Hack the Planet, Tumblr Edition

A celebration of technology by Wes Felter

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I'm not the only one who doesn't get the point of SOLID or data "outsourcing" in general. The apps are still probably centralized, still probably proprietary, they still have access to your data, they'll probably cache and analyze it however they want, etc.

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The new, post-nationalization ARM-13 architecture will have a separate quantum currency coprocessor for handling interconversion and factoring of British currency units...

Charles Stross

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I'm probably misinterpreting this because I had no idea I needed the FCC's permission to receive satellite signals.

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I'm impressed that Chrome beta already has an implementation of Web Packaging and can now show AMP pages without the much-reviled header. Now that AMP is effectively invisible, complaints from AMP haters should pretty much disappear (or their complaints will be sound like conspiracy theories and be ignored).

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Including my favorite from The Stone Canal.

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This looks really strong. Integrated memory controller: 2001-2019 RIP.

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Cray Slingshot Ethernet-based HPC interconnect

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33 votes and 135 comments so far on Reddit

"It's an experiment", they said. "We shouldn't judge the outcome prematurely." OK, it's been a full decade.

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Remember that everything you consider solid  is a side effect of the decisions of people who aren’t substantially smarter than you are, and those decisions didn’t occur very long ago.

Rococo Modem Basilisk (I don't endorse the specific content of this article and I apologize for the paywall link.)