Siilwyn @Siilwyn@mastodon.social

Hot new trend: Tech companies that 100% look like a joke but are not

when i was in the fledgeling XR group in san diego (yeah, I know) i brought up that the 5G rollout was going to destroy a lot of fairly old trees in the area and INSTANTLY got a bunch of "yeah and the EVIL DEATH RAYS" back from these 40 yr olds

things that are bad about many 5G rollouts:

- because range is short, it requires use of a LOT of land, some by eminent domain (womp womp)
- that spectrum could be WAY better used for other stuff
- it's a totally pointless technology

My friend mentioned Telegram light/dark switcher has a neat animation, so how could i resist.

Ubuntu 21.04 is here:

https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-21-04-is-here

Like HELLO #emoji support 😭🙏🙇

https://opensource.com/article/19/10/how-type-emoji-linux

lambda functions are more powerful than other functions because they have no name and thus cannot be bent to the will of an evil magician

They say AI is going to revolutionize the world, and yet Google still needs my help identifying fire hydrants on a daily basis.

Why uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

Link: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26755252

Via /.

Et tu, Signal?
https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/signal.html

"So many of us have spent significant time and social capital moving our friends and family away from the exploitative data siphon platforms that Facebook et al offer, and on to Signal in the hopes of breaking the cycle of commercial exploitation of our online relationships."

Yes, yes we have...

Flying a drone into a volcano 🤯

https://petapixel.com/2021/03/26/this-is-what-happens-when-you-fly-a-drone-into-a-volcano/

De Correspondent goes #dataviz with this brilliant article about #bigtech.

"The discussion about Big Tech is often about privacy, surveillance, disinformation and abuse of power. These are legitimate concerns. But this ignores the fact that Big Tech creates a new infrastructure that society cannot do without."

https://open.decorrespondent.nl/12212/technologiebedrijven-vormen-de-basis-van-de-samenleving-door-corona-is-dit-een-steeds-groter-probleem/1637957898192-53ee500a/app-open

16 languages made it through to the 2nd round of the Programming Language World Championships! #plwc2021

Here are the match-ups:

Out now: httpit is a rapid http(s) benchmark tool built on fasthttp and Bubble Tea. Get ready to pummel your web servers for all their worth! 🥊

https://github.com/gonetx/httpit

I should start hyping up http://kdl.dev again. I still think it can go places