Items I happen to view each day. Science, Technology, Management, Culture, and Writing
This is my day book for this week. It is a log of things I see on the Internet.
This week: 10-16 January, 2022
A developer tires of Fortune 500 companies using his open-source code and never paying a penny. He put bugs in the code as a "punishment."
How does Amazon deliver everything the way they do? The folks at the warehouses work work work.
Meta is expanding in Austin, Texas. They are betting the people will return to the office building.
The smart money is backing the concept of Web3.
Fascinating law up for debate in New Hampshire. One clause, "If a person is tried in a criminal case, they have the right to audit the source code of any proprietary software that collects evidence against them." That would be something.
10-year-old boy plays with toys on YouTube. He brings about $25million income to his family.
Here we go... A long list of writing markets and publishers that pay.
Some writers have great difficulty finishing a novel or just about anything.
Some tips on trying to make more money as a writer.
Thoughts on how a location can be the beginning and center of writing fiction.
....A good use of non-fungible tokens: the Associated Press starts an NFT for photojournalism.
Some signs of hope that peace and stability are returning to Kazakhstan.
What do you do with all that compute power in your car when you aren't driving? Mine crypto.
And in semi-professional football, the team attached to the University of Georgia defeated the corresponding team from the University of Alabama for the national championship. The southern region of the US continues to dominate these proceedings (to our glory or our shame).
.....Does Apple's access to the operating system give their processors an unmatched advantage?
Have money? Better get cybersecurity as attacks are increasing in number and severity.
Everyone is playing Wordle. The clones are filling the various app stores.
The omicron variant is putting record numbers of persons in hospitals.
The Hackintosh lives on as folks still load MacOS onto PC hardware.
We have a new specification for the PCI bus.
.....The vain attempt to regulate algorithms. Ignorance and sloth abound. Good grief.
Instagram regains the spot as the world's most downloaded app. Good fortune for them as India's governors has banned TikTok.
Our Cyber Command ties MuddyWater hackers to the governors of Iran.
More money from the virus: PC sales were up in 2021, even higher than 2020. Two record years in a row. These are established businesses that had record years due to how politicians reacted to a virus. I must say that I believe 1% in the idea that someone rigged all this to make lots of money, and they made lots of money.
Meanwhile in Bessemer, Alabama, Amazon workers will re-vote on union membership.
One of our Congress members wants to create a Digital Literacy Commission.
More pandemic prosperity in tech as record amounts of money raised. Hey, I just invented a phrase..."pandemic prosperity."
One of the things that software related to AI can do is find people via their patterns.
The year of the virus has brought scanning QR codes for this and that. CAUTION: scanning a code takes you some place unknown. Ne'er do wells lay traps with them.
.....Got $8,995? Get the M11 camera from Leica with a 60MegaPixel full frame sensor.
Ten Billion (with a B) viewers can't all be wrong! Baby Shark hits that number on YouTube.
Google tries to move into securing open-source software in some type of public-private deal.
Crypto miners and investors are moving into Puerto Rico. Some locals are hesitant to welcome them.
Google is buying more large office spaces in London. Return to the office?
A new study shows that compounds in cannibas can prevent and treat our current virus.
Our reaction in the prolonged year of the virus has seen a million persons NOT GO TO COLLEGE. There are various reasons and reactions from glee to gloom.
Per the drop in college enrollment, when you turn the world upside down in a panic, things change. This is a great surprise to some folks. What surprises me is that adults are surprised by this.
.....Nvidia updates its Deep Learning Dynamic Super Resolution (DLDSR) technology. Make older games look a lot better.
Work for Google? Coming into the office? Get tested every week.
"When in doubt, look for the fear."---Seth Godin
The experts encourage us to buy better masks. Us "rich" folks can do this. The poor cannot. Determining who is rich and who is not is too cumbersome. Hence, these masks will become free to everyone real soon now.
Our FAA and FCC continue to not talk to one another.
It appears that Apple is having difficulty delivering its AR-VR-everythingR headset on time in 2022.
Is the world in a news slump? Am I in a slump on attentiveness to the news? Perhaps both.
.....In the world of ne'er-do-wells: Microsoft identifies that someone is attacking Ukraine.
Someone has hacked Kronos which does the payroll for several thousand employers.
A California judge rules that the non-disclosure agreement from Google violates something or other.
Apple will soon require proof of booster shots or negative tests to enter the officer AND to enter a retail store. This is pretty co$tly to those at retail stores.
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