andrewconl.in is tinkering

Back again with some more links to save and share.

• First up, this nice wee blog post about deciphering the meaning of a mysterious, wall-mounted touchscreen.

• For all you wiki folks out there, here is a Netflix style front-end which collates all of the freely available movies from the Wikimedia commons.

• Anyone who knows me knows I love a good coffee, and especially the black tar spewed out from a Moka pot. This is a neutron scan of a Moka pot boiling, allowing you to see what happens inside. There is also this wonderful site with its highly detailed scans of various coffee makers. (I can see Scan of the Month featuring heavily in future Weeklinks.)

• Back in Weeklinks 002, I shared a Mastodon thread about breaking DRM in Polish trains. Well, the folks behind it have just recently done a full breakdown presentation, which is available here.

• A deep dive into some increadibly niche OS tomfoolery from the late 2000s.

• I’ve always been interested in small programs, and the amazing things that can be achieved in just a few kB. This takes that idea 1 step further, with an entire song and music video programmed in only 256 bytes on a Commodore 64. Truly unbelieveable stuff.

• A sign of things to come: a Canadian airline has tried to claim that it is not legally responsible for the information provided by its online chatbot. Obviously this is a blatant falsehood, but I am glad to see it struck down by the judge. Let’s hope that future precedents also side with common sense.

• This is a cool satellite image of the ongoing eruption in Iceland. The lava is edited in, but an amazing image nonetheless.

• Finally, a good ole Simpsons joke, now officially in the dictionary.

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