Outguessing the machine

Kind of.

TL;DR: Strange technical quirk rather than datamining techbro shenanigans (okay, only a little techbro shenanigans).

Ah, the United States Supreme Court.

–Thursday, March 31, 2039– “That was brilliant!”

TL;DR: Software locked it out because front passenger side door latch detects a nonexistent key in its nonexistent keyhole.

TL;DR: Noping out of a probably-not-a-scam scientific study that should benefit everyone, with the ongoing realization that I can’t currently trust the fucking CDC not to do me or my family harm instead of good in the current administration.

Finally, a blinky project of the scale I can actually bite off these days (unlike pre-kids), but it requires a bit of backstory.

I’ll begin this rant with a tiny bit of history: look at the HTTP(S) headers a modern Web browser sends with its requests, and you’ll notice that for historical reasons it refers to itself by an odd name: not a browser, not a program, not an App, but a us…

Louis Rossmann, my spirit animal from the alternate reality where I don’t have a day job and kids, is again speaking some truths.

Or: Tim reverse-engineers an open-source product to reconstruct the open-source materials!