The Daily Dad — May 1, 2024

Things you might want to know:

• Programming language BASIC is 60 years old
  💭 I used to be embarrassed by my love for BASIC… real programmers used —depending on the era— assembly, or PASCAL, or C++, or Java, or whatever. But to this day, I’ve never used a more productive development environment than GFA BASIC in the ‘80s.
• Welcome to the Ancient Roman Festival for Sex Work
  ❝ Floralia was a celebration of spring, flowers, and so-called prostitution.
• Streamer Builds Hilarious Skyrim Mod That Lets Twitch Chat Voice NPCs
  ❝ Content creator Blurbs has given his chatters the means to voice NPCs in Bethesda’s 2011 fantasy RPG
• Account compromise of “unprecedented scale” uses everyday home devices
  ❝ Credential-stuffing attack uses proxies to hide bad behavior.
• Gérard Depardieu: French actor to be tried over sexual assault allegations
  ❝ French actor Gérard Depardieu will appear in court in October, prosecutors say.

• ‘Vanderpump Rules’ Editing Finds Drama in Everyday Moments
  ❝ ‘Vanderpump Rules’ editing requires a team of “eagle-eyed” people, executive producer Alex Baskin said of the hours of footage shot each week.
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has been renewed for a fourth season
  ❝ Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is coming back for more adventures, but Lower Deck will end with season five.
• ‘Fallout Shelter’ New Update Out Now Brings In Characters and Locations From the ‘Fallout’ TV Series With a New Quest – TouchArcade
  ❝ To celebrate the Fallout Amazon Prime series, Bethesda has special updates and discounts live for the franchise on multiple platforms.
• Eleanor Coppola, Hearts of Darkness director and matriarch of famed filmmaker family, dead at 87 | CBC News
  ❝ Eleanor Coppola, a writer and director who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of Apocalypse Now, and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died. She was 87.
• The OJ Simpson trial gave us the modern internet
  ❝ The media circus then looked a lot like social media now — even though the World Wide Web was pretty tame at the time.

• Fallout’s Pip-Boys Were an Asymmetrical Workout for the Cast
  ❝ The new Fallout TV series took a lot of the video game’s most iconic objects from pixelspace to the real world. Sure, the Pip-Boy looks cool, but have you really thought about how tired your left arm would get?
• Saving the Scio Kolache
  ❝ A local take on a Czech pastry is fading along with the community that birthed it.
• Sacha Baron Cohen & Isla Fisher Split After 13 Year Marriage
  ❝ After over twenty years together, Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher split, ending their marriage of 14 years. What went wrong?
• THE CRUSH HOUSE is a new thirst-person shooter where you shoot a trashy reality show
  ❝ The latest project from the always-clever technology artist Nicole He (previously) is The Crush House, a thirst-person (sic) shooter video game that plunges into the shoes of a reality TV…
• New AI music generator Udio synthesizes realistic music on demand
  ❝ But it still needs trial and error to generate high-quality results.
• David Lynch: Depression Kills Creativity
  ❝ David Lynch is not having any of that “you need to struggle or be tortured in order to be creative” stuff.
• Pink Floyd goes dark side and chooses AI video for Dark Side Of The Moon anniversary competition
  ❝ 3D artist Damián Gaume’s AI-generated video for “Any Colour You Like” was one of 10 winners in a video creation contest for the album’s 50th anniversary

• Slay the Spire is getting a sequel
  ❝ Deck-building roguelite Slay the Spire is getting a sequel.
• Brittany Cartwright reacts to Jax Taylor ‘liking’ comment about how he should’ve married Stassi Schroeder instead
  ❝ Taylor dated Schroeder during the first two seasons of “Vanderpump Rules.”