Hi! Do you remember blogs? Well, this used to be one. Now it just serves as an archive for my multiple Twitter accounts.
L’enceinte Bluetooth qui me réveille à cinq heures du matin avec une sonnerie de téléphone pour me dire que le fil de l’alimentation électrique est mal branché
HID attacks via USB drives have become too suspicious. What about embedding the attack inside a USB cable?
Just a quick test for a few things I’m hoping to make over the next month.
I remember when “just plug this gizmo into the target’s computer and way for thirty seconds” was an unrealistic cliché in schlocky spy fiction.
Trying to figure out how they even shot this. [twitter.com]
Invisibly fingerprinting text with Zero-Width Characters [zachaysan.com]
Est-ce qu’on peut aller faire des courses le 2 janvier sans se faire souhaiter une bonne année, ou je me contente de repas en poudre pendant encore quelques jours ?
You, normal: ‘Good riddance, 2017! Here’s to a fresh start!’
Me, a wreck: ‘This is the bit in Alien where they all celebrate because the thing fell off John Hurt’s face.’
FBI’s ‘Gamergate’ file says prosecutors didn’t charge men who sent death threats to female video game fans — even when suspects confessed [businessinsider.com]
Also gave Oculus Medium another shot and I’m no sculptor but I have no idea how people manage to create anything with this.
Qu’est-ce que la masculinité toxique ? C’est préférer un sac plastique au supermarché plutôt qu’en tissu parce que ça fait plus viril, et chercher comment marketer l’écologie avec des typos noires et des têtes de loup pour faire moins « féminin » 🤦♀️ [scientificamerican.com]
Black Mirror should do an episode featuring a clearly destructive technology — like a robot that kills your whole family or something — and make it entirely about the people who defend it on Twitter.
Extreme cold has turned Niagara Falls into an icy winter wonderland [blogto.com]
Bubba the pit bull has always been obsessed with kittens. So when his mom adopted him a kitten of his own, he was pretty much in heaven 🐶❤️😻
AWS customers may or may not be seeing the results of the Intel KPTI exploit mitigation, but that certainly seems like somewhere that would be visibly (and monetarily) impacted by slower database ops or I/O [twitter.com]
So for those keeping score, AMD says they are not impacted. Google, which discovered the issue, says they are. And MSFT says its patch fixes AMD systems too (which would seem to imply they think AMD was impacted)
This makes me wish voice-based AIs responded to input more like animals than robotic assistants 😂 We’d be far more forgiving of mistakes [twitter.com]
So if you’re running a #cryptocurrency exchange you must be shaking with fear right now. Think about the implications of #meltdown and #spectre and all those wallet private keys going through memory. Target rich environment. If we see exploits, that’s where it’ll start.
what a payoff [twitter.com]
Crazy: Apple’s iPhone battery waiting lists are already thousands of people long at some stores [twitter.com]
What’s crazy is that Apple has spent years lobbying to put the independent shops out of business. [motherboard.vice.com] And now those independents are going to save them.
Super common thing reporters see:
Women: “I’m not an expert, here’s someone who is for you to talk to.”
Men: “I’m not an expert, but here are all my thoughts on the topic anyway feel free to quote me.”
HEADS UP #macadmins : Apple JUST updated [support.apple.com] today (Jan 5th) and REMOVED mention of 10.12 and 10.11 being fixed for CVE-2017-5754 aka #Meltdown
Only 10.13.2 contains the fix.
La torture d’essayer d’acheter des fringues après deux mois d’hiver.
Je ne mange plus avant mars.
Je ne mets plus le nez dehors avant mars.
Le jour d’après. [twitter.com]
I think the lesson to learn here isn’t that highly polished productivity apps can’t succeed on iOS — it’s that the same types of apps don’t necessarily succeed on both platforms. [twitter.com]
Meltdown mitigation looks like it’s tripling CPU usage for some cloud services, like Epic’s Fortnite back-end. This has a real and immediate impact on multiplayer games — server issues for players, and potentially ballooning costs for games companies [twitter.com]
Yay, I’m not the only one; boo, it’s not just Tweetbot
In Tweetbot it seems to happen mostly when there’s no embedded media nor mention; in Finder it’s when there’s an accent in the file name.
