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Sunday 2023-03-05 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Sunday 2023-03-05

05-Mar-2023 – Message to foreigners at Japanese convenience store sparks controversy online

Brief Summary: ”
Attempt to curtail customer rudeness comes off as incredibly rude.

Japanese convenience stores are known for being wonderful havens, where you can g”

05-Mar-2023 – No Wheels, No Mercy

Brief Summary: “We always like when a designer does something different. After all, it is easy just to do what everyone else is doing. But to see things a different w”

Saturday 2023-03-04 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Saturday 2023-03-04

04-Mar-2023 – Inspect the RF Realm with Augmented Reality

Brief Summary: “Intellectually, we all know that we exist in a complex soup of RF energy. Cellular, WiFi, TV, public service radio, radar, ISM-band transmissions from”

04-Mar-2023 – Ask Slashdot: Can You Use an Unsafe Computer Safely?

Brief Summary: “”I think the answer is no, but there are some clever people around here,” writes long-time Slashdot reader shanen, “so…

“Is there any firewall or “

04-Mar-2023 – Code.org Celebrates 10th Anniversary With Fond Memories of Its Viral 2013 Video

Brief Summary: “Long-time Slashdot reader theodp shares his perspective on the 10th anniversary of Code.org:

Remember this?” asks tech-backed Code.org on Twitter as “

04-Mar-2023 – Pluralistic: Solving the Moderator’s Trilemma with Federation (04 Mar 2023)

Brief Summary: ”
Today’s links
Solving the Moderator’s Trilemma with Federation: You CAN please all of the people all of the time (sorta).

Hey look at this: Delights”

04-Mar-2023 – The B-Movie Queens

Brief Summary: “Tom Jolliffe celebrates some of the most popular B-movie queens of the video era onward… Think of those legendary actresses of the last few decades. M”

02-Mar-2023 – Funko Will Lay Off 10% Of Its Workforce And Destroy $30+ Million Worth Of Excess Inventory

Brief Summary: “Before you immediately skip this article because Funko does not interest you: you want to read this. Because Funko’s brand new earnings report for 202”

03-Mar-2023 – New poster for Apple TV+’s Tetris movie starring Taron Egerton

Brief Summary: “Apple TV+ has shared a new poster for the biographical drama Tetris featuring Taron Egerton as Henk Rogers, the man responsible for helping bring the “

02-Mar-2023 – Chibi Godzilla Anime Roars to Life This April

Brief Summary: ”
The only thing that could possibly hold its own against Godzilla is the adorable power of Chibi Godzilla, and the pint-sized kaiju is about to star i”

03-Mar-2023 – Glastonbury 2023 confirm Arctic Monkeys, Guns N’ Roses and Elton John as headliners

Brief Summary: “Glastonbury Festival have today confirmed the long-speculated headliners for their 2023 event. Arctic Monkeys, Guns N’ Roses and Elton John will headl”

03-Mar-2023 – I made a modular building from the Not Lego Sembo 601070 Crab Shop

Brief Summary: ”  Hello brick fans!  I’m here to show you my latest creation and yes, it’s another modular building. This set started life as the Sembo Crab Shop 6″

03-Mar-2023 – Stable Diffusion AI Art Generator Now Has an Official Blender Plug-In

Brief Summary: “A popular app for 3D artists just received an accessible way to experiment with generative AI: Stability AI has released Stability for Blender, an off”

Thursday 2023-03-02 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Thursday 2023-03-02

02-Mar-2023 – Play Cluedo on Instagram in on-going “immersive” board game event

Brief Summary: “An “immersive” Cluedo event is currently taking place on Instagram, with players able to gather clues and solve a case via the social media platform.S”

02-Mar-2023 – I Killed Bambi

Brief Summary: ” So. That music post I was going to do. The one I kept hinting at. Well, I’m not going to do it any more. Probably. It sounded like a good idea but i”

02-Mar-2023 – President Joe Biden’s new cybersecurity plan would crack down on ‘insecure’ software

Brief Summary: “Photo: Win McNamee/Getty ImagesThe White House has issued a new cybersecurity strategy that addresses, among other things, the role of large tech comp”

02-Mar-2023 – Scott Adams and the Time Cancel Culture Was Good

Brief Summary: “Cancel culture has come for Dilbert creator Scott Adams. On a YouTube livestream, Adams said things others considered racist, people denounced him for”

02-Mar-2023 – How Hard Could It Be to Get Millions of Phone Bills Right?

