🧙♂️ D&D licensing, resurgence of flip phones, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-01-20
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Internet Travels
D&D
- Amid widespread backlash, D&D maker scales back “open” license changes | Ars Technica
- Pluralistic: John Deere’s repair fake-out; Good riddance to the Open Gaming License (12 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- 22 Years Ago I Saved D&D, Today I Want to Save the Open Gaming License | by Ryan S. Dancey | Jan, 2023 | Medium
- Cancelled D&D Beyond Subscriptions Forced Hasbro’s Hand
Geek
- Image Stacks and iPhone Racks - Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine | FindThatMeme.com Blog
- Reverse-engineering an airspeed/Mach indicator from 1977
- Old Vintage Computing Research: SAIC Galaxy 1100: a pre-CDE VUE of the PA-RISC with a security clearance
- GitHub - Zireael07/awesome-tabletop-rpgs: Awesome list of free and/or open source tabletop RPGs
Retro
- Gen Z loves the flip phone | CNN Business
- absorptions: The sound of the dialup, pictured
- Atari Scene News by Philsan: "TNT, new video for a tune by Poisont from Epic Fa…" - Mastodon
Videogames
Technology
- Visualizing the Length of the Fine Print, for 14 Popular Apps - Visual Capitalist
- Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Follow Twitter Accounts via RSS
- ChatGPT Writes a Mint Mobile Ad - YouTube
- New Sony Walkman music players feature stunning good looks, Android 12 | Ars Technica
- GitHub - Juerd/tootpick: Link target for Mastodon "share buttons"
- ChatGPT, Midjourney Helped a Man Write a Children’s Book in 72 Hours
- Microsoft Is Finally Done With Windows 7 and 8.1
- Google reportedly working on a location tracker to compete with AirTags - The Verge
- Reviewer buys 16TB portable SSD for $70, proves it’s a sham | Ars Technica
- Explore Wikipedia’s New Look – Wikimedia Foundation
Science
- Collector discovered Isaac Newton’s lost personal copy of Opticks | Ars Technica
- Laser-guided lightning | Nature Photonics
Pop Culture
- I Used AI To Invent New Superheroes That Fight Your Real Everyday Problems (23 Pics) | Bored Panda
- A Black Composer’s Legacy Flourishes 500 Years After His Birth - The New York Times
Pot Pourri
- Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Real Professional Learning in Schools
- Are We Ready to Learn Again? – Ideas and Thoughts
- I disconnected from the electric grid for 8 months—in Manhattan | Ars Technica
- Wyoming wants to phase out sales of new EVs by 2035 | Engadget
- Design can be free – Scott Jenson
- Bad Managers Cause Poor Mental Health