Blogging Intensifies Link List for Wednesday 2024-10-23
22-Oct-2024 – “Click to Cancel” Coming Soon
Brief Summary: “If you’ve ever had to suffer through a call tree and a 9,000 hour wait on hold to cancel a subscript”
18-Oct-2024 – Teaching Owlgebra: developing math on Duolingo
Brief Summary: “You’ve heard of Spanish or vanish, but what about divide or hide? Last year, Duolingo launched a new”
18-Oct-2024 – Google’s ad-blocking crackdown underway
Brief Summary: ”
Google has gotten a bad reputation as of late for being a bit overzealous when it comes to fighting”
18-Oct-2024 – Experimenting with audio input and output for the OpenAI Chat Completion API
Brief Summary: “OpenAI promised this at DevDay a few weeks ago and now it’s here: their Chat Completion API can now “
18-Oct-2024 – Correct and Incorrect Conclusions About Democrats and Unions
Brief Summary: “We need more union members. We need more union members. (Photo: Getty)Joe Biden has been an uncommon”
17-Oct-2024 – Illinois Joins CoSN’s Trusted Learning Environment (TLE) State Partnership Program for Student Data Privacy
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17-Oct-2024 – Qualcomm Has Canceled its Snapdragon Dev Kit, Will Refund All Preorders
Brief Summary: “Qualcomm has canceled the Snapdragon Dev Kit, its mini PC powered by a Snapdragon X Elite chip, and “
17-Oct-2024 – Internet Archive Slowly Revives After DDoS Barrage
Brief Summary: “Days after facing a major breach, the site is still struggling to get fully back on its feet.”
17-Oct-2024 – MAGA is a virus and the press should be the vaccine
Brief Summary: “America is in the midst of a political pandemic.
Perilously close to half of its population has fall”
17-Oct-2024 – What Would It Take to Recreate Bell Labs?
Brief Summary: “It’s been said that the best way to stifle creativity by researchers is to demand that they produce “
17-Oct-2024 – Second Life Book Club to End.
Brief Summary: ” After some years, the Second Life Book Club, hosted by Draxtor Despres, will be coming to a close.”
17-Oct-2024 – WTF happened to our music?
Brief Summary: “Accusations that some big name musical acts have been miming their vocals raises some tricky questio”
16-Oct-2024 – Winamp Taken Down: Too Good For This Open Source World
Brief Summary: “If you picked today in your hackerspace’s sweepstake on when Winamp would pull their code repository”
16-Oct-2024 – Orla Gartland has confirmed a European and UK tour for spring 2025
Brief Summary: ”
Orla Gartland has announced her largest UK and European tour to date.
The run is set to take pla”
16-Oct-2024 – 🧰 My Self-Care Toolbox
Brief Summary: “Self-care is generally defined as the practice of taking care of your physical, mental, and emotiona”
16-Oct-2024 – Arduboy Cassette Award Explores New Features
Brief Summary: “When [Press Play on Tape] entered their game Prince of Arabia into the Arduboy FX Game Jam, we bet t”
15-Oct-2024 – Rogue Legacy 1 source code released
Brief Summary: “Rogue Legacy, a rogue-lite from Cellar Door Games, that originally released in 2013 has now had the “
15-Oct-2024 – 24 phrases for your next Spanish conversation
Brief Summary: “We all need a bit of help sometimes—learners included! When it comes to language, speakers use lots “
15-Oct-2024 – What Is the Trump 2024 Blueprint for Stealing the White House?
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14-Oct-2024 – Solving a Retrocomputing Mystery with an Album Cover: Greengate DS:3
Brief Summary: “[Bea Thurman] had a retro music conundrum. She loved the classic Greengate DS:3 sampler, but couldn’”
Josh Miller aka “Ramen Junkie”. I write about my various hobbies here. Mostly coding, photography, and music. Sometimes I just write about life in general. I also post sometimes about toy collecting and video games at Lameazoid.com.