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Live in San Antonio – My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult

Thanks, everybody! 🥰 Celebrating with some Girl Talk – All Day

Somewhat related – Defining the '90s Music Canon: https://pudding.cool/2020/07/song-decay/ You may recognize the song, but that doesn't mean you have to like it 😈 There are some interesting spikes in the graph at the bottom that might demonstrate the associative soundtrack / meme value of some songs over their musical value.

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How did you find the recording quality? There have been a few complaints about the intentionally brickwalled mastering on their recent albums.

The Mirror Thief by Martin Seay Really fancy writing covering several time periods, from contemporary Las Vegas to Renaissance Venice... I can't remember having to reach for my dictionary so many times in recent memory.

Techmoan is a great champion of defunct media technologies. Thought you guys would be amused by this one – a giant audio cassette:

Alone Time 2 – Slynk

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I don't think killing the hackintosh is high on Apple's priorities. Looking at the WWDC videos, it's still obvious that Apple relies heavily on 3rd-party development to keep the ecosystem viable. They have a lot of cash, but they have wisely continued to limit their growth (and product platforms), even after all the acquisitions. That does sometimes make Apple look very slow-moving, as they have fewer partners and markets than Microsoft, for example.

They do mention Apple's move to ARM in the last 10 minutes... killing off the Hackintosh (mostly). Intel released details on a hybrid, mobile-oriented, stacked platform (Lakefield) this week with a big Intel x86 CPU and smaller Atom CPU: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15877/intel-hybrid-cpu-lakefield-all-you-need-to-know

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Dancing in the Dark (Bruce Springsteen cover) – Emmelie de Forest

A sentry gun today keeps the tourist hordes away 🔭

So... no UA 571-C Sentry Guns to guard my shark (with frickin' laser beams) moat? 🦈 The sentry gun scenes were removed from the theatrical cut of Aliens and added back later on home media director's cut versions. Advanced pest control:

Microsoft is coming under fire (again) for forcing Edge on people: https://www.theverge.com/21310611/microsoft-edge-browser-forced-update-chromium-editorial I think the title is linkbait and the tone is overly alarmist. I never used Edge as a primary browser (I doubt many people did), but it makes sense to include one with the operating system. No doubt the old Edge was full of security holes and switching to the Chromium version fixes some of those problems. I have a bigger problem with Microsoft forcing new Windows 10 users to create a Microsoft account. You can get around it by disconnecting the computer from the internet, but it shouldn't be so difficult to say "no" to a Microsoft account (and Apple are like this with the Apple ID as well).

They'll probably bungle it.

Dirty Mind – Prince

My PC has been randomly waking from sleep since last summer. It's usually plugged into a power outlet, so it's not a huge deal, but it's disturbing that the problem hasn't been fixed in almost a year. Microsoft has also released Edge as a macOS browser. I've been using it since last week and it's been pretty decent. I upgraded to Chromium Edge on Windows a few months ago but I don't use it very often. Yesterday, I logged into my Boot Camp Windows 7 for the first time in a few weeks and noticed that Microsoft was recommending the Edge browser in Windows Update (official support for Win7 ended in January). Better than Internet Explorer 11, I guess. And they're trying to ram an urgent security update this week to machines via the Microsoft Store, which nobody uses: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/07/unscheduled-fixes-for-critical-windows-flaws-delivered-through-rare-channel/

I think pro users will keep an Intel Mac around for old applications until the long transition is over. The preliminary test results from the developer kit are promising – imagine what numbers from an A13-based kit would look like: https://www.laptopmag.com/news/apple-silicon-gets-the-benchmark-treatment-first-results-are-amazing But it will be an uphill battle for some developers, especially those who haven't made the transition to 32-bit apps yet. Some of those will be dead-ended on Macs running Mojave or Boot Camp indefinitely. Take a look at the WWDC videos for an idea of what's coming – I'd rather be optimistic than pessimistic: https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc2020/

Ars Technica made a video about the F-15 cockpit controls, which led to a sidebar by the author about Boeing in the 2000s: https://arstechnica.com/features/2020/06/human-interface-come-on-a-tour-of-an-f-15c-fighter-jet-cockpit/?comments=1&start=80 Which led to an article about the McDonnell-Douglas / Boeing merger: https://www.msn.com/en-za/money/news/how-the-mcdonnell-douglas-boeing-merger-led-to-the-737-max-crisis/ar-BBYzJXz TL;DR mistakes were made. Another tragic story of corporate aggression, cost-cutting, and greed. I'm against continually escalating airline ticket prices, but compromising safety to cut costs led to inevitable disasters.