Andy Valencia ✅ @vandys@mst.vsta.org

There's really only three browser engines in the world (Blink, Webkit, Servo) and Mozilla appears to be clutching their chest:

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/11/changing-world-changing-mozilla/

A blast from Adam Curry's past:

https://adamcurry.wordpress.com/

Thanks to various expressions of interest & support, I've freshened my old ForthOS. It builds its own GDT/IDT, has a proper RTC handler, and all I/O is interrupt based (previously it was a polled system). On qemu it no longer pegs the host CPU at 100%. It's still free, open source, and so forth. Try the new image disk image (source included):

http://sources.vsta.org/forthos/bochs/

Swedish doctor's perspective on Covid

https://sebastianrushworth.com/2020/08/04/how-bad-is-covid-really-a-swedish-doctors-perspective/

Our local green space (Fisher Pond) appears to have an old bunker of some sort?

Any time you think University Professors are just ivory tower hothouse flowers, you can remember people like this:

https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/08/seattle-city-in-fear-can-be-restored.html

If you ever wonder what a brilliant, eclectic mind would make of C19. May I introduce you to Dr. Ting?

https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=ScPI8NwTvqo

Ouch, mst.vsta.org was offline for a buncha hours. I tried to sync to Linode's S3--worked OK. But tried to use s3fs to access the media files--and that was a train wreck. It has its own permission metadata, and unless you put your files IN through s3fs, you can't make the thing provide access to the web server.

it goes like 100x slower than AWS cli, so it's basically a non-starter here. I may try again with native S3 support directly from Mastodon, but gonna take a break.

One of the few articles I've come across on the critical issue of air quality in C19.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/why-arent-we-talking-more-about-airborne-transmission/614737/

Another, pretty balanced, article on Sweden's "light touch" approach to Covid. Notably, they don't factor in non-Covid deaths caused by the lockdown.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/after-6-months-no-lockdown-swedish-covid-deaths-bottomed-out