. Your mind is left to fill in those details.

# 2021/04/15 - 15:32 — original tweet by @JohnDiesattheEn

@JohnDiesattheEn:

This incredibly disturbing fake wikipedia page about the historic first guy to have his consciousness uploaded to a computer should win a Hugo award: [qntm.org] from @qntm:

# 2021/04/15 - 15:32 — original tweet by @JohnDiesattheEn

@Johnny_suputama:

Coco-chan, who alerted authorities to an elderly man who had fallen in a ditch and aided in his rescue, received an honorary award from police today in Toyama.

Coco-chan: I will never save another human ever

# 2021/04/15 - 10:46 — original tweet by @Johnny_suputama

14 April

@keleftheriou:

Someone just sent me an app that’s a silly little game, but if I set my VPN to Turkey it becomes an online casino that doesn’t even use Apple’s IAP.

🤯

# 2021/04/14 - 23:59 — original tweet by @keleftheriou

@keleftheriou:

Apple has turned the magic of software development from “How cool would this be?” to “How cool would Apple be with this?”

That’s an environment of software suppression, not innovation.

# 2021/04/14 - 23:59 — original tweet by @keleftheriou

@Pipomantis:

Il est sur les rotules Charlie Brooker là, hein. Faut qu’il délègue pour les prochaines saisons. [twitter.com]

# 2021/04/14 - 17:24 — original tweet by @Pipomantis

@flglmn:

this is good. the “alien can’t be horror! it’s in space” lady was the wildest mismatch between scale of outrage and mildness of offense that this horrible website with its broken incentives has yet managed to produce [warzel.substack.com]

# 2021/04/14 - 14:30 — original tweet by @flglmn

@__apf__:

new neighbor moved in, a lady in her 80s. met her two sweet dogs this morning, named…. Houston and Houston. one is pronounced like Houston, TX and the other is pronounced like Houston St. I asked her why and she said, deadpan, “to stir shit up”. I live for it

# 2021/04/14 - 14:15 — original tweet by @__apf__

Why the hell doesn’t this dialog offer to force quit the blocking apps for me? Didn’t it use to?

# 2021/04/14 - 13:04 — published on @garoocomplains

Welp, I’ve managed to resist buying an Oculus Quest 2 until now, but this is too much

# 2021/04/14 - 09:44 — published on @commandergaroo

13 April

Dammit every one of these videos makes me want to go back to my 2007 self and believe again that the story is going somewhere 😭

# 2021/04/13 - 21:50 — published on @commandergaroo

There Is No Game (iPad) — 7/10

Hated the writing and principal voice acting, but the game design was clever.

# 2021/04/13 - 13:55

12 April

Il va faire un tour d’honneur ? Louer un bus et bloquer les Champs ?

# 2021/04/12 - 23:52 — published on @garoo

@axelsimon:

Ah, ça y est, les « French tacos » sont arrivés dans le New Yorker. La culture française s’exporte. [twitter.com]

# 2021/04/12 - 19:14 — original tweet by @axelsimon

@jesawyer:

# 2021/04/12 - 18:38 — original tweet by @jesawyer

Holy shit. (And imagine how much freedom this system could have given the writers of Watch Dogs: Legion)

# 2021/04/12 - 18:37 — published on @commandergaroo

Quand je me suis mis à commander directement mes composants électroniques en Chine, je ne pensais pas que ce serait Colissimo le maillon faible de la chaîne 😡

# 2021/04/12 - 10:27 — published on @garoo

@richardz86:

This is brilliant. It really should be the last word on the cult of Musk [currentaffairs.org]

# 2021/04/12 - 09:14 — original tweet by @richardz86

Finalement, on a de la chance que ce soient juste des cadenas, sur les ponts de Paris

# 2021/04/12 - 08:33 — published on @garoo