Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog aboutarchivemastodonfeed
--with-app-store-compliance
Python comes up with a horrible hack to optionally remove features from the programming language in order to satisfy Apple's opaque software review processes
2024-06-29 hack • apple • security • python • itms-services • appstore
r/longrangechaos
Examples of GFS weather model giving absurdly unlikely forecasts
2024-06-28 gfs • weather • forecast • chaos • models
factorio-server-manager
Software for managing the game server
2024-06-28 factorio • games • hosting • server
Valve.Computer
A modern(ish) computer built with vacuum tubes
2024-06-27 computer • vacuumtube • retro • electronics • via:hackernews • art
Arrow Collar Man
Classic homoerotic commercial art by J.C. Leyendecker
2024-06-27 art • lgbt • history • Leyendecker • gay • shirts • arrow
ChromeOS Sommelier
A way to run X11 apps on a Chromebook using a guest Wayland compositor
2024-06-27 chromebook • chromeos • gui • x11 • wayland • linux
One Million Checkboxes
Cute collaborative web game
2024-06-26 games • checkboxes • experiment • webapp
ntpd-rs
A new NTP implementation in Rust
2024-06-24 time • ntp • programming • timekeeping • rust
Montreal NFC chip
A teardown of a very tiny chip used in subway tickets
2024-06-24 nfc • manufacturing • smartdust • chip • hardware • subway • ticket
OFGB
Tool to remove a bunch of ads from Windows 11
2024-06-24 windows • microsoft • ads • antitrust • opensource
AI models aren't open
Looking at what "open source AI model" actually means.
2024-06-24 ai • opensource • scam • llm • software • freesoftware • osi
Pansy Craze
In the 20s/30s in America where camp humor became a popular fad
2024-06-23 gay • lgbt • history • pansycraze • drag • genderqueer • broadway
Gay 80s comedians
Wonderful appreciation of Paul Lynde, Charles Nelson Reilly and Rip Taylor and what their camp humor meant
2024-06-23 comedy • acting • gay • lgbt • camp • queen
Facebook small claims
People are taking Facebook to small claims court because there's no customer support to resolve problems like lost accounts
2024-06-22 facebook • smallclaims • law • legal • california
Chinese science
Detailed overview of how China has become such a scientific research powerhouse
2024-06-21 china • science • research • politics
Paranoia RPG
Classic role playing game originally from the 80s, very funny writing
2024-06-21 games • paranoia • rpg • tabletop • parody
Internet Archive is on fire
Company is being forced to destroy hundreds of thousands of books
2024-06-21 copyright • internetarchive • books • library • lawsuit
Chinese LLM price war
Startups in China are competing to offer the cheapest AI access
2024-06-20 china • ai • llm • startup • tech • pricewar
57 NY sandwiches
Excellent light article highlighting delicious food in New York
2024-06-20 newyork • food • sandwich
SQLite for servers
Tips for configuring SQLite for server work loads, including the BEGIN IMMEDIATE workaround
2024-06-19 sqlite • database • webapp • server • performance
Juneteenth and freedom
Juneteenth and the long struggle for meaningful freedom for Black people.
2024-06-19 history • civilwar • america • texas • black • slavery • freedom • africanamerican
Anasyrma
A fancy word for mooning
2024-06-19 english • butt • flashing • protest • language • greek
Great Highway Park
A political plan to turn San Francisco's Pacific coastline into a proper park
2024-06-19 park • sf • sanfrancisco • oceanbeach
beets media organizer
Music library manager in Python
2024-06-18 music • beets • metadata • musicbrains • python • library
IAMA hacker of North Korea
Reddit thread where a Colombian-American who took down North Korea's Internet freely answers questions
2024-06-18 reddit • hack • cyberwar • northkorea • hacking • security
Kyiv Pride
Ukraine has an LGBT pride event despite the war
2024-06-18 pride • lgbt • kyiv • ukraine • gay
527 Explorer
Major new database of financial filings for PACs and other political non-profits
2024-06-18 pac • politics • irs • elections
2024 Mini PCs
A spreadsheet of a bunch of small form factor PC hardware
2024-06-18 hardware • pc • minipc • gaming
IPv6 guide
Simple explanation of using IPv6 for home admins who know IPv4
2024-06-17 networking • ipv6 • ipv4 • firewall • internet
How I use Obsidian
One engineer's configuration of the note taking app
2024-06-17 obsidian • notes • writing • ui • productivity
Adjective ordering
Linguistics review of research on the way multiple adjectives are ordered in human language
2024-06-16 linguistics • language • adjectives • ordering
Celebrity gay dads
Nice puff piece on gay celebrity fathers and their kids
2024-06-16 fathersday • lgbt • gay • dads • family
Drawing Machines
A catalog of various mechanical drawing aids
2024-06-16 plotter • drawing • art • history • via:metafilter
Micropolis WASM
Web browser work-in-progress of the original Sim City published by Don Hopkins, part of the original Maxis team
2024-06-15 games • simcity • maxis • wasm • browser • donhopkins
California aerial photographs
UCSB has an online database of historical aerial photos. Geotagged and on a map browser UI.
2024-06-15 framefinder • ucsb • photos • maps • aerial • history • california
"I was gay all my life"
Heartbreaking story of an 85 year old man who came out in his obituary
2024-06-