The Weekly Squeak - Learned.io, Wine, filter bubbles, and what is meat?

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In the era of Windows XP and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft used its anti-piracy Windows Genuine Advantage program to block updates to Wine users on Linux systems.  

Just how fast is Brave? If only they'd fix device sync 😞.

After centuries of a veritable monopoly, meat might have finally met its match. But what actually is it? 🤔

Captured at the yearly trip to FOSDEM

A filter bubble is a state of intellectual or ideological isolation that may result from algorithms feeding us information we agree with, based on our past behaviour and search history. It's a pretty popular term that was coined by Internet activist Eli Pariser, who wrote about a book about it.

If your language had no words to describe “the future,” would you still stress over it? I went to my neighbor’s house for something to eat yesterday. Think about this sentence. It’s pretty simple—English speakers would know precisely what it means.

Author H.P. Lovecraft has been an icon in the world of horror literature for more than a century, but, unlike other genre authors, his works haven't found as much success when translated into live-action endeavors.