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Open source business licenses
Thoughtful piece on what open source means in a business context
2023-08-30 mapbox • opensource • licensing • hashicorp • businessmodel
location-guard
A browser extension for changing your geolocation
2023-08-30 chrome • firefox • extension • browser • privacy • geolocation • location
WebLLM
Run an AI in your browser with hardware acceleration
2023-08-30 llm • ai • webgl • llama2
Polynesian Stick Charts
Good photos and references for a type of ocean map
2023-08-30 maps • cartography • polynesia • navigation • ocean • pacifika
Google Solar API
New dataset to estimate solar power potential
2023-08-30 solar • electrify • google • maps • pv • solarpanels
Bing malware-like ads
New levels of marketing sleaze from Microsoft
2023-08-30 microsoft • bing • google • ads • windows
Combinatoric Art
Course syllabus for a form of generative art, exhaustively enumeration all geometric combinations of some rule system
2023-08-30 generative • art • geometry • sollewitt • golan
Same-Sex Moche Art
Scholarly article on the depiction of homosexual acts in Peruvian erotic art from 100-800 AD. (Full article is on sci-hub.)
2023-08-29 peru • moche • anthropology • sex • lgbt • gay • homosexual
Moche Erotic Pottery Vessels
NSFW, a collection of sexually explicit art from pre-Columbian Peru
2023-08-29 sex • nsfw • pottery • anthropology • peru • moche
Starlink dish firmware
Details from a dump of the satellite Internet terminal
2023-08-29 starlink • spacex • space • firmware • reverseengineer • satellite
UMich offline
Major American university takes itself off the Internet for a security concern
2023-08-28 internet • security • badtech • umich
Concrete Stamp
Lovely Swiss design
2023-08-28 stamps • switzerland • design • concrete
Cloudflare Starlink stats
Some details of the satellite ISP from a large website operator
2023-08-27 starlink • clouflare • internet • isp • stats • traffic
Man announces he will quit drinking by 2050
A plan for global warming
2023-08-26 funny • globalwarming • climatechange • satire
Wandrer GPS game
A game that rewards exploring new places
2023-08-25 games • gps • exercise • walking • bicycling • via:hackernews • maps
Flannery Associates
Investor syndicate wants to build a new town between Fairfield and Rio Vista
2023-08-25 realestate • bayarea • investment • finance • techbros • california
No javascript build
Reflections on HTMX developers on not using any Javascript build
2023-08-25 programming • javascript • typescript • build • development • browser
Factorio: Space Age
Long awaited DLC for the factory game is finally revealed. It's kind of the Space Exploration mod but made more accessible.
2023-08-25 games • factorio • mods
North Korean scifi
Non-dissident literature reifies the political control
2023-08-25 northkorea • dprk • politics • scifi • writing
Tasmota
Hacker firmware for ESP based devices common in Internet of Things small products
2023-08-23 automation • hacking • tuya • power • firmware
China's malaise
Long piece about the pessimistic national mood among China's young people. Lying flat, letting it rot.
2023-08-22 china • politics • culture • freedom • tangping • bailan
prettymapp
Makes beautiful maps from OSM data. A reimplementation of prettymap with speed and a webapp
2023-08-22 maps • via:hackernews • prettymap • cartography • webapp
NFT scam against artists
One of the most interesting features - perpetual fees to the original artist - has been dropped by all the major NFT markets.
2023-08-22 art • nft • scam • artist • royalty
Simple AVX-512 code
A nice demo of an easy SIMD calculation (Latin1 to UTF-8)
2023-08-21 via:hackernews • programming • simd • intel • avx512 • assembly
Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule
Detailed profile of Musk, the global influence of his companies, and his own personal erratic behavior
2023-08-21 elonmusk • starlink • twitter • politics • culture • spacex • ukraine
Piripkura update
Recent details on the indigenous family living in the Amazonian rainforest and the Brazilian politics surrounding their home
2023-08-21 brazil • brasil • indigenous • politics • anthropology
Piripkura
Extraordinary documentary about the last members of an Amazon rainforest group living disconnected from modernity
2023-08-21 brasil • brazil • indian • indigenous • anthropology • movie • documentary
Catching up on LLMs
Simon Willison gave a talk / overview of recent AI work from a hands-on perspective
2023-08-19 ai • llm • learning • simonw
California hurricanes
A map of hurricanes and tropical storms that got to or near California
2023-08-18 weather • hurricane • california • pacific
CPUC / Cruise corruption
Cruise's former lawyer is now on the CPUC commission and voted to let Cruise experiment with its cars in San Francisco
2023-08-18 corruption • cruise • cpuc • sanfrancisco • selfdriving
GPT4All
Collection of code and data to make LLMs accessible to programmers
2023-08-18 llm • models • chatgpt • ai • programmign • code
LLaMa 2 license
Nice endorsement of open source. (Although the actual license has a couple of anticompetitive restrictions.)
2023-08-18 opensource • ai • llm • llama • facebook • microsoft • code
Bone apron
Gorgeous ritual object made of human bone
2023-08-18 via:reddit • bone • tibet • museum
TV dialogue audio
The sorry state of video production where you can't understand what the characters are saying. The solutions offered are not convincing.
2023-08-18 tv • audio • mixing • sound • dialogue
Murderous Gays
Reflection on reclaiming the entertainment stereotype of Bad Gays
2023-08-17 lgbt • gay • movies • villains • acting
LLM GPU Buying Guide
Advice for small local AI work. Buy an NVidia GPU with as much VRAM as you can find.
