Dominic Mauro @dominic@mastodon.social

Yikes. Adobe quintupled the price of my Adobe Fonts (formerly Typekit) subscription this year. That seems optimistic.

Archival footage of NYC in 1911 upscaled via neural networks to 4k 60fps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ1OgQL9_Cw

I see the glorious people’s revolution has once again been thwarted by an old man promising to cut out the malarkey.

I wrote a couple thousand words about how the DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the House Judiciary Committee’s subpoena of Don McGahn was a question federal courts cannot resolve. https://blog.ipsaloquitur.org/post/don-mcgahn-s-optional-subpoena/

You know what would be funny is a sketch about a bunch of Third Amendment enthusiasts that go around looking for British soldiers secretly living under peoples’ couches. Thanks for reading, everyone. Have a nice weekend.

Welp, I'm talking about open data next week. Come stop by! https://www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/government-accountability-central-library-info-20200302

In which a detente is reached:

Cleaning my in-laws’ Windows 10 machine on vacation is actually a really nice way to ease into relaxing. Like doing sudoku on the plane or something.

Most of the way through N.K Jemisin’s The Fifth Season. She’s an absurdly good writer, and this is an absurdly good book. Strong recommend for my SFF friends.

I mean, even for Buffalo sports, this is bleak.

Sure, the Sabres allowed the worst PP in the NHL to score 3 goals on them, and gave up a short handed goal to boot, but look on the bright* side: they ALSO lost their starting goalie to some horrific unspecified knee injury.

* = it’s not bright at all lol

Listening to my office mates discuss the finer points of helicopter avionics. Water cooler talk in the age of Wikipedia, y’all.

Realistically, we’re aiming for Wrench Amount Of Years.

Realizing I overestimated the speed at which iPhone passcodes can be guessed by quite a few orders of magnitude. We’re not aiming for “heat death of the universe happens and then a week later someone breaks into your phone,” folks.

Cities with lots of people in them have lots of people in them, details at 11.

I know that this is an advertisement for a roof attachment, but I choose to take this as a new year’s resolution.