Linkdump
Here comes another linkdump. Not so many links in here. But there are good ones!
Blogs & Blog posts
Copyright takedown of Luanti by Microsoft has been withdrawn: For people unaware, Luanti is a voxel game engine. Many games built on Luanti are similar to Minecraft. Minecraft is currently owned by Microsoft. Luanti was taken down from Google Play, at Microsoft’s copyright complain. But fortunately, it’s back up, at least for now. According to the community, it’s not the first time this happens for Luanti in Google Play. I personally was all unaware as first, I don’t play Luanti on Android. And second, I usually don’t use Google Play.
Your apple watch is always listening. Will anyone be honest ever again?: For people in the open source community, this is no surprise. Things are working in these big tech corporations as they used to be, maybe they just have added more salt. I’m not implying that anything closed source is bad. But so many products coming from such these companies try to maximize their revenue stream at whatever cost. Most of these products are closed source. Few might be open source but that doesn’t always mean you are safe.
Bojidar Marinov’s blog: He has a great blog with so many useful content. One of the posts which I really liked is about Notetaking
Solar power has become ‘offensively cheap’: It is good news for the humanity. It’s up to the communities, companies and countries to best utilize it. But the panels are not all and everything. Another problem to solve is storing the produced power for when there is no sun like night. Unfortunately, the energy storage systems are not yet ‘offensively cheap’. And also there are maintenance costs. But hey! The road to perfection takes time and effort!
Topcoat: A batteries-included Rust web framework: I’m not sure what to take on this. I personally don’t think using Rust as a web backend is fit for most of the projects. You get stellar efficiency both on processor time and memory usage. But the programmer time is so expensive for Rust. As it requires much mental effort.
Hardware
- Wafer space’s 3rd run: Now producing your own chip has become much more accessible and cheaper. We are seeing more and more of these instances in the recent years. Maybe in a decade, anyone could buy a device to fabricate chips at home? Like the 3D printers we have now and are accessible to everyone. At the same time, Open Hardware becomes more and more important.
Websites & Services
- PowRSS, an RSS directory of blogs and websites: Another place to find interesting stuff. Hopefully, it is well indexed by Marginalia. I have submitted this blog there :)
Other
- Blue-Green distinction in language: A not so good Wikipedia article. But at least you can learn the concept here. An interesting quote:
According to Brent Berlin and Paul Kay’s 1969 study Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution, distinct terms for brown, purple, pink, orange, and gray will not emerge in a language until the language has made a distinction between green and blue. In their account of the development of color terms the first terms to emerge are those for white/black (or light/dark), red/blue and green/yellow.