I knew I didn’t want to upgrade to High Sierra but HOLY SHIT THIS IS GONNA DRIVE ME CRAZY VERY QUICKLY.
No choice but to enable LCD Font Smoothing so that at least everything is consistently a bit blurry and it’s a good thing my bank account is empty or I’d be ordering a Surface Book right this second.
At the risk of sounding obsessed, I’ve just reached Egypt in Talos Principle VR and I’m almost jumping up and down with joy (even though it’s a far cry from AC:Origins’ living world).
40,100 retweets of a quote tweet of a news article link that doesn’t exist, from an account with 80 followers.
Consider how much of the world narrative you injest and accept from passing glance alone.
This map is a brilliant data visualization. Here’s a brief thread on why it’s so much better than past efforts. [xkcd.com]
“Nanoleaf made a 12-sided Apple HomeKit remote”
I’d actually want something like this. And $50 is even somewhat reasonable.
January 2: My next CPU will be an AMD
January 9: I guess I’m glad I don’t have an AMD
“Razer’s Project Linda is the smartest take on the dockable phone we’ve ever seen”
Shame that the whole idea has been obsoleted by “let’s put all your files in the cloud” and I doubt we’ll ever manage to back away from that.
Johnny Hallyday non plus n’écrivait pas ses chansons et pourtant le jour de sa mort on ne s’est pas souvenu de lui par le prisme de ses auteurs, étonnant n’est-ce pas ?
The Iron Giant never fails to be cool
But the experience isn’t improved by half a dozen of creepily silent avatars ambling around, nor by Sansar’s pretty bad UX.
This is 2 years after the launch of consumer VR for PCs. Now imagine the rig that could power that tier of VR in another two years. And it won’t need a cable tethering you to your desk or media center. [twitter.com]
According to the internets there’s a good chance my problems come from having upgraded the RAM years ago, and I can’t help but wonder if Apple’s intentionally fucking up my install because it thinks I might have a Hackintosh.
How do you make a *nix kernel — which is running on a whole lot of different configurations — incompatible with third-party RAM, if not intentionally?
Natalie Portman’s “here are the all male nominees” moment is basically what anyone introducing an all male anything should do. e.g. “Here is the all male panel.” “Here is the all male bibliography.”
Recovery partition allowed me to reinstall 10.13.2 in one click without losing anything, so at least macOS is still good for something.
Lol. Le showrunner d’une série basée sur une histoire vraie décide de rendre le perso principal hétéro parce qu’il n’arrivait pas à s’identifier sinon. Ça va la médiocrité artistique ? [twitter.com]
Ca n’arrête pas de m’épater que tout le monde ait accepté le glissement de “réfugiés” à “migrants” — même ceux qui parlent en leur défense.
Started Hellblade: great prologue, and then it veered into psychological torture porn and I got stuck for ten minutes on a broken door.
This is awesome. Portland’s city officials - police, judges, mayor - insisted they have the right to search people’s trash with no warrants. So local alt-weekly (@wweek) went through their trash and published the contents (via @bartongellman) [wweek.com]
Sinon est-ce que le “droit d’importuner” implique la possibilité pour les hommes bi et homo de frotter leur genou sur d’autres hommes, les “harceler un peu” (car on sait jamais t’as vu) car ça “peut déboucher sur de belles histoires” et pr pas empêcher la “liberté sexuelle” ?
FUCK THIS.
The excuses in this are disgraceful, and people telling a woman to “just keep pushing” while explicitly discriminating against her are both awful, and nothing new.
Bon, ben si l’épisode de cette semaine est censé être emblématique du retour en force des X-Files, je peux arrêter de regarder pour de bon ?
Oubliez les robots tueurs et les IA conversationnelles : au #CES, ce jouet pour chat incarne le futur de la chatontech. 🐱
Au final Catherine Millet prouve encore une fois ce matin sur Inter qu’elle est incapable de parler d’autre chose que d’elle-même et de voir au delà de sa propre personne. C’est LE point commun des signataires de cette tribune.