2023-08-17 ai • llm • programming • hardware • nvidia • gpu
Datasette Cloud
Simon Willison's data exploration tool now has a hosted version
2023-08-16 datasette • data • sqlite • database • simonw • cloud • hosting • datascience • journalism
LLM CLI tool
A very easy to use set of Python drivers for running AI models
2023-08-16 llm • ai • python
Trump Twitter subpoena
Details of what data was requested from Trump's Twitter account, including direct messages, location information, IP addresses, etc
2023-08-16 politics • trump • twitter • privacy • indictment
Storylets
A theory of the narrative structure of interactive games
2023-08-16 writing • games • stories • rpgs
Red, White & Royal Blue sex scene
NSFW, a clip of the sexiest of the scenes in the new gay romance movie. Not porn but definitely more explicitly anal sex than I've ever seen in mainstream entertainment.
2023-08-15 gay • lgbt • sex • redwhiteroyalblue • nsfw
Unicode simplified
Some basic rules for using Unicode in 2023 in the simple ordinary way. UTF-8 everywher!
2023-08-14 unicode • encoding • programming • utf8 • json
CO₂ vs GDP
Measurement of carbon impact and wealth of nations
2023-08-14 climatechange • co2 • carbon • gdp • economics • data
Felts + Hau
Detailed profile of a gay couple, newly married. Felts is famous for coming out at age 90.
2023-08-13 lgbt • gay • oldergay • marriage • couple • culture
QAnon as pornography
Interesting analysis of how the Q people are indulging an obsession with sexualizing children
2023-08-13 via:metafilter • qanon • politics • feminism • csam
I Built a Linklog
New linkblog is born!
2023-08-12 linkblog • blogging • via:lobsters
Lahaina tragedy
Some reflections on personal loss and climate change
2023-08-12 hawaii • lahaina • hawaiʻi • wildfire • maui • culture • climatechange
Notes on Mastodon
Technical details from an active participant running her own server
2023-08-12 mastodon • fediverse • activitypub • federation • socialmedia
Lāhainā history
Some details of the unique history of the Hawaiian town that burned down
2023-08-11 hawaii • lahaina • Lāhainā • history • maui
Sugar Daddy Ken
An obscure but super gay Barbie doll ended up in the movie
2023-08-10 gay • funny • lgbt • barbie • ken • sugardaddy
CPUC corruption
One of the regulators voting on whether Cruise can experiment with its robot cars in California is a former Cruise lawyer
2023-08-10 politics • corruption • cpuc • cruise
BIP-39 passphrases
A standard for mnemonic passwords. Main application is Bitcoin wallets but generally applicable idea. 2048 words in the list.
2023-08-10 cryptography • security • passphrase • bitcoin • horsebatterystaple • diceware
Postimages
Image hosting alternative now that imgur is bad
2023-08-10 imgur • sharing • images • hosting
Yandex Ad Code
Source code for their behavior ad system analyzed, an interesting window into surveillance capitalism
2023-08-10 yandex • ads • google • privacy • advertising • tracking
Clarence Thomas' patrons
More details of Supreme Court corruption; 38 vacations, etc paid for by various billionaires without disclosure
2023-08-10 corruption • politics • supremecourt • clarencethomas • justice
Helping Hawaiʻi
NYT article on charities active in relief for the Maui wildfires
2023-08-10 hawaii • charity • maui • lahaina
BOINC in Retrospect
A pioneer in CPU scavenging reflects
2023-08-09 via:metafilter • setiathome • boinc • popularpower • computing • cloud
media/media login
A paywall bypassing login shared amongst journalists
2023-08-09 paywall • login • ip • media • journalism • wsj
Cloudflare speed test
Another Internet speed test, this one does some nice statistics on latency and repeated tests
2023-08-09 internet • speedtest • ookla • starlink • isp
About archive.today
Who is behind the mysterious site that's so useful for accessing web content
2023-08-08 via:metafilter • archive • paywall • internet
K-Strass the Yo Yo Guy
Early career character from comedian Mark Proksch.
2023-08-08 funny • yoyo • kstrass • proksch • andykaufman
Understanding AIDS (1988)
The brochure mailed to every American household at the peak of the AIDS crisis
2023-08-07 aids • history • hiv • gay • lgbt • america • surgeongeneral • koop • reagan • politics
Recreating Black Twitter
Nice history of Black Twitter and discussion of efforts to reproduce the community elsewhere
2023-08-06 twitter • black • culture • community
OverDrive enshittification
Maker of beloved library app Libby was bought by KKR in 2020, now turning the screws of rent-seeking
2023-08-06 capitalism • internet • library • overdrive • libby • kkr
Tilemaker
A simple tool for making map vector tiles
2023-08-03 maps • cartography • tiles • vectortiles • openstreetmap • osm
Barbie Liberated again
After 30 years of quiet the Barbie Liberation Organization strikes again!
2023-08-02 barbie • funny • art • environment • blo • reedcollege
About Sierra Thread
Lunatic right wing newspaper in Nevada County has secret ownership and a weird agenda
2023-08-01 politics • nevadacounty • grassvalley • theunion • sierrathread • 501c3
PayPal security story
Stressful tale of a near disaster from a bug in an overengineered crypto system
2023-08-01 paypal • ops • crypto • security • getpass • solaris