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Coffee Grinders Used to Be a Mystery. A New Device Might Solve It

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Imagine my excitement, then, to finally have a piece of equipment that could potentially depict how well a coffee grinder works in granular detail. Specifically, I’ve got a DiFluid Omni ($900), a new device that promises something heretofore unknown: the chance for home coffee geeks to graph out the particle size distribution of a batch of coffee. (It also has a colorimeter, to assess the lightness or darkness of a roast.)

Source: Coffee Grinders Used to Be a Mystery. A New Device Might Solve It | WIRED

As someone who likes good coffee this made me laugh. Wired is paywalled but it has good writers and interesting stories.

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made

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But there are worse offenders. Microsoft’s service agreement is a monstrous 12,000 words in length, about the size of a novella. And who reads those, right? Well, here’s one excerpt from Microsoft’s terms of use that you might want to read:

We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to.

Source: Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made

Where interactive fiction authors and games stand today

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The rise of the iPhone and mobile platforms in general, along with developer-friendly app stores, has made the idea of commercializing interactive fiction possible again. In the age of Infocom, the crude graphics on top-end hardware meant the potential market for text-only games for personal computers was in the millions, and this was enough to fund a whole company of developers. Today, people aren’t likely to pay money to sit down at a PC to play a text adventure game, but enough of them might want to play such a game on their mobile device to fund teams of one or two independent developers.

via Heirs of Infocom: Where interactive fiction authors and games stand today | Ars Technica.