Le ciel est gris et la Seine kaki, quelle belle petite promenade. Tu m’etonnes que j’aie pris deux kilos parce que je ne sors pas.
-D’où vous est venue l’inspiration pour cette architecture?
-J’aime observer la nature, les animaux, mon connard de chat…
This blows my mind - a three-part chorale generated by reading out a space-filling curve on a triangular grid. [win.tue.nl] via @goodmachine & @beausievers
Wonderful thread about the immense progress being made in Africa. [twitter.com]
Quantic Dream avait déjà une salle réputation dans le milieu, mais c’est encore pire que je le pensais. Il y a de quoi vous occuper tout votre dimanche aprem :
Médiapart : [mediapart.fr]
Le Monde : [lemonde.fr]
Canard PC : [canardpc.com]
The “judge my work” excuse is always BS, but especially when your work has consistently been poorly written problematic shit since forever. [resetera.com]
Ce qui me rend fou avec les réactions autour des articles sur quantic dream, c’est qu’on retrouve toute la rhétorique anti presse de l’alt right américaine et ça fait même pas 24h que les articles sont dispos.
A side point, but as a fascinating example of where we are as a society: this advice doesn’t even acknowledge the existence of phone calls. [theguardian.com]
Those damn cross-platform apps and games making a mess of the Documents folder because that’s how it’s done on Windows.
Shoes worth hundreds of dollars, made by low wage laborers, advertised as necessities to low income Black and Brown youth and sold in a capitalist, war mongering nation is not at all the dream Dr. King had [twitter.com]
Logan Paul: Here’s a dead body
Youtube: Let’s put it on trending
Chelsea Manning: I’m running for senate
Youtube: We can’t have this
More proof youtube is a mess [twitter.com]
Les deux coups de perceuse dans ma fenêtre à 08:30 et plus un bruit de la matinée, faudra pas s’étonner quand il y aura un meurtre.
Donc les gens mettent le Nexus 5X dans de l’eau glacée avec du sel (pour la rendre bien froide) pour espérer récupérer les données parce que le SoC meurt souvent après ~1 an. Bonne affaire le Nexus 5X. [hackaday.com]
La vie de Dolores O’Riordan a été rongée par un passé sombre, rempli de démons, qu’elle a portés en elle pendant des années sans pouvoir en parler. [lemde.fr]
@dhh:
Apple can surely do their part. @fmanjoo is spot on here. Letting people set limits on their usage (like, gimme a warning if I exceed 30mins/day on Insta!) or awareness of that usage would be wonderful.
Et en français “ours mal léché” viendrait-il de là aussi ? [twitter.com]
Even with a new battery my iPhone 6 lags when I skip a track as if it were spinning up a hard drive.
I watched all 74 videos in Jake Paul’s course on how to become a social media star, and I have come away with the conclusion that he is a terrifying genius and we are all in serious danger. [buzzfeed.com]
Quand Facebook met dans mon feed une vidéo d’araignée géante juste parce qu’un ami arachnophobe a écrit un commentaire dessus, J’ENGUEULE QUI, MOI 🤬
“J’en ai vidé des gazeuses pour contaminer des couvertures. À calais, j’obéis aux ordres et je ne réfléchis pas (…) peut-être qu’un jour j’exposerai mes fautes devant le Seigneur”.
Témoignage terrifiant d’un CRS à Calais.
N’a t’on rien appris du passé ?
Quels garde-fous ? [twitter.com]
Lot of this sort of thing going around today. Lack of fundamental understanding that Russian troll accounts would say almost entirely things you agree with!
Then, when the time was right, they’d tell you how, really, dead people in Aleppo were fake news, invented in Photoshop.
Working on new levels for @BeatSaber. This one is one of my favorites! :) Use headphones. Music by @Sqeepo is excellent! #madewithunity #gamedev #indiedev #VR
TIL that if you use Skype in a podcast or livestream, you have to give Skype credit at least every 15 minutes: [skype.com] .. I’ve heard this occur zero times ever 🤣
It took me a few minutes to realize the only reason Macon Heights looked so eerie was the total absence of cars #ElectricDreams
My domain name provider’s new site is so bad (months after its launch) the Logout button doesn’t work.
