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2024 Leap Day bugs
A depressing list of sloppy programming
2024-02-29
programming • bugs • leapyear • leapday • feb29
Save the gay whales
First instance of humpback sex observed, between two males. Article includes some complex explanation for homosexual behavior. Maybe they're just good buddies?
2024-02-29
sex • whales • gay • lgbt • nature • science
SRENITY ONLINE
Affirmations for tech workers
2024-02-28
funny • krazam • tv • devops • sre
DoorDash Gremlins
Unflattering photos of people picking up their delivery food
2024-02-28
doordash • funny • delivery • food • candid • photos
Friends of Sophia
Queer sci-fi short with Nana Visitor. Looks fun.
2024-02-27
movies • scifi • gay • lgbtq • nanavisitor
The Calculator
1970s Casio QL-10 calculator came with a built-in cigarette lighter
2024-02-27
funny • casio • calculator • smoking
pkgx drama
Software packager uses AI to write nonsense descriptions of various projects
2024-02-27
homebrew • brew • mxcl • pkgx • ai • opensource • drama
Weak Jalapeño
An argument that the special TAM II peppers bred to have little heat now have infiltrated the nation's chile supply
2024-02-26
jalapeno • food • spice • pepper • via:hackernews
Cert expiry RSS
Simple solution for monitoring when an SSL certificate is about to expire
2024-02-26
monitoring • rss • ssl • cert • certificate • via:lobsters
AI supervision
Interesting results looking at how an AI overseer has changed the way tennis umpires do their jobs
2024-02-26
ai • supervision • tennis • hawkeye • research
Turkish TV
Turkey exports a lot of TV shows that are popular in Europe and elsewhere, but not so much the US / UK
2024-02-26
tv • television • turkey • soapopera
Delicious in Dungeon
A new Netflix show that's sort of D&D fantasy, sort of a food show
2024-02-25
tv • fantasy • netflix • dnd • dungeonsanddragons • cooking
Electric factories
Detailed article on efforts to replace industrial fossil fuel heating with electric. Heat pumps, thermal batteries, etc. In lieu of carbon capture.
2024-02-25
electrify • globalwarming • factory • industry • heating • carbon
Reddit IPO plan
Details on a program to let major Reddit users buy a taste of the stock offering
2024-02-25
reddit • finance • investment • ipo • money
Reddit IPO plan
Details on a program to let major Reddit users buy a taste of the stock offering
2024-02-25
reddit • finance • investment • ipo • money
Self hosting maps
Covering the open source GIS options for hosting web maps in 2024. Protomaps, MapLibre,
2024-02-24
maps • opensource • hosting • protomaps • slippymap • mapbox
UnReal World
An early roguelike RPG that still gets updates
2024-02-24
games • survival • roguelike • rpg
Reno vote-by-mail problems
Degradation of postal service might mean it gets difficult to vote in Reno, Nevada
2024-02-23
usps • voting • votingrights • votebymail • washoecounty
Anthropology Yesterday
A history of anthropology blog
2024-02-23
rex • golub • blog • anthropology • academics
Fixing Atari E.T.
Detailed notes on patching the infamously buggy game
2024-02-22
atari • programming • 2600 • et • games • hacking
Niue .nu TLD
Long, sad story of a country's Internet identity being sold and not reclaimed
2024-02-21
niue • internet • tld • sweden • colonialism • registry • nic
Mother 3 fan translation
Unauthorized translation of the 2006 GBA game
2024-02-21
games • earthbound • mother • gameboy • japan • nintendo • mother3
Mother 3 / Switch (JP)
Legendary unobtainable game has gotten a new release, but once again Japan only.
2024-02-21
games • switch • nintendo • earthbound • mother • mother3 • japan
Wilhoit's Law
An aphorism about conservative politics that is often misattributed
2024-02-20
language • politics • wilhoit • conservatism • hypocrisy
Jeremy Zawodny leaves Craigslist
Old school engineer at an old school Internet company, leaves after 15+ years.
2024-02-20
craigslist • yahoo • zawodny • engineer • internet
Shaarli
A self-hosted bookmark manager like Pinboard or Raindrop
2024-02-19
bookmarks • linkblog • selfhosted • pinboard
Numberbarn
An Internet-centric solution for when you need a phone number but don't want a landline or cell contract. An alternative to Google Voice
2024-02-19
phone • landline • call • phonenumber • parking
htmz
A trivial version of a web page that loads dynamic content from a server. Sort of a troll, sort of a real demo of the power of the modern web platform.
2024-02-19
html • htmx • via:hackernews • web • development • javascript
GoAccess
A simple web access log visualizer
2024-02-19
apache • web • analytics • access.log
Dark Bombadil
2011 essay with an alternate perspective on one of Tolkien's most perplexing characters.
