2025-12-12 21:46:31
Back in April, District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers delivered a scathing judgment
finding that Apple was in “willful violation” of her 2021 injunction
intended to open up iOS App Store payments.
That contempt of court finding has now been almost entirely upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals,
a development that Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney tells Ars he hopes will
“do a lot of good for developers and start to really change the App Store situation worldwi…
I love Deerhoof’s Actually, You Can not just as a great, fun album but as a time capsule from an optimistic moment. In late 2021, we seemed to be emerging from the shadows of Trump and Covid-19—who’d have thought the Four Seasons presser and the vaccines, respectively, didn't end them? The music bottles up joyful, radical imaginings of a better world that were in the air since the George Floyd rebellion, not yet extinguished by the reactionary “crime” panic to come.
Wenn das Gericht «deutsch und deutlich» wird 🤯
https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/hunderte-bussen-glarner-polizei-soll-beweisbilder-manipuliert-haben
Italy's antitrust authority says it reduced the record fine imposed on Amazon in 2021, from €1.13B to €752M, after a recalculation (Elvira Pollina/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/italy-antitrust-cuts-amazon-record-fine-8782-million-20…
from my link log —
How David Kindersley’s serifs lost the road war but won the streets.
https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2021/11/03/how-serifs-lost-the-road-war-but-won-the-streets/
saved 2026-02-12
theme from the A-team starts playing
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/former-special-counsel-jack-smith-to-start-law-firm-with-other-former-prosecutors
Es ist ebenso faszinierend wie lustig. Der einzige Artikel auf meinem Blog, der seit Jahren(!) zuverlässige Abrufzahlen hat, ist immer noch der, wie man das Tastaturlayout des Alphasmart Neo2 auf das Deutsche umstellt.
https://mela.de/blog/2021/01/15/alphasmart…
Philip Rivers thought 'ship had sailed' on NFL return before Colts called: 'Another opportunity to play' https://www.nfl.com/news/philip-rivers-ship-had-sailed-nfl-return-colts-riley-leonard-2025
Weeks after the Trump administration lowered minimum wages for some temporary farmworkers,
the Trump Organization sought approval to hire 36 foreign workers for its Virginia winery at a pay rate nearly $2 an hour below what it previously offered
—highlighting the company’s continued reliance on overseas labor even as Donald Trump argues Americans are being pushed out of jobs
I never posted another "garage door fix" post after this one because we ended up getting a new garage door opener when the old one started failing even more and was beyond repair and also my partner was fed up with my hacks.
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2021/02/15/garag…
Also in Asterisk: an interesting article about the history of the DSM-5, and its critics.
> The psychoanalyst Nancy McWilliams captures this concern with unusual clarity in her 2021 essay “Diagnosis and Its Discontents.” She reflects on a shift that began with the release of DSM-III, when psychiatry embraced a more descriptive, symptom-based diagnostic model. The change, she notes, quietly restructured how people speak about themselves in therapy. Once, a client might enter the roo…
My 2018 Nissan Leaf has had no maintenance needed in 7 years (besides the usual tire rotation, brake check, etc).
Love it so much we bought a 2024 as well. https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115691608937085271
from my link log —
Coding for non-programmers: we need better web GUI automation tools.
https://matduggan.com/why-we-need-better/
saved 2021-10-23 https://<…
GrungyDistanceFunctionVoronoiPixelArt for #TextureTuesday...
These are some selected snapshots of a single [endless] variation of my generative De/Frag V2 piece from 2021, an intentional attempt at creatively breaking the traditional aesthetic of #Voronoi diagrams and revealing the inne…
Mac Jones confirms Kyle Shanahan wanted to draft him to 49ers in 2021: 'He wanted me to be here' https://www.nfl.com/news/mac-jones-confirms-kyle-shanahan-wanted-to-draft-him-49ers-2021
from my link log —
A bestiary of mathematical functions for systems designers.
https://brunodias.dev/2021/03/19/functions-for-system-designers.html
saved 2021-03-19
Myanmar releases six journalists from prison, all detained following the military's 2021 coup, but continues to hold at least 27 journalists behind bars (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/12/myanmar-releases-six-journalists-in-pre-el…
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
What we know about the suspect in January 2021 D.C. pipe bomb case, DOJ says
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/brian-cole-jr-pipe-bomb-suspect-arrest-washington-dc-what-know-rcna247442
Good Morning #Canada
2026 has been designated as the International Year of the Woman Farmer by the United Nations, in an effort to increase and improve food security across the planet. Once again we call upon the fairer sex to save humanity.
Women led farms are on the rise in Canada. From the 2021 #StatsCan report, there were 80,000 female farm operators, representing 30% of total farm operators, up from 25% in 1991. In general female participation is increasing while men are decreasing. Farming is an industry where women operators can achieve wage parity with male counterparts because compensation is based on market conditions, but currently most women led farms are smaller with less annual revenues.
A helpful #AI tells me a female farmer could could be called a farmerette, a farmeress, or farmHER. So helpful...
