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Saturday 6th April, 2019 #

  • What if humans hibernated through the winter?
  • How to get process id of called process - This is too difficult there should be an easy way, like with a bash flag, to print the pid of the process that just got started
  • As the UK updates its .eu Brexit advice yet again, an alternative hovers into view
  • links.markjgsmith.com basically never gets backed up, and when it does it does't backup the archives link on the top right of the page, I'd love to get internet archived, but it just doesn't do what it says it does unless you are some super duper mega site, cleary longevity doesn't even come into it, I've been running this linkblog for a while now :)
  • Boing Boing gets an internet archive backup daily (multiple times daily!), including all the links from the main page, and the links from each article
  • The Internet Archive has recovered 500,000+ of the 50,000,000 songs Myspace "accidentally" deleted during a server migration - This is great, it's just a shame that for the internet archive to back your site up that you have to be a myspace level site, it just doesn't back up a lot of sites
  • New WebKit Features in Safari 12.1
  • The lesson of this Brexit ordeal? The EU is a club worth belonging to - Makes some good points about how the EU is a strong group that has some clout in the world, but totally side steps every single one of the issues that the EU has and that are exposed on a daily basis during this Brexit saga, strength is a double edged sword