Of course it’s not magic, it’s just physics. This structure is an example of a tensegrity system—a term coined by Buckminster Fuller—which means that its integrity, or stability, comes from balancing elements under tension.
Today we’re launching a new feature on Micro.blog: support for multi-user blogs, so your whole team can write posts on a shared blog. We think it’s going to be great for small companies, families, and schools, with everything from shared photo blogs to podcasts.
Love that they are getting into the commercial space.
For images, we use as our seed file a cartoon of Liu Xiaobo that was found to be censored on WeChat in previous work. To create a novel, still-sensitive copy of it, we append 24 KiB of random bytes to it. Since the seed file we used was a JPEG-encoded image, all data past the JPEG end-of-file marker is ignored when rendering the image; however, the appended data still causes the file to hash to a different value.
The basics of window resizing behavior should be impossible to mess up — AppKit should be handling this. If it’s messed up, then something in the app is fighting the frameworks. That’s a bad sign for the quality of the rest of the app.
We’ve decided it’s our obligation to resist the normalization of employee surveillance software. It is not right, it is not human, and unless we speak up now, we might well contribute to this cancer of mistrust and control spreading even after the COVID-19 crisis is behind us. That is not something we in good conscience could let happen.