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Good luck with that. My next TV might still be an LG (just because I usually like their hardware and price points), but like the current one, it will be blocked at my router from accessing the Internet (HomeKit still works, of course, and I use my Apple TV and NVIDIA SHIELD for media). But this is something the EU should really look into and regulate. The amount of data …

CMYK screen printing is a great way of bringing both your photographic and coloured art images to life through colour separation. This is achieved by layering four colours (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) on top of each other using only 4 screens. Photoshop plays a key role in this printing process and is essential if you want to create the artwork yourself. We're using Adobe Photoshop CS5. (Other software may …

Believe it or not, console logging things is still the most used debugging technique by developers. No matter how many advanced tools are available for debugging, logging in to the console still has a sweet spot among developers. And though, it’s pretty convenient to just dump things in the browser console, it can look sloppy if it ends up in your production. Next.js has a pretty handy configuration that you …

Pointless Exposition I’m not in the Apple ecosystem, but I was quite enthused about the announcement of the airtag and the FindMy network back in 2019. The private-by-design protocol / implementation looked great, especially compared to literally any other existing tracker. And the reporting network being more-or-less all iOS devices made sure that it would have a very large userbase to begin with. I wanted to use an airtag at …

Not a ton to review here. I don't generally knock books for being derivative—smart writers can do a lot of exciting things with established forms or narratives—but unfortunately, Robin Sloan doesn't. Maybe I'm not the target audience? I'm not sure what readers are meant to get out of this: the common fantasy tropes are so thinly veiled that even the protagonist makes repeated reference to them as they happen.Clay Jannon …

We’ve heard plenty of beats sampling the Legend of Zelda (looking at you, Thoto_Leing) but I never considered it the other way around. In 2015, Andrew Martin wrote how Koji Kondo was inspired by 70s British rock but in the 90s and early 00s, there was another realm of music that Kondo dipped into for the Zelda soundtrack: sample CDs. Before the times of Splice and Tracklib, musicians would use …

The episode I'm one of the leads in has aired. Yay!

It appears to be Galileo vs The Church month in my corner of the Internet. It started a couple of weeks back Michael Jones of Inspiring Philosophy drew my attention to the fact that somebody, who calls himself Planet Peterson, had called me an ignoramus on his YouTube channel. He played a clip of me, during an interview with Tim O’Neill from History for Atheists, saying, correctly, that Galileo had …

Poor Dear Charlotte by Anabel Donald published 1985 I very much enjoyed recently re-reading Anabel Donald’s Notting Hill mysteries: I had also read a couple of her straight novels in the past, but not this one. So I gave it a go. And what a strange book it is, and not one you would associate with the private eye stories of Alex Tanner. It is a book of two halves, …

Old software joke: “After the apocalypse, all that’ll be left will be cockroaches, Keith Richards, and markup characters that have been escaped (or unescaped) one too many (or few) times.” I’m working on a programming problem where escaping is a major pain in the ass, specifically “\”. So, for reasons that seem good to me, I want to replace it. What with? The problem My Quamina project is all about …

Traditionally, mathematics research projects are conducted by a small number (typically one to five) of expert mathematicians, each of which are familiar enough with all aspects of the project that they can verify each other’s contributions. It has been challenging to organize mathematical projects at larger scales, and particularly those that involve contributions from the general public, due to the need to verify all of the contributions; a single error …

A difficult part of technology instruction is not that things are unknowable, but that no one is ever starting at the beginning, not in 2024. How I work – image from State Library of New South Wales I was reading this post by my colleague Alex talking about digital decluttering. Like Alex, I can get stuck into a hyperfocus jag where I am doing nothing but cleaning up data and …

New article from Special Needs Jungle: The government’s ‘national conversation’ on the future of education has launched. Its lead, Professor Becky Francis, has issued a call for evidence, seeking views on the current curriculum and assessment … The post “The curriculum belongs to the nation” Let them know that includes children with special educational needs appeared first on Special Needs Jungle. Tania Tirraoro ⓒ Special Needs Jungle 2008-2023 All Rights …

From BBC News, a few days ago: A businesswoman who was arrested after sharing a fake name for the Southport attacker online will face no further action. Bernadette Spofforth, from Chester, was arrested on 8 August after reposting the fake name, commenting that if it were true there would be “hell to pay”. The 55-year-old, who has more than 50,000 followers, later deleted the post and apologised after realising the …

Found photo Do you remember curlers? I do—a kind of torture device from my youth that I used to tame my curly hair. The sort I used had brushes inside with plastic sticks to keep them on overnight. Perhaps they were the source of my teenage insomnia. Why anyone would want to have a picture of their hair in curlers? Was this perhaps taken to document an impromptu visit? Neither …