2024-02-19
tolkien • lotr • bombadil • fantasy • books
Sea Ranch Connect
Community fiber ISP in a wealthy California development
2024-02-18
internet • isp • searanch • california • fiber
USGS Topo maps
Nice collection of historical maps
2024-02-18
maps • topomaps • history • us • usgs • topography
Exploding face
"Every Time We Meet for Ice Cream Your Whole F*cking Face Explodes", a sci-fi short of adolescent love (gorey)
2024-02-18
funny • shortfilm • scifi • adolescence
Diversi-Dial
DDial was a 1980s dialup chat system, a little like IRC but for 7 (or later 12) users
2024-02-17
bbs • history • computing • apple2 • applecat • chat • socialmedia
Another Hour Another Planet
Jason Rohrer announces plans for a new game, a sort of sequel to the experimental MMO One Hour One Life
2024-02-17
games • rorher • mmo • content • usercreated
git configs
Julia Evans surveys people as to what configurations they apply to git
2024-02-16
git • programming • versioncontrol • code
Navalny dead
Brave Russian opposition leader dies in Russian prison, just a few years after recovering from Russia poisoning him. Presumably he was murdered in prison at Putin's orders but we'll probably never know.
2024-02-16
murder • russia • assassination • politics • putin • resistance • navalny
Frontiers AI paper
Hilariously bad generated images in a supposedly peer reviewed science journal
2024-02-15
funny • ai • frontiers • peerreview • academia • publishing
Observable 2.0
Data exploration platform has a new architecture around webapps with precompiled extracted data
2024-02-15
observable • bostock • data • visualization • dashboard • development
Smoke Taint in Wine
Notes on wine with grapes made near a fire
2024-02-15
smoke • wine • hafner • california • fire • agriculture
China Hugo mess
Lots of details come out of self-censorship of the 2023 scifi awards. This article is a summary with context.
2024-02-15
china • chengdu • scifi • hugo • worldcon • scandal • censorship
Codpieces
Fun article about a 16th century sexualized fashion trend
2024-02-14
via:metafilter • fashion • clothing • codpiece • penis • sex
Every Noise at Once
A map of music genres that was generated from Spotify. (No longer updated.)
2024-02-14
music • spotify • genres • maps
WebGPU in Python
Portable GPU code
2024-02-13
programming • ai • gpu • parallelism • cuda
Stickers for Replies
Warning labels for various forms of anti-social Internet behavior
2024-02-13
internet • replyguy • funny • socialmedia • etiquette
Dragon Quest Builders 2 translation
Discussion on Reddit about an amazing localization of a Japanese videogame with lots of clever slang
2024-02-13
games • dqb2 • dqb • dragonquest • polari • language • translation
WSL and systemd
Comprehensive discussion of systemd in the WSL Linux VM
2024-02-13
systemd • wsl • sysadmin • linux • windows • init
Amazon Prime Video further enshittification
Not only do they have ads, but now they're removing high fidelity video and audio encodings unless you pay extra.
2024-02-13
amazon • enshittification • video • prime
Federation and reach
Ryan's thoughtful essay on the complicated questions about bridging social media systems and expectations of privacy and reach.
2024-02-13
federation • mastodon • bridgy • activitypub • fediverse • privacy
RIP Steve Ostrow
The proprietor of the famous Continental Baths in NYC
2024-02-12
gay • lgbt • bathhouse • music • bettemidler • tubs • newyork • obituary
AMD AI chips
Update on the business that could be a competitor to NVidia in AI hardware
2024-02-09
ai • hardware • llm • cpus • gpus
purple burglar alarm
A language meme; the phrase is awkward to say for people from Scotland. (And many others; what a weird mix of liquid consonants.)
2024-02-09
phonology • funny • scotland • language • accent
Evolution of the Scrollbar
A nice little interactive demo
2024-02-09
design • ui • hci • via:flowingdata • computers
Toothbrush botnet untrue
Story good enough it should be true, but is not
2024-02-08
hoax • botnet • ddos • toothbrush • iot • security
1.5C
Global warming milestone hit for the duration of the last year
2024-02-08
climatechange • globalwarming • environment • politics
New Mozilla CEO
Mitchell Baker is out, Laura Chambers it temporary CEO
2024-02-08
mozilla • firefox • opensource • tech • ceo
Wikimap
A simple dots-on-a-map for Wikipedia articles
2024-02-07
maps • wikipedia
Fediverse explained
A good overview of Mastodon, ActivityPub, etc
2024-02-07
mastodon • fediverse • activitypub • socialmedia • tech • internet
Toothbrush botnet
The Internet of Things has fully arrived
2024-02-06
security • badtech • ddos • botnet • toothbrush
Lou Harrison
American composer who incorporated a lot of different world music into modern American classical. Also an early out gay man.
2024-02-06
gay • lgbt • music • gamelan • composer • reedcollege
Reiswitz's Kriegsspiel
Brief appreciation of a 200 year old Prussian wargame that was a predecessor of modern RPGs
2024-02-05
games • dungeonsanddragons • germany • prussia • rpgs • wargames • history
twikit
A new Python library for accessing Twitter while bypassing the charges for API access
2024-02-05
twitter • python • programming • api
Truth Social update
Details of the investigation into the seeming fraud of the DWAC SPAC and Trump's social media company
2024-02-04
fraud • politics • spac • startup • truthsocial • trump
NoFap considered
The unhealthy obsession with masturbation in an Internet community
2024-02-04
nofap • masturbation • health • sex • npr • podcast
RIP David Kahn
Historian of cryptography; for years his book was the only open information about American cryptographic practice
2024-02-03
cryptography • history • writing • cypherpunks • kahn • davidkahn • obituary