Nine quick links for Sunday afternoon

Departure Mono. A monospaced pixel font created by Helena Zhang, and inspired by early command-line and graphical user interfaces.

Newly Discovered Antibody Protects Against All COVID-19 Variants. A study led by The University of Texas at Austin has identified SC27, an antibody capable of neutralizing all known variants of the COVID-19 virus, opening prospects for universal vaccine development and improved treatments.

DOJ, Nvidia, and why we restrict monopolies. We shouldn’t allow past success to enable unfettered future profits when it stifles further innovation and competition, and definitely not at the expense of society or humanity as a whole.

Facilitated Workshops Create the Problems They Try to Solve. In my experience, facilitated workshops can bring about change and make a meamningful difference to the way groups of people work. At the same time, I agree they are a form of social engineering, and can be abused to reinforce existing structures and forms of control (via Chris Corrigan).

OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free. Another from the annals of “they nearly got there…”

Why Login Security Sucks. Login security is a mess. Username/password, TOTP, HOTP, and passkeys all have their issues and aren’t universally supported. Implementing solutions that balance security and usability can become complex and costly even for simple use cases.

Is my blue your blue? Test your colour perception. My blue/green boundary is at hue 174, the population median at the time I submitted my results, apparently.

What’s the Point of Bay Leaves? I mentioned to Benji that I’d voted “does nothing” in a Mastodon poll about the use of bay leaves in cooking. I was wrong.

Are you trying to watch Rings of Power season 2 and it is way too obscure? Let Glenn Fleishman give you a pathway. No spoilers. FTR, I enjoyed Season 1, and so far Season 2 as well.