[16:18] ascii.town has an ASCII graffiti wall, chat, nethack and 2048.
[14:34] Lego has a wireless protocol built on Bluetooth, used to control their BOOST sets. They put documentation for their protocol up on GitHub (repo). I did not expect this move, but I really like that.
[16:20] Kind of funny to watch a talk about privacy held by a person that actually values it and wants to educate people, then visit their website and find uMatrix pointing out that a request to an external site (to load CSS from a third party server) was blocked. As far as I'm concerned, anything that loads from a server that you do not have control of constitutes tracking. I'd really like for people to be a bit more coherent in this matter.
[09:47] This whole legal bosh many companies have their employees write in their email signatures tends to annoy me. It seems I'm not the only one.
[20:25] The pure bash bible lists numerous built-ins as "alternatives to external processes".
[20:14] Modern Roombas are mapping the rooms they clean. Noesis is capable of using this data to create DOOM maps.
[00:58] Oona Räisänen made a Wi-Fi-based Marauder's Map (and has an overall cool blog).
[22:54] the 5k was a competition in creating a website in but 5KB. Did not run in the last 16 years. A follow-up of that is 10K Apart which, you guessed it, raised the bar to 10KB and also specifically required the website to work without JavaScript. Happened last in 2016 as far as I can tell, but it is always a good idea to aim for this principle.
[20:55] Every now and then I came across weird text in forums and on reddit, somehow displayed above or below the space it was to be expected. I was curious but never investigated what this actually was. Today, I came across a generator for text of this kind and finally found an explanation of how this works.
[20:52] Millitext uses subpixels to display letters, so you'd basically need a width of only one pixel per letter.
[23:21] This font uses dots instead of letters. Looks pretty cool. Also, like barcode, it likely is easily read by machines. Made for humans, though.
[22:33] So there is not only Tetris as a text adventure, but also evil, back-stabbing Tetris.
[20:00] Not a big fan of telemetry on Windows (or on any software for that matter), but I'd really like to know just how many people mute their newly acquired computers right after Cortana starts babbling at first boot.
[17:28] Oh. Didn't know there was an expression for that. Bus factor.
[16:59] When using a service provided by a third party, how bad is it, actually? :D