This is a really cool use of deepfake technology, blending the actor’s and dubber’s facial expersions to make a great looking dubbed film. There are so many foreign language films that may be able to find a broader audience with this technology.

This is part of a series 📃 My journey into the plain text life - Intro 🛠️ Tools for working with plain text files - My Plain Text Journey Part II 🗃️ Syncing my notes - My Plain Text Journey Part III 📝 Journaling - My Plain Text Journey Part IV ✍ Keeping Notes My Plain Text Journey Part V ✔ Tasks and To Dos My Plain Text Journey Part VI I believe that there are as many ways to manages tasks as there are stars in the sky.

With the pandemic shutting down offices, Google projects that it saved over a billion dollars by not having workers in the office. And they made even more money.

For Memorial Day Ars Technica re-ran an article from 2016 where they fed a neural network a bunch of sci fi scripts and created a movie from the results. It is bizarrely fascinating.

Sometimes you have to build what Apple won’t make.

Finally, some research into whether night shift on your phone helps you sleep better. Night shift is when your phone removes the blues from the image, giving you this dull, brown tinted screen. I use it, especially in dark areas, because even when the phone is turned down to the minimum brightness it can still be blinding.

Killing off Google Reader just wasn’t enough for Google, now they are twisting the knife by experimenting with adding RSS feeds to the Android version of Chrome. My current favorite RSS reader is Inoreader, it’s what I use to follow sites and people that I’m interested in, chronologically. I don’t miss stories because an algorithm thought I wasn’t interested.

There is a bug in iOS that breaks wifi when you connect to an access point named %p%s%s%s%s%n. No word yet on whether the person who found the bug is still entering random printf statements to name their SSID.

“I’d buy that for a dollar!”

I’m really fascinated with cyberdeck builds, and this one built with a mini tv and Colecovision control is pretty awesome.