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Working from home and doing videoconferences all day long has made it painfully obvious how badly the built-in webcam on my MacBook Pro compares to the front-facing camera on my iPhone / iPad.
It has become obvious this should be part of the Continuity set of features on macOS / iOS.
Looks like an Open Source clone of the excellent but defunct AbbySoft Teleport, which allowed you to “move” mouse from one Mac to the next. That program integrated very well with Mac OS X and used Bonjour / ZeroConf. This is multi platform, probably doesn’t looks as good on the Mac.
Bookmarked to try one day.
Makes me want to return to my open-office layout at work a lot less.
I found the immigration records for several family members here. Super neat.
Using Bluetooth is very smart, and it means that it can be done in a way that preserves privacy unlike following people around through their cell connections. It should also be more precise.
one of the few true geniuses of 20th century comic art
The best.
Kind of a crazy concept in modern days: instead of running your application inside an Operatin System; your application pulls the full operating system and runs alone in dedicated hardware or Virtual Machine I assume. So you end up with something lightweight and with a much smaller attack surface area.
Let's try and not use Zoom because
- They don't care about your privacy
- They don't care about your security
- They lie to you
- They are not trustworthy
Allows 4 people to play dominoes online in real time. Great during a pandemic!
Same data as the John Hopkins website but with better visualization.
Crowdsourced Covid-19 tracking.
You don’t have to know everything. You simply need to know where to find it when necessary.” (John Brunner)
Giant list of macOS command line commands.
Classic Mac emulator running inside a browser.
As usual, clear scientific writing from Ars Technica.
GitHub repository with all code and data used by the The COVID-19 dashboard I linked to a few days ago.
A clone of MS Paint in the browser using HTML5. Very well done.
Statistics and graphs about the COVID-19 Coronavirus epidemic.
The paper is relevant only to C++ software engineers. But the overview part is interesting to everyone as it lists "expensive failures and accidents caused by mistakes in calculations involving different physical units"