Prasenjeet Dutta @pd@curmudgeon.cafe

Continuing the journey to becoming #EmojiOS, the latest iOS update adds photorealistic bagels: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/10/15/17981324/apple-fixes-bagel-emoji-cream-cheese-ios-12-iphone

Did this a few months ago. Highly recommended. @CNBC@twitter.com: A whopping 44% of Facebook users between 18-29 say they've deleted the app from their phone in the last year, a recent survey found. http://bit.ly/2CH8DLN

This is pretty crazy and shows how serious Microsoft is about Linux (on the server) now. I still remember Steve Ballmer’s “open source is a cancer” line. https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1050035501569167362

This line (see screenshot) from David Marcus’s defence of Facebook (https://bit.ly/2Q8W3aM) re Whatsapp stuck out. Facebook is about people like Soylent Green was about people. See this tweet for more Facebook scumbaggery: https://bit.ly/2N5laJD

For a sense of how much mobile data India’s big two mobile carriers serve up, here’s a stat for one of them: https://twitter.com/akothari/status/1027781340014555136?s=21

India’s mobile data price war has taken data charges to crazy low levels. On a short visit, 1 GB of 4G data *a day* cost £1.60 for 28 days’ service. Calling and texting are of course included.

𝙰𝚕𝚕 𝙼𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚍𝚘𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚌𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚋𝚎 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚒𝚖𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚋𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚍 𝚝(𝚠𝚎𝚎|𝚘𝚘)𝚝𝚜. (All right, I’ll stop now.)

𝕋𝕠𝕠𝕥 𝕟𝕠𝕨 𝕙𝕒𝕤 𝕒 ‘𝕗𝕠𝕟𝕥’ 𝕗𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕖! 𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕚𝕤 𝕝𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕘 ℙ𝕒𝕘𝕖𝕄𝕒𝕜𝕖𝕣 𝕒𝕟𝕕 ℂ𝕠𝕣𝕖𝕝𝔻𝕣𝕒𝕨 𝕓𝕒𝕔𝕜 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕕𝕒𝕪 — 𝕤𝕠 𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕪 𝕗𝕠𝕟𝕥𝕤!

If you’re a developer and use Medium - why? There’s no shortage of static site generators with beautiful themes (Jekyll, Hugo) and you can publish straight from a commit. Medium’s becoming a terrible reading experience these days.

After Apple’s iPhone xs, the #Lisp community needs some love from Android/Google. Perhaps the Pixel 3 cdr?

The iPhone XS and XS Max: the clue to the high prices is in the name. #Apple

Neat: Stellarium, an excellent open source planetarium, now has a web version (https://stellarium-web.org/). It’s actually written in C and targets WebAssembly. https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium-web-engine (via HN).

Mastodon t-shirt spotted on morning commute train.

TIL my high school now has a building called the Inigo Building. We’d have absolutely mined this for Princess Bride jokes had we still been in school.

Can’t believe there isn’t yet a Mastodon client app called Toot Suite.

My local library 😀 #ParanormalComputing