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License Plate Game

A new word game from a friend

2024-12-21 games • words • wordle • scrabble • dictionary

The Loves of my Life

Chapter from Edmund White's new sex memoir. Text is very NSFW.

2024-12-20 gay • lgbt • erotic • sex • edmundwhite

World's richest man endorses Germany's right wing extremist party

2024-12-20 elonmusk • politics • germany • afd • nazis • fascism

MacKenzie Scott gives away another large tranche of money to non-profits

2024-12-19 charity • philanthropy • yieldgiving

mail-tester.com

A free service to test if an email is likely to be marked as spam

2024-12-18 email • spam • dkim • spf • testing • filtering • dmarc

Kenji and alcohol

Beloved food writer Kenji Lopez Alt shares a detailed story about his quitting alcohol with the help of AA

2024-12-18 kenji • kenjilopezalt • seriouseats • drinking • alcohol • recovery • aa • patreon

Amazon Time Sync

Microsecond-accurate timing in EC2 instances

2024-12-18 via:iamcal • aws • ec2 • time • ntp • ptp • synchronization • amazon • hosting

hydroxychloroquine fraud withdrawn

Sham paper for the fake Covid drug finally gets retracted

2024-12-18 fraud • science • covid • didierraoult • retraction

bridgy.fed has a new organization and second engineer!

2024-12-17 bridgy • socialmedia • activitypub • atproto • bluesky • mastodon • fediverse • ryanbarrett

Older woman gamer totally roasts stupid gamer boys

2024-12-17 funny • women • gamergirls • streaming

Mass hallucination thinks ordinary airplanes at night are mysterious drones or UFOs

2024-12-15 newjersey • drones • ufos • hallucination • aviation

Radiohead OK Computer re-arranged using Nintendo 64 sounds

2024-12-14 music • nintendo • radiohead • chiptune

A 1990s terminal emulator that provided terminal multiplexing client-side

2024-12-13 unix • uw • shell • terminal • dos • windows • 1990s • programming • screen

LocalThunk interview

Thoughts from the solo creator of indie game Balatro

2024-12-13 games • balatro • localthunk • interview

Sora AI gymnastics

Hypnotizing video of an AI *almost* displaying gymnastics correctly

2024-12-13 gymnastics • ai • uncannyvalley

Queer interview

Snappy interview with Luca Guadagnino and Daniel Craig about the new movie

2024-12-12 movies • gay • lgbt • danielcraig • queer • wsb • burroughs • snowball • queerbait

OldInsuranceMaps.net

Crowdsourcing georeferenced Sanborn maps. Very incomplete archive but totally the right idea.

2024-12-10 maps • sanborn • fireinsurance • history • crowdsourcing • georeferencing

The Library of Congress' collection of property maps

2024-12-10 maps • sanborn • property • history

Harmeet Dhillon (CW: anti-trans)

Trump pick for a DoJ lawyer is an anti-trans crusader who is trying to outlaw gender affirming care in all states

2024-12-10 politics • trump • civilrights • trans • transgender • hate

Uranian (sexuality)

A 19th century term for a homosexual man

2024-12-10 gay • history • lgbt • oscarwilde

Stormlight Archive recaps

In case you don't remember what happened in the first 4500 pages of the story, before reading the last 1500

2024-12-09 books • fantasy • scifi • stormlight • stormlightarchives • sanderson

Colorectal Surgeon Song

Bawdy but kind song by a Canadian duo

2024-12-09 funny • colorectal • medicine • parody • music

Website to make it easy to 3d print terrain models

2024-12-06 printing • 3dprinting • maps • dem • stl • terrain

Stardew Valley Spouse Survey

Choices made broken down by player's gender, sexual orientation, race, age, etc

2024-12-06 games • stardewvalley • survey • lgbt

Argentinian anarcho-capitalism

Summary of a year of a radical libertarian running Argentina and how what he's doing might be a hint of what Musk and DOGE might try to do. (The article is biased in favor of Milei.)