I used to get all my domains there — in spite of the higher cost — because their management UI was the best.
🤦🏻♂️
OK, I think I figured out the secret to getting animated gifs to look awesome with Face AR.
Transparency!
I’m replacing all black color with clear and it totally changes the experience.
“The California Farm Bureau was quoted by The News, saying that Japanese farmers were responsible for 40 percent of all vegetables grown in the state, including nearly 100 percent of all tomatoes, celery, strawberries and peppers.”
The initial call for Japanese internment came mere hours after the Pearl Harbor bombing, from the Salinas Valley Vegetable Grower-Shipper Association.
AKA, Japanese internment was initiated by the California farm lobby.
Thread about waypoint’s article on our new game, The Red Strings Club and how it’s being acused of transphobia. This is my take being transgender myself and having worked closely in the development of the content of the game. We are a small team of three people.
CALayer on iOS 11 has a private “continuousCorners” property, which is what powers many rounded corners in SpringBoard – and likely more! Now I’m jealous.
1992 screenshots from Frédérick Raynal’s 3DESK tool which was used to make Alone in the Dark 1’s meshes (~250 tris)
“Since I have a cat and a Time Machine, people naturally ask if the cat uses the Time Machine.” —Ursula K. Le Guin [bookviewcafe.com]
THIS is the Macintosh logic board, designed by Burrell Smith, Brian Howard, and Colette Askeland, and introduced on this day in 1984
The Room: Old Sins is OUT NOW on the @AppStore – [apple.co] Trailer here – [youtu.be]
It’s a shame the Special Transport DLC relies on the escort vehicles’ AI to negotiate lockups (which has never been ETS2’s strong suit), because there’s otherwise a lot of nice details and single-use mechanics for just $5.
Interesting 🤔 To avoid false positives like braking for a highway road sign or overpass, self-driving cars are designed to ignore stationary cars and objects.
In this case, a Tesla rear-ended a stationary fire truck at 65mph instead of braking
Google wants you to believe they can make self-driving cars but can’t figure out how to show you a picture in a box without running code from random citizens of former Soviet republics. No, this is not a hard fucking problem. [arstechnica.com]
Google: We helped find this terrible CPU bug that allows attackers to steal all your secrets if arbitrary code is run on your machine.
Google Ads: Hey, want to run some arbitrary code on hundreds of millions of computers? Get $140 in advertising credits if you sign up now.
Aliens are interfering with satellite launches 😱 [arstechnica.com] [arstechnica.com]
Procedural Generation [garry.tv]
These people are doing good work. [youtu.be]
Trois mois que je n’étais pas sorti et la soirée est un cauchemar total. Si j’étais superstitieux, je… Ah, merde, mais je suis superstitieux, justement.
Pretty sure The Room Three came out while I had a 12-inch iPad Pro. Playing The Room: Old Sins on an old iPad mini isn’t quite as immersive — and it only emphasizes how much smaller Old Sins’ world feels.
So, we’re the monsters in Monster Hunter World, right? Is that the idea? Cuz so far the “monsters” all seem chill, like they’re just grazing and shit. And we show up and kill ‘em all. What heroes we are!
I’m afraid Counterpart lost me when they cast a 27-year-old actress (who looks 22) to play the part of a 40-year-old woman (her age being very relevant to the episode’s plot), presumably so she would look nicer shirtless.
Only a Harry Lloyd sex scene could save the show now.
Interesting stuff: among 29 patients with facial neuromuscular disorders, those who had most severe depression symptoms where also those who couldn’t smile [cs.cmu.edu]
I think about Avatar: The Last Airbender a lot and how even though it dealt with incredibly serious concepts like imperialism, genocide, and trauma you never really felt like the characters were suffering all the damn time
You might assume U.S. gun crimes are solved by police entering a weapon’s serial number into a computing system to find a perpetrator. Due to NRA lobbying, the data is instead stored among paper records of the low-tech, underfunded National Tracing Center [trib.al]
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