{"id":179824,"date":"2017-10-16T04:53:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/16\/linkage-172\/"},"modified":"2017-10-16T04:53:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T09:53:00","slug":"linkage-172","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/16\/linkage-172\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2017\/10\/09\/fetlang_erotic_programming_language\/\">New coding language Fetlang&#8217;s syntax designed to read like &#8216;poorly written erotica&#8217;<\/a> (<i>The Register<\/i>) An entirely new approach to debugging.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/2017\/10\/10\/google-nerfing-home-minis-mine-spied-everything-said-247\/\">Google is permanently nerfing all Home Minis because mine spied on everything I said 24\/7 [Update x2]<\/a> (<i>Android Police<\/i>) Google home was intrusively listening in its users.  They had to cripple (nerf) the device to fix it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-41608341?SThisFB\">Icelandic Pirate Party MP forced to wear eyepatch<\/a> (<i>BBC News<\/i>) She got her eye scratched by her kid, but she will be fine.  Still, a Pirate in an eye patch\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tastecooking.com\/kosher-salt-question\/\">The Kosher Salt Question<\/a> (<i>TASTE<\/i>) Kosher salt varies a lot from brand to brand.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guelphmercury.com\/news-story\/7621713-tim-hortons-unveils-newest-drink-a-spicy-buffalo-latte-no-really-\/\">Tim Hortons unveils newest \u2018drink\u2019 \u2014 a spicy Buffalo Latte. No, really.<\/a> (<i>Guelph Mercury<\/i>) Tim Hortons, the most Canadian thing ever just did the least Canadian thing ever.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2017\/oct\/13\/the-scientists-persuading-terrorists-to-spill-their-secrets\">The scientists persuading terrorists to spill their secrets<\/a> (<i>Guardian<\/i>) Someone finally got the data to do a thorough study showing that torture does not work.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2017\/oct\/13\/magic-mushrooms-reboot-brain-in-depressed-people-study\">Magic mushrooms &#8216;reboot&#8217; brain in depressed people \u2013 study<\/a> (<i>Guardian<\/i>) Raises the question: How much of recreational drug use is actually self-medication?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/shark-costume-man-fined-austria-burqa-ban\/\">Shark costume man bitten by Austria\u2019s burqa ban<\/a> (<i>POLITICO<\/i>) What a surprise.  Demagoguery and bigotry are inconvenient and stupid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, I enjoy these sorts of videos, but I am a dull guy:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IDbTUt3OG9s\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New coding language Fetlang&#8217;s syntax designed to read like &#8216;poorly written erotica&#8217; (The Register) An entirely new approach to debugging. Google is permanently nerfing all Home Minis because mine spied on everything I said 24\/7 [Update x2] (Android Police) Google home was intrusively listening in its users. They had to cripple (nerf) the device to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-179824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}