Prasenjeet Dutta @pd@curmudgeon.cafe

Why does the Fediverse like content warnings on political posts? Never made sense to me. IMO the only people who can afford to be blasé about politics are the very privileged.

This caught my eye in the paper yesterday. User error or software flaw, either way it’s a tragedy. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/mother-bitten-by-stray-cat-died-from-sepsis-after-wrong-diagnosis-at-ae-a4164311.html

Wow, unless I’m missing something, news.microsoft.com, devblogs.microsoft.com & several others now run on #Wordpress - WPEngine. Truly a cultural shift. (Update: Googling reveals they did this a few years ago)

Someone on the OneDrive team clearly had a lot of fun writing these release notes. Not even mad — as iOS release notes go it’s not bad at all.

Getting Game of Thrones withdrawal symptoms. With Book 6 unlikely anytime soon, maybe I should start reading Wheel of Time.

Wrote some C# code after a long, long time at work. (Usually Java, Python). Such a pleasant language. I look forward to using it more as we move closer to .NET 5.

The remaster appears to be Windows-only though, whereas the original (also on GOG/Steam) works really well on Linux.

Blood, one of the best 90s DOS first person shooters, has been given a light “remastering”: https://www.pcgamer.com/blood-fresh-supply-pc/

Finally a phone with a great camera that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. Not sure how the slower processor will hold up in real use though. #Pixel3a https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/7/18530449/google-pixel-3a-xl-review-photos-video-specs-price-release-date-features-io-2019

With progressive web apps being all the rage, it’s sort of hilarious that Windows has supported HTML apps since, oh, Win98 as Hypertext Applications (.hta). Here’s a tiny hta that’ll work even on Windows 10: http://www.nattyware.com/fontster.php

Killing Eve 2 starts on BBC America and AMC today. No date set for, um, the other BBC. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Jeez, even Chinese flagship phones start at €799/999 now? Or is Huawei an outlier here?

All five seasons of Stargate Atlantis are now on Amazon Prime Video (UK) - great news for anyone looking to catch up.

The smallest Samsung (S10E) launched today is iPhone XS-sized and costs $749. Looks like everyone’s ceding the $500 flagship to Chinese manufacturers like Xiaomi and Honor, who are presumably more willing to live with slimmer margins.

The lighting in the new Frozen 2 trailer looks great. And check out the fur on the reindeer Kristoff is riding.

This video from the BBC in 1982, trying to explain email to a lay audience, is absolutely adorable. It even features a proto-webpage (really a BBS screen)!

https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1093819472803254272/video/1

SMS authentication is very problematic — they’re not encrypted and increasingly criminals are taking advantage of that: https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/mbzvxv/criminals-hackers-ss7-uk-banks-metro-bank