Peter Watts breaks the bad news to us: A couple of months ago, its creators announced that Counterpart is dead after a mere two seasons. It just couldn’t attract enough viewers, out of all the people on two Earths. And I think that’s a shame; Counterpart was more than just SF for people who hate… Continue reading “All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.”
Month: June 2019
Secure
Good advice, doomed to be wasted on folks who just want a quick, easy solution that lets them move on to the next item on their To Do list… I cringe when I hear self-proclaimed experts implore everyone to “use a password manager for all your passwords” and “turn on two-factor authentication for every site… Continue reading Secure
Black Mirror
Having caught up with the last episode of the latest series of Black Mirror, I was amused to learn that Nine Inch Nails were jumping on the marketing bandwagon, after an episode where a (real life) Pop Princess was repurposing a couple of their songs: Head like a hole! I’m on a roll! Riding so… Continue reading Black Mirror
iPadOS
Rui Carmo is, rightly, a little less optimistic than most of the Apple-focused commentariat about the notion that Apple forking iOS to create an iPad-specific variant marks a new era for the iPad: I have a profoundly different take on what “work” means than Federico-like one of my friends said the other day, there is… Continue reading iPadOS
Spomeniks
Owen Hatherley reminds us that the Spomeniks weren’t created just to be concrete clickbait: remembering what they were commemorating matters too: What Spomenik and the like forgets, Pupovac insists, is not only the scale of what happened here – “Yugoslavia was the fourth highest country in Europe in terms of civilian casualties” during the Second… Continue reading Spomeniks
ASCII art in code
I’m more than a little in awe of some of the pieces of work laid out in Explaining Code using ASCII Art. Fine work by all involved. [Via Accidental Tech Podcast]