2024-12-05 politics • argentina • libertarian • capitalism • musk • doge • uspol

Accessing home services

A method for connecting to self-hosted web applications that's nicer than just having a bunch of random local IP addresses and ports

2024-12-05 devops • programming • proxmox • services • tailscale

3d objects that only have one stable position

2024-12-05 toys • gomboc • gravity • 3dprinting • sculpture

63 Chinese Cuisines

Interesting review of different regional cuisines in china

2024-12-04 food • tourism • china • sichuan

California solar glut

We don't have the grid and storage infrastructure to use all the electricity we are generating

2024-12-03 electricity • electrify • solar • california • economics • energy

Yet another HTTP server command line tool. This one has options for single page apps, etc.

2024-12-03 web • http • server • hacks

A profile of a prominent gay citizen in Nevada City

2024-12-02 niel • niellocke • gay • history • lgbt • nevadacity • grassvalley • nevadacounty • profile

Threads Won't Take You South of Market

On Facebook's also-ran social media platform pre-emptively blocking a whole lot of queer Fediverse servers

2024-12-02 facebook • threads • meta • fediverse • mastodon • censorship • lgbt • bear • bdsm

Details of Trump's pick to head NIH. His writing during Covid was full of deceit and harmful agenda, including publishing bad studies without peer review

2024-11-30 trump • politics • nih • covid • uspol

Simple web analytics. Uses a hosted tracking pixel, so not as private as running your own, but it's hosted so simpler

2024-11-29 analytics • web • stats • apache

Another simple, privacy-protecting web analytics package

2024-11-29 analytics • web • apache • stats

Simple Sabotage

Culture jamming and malingering for the 21st century

2024-11-29 funny • sabotage • workplace • politics • culture

Project Plowshare

1960s/70s American program to use "the friendly atom" for construction. Why plow when you can nuke?

2024-11-29 funny • wikipedia • america • farming • construction • nuclearweapons

The clearest explanation I've ever seen about line buffering, block buffering, and tty output vs simple file / pipe

2024-11-29 linux • unix • buffering • stdlib • shell • cli

Google altering websites

Some bullshit Google app is now rewriting web pages and injecting links back to Google's own ad-stuffed pages.

2024-11-27 google • antitrust • ads • web

Sensitive Research

Home page / portfolio of Tom Jennings, a creative engineer and famous homosexual

2024-11-26 gay • lgbt • tomjennings • homocore • fidonet • art • projects • rambler

Very interesting web spreadsheet with live Python code running in it. Company is shutting down and open source released the tech.

2024-11-26 neptyne • spreadsheet • observable • notebooks • programming • python

StoryGraph update

Goodreads alternative has momentum

2024-11-26 goodreads • books • reading • socialmedia • storygraph

Major new mobile operating system, to compete with iOS and Android. Coming from Huawei

2024-11-26 china • huawei • android • os • mobile • phone

Coin-op vendors

Funny set of stereotypes about people who sell arcade game

2024-11-26 games • arcade • funny • coinop

SQLite's Use Of Tcl (2017)

I had no idea the database was originally written to be used as a TCL extension. Explains a lot of good things.

2024-11-23 tcl • sqlite • via:lobsters • programming • embedding

Musk brigading government employees

Personally singles out a mid-level civil servant for harassment. Angry mob piles on.

2024-11-23 musk • elonmusk • politics • harassment • fascism • uspol

The popular automation game has a test suite with 6000 tests

2024-11-23 factorio • testing • games • development

Zlibrary access

Reddit wiki has up to date URLs for accessing the download site for unlicensed books

2024-11-21 books • ebooks • zlib • zlibrary • download • epub

Egoless Engineering

New McFunley just dropped. A really smart talk about engineering and release process

2024-11-21 engineering • releases • devops

Francis Williams painting

Extraordinary art history study of a painting of a Black Jamaican man from the 18th century

2024-11-20 via:metafilter • art • arthistory • jamaica • haleyscomet

The Platonic Blow

W.H. Auden's 1948 gay erotic poem. NSFW.

