Thursday [8 to 10]

10.  Another over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2021/09/its-coercion-which-is-thing.html

9.  Dropping support

... long before the use by date:

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2021/09/dropping-support-long-before-use-by-date.html

[H/T haiku]

8.  Magpies, via haiku

https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/23/bird_attacks_ground_google_wing_drones/

Some of Google parent company Alphabet's Wing delivery drones have been grounded by angry Australian birds.

As reported by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and filmed by residents of Canberra, ravens have attacked at least one of Wing's drones during a delivery run. Canberra, Australia's capital city, is currently in COVID-caused lockdown. It's also coming into spring – a time when local birds become a menace in the leafy city. 

Magpies are a particular hazard because they swoop passers-by who they deem to be threateningly close to their nests and the eggs they contain. Being swooped is very little fun – magpies dive in, often from a blind spot, snapping their sharp beaks, and can return two or three times on a single run. Swooping is intimidating for walkers, and downright dangerous for cyclists.

I can add to that.  The first half of my life was spent here and in Oz.  In the Oz stints, I saw the magpie threat at first hand, to the point that once they decide to divebomb, teachers get the kids indoors asap - many was the time that crying children were running hell for leather from the playground towards the corridor - Alfred Hitchcock had nothing on these scenes.  There are, as mentioned above, seasons where this is particularly bad.