Brief Summary: “It may be a foreign concept to anyone who has never paid a dime for a phone call over and above the monthly service charge, but phone calls were once “

02-Mar-2023 – As Twitter Goes Down Yet Again, Report Highlights How Fragile Its Infrastructure Has Become

Brief Summary: “On Wednesday there was yet another major global outage at Twitter, something that feels like it’s becoming a recurring issue and bringing us back to t”

02-Mar-2023 – New F-Droid repository format for faster and smaller updates

Brief Summary: “Comments”

02-Mar-2023 – All you may need is HTML

Brief Summary: “Comments”

02-Mar-2023 – USPS Starts Nationwide Electric Vehicle Fleet

Brief Summary: “An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: The U.S. Postal Service’s plans for a nationwide fleet of electric vehicles are getting closer to b”

02-Mar-2023 – Jakartan noodles and Sulawesi seafood: three Indonesian recipes from Petty Pandean-Elliott

Brief Summary: “From a spicy fish stew to a bowl of goodness from the big city – the chef and author shares her culinary highlightsIt has been more than four decades “

02-Mar-2023 – Minecraft’s upcoming 1.20 release now officially known as Trails & Tales

Brief Summary: ”
Let’s be honest, “Minecraft’s 1.20 update” wasn’t exactly a phrase that tripped off the tongue, so thank goodness for developer Mojang, which has now”

02-Mar-2023 – Microsoft Activision deal set to pass EU regulators – report

Brief Summary: ”
Microsoft’s $68.7bn Activision Blizzard deal looks set to pass EU regulators, news agency Reuters has now reported.

Citing sources familiar with th”

02-Mar-2023 – [Epic] Rise of Industry (Free / 100% Off)

Brief Summary: “submitted by /u/Musth [link] [comments]”

01-Mar-2023 – Super Mario Bros. Movie Release Pushed Up to April 5

Brief Summary: “Mario’s coming, and he’ll be here earlier than expected! The Super Mario Bros. Movie is now set for an April 5 release, two days earlier than the prev”

Wednesday 2023-03-01 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Wednesday 2023-03-01

01-Mar-2023 – Pathfinder studio to add narrative starship combat and revised classes in sci-fi RPG Starfinder Enhanced

Brief Summary: ”
Starfinder, the science fiction tabletop RPG sibling to fantasy-flavoured Pathfinder, is due for a major revision, according to publisher Paizo. Clas”

01-Mar-2023 – Morse Code Clock For Training Hams

Brief Summary: “It might seem antiquated, but Morse code still has a number of advantages compared to other modes of communication, especially over radio waves. It’s “

01-Mar-2023 – Get a whole lot of games in Humble’s Türkiye and Syria Charity Bundle

Brief Summary: “Humble Bundle has put up a new bundle of games to support relief efforts for Türkiye and Syria, after they were recently devastated by earthquakes.”

01-Mar-2023 – Godot Engine 4.0 out now plus console porting is coming

Brief Summary: “Today is the big day! Godot Engine 4.0 is officially out now, and there’s also work happening for developers to port their games to consoles now too.”

01-Mar-2023 – Venus, Jupiter, Moon Shine from Space Station

Brief Summary: “Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly snapped this photo of the Earth’s crescent, the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter (from top to bottom) on Aug. 6, 2015, while”

01-Mar-2023 – Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicle Manga’s Return Delayed Until Summer

Brief Summary: “Manga will move to Comic Days app after Evening magazine ends publication”

28-Feb-2023 – We put weird food in curry to make it “un-curry-like”, find a killer secret ingredient instead

Brief Summary: ”
And it’s not something we would ever have thought to try!

You might not think of curry as Japanese food, but Japan has certainly developed its own v”

01-Mar-2023 – [Steam] Portal Bundle (1 and 2) – 93% off; $1.48 USD. Each individual game is also currently $0.99.

Brief Summary: ” submitted by /u/Theghostscomereeling [link] [comments] “

01-Mar-2023 – HBO Max New Releases: March 2023

Brief Summary: “There’s nothing quite like when HBO is airing one of its trademark watercooler-worthy dramas weekly. Thankfully, we’ll get to it experience exactly th”

01-Mar-2023 – Disney+ New Releases: March 2023

Brief Summary: “With its list of new releases for March 2023, Disney+ is premiering another season of arguably its most successful and recognizable series. That’s rig”

01-Mar-2023 – Hulu New Releases: March 2023

Brief Summary: “Hulu’s list of new releases for March 2023 features an event long in the making.

On March 6, History of the World, Part II will finally arrive more”

01-Mar-2023 – Amazon Prime Video New Releases: March 2023

Brief Summary: “With its list of new releases for March 2023, Amazon Prime Video might be rolling out its most impressive monthly lineup yet.