2024-11-20 gay • lgbt • auden • poetry • 1940s • erotic

Fun new Bluesky firehose visualization

2024-11-19 bluesky • visualization • emoji • via:waxy

Bantam Tools Artframe

New computer controlled plotter with a fully controllable z-axis so you can use paint, variable pressure on pens, etc

2024-11-19 plotter • plotterart • computers • emsl • bantamtools

Using OSM vector tiles

Exciting news, vector tile data is live from OpenStreetMap!

2024-11-19 maps • via:hackernews • vectortiles • programming

Starlink sold out

Parts of the western US have a waitlist to get Starlink service again

2024-11-19 starlink • internet • isp • broadband • congestion

Fine-tuning LLMs at home

Surprisingly technical article on how you can customize a Llama model to your specifciations

2024-11-19 ai • llm • training • lora • llama

Bluesky starter packs

Third party site with a database of 52,000 starter packs

2024-11-19 bluesky • socialmedia • starterpack

New global warming emissions dashboard from Planet Labs imagery of methane, etc

2024-11-18 globalwarming • data • maps • carbonmapper • planetlabs • satellites • methane

Love, Acceptance, and Screeching Modems

Notes on early LGBT community online, including my old home of soc.motss

2024-11-17 gay • lgbt • history • socmotss • motss • bbs

Voyager 1 backup radio

After partial failure a radio makes its first transmission in 43 years

2024-11-17 space • voyager • resilience • engineering • via:hackernews • satellite

Butt interview with an activist in the nation of Georgia. (One mild NSFW picture.)

2024-11-17 gay • lgbt • georgia • tblisi • sex • nsfw

Usenet feed growth

Usenet still exists and lately the amount of traffic is growing enormously

2024-11-17 usenet • networking • socialmedia • scene • nzb

Methane mapping

Fighting climate change with Planet Labs satellites detecting methane emissions

2024-11-17 methane • globalwarming • satellite • remotesensing • planetlabs • environment

City99 console font

A creative new programming font inspired by the aesthetics of the game Stray

2024-11-17 fonts • console • fixedwidth • stray • mhoye

Lorraine Gervais

Local singer in Grass Valley, also an ally to LGBTQ youth and just a lovely person

2024-11-16 lorrainegervais • music • grassvalley • nevadacounty • ally • lgbt

A "show me top links" based on your Mastodon and Bluesky feeds

2024-11-16 bluesky • mastodon • linkblog • links • via:waxy

Justin's Linklog

Details on how a linkblog is implemented

2024-11-16 jmason • linkblog • blogging • pinboard

Thune 2004 blog campaign

Interesting story of Republican strategists starting a deceptive pair of blogs to influence local newspaper coverage

2024-11-16 politics • uspol • southdakota • thune • blogs • socialmedia

Open source garage door

Radio receiver for $50 is open

2024-11-15 via:hackernews • home • opensource • garage • garagedoor • radio • remote

NZ parliament protest

Te Pāti Māori interrupts a vote on an anti-Māori bill

2024-11-14 newzealand • kiwi • maori • nz • parliament • protest

A tool kind of like rsync but using ZFS snapshots and other features to manage files

2024-11-13 zfs • filesystem • rsync • sysadmin

BenQ Programming Monitor

The coding marketing is silly but a high quality display with extra features like a KVM seems really nice

2024-11-13 monitor • display • programming • hardware • pc

California slow vote counting

Detailed explanation of why California takes so long to count ballots

2024-11-12 california • politics • voting • votingrights • elections

Sand pile visuazliation

2024 election voting depicted as piles of grains of sand, effective at showing individual and collective

