Peter Murray @dltj@code4lib.social

🔖 The Reliability of Optical Disks: How long will burned CDs / DVDs / BluRays last? [one person's empirical experimentation] | Murray Grant's blog https://blog.ligos.net/2022-04-02/The-Reliability-Of-Optical-Disks.html

🔖 Mechanical Watch [three–dimensional animated illustrations and explanations of watch mechanisms] | Bartosz Ciechanowski https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

🔖 South Africa’s private surveillance machine is fueling a digital apartheid https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/19/1049996/south-africa-ai-surveillance-digital-apartheid/ 🗒 annotated https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/19/1049996/south-africa-ai-surveillance-digital-apartheid/

🔖 The big idea: should we get rid of the scientific paper? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/apr/11/the-big-idea-should-we-get-rid-of-the-scientific-paper?CMP=share_btn_tw 🗒 annotated https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/apr/11/the-big-idea-should-we-get-rid-of-the-scientific-paper?CMP=share_btn_tw

🔖 The content moderation battle is a really just a failure of innovation https://anildash.com/2022/04/21/the-content-moderation-battle-is-a-failure-of-innovation/ 🗒 annotated https://via.hypothes.is/https://anildash.com/2022/04/21/the-content-moderation-battle-is-a-failure-of-innovation/

🔖 Another Firing Among Google’s A.I. Brain Trust, and More Discord | New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/02/technology/google-fires-ai-researchers.html

🔖 Drones Have Transformed Blood Delivery in Rwanda | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/drones-have-transformed-blood-delivery-in-rwanda/

🔖 Reconciliation: A game designed to frustrate the player | Bits About Money https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/a-game-that-intentionally-frustrates-the-player/

🔖 New research reveals Surfshark, TurboVPN, VyprVPN are installing risky root certificates [includes replies from companies] | TechRadar https://www.techradar.com/news/new-research-reveals-surfshark-turbovpn-vyprvpn-are-installing-risky-root-certificates

🔖 Bottled Water Giant BlueTriton Admits Claims of Recycling and Sustainability Are “Puffery” | The Intercept https://theintercept.com/2022/04/26/plastic-recycling-bottled-water-poland-spring/

🔖 Running Containers on AWS Lambda | Earthly Blog https://earthly.dev/blog/aws-lambda-docker/

🔖 Researchers develop a paper-thin loudspeaker | MIT News https://news.mit.edu/2022/low-power-thin-loudspeaker-0426

🔖 Trump allies breach U.S. voting systems in search of 'evidence' | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-breaches

🔖 Applied for Student Aid Online? Facebook Saw You: The FAFSA form included code that sent personal information back to Facebook | The Markup https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/04/28/applied-for-student-aid-online-facebook-saw-you

🔖 Opinion | Fighting Disinformation Can Feel Like a Lost Cause. It Isn’t. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/opinion/fighting-disinformation-education.html 🗒 annotated https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/opinion/fighting-disinformation-education.html

🔖 Microsoft Word - PhysicalEquivPrivacy4OA.docx https://minds.wisconsin.edu/bitstream/handle/1793/81297/PhysicalEquivPrivacy4OA.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y 🗒 annotated https://via.hypothes.is/https://minds.wisconsin.edu/bitstream/handle/1793/81297/PhysicalEquivPrivacy4OA.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

🔖 Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/ 🗒 annotated https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/