We know that sounds l”

01-Mar-2023 – Google: Gmail Client-Side Encryption Now Publicly Available

Brief Summary: “Gmail client-side encryption (CSE) is now generally available for Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, and Education Standard customers. “

01-Mar-2023 – Brand New Colecovision Console – On a Breadboard

Brief Summary: “The Colecovision console from the early 1980s is probably not the most memorable platform of its era, but it retains a retrocomputing following to thi”

Tuesday 2023-02-28 – Link List

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Tuesday 2023-02-28

28-Feb-2023 – How to set up two-factor authentication on your online services

Brief Summary: “Illustration by Samar Haddad / The VergeRecently, it was announced that Twitter would only offer SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) to its Twit”

28-Feb-2023 – LastPass reveals attackers stole password vault data by hacking an employee’s home computer

Brief Summary: “The attacker stole credentials from a senior DevOps engineer to gain access to shared cloud storage containing the encryption keys for customer vault “

28-Feb-2023 – Is the Alpha Wolf Idea a Myth?

Brief Summary: “The idea that wolf packs are led by a merciless dictator, or alpha wolf, comes from old studies of captive wolves. In the wild, wolf packs are simply “

28-Feb-2023 – Repurposing Old Smartphones: When Reusing Makes More Sense Than Recycling

Brief Summary: “When looking at the specifications of smartphones that have been released over the past years, it’s remarkable to see how aspects like CPU cores, cloc”

28-Feb-2023 – Hackers Claim They Breached T-Mobile More Than 100 Times In 2022

Brief Summary: “An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Three different cybercriminal groups claimed access to internal networks at communications g”

28-Feb-2023 – Hackers Claim They Breached T-Mobile More Than 100 Times in 2022

Brief Summary: “Image: Shutterstock.com
Three different cybercriminal groups claimed access to internal networks at communications giant T-Mobile in more than 100 sep”

28-Feb-2023 – Star Wars Actor “Gutted” After Reading The Last Jedi Script

Brief Summary: “We don’t mean to blow your mind, but somebody on the internet has an opinion about The Last Jedi. Even after more than five years, people still feel t”

28-Feb-2023 – Super Mario Bros. movie now releasing two days early in US and “60 other markets”

Brief Summary: ”
Universal Pictures is shifting the release date of The Super Mario Bros. Movie forward by two days to 5th April in the US and “60 other markets”.

If”

28-Feb-2023 – Netflix producing stop-motion Pokémon series, stars human concierge at resort for Pokémon【Video】

Brief Summary: ”
Creators of stop-motion Rilakkuma series turn their talents to traveling Pokémon in need of relaxation.

You won’t find many multimedia franchises wh”

27-Feb-2023 – Christopher Landon says cancelled Happy Death Day 3 was set to be “post-apocalyptic”

Brief Summary: “Happy Death Day brought some refreshing energy into the slasher genre, mixing a little of old and new to delight horror fans. While the sequel didn’t “

27-Feb-2023 – Kerbal Space Program 2 early access review: a catastrophic re-entry

Brief Summary: “Oh no, poor Kerbal Space Program 2. The extremely anticipated sequel to everyone’s favourite rocket-building space exploration game is a hot mess. A l”

26-Feb-2023 – New Lord of the Rings movies are coming from Warner Bros. and New Line

Brief Summary: “Warner Bros. and New Line announced they’re set to produce new Lord of the Rings movies, now that its rights have a new owner. The new film adaptation”

26-Feb-2023 – Hand Dryers

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27-Feb-2023 – CHVRCHES have announced a trio of headline shows for this summer

Brief Summary: “CHVRCHES have announced they will perform three UK headline shows this summer.

They will take to the stage in Nottingham, Glasgow and Dundee on 9t”

27-Feb-2023 – Gorillaz have shared a deluxe edition of ‘Cracker Island’, featuring five new songs

Brief Summary: “Gorillaz have added an extra helping of tracks to their new album ‘Cracker Island’.

The deluxe edition features five additional tracks, including ‘”

27-Feb-2023 – LastPass Says Home Computer of DevOps Engineer Was Hacked

Brief Summary: “wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Password management software firm LastPass says one of its DevOps engineers had a personal home computer”

27-Feb-2023 – Meta Is Working On ‘AI Personas’ For Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp

Brief Summary: “In a Facebook post today, Mark Zuckerberg said the company plans to develop “AI personas” for Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp. He also announced tha”

27-Feb-2023 – LastPass says DevOps engineer’s hacked computer led to security breach in 2022

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28-Feb-2023 – Microsoft opens up PC Game Pass to 40 new countries in big subscription push

Brief Summary: “Image: MicrosoftMicrosoft is bringing a preview of its PC Game Pass service to 40 new countries today. The preview will include access to all the hund”

27-Feb-2023 – Password managers: A rough guide to enterprise secret platforms

Brief Summary: “The second part of our password manager series looks at business-grade tech to handle API tokens, login credentials, and more”