Two articles are linked - a feel good news piece from the CBC, and more solid demographic info from FCC-FAC.ca.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Agriculture
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/women-career-agriculture-1.7443846
https://www.fcc-fac.ca/en/knowledge/women-in-canadian-agriculture
Trump’s Department of Justice moved to dismiss a criminal case against his former aide
Steve Bannon,
connected to his refusal to testify before Congress relating to the investigation into the January 6 insurrection.
The controversial hard-right strategist,
an ally of Trump,
was convicted in 2022 on two counts of contempt of Congress
after refusing to appear for a deposition before the House committee that investigated the 2021 attack on the Capitol
a…
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
📸 Mémoire du 14 juin 2018
Sept ans ont passé depuis ce post.
Et pourtant, la justice n’a toujours pas terminé son travail.
En Belgique, le jugement définitif est tombé en 2022. Mais en 2025, certaines indemnisations sont encore bloquées. Des victimes attendent toujours que leur souffrance soit reconnue dans les faits, pas seulement dans les mots.
En France, l’affaire OKC/Spatz a été relancée en 2017, réouverte officiellement en 2021. Et aujourd’hui ? Toujours aucune mis…
from my link log —
It's not always icache: performance of inline functions.
https://matklad.github.io/2021/07/10/its-not-always-icache.html
saved 2025-12-03
Dark-eyed juncos living in urbanized Los Angeles have shorter bills than juncos in nearby natural areas— but while UCLA was closed for COVID-19 safety, campus juncos evolved longer bills again
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2520996122
PitchBook: the biggest US private startups raised $150B in 2025, surpassing the previous high of $92B in 2021, boosted by large funding rounds by AI startups (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7f989b72-0722-4b0a-9a50-876417abc06f
"The number of women globally who commit violent crimes is very small – in 2021 they were responsible for just 10% of homicides. Indeed, women are far more likely to be victims than perpetrators. But when women do kill, in many cases the victim is a male partner or family member and there is a history of domestic abuse."
Multicolor photoreactions of the red light-activated channelrhodopsin Chrimson https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2513375122 Chrimson is "the first rhodopsin successfully applied to restore vision in a blind patient."
(2021) Partial recovery of visual function in a b…
»Der Gedanke, KI zu demokratisieren, um Machtasymmetrien zu reduzieren, ist in etwa so, als würde man für die Demokratisierung der Waffenproduktion im Dienste des Friedens eintreten.«
Aus: Kate Crawford – Atlas der KI (2021/2025)
from my link log —
libtree: ldd as a tree saying why a library is found or not.
https://github.com/haampie/libtree
saved 2021-12-01 https://dotat.at/…
cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…
😿 Myanmar’s election is derided as fake, but the nation’s suffering is all too real
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/28/asia-pacific/myanmar-election-people-suffering/
from my link log —
Kill It With Fire: dealing with legacy systems. (book review)
https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/kill-it-fire
saved 2021-09-09
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Among the top 10K artists streamed in Australia from 2021 to 2024, Australian artists fell ~20% as algorithms make English-speaking artists compete globally (The Australia Institute)
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post
“Federal prosecutors said the man accused of planting pipe bombs in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2021, told investigators he felt compelled to ‘speak up’ for people who believed the 2020 election was stolen.”
“Cole said he was disillusioned by the election outcome and sympathetic to claims by President Donald Trump and allies that it had been stolen.”
#RightWing
Former Raiders WR Henry Ruggs Graduates From Alabama While in Prison https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/henry-ruggs-graduates-alabama-prison/
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
Mike Vrabel, Drake Maye lead Patriots back to playoffs for first time since 2021 https://www.nfl.com/news/patriots-clinch-playoff-berth-mike-vrabel-drake-maye-first-time-since-2021
Podcast : Une enfance sous emprise
Dans cet épisode, Ricardo et Sophie racontent leurs vécus et échangent des souvenirs sur la réalité d'une enfance endoctrinée au sein d'une "communauté bouddhiste" cachant de véritables monstres.
https://chardonsbleus.org/podcast-une-
"According to 2021 CDC data, compiled from 46 maternal mortality review committees, 87 percent of maternal deaths in the U.S. were deemed preventable. Committees reported that most, if not all, deaths among Native American and Alaska Native people were considered preventable. "
Native Americans Are Dying From Pregnancy. They Want a Voice To Stop the Trend.
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/01/26/native-americans-are-dying-from-pregnancy-they-want-a-voice-to-stop-the-trend/
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Since 2011, millions of tons of a brown algae called Sargassum has washed onto beaches in the Caribbean. The rotting seaweed releases toxic hydrogen sulfide, smelling of rotten eggs, impacting tourism and shore access. It was initially thought Saharan iron dust was the cause, but new #science
Wren Loud and Bold Ambient (2021-06) - Ambient soundscape from 16WW back garden birdlife; small bird makes big noise! #wren #soundscape #fieldRecording -
cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…
Insurance tech company Ethos raised ~$200M in its Jan. 29 IPO, selling 10.5M shares at $19 each; it reached a $1.1B market cap, below its 2021 $2.7B valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/how-sequoi…
Despite concerns, Labour MPs and other left-wing UK politicians stay active on X; the UK government says it stopped paid ads in 2024, after spending £9M in 2021 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5b0e3ea9-acc9-4dcc-85fe-2273ea8abb86
Donald Trump followed through on his threats to sue the BBC over its editing of his remarks on Jan. 6, 2021, for a documentary.
