Timeline behind the #CopOnComrades controversy
A very exhaustive timeline of the online defence of feminism against a few left-wing men in Ireland, courtesy of Andrew Flood.
(tags: coponcomrades left-wing politics ireland twitter facebook irish-times)
How Good Is Spotify’s Audio Quality? · Baron Schwartz’s Website
Various streaming services (Spotify) use lossy formats (Ogg Vorbis); various audio-casting devices (Chromecast) use other lossy formats (AAC). Crappy audio quality issues ensue.
(tags: chromecast ogg-vorbis aac audio lossy-encoding compression noise fail spotify)
Forget Facebook, Russian agents have been pretending to be furries on Tumblr
whaaat the fuck
(tags: tumblr russia spies fake-news furries yiffing omgwtf)
‘Stop hosting GDC in SF’ twitter thread
Emre Deniz: ‘My GDC feedback was simple: Stop hosting it in SF. I’ll be going back for tourist stuff but for the conference it needs to go. SF is a dangerous city and America is not welcome to non western developers. The city hates us being there, we are worried being there, move it.’
The twitter thread is replete with scary stories of robberies, TSA hassling attendees, etc.(tags: san-francisco us safety gdc conferences travel)
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Scientific review of nutritional supplements and vitamins, rounding up hundreds of papers and weighting them based on the level of evidence provided
(tags: health food nutrition vitamins supplements science medicine review vitamin)