How we host Ars, the finale and the 64-bit future

We wrap up our four-part series by tying up loose ends and looking ahead.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/ars-on-aws-04/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Ok lawyers and law professors and adjacent folk:

There's a neat new MacOS tool for quickly pulling up U.S. legal cases, that you can download here:

http://www.caseviewer.app/

It lives in the menubar so you don't even need to switch to a web browser, let alone log in to Westlaw, to grab a quote you need etc.

It's the work of my friend Ben Eidelson whose day job is as a Harvard Law professor, but he moonlights as a software developer in his spare time. (!)
In beta.

"Mastodon is far from perfect. But I only have so many hours in the day, and only so many days left in my life. I would much rather spend those precious hours making a open service better than using a temporarily superior closed one. I have seen that movie. I know how it ends."

- @pluralistic

https://doctorow.medium.com/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again-20074e311f1f

This is what happens when you wring out a wet towel while floating in space.

Credit: CSA/NASA