How dystopian narratives can incite real-world radicalism.
Compared with the no-media control group, subjects exposed to the fiction were 8 percentage points more likely to say that radical acts such as violent protest and armed rebellion could be justifiable. They also agreed more readily that violence is sometimes necessary to achieve justice (a similar increase of about 8 percentage points).
1998 called. It wants its GUI back.
A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs.
Inklusion: Warum die Maskenpflicht zum Problem für Hörbehinderte wird.
Inklusion ist ein ständiger Kampf. In anderen Ländern ist es etwa längst weit verbreitet, dass Pressekonferenzen oder politische Interviews von Gebärdendolmetschern übersetzt werden. Hier hat es mal wieder etwas gedauert, bis daran gedacht wurde, dass auch Hörgeschädigte die Informationen mitbekommen sollten.
Relevant: Oregon high school student is making clear face masks so the hearing-impaired can be safe during coronavirus crisis.
Update: Österreichische Firma Kerkoc stellt Masken mit Gesichtsfenster für Gehörlose her (via reddit.com).
The Outline, an attempt to build a bolder kind of news site, appears to have met its end.
That’s a wee bit sad, I really liked to read through their issues.
Jeremy Keith: 'We've ruined the Web. Here's how we fix it.'
There have been studies to show that the experience of waiting for a slow website to load when you need to get that information is comparable to watching a horror movie in terms of how your body is reacting to the stress of the situation.
Relevant: The Cost of Javascript Frameworks.
14 Thesen zur ‘Corona-Krise’: Warum Demokratie und Denken in der Pandemie keine Pause haben.
8. Die Phase der Normalisierung wird nach der Coronakrise viel schneller verlaufen
Aus dem Vergleich mit der Krise von 2007ff. ergibt sich eine fundamental wichtige Prognose: So wie die Phase der Denormalisierung 2020ff. zeitlich gestauchter verläuft als 2007ff., so wird auch die Phase der Normalisierung kürzer und massiver verlaufen.
There is something going on about the future of React…
Introducing Crank.
All of the struggles which React developers faced, like the double-rendering or tree-walking hacks used to hydrate components with async dependencies on the server, or the whole period of collective insanity when React developers thought “render props” were good APIs, could be explained by React’s original sin of requiring rendering to be modeled exclusively as pure functions. The principle leaked into the ecosystem, radiating into developer’s lives by complicating their codebases and architectures when using React.
Relevant: Making setInterval Declarative with React Hooks.
Is BGP safe yet? (Via lobste.rs).
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the postal service of the Internet. It’s responsible for looking at all of the available paths that data could travel and picking the best route. Unfortunately, it isn’t secure, and there have been some major Internet disruptions as a result. But fortunately there is a way to make it secure. ISPs and other major Internet players (Comcast, Sprint, Verizon, and others) would need to implement a certification system, called RPKI.
Relevant update: Is Cloudflare safe yet? Neither.
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This is a story about frontotemporal dementia.
The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder.
The loss of embarrassment is common among some FTD patients, leading them to act in ways that might have horrified their former selves. Urinating in public, shoplifting, running red lights, making inappropriate sexual advances, digging through trash cans for food—all can be symptoms.