The following can be attributed to Seth Stern, director of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF):
“If any ordinary person filed as many frivolous multibillion-dollar lawsuits as Donald Trump, they’d be sanctioned and placed on a restricted filers list.
By my count, Trump has demanded at least $65 billion in damages from media outlets i…
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
from my link log —
Arcan as operating system design.
https://arcan-fe.com/2021/09/20/arcan-as-operating-system-design/
saved 2025-12-28
»Wie die Politologin Virginia Eubanks in ihrem Buch ›Automating Inequality‹ zeigt, werden KI-Systeme, wenn sie im Rahmen des Sozialstaats eingesetzt werden, in erster Linie dazu verwendet, den Zugang von Menschen zu öffentlichen Ressourcen zu kontrollieren, zu bewerten und zu reglementieren, und nicht etwa dazu, ihnen bessere Unterstützung zukommen zu lassen.«
Aus: Kate Crawford – Atlas der KI (2021/2025)
Deadline January 30th: CFP Wisdom from the Middle Ages: Philosophical Contributions from the Abrahamic Traditions
https://ift.tt/PtCusji
CFP: [FRISTVERLÄNGERUNG] Variations 28/2021: Gender through technology (25.09.2021) Call…
via Input 4 RELCFP
Sources: ByteDance is in talks to sell game studio Moonton, which it acquired for ~$4B in 2021, to Saudi Arabia-based Savvy Games; Moonton makes Mobile Legends (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…
Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1202874 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
from my link log —
Several ways is which software can be surprisingly slow.
https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2021/04/06/surprisingly-slow/
saved 2021-04-07
Ranking NFL head coaching hires of the past five o... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47756010/nfl-head-coach-ranking-hires-five-years-offseason-campbell-sirianni-macdonald-vrabel
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Der Flensburg Krimi - Staffel 1 - #ARD
#crimi #krimi #DonnerstagsKrimi
Trump vs BBC
Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion
over a documentary he claims removed portions of his speech on Jan 6, 2021,
in which he urged supporters to protest the 2020 election results peacefully.
Lawsuit's claims
The lawsuit accuses the BBC of defamation and violations of Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act,
seeking $5 billion in damages for each claim.
BBC's response
The BBC says it will defend the lawsu…
from my link log —
Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages (or any static file hoster).
https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-databases-on-github-pages/
saved 2021-05-02
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Mogwai:
🎵 Ceiling Granny (6 Music session 19 April 2021)
#Mogwai
https://mogwai.bandcamp.com/track/ceiling-granny
https://open.spotify.com/track/4PaUbnnC4DmwoLThkCLnq6
CoinGecko: over 53% of the 20.2M crypto tokens launched since 2021 are now inactive, with 7.7M tokens failing in Q4 2025, after Oct. 10 "liquidation cascade" (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/01/1
Good Morning #Canada
I finished my breakfast this morning only to discover that it's National Maple Syrup Day. A missed opportunity but at least I can share some important facts about Canada's sweet and sticky sauce.
- Indigenous People taught early Canadians how to harvest maple sap and boil it down into a sugary liquid.
- A maple tree can yield sap for up to 100 years, but the trees must be roughly 45 years old before it’s first tapped for syrup making.
- It takes roughly 40 gallons (150 litres) of tree sap to produce 1 gallon (3.8 litres) of syrup.
- Quebec produces 72% of the world’s maple syrup. In 2021, that equaled 133M lbs from Quebec.
- The big bottle of Costco Maple Syrup is from Quebec.
- Maple Syrup only has 1 ingredient. Sap.
- Maple Syrup has an indefinite shelf life but should be frozen if storing for more than 2 years.
And regarding the great Maple Syrup heist, this is still the best report on that famous crime.
#CanadaIsAwesome #MmmmSyrup #MapleSyrup
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/12/maple-syrup-heist?srsltid=AfmBOoq7fMx3GguT20T9cNrpZgrtVue4leiYZpZibZT_7S9WHWDfI0Ln
from my link log —
OpenHaystack: tracking your Bluetooth devices with Apple's "Find My" network
https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack
saved 2021-10-03
Der Flensburg Krimi: Der Fall Lorenz – Der Flensburg-Krimi (3) - #ARD
#krimi #crimi #DonnerstagsKrimi
Eagles offensive coordinator search: 12 candidates to replace Kevin Patullo https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6967896/2026/01/13/eagles-offensive-coordinator-candidates-search-kevin-patullo/
from my link log —
HTML5 genetic algorithm 2D car thingy.
https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/
saved 2021-03-10 https://dotat.at/:/4M01I.html<…