2024-11-12 datavis • visualization • uspol • via:flowingdata • politics

A popular RSS feed reader

2024-11-12 rss • atom • feedreader • reader • feedly • software

The Animal in Decorative Art

Remarkable 1896 book of art prints

2024-11-12 art • design • animals • via:bookscout • 1890s

A feature rich background noise generator, makes calm sounds of rain or quiet conversation or other sonic wallpaper

2024-11-11 noise • background • audio • whitenoise • rainfall • generator

Criterion Collection Supercut

1 second from every prestige film remastered by Criterion

2024-11-11 movies • criterion • supercut • via:metafilter • film

A simple framework for hosting bots on the Fediverse

2024-11-10 bots • activitypub • mastodon • rss • socialmedia

Chair causes display failure

Weird phenomenon: gas lift chairs generate an EMI speak when you sit or stand which can cause a monitor to momentarily blank out

2024-11-10 electricity • static • emi • chair • monitor

Bizarre oil platform city in the middle of the Caspian Sea

2024-11-10 via:hackernews • caspiansea • azerbaijan • soviet • oil • architecture

Self-hosted Bluesky

Most of the components in the social media system are federated, except the view application

2024-11-08 bluesky • bsky • hosting • fediverse • federation

Red crab migration

Wacky natural phenomenon, kind of slowly creepy

2024-11-08 nature • christmasisland • crabs • via:metafilter • migration

Shaunda Shane, skater

Sweet story of tracking down someone from a fantastic 1979 photo

2024-11-05 photos • fayetteville • skating • skateboard • skate • tonyhawk

curl -v https://google.com

HTTPS as metal song

2024-11-05 funny • internet • protocols • http • tls • html • metal • music

Anbernic RG35XX charging

The bizarre USB-C behavior of a popular Chinese handheld gaming / emulation console

2024-11-03 usb • usbc • charging • usbpd • anbernic • rg35xx

MacOS vs. software

Reports that MacOS 15.1 now *requires* applications be signed to be runnable. End of Macs as general purpose computing?

2024-11-02 apple • macos • security • antitrust • signature • badtech

Bridgy Fed future

Ryan considers options for the future of a useful bit of social media glue

2024-11-01 ryan • mastodon • bluesky • threads • fediverse • federation • socialmedia • governance

AI slop hoax parade

Thousands turned out in Dublin for a non-existent Hallowe'en parade, a rumor started by AI slop

2024-11-01 dublin • ireland • ai • scam • slop • ads • funny

Appreciation for 1960s Turkey's answer to Liberace

2024-10-31 gay • turkey • culture • lgbt • liberace • music

America PAC abuses

Musk's pay-for-votes PAC also hires people to knock on doors, then abuses them with unsafe rides and threats of non-payment

2024-10-30 musk • elonmusk • politics • trump • uspol • americapac • pac

Fascinating queer person from the early 1900s

2024-10-30 queer • lgbt • genderqueer • history • bahamas • england

Fun etymology for the word for safety covers on electrical switches.

2024-10-30 etymology • words • children • industrial

Old school website / database of people who've flown their single engine planes around the world

2024-10-30 aviation • flying • world • singleengine • batshitinsane • bonanza

Trailer for Queer

William S. Burroughs novel has been made into a film starring Daniel Craig

2024-10-30 movies • gay • lgbt • queer • burroughs • wsb • guadagnino

Texas disenfranchisement

Detailed story of a woman being denied the right to vote because some process decided she was not a citizen

2024-10-29 politics • votingrights • elections • citizenship • texas

RIP botsin.space

Useful Mastodon service for sharing automated posts to the Fediverse is going away

2024-10-29 bots • rss • mastodon • fediverse

Guerilla art mocking the Trump coup attempt

2024-10-28 uspol • politics • funny • satire • poop • jan6 • j6 • trump

Journey to the gold diggins

1849 comic about the Gold Rush. CW: racism

2024-10-27 california • history • graphicnovel • comic • goldrush

The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model

The PhD thesis that's at the core of NixOS

2024-10-27 nixos • research • academic • computerscience • systems • os • nix • phd