In the (northern hemisphere) Fall 2023 Apple operating systems, you can disable animated images throughout the system, with an option on a context menu to enable individual animations.

Finally.

So apparently, due to a 1920s Supreme Court case, all the data that current cars gather on you (e.g. every place you’ve been in the past however long) can be searched by the police without a warrant.

Watching old movies reminds me: I don’t miss dealing with paper maps.

Cicada season is annoying.

The most jarring thing when watching non-English language films is when some random English pops up in the middle of the dialogue. You’re left with a “where did that come from?” feeling.

TIL that there is an SQLite database of Unicode included in every macOS installation.

Running

sqlite3 '/System/Library/Input Methods/CharacterPalette.app/Contents/Resources/CharacterDB.sqlite3' "select unicode(uchr) from unihan_dict where info like 'NO-BREAK SPACE|%’”

emits 160, a.k.a. U+00A0.

Love Notes to Newton 📺

Hour and a half documentary on the creation of the Apple Newton and the fandom that developed.

Hang in after the credits for the poutine scene.

Sunny X, composed by Tyondai Braxton, performed by Third Coast Percussion

Oddball and out there and awesome. 📺🎵

The most epic Wikipedia article I’ve ever read: Air Canada 143: Gimli Glider. Someone had fun writing this one.

British McDonalds got a sequence in the On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.

Why Jupiter made the new gravitational wave discovery possible

🪐🤯📺

Is there a Black Hole in our Solar System? 📺

Holy crud, this idea is awesome. Chances of it being true are low, but what if…

It’s International Tuba Day!

Go celebrate with some Mucca Pazza! 🎵

Today I learned of the existence of systemd-nspawn. Who needs Docker? 😉

It’s Time to Legalize Sampling

Damn straight.

📺 Everything is a Remix — Complete Updated 2023 Edition

Now you can watch the entire awesome thing in one go.

Watched Island of Lost Souls, which, of course, means that one must immediately listen to Oingo Boingo.

May developers of Nope.js packages that only distribute minimized code be cursed with unreliable debugging tools.

I love Hey Asshole by 1000 Homo DJs.

🎵 Like my boots? 🎵

Disappointed that :w3n creates a file named 3n in Vim.

Kirby Ferguson has done it again: www.youtube.com/watch

Sad that he couldn’t make it work financially.

Breed to Death by Dismantled just came up on shuffle.

The current “1Password for Safari” Mac app is such a pain in the ass. It won’t stay unlocked if you use “Clear History” in Safari and does not directly communicate with the desktop app.

It is easier to just drag things into the browser from the desktop app than use this thing.

Yesterday I learned that not-very-old versions of Bash, when set -o nounset is in effect, treat empty arrays as being unset. 😞

Dear 1Password, your password policies suck.