July 2020 internet

This month was a big one for cycling, clocking over 77hrs and covering 1800kms on the bike, the rest of the time was playing ARK: Survival Evolved. Here's a few interesting links and some nice tunes from the radio that I managed to find in the time left over.

• The Restart Page (therestartpage.com) - enjoy the thrills of rebooting an old operating system through your browser!
• Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexico’s cell tower repairmen (reuters.com) - fascinating article about the risks that the regular telecoms engineers can go through in cartel controlled areas in Mexico
• The Design History of Athens Iconic Apartments (bloomberg.com) - history of the compact apartments widely built in the Greek capital

• De-Escalating Social Media (nickpunt.com) - a case study on how to reduce conflict on social media - twitter specifically in this case
• Straightened Trees (danieltemkin.com) - images of trees digitally 'corrected' to be perfectly straight
• Hackers Convinced Twitter Employee to Help Them Hijack Accounts (vice.com) - behind the Twitter hack that affected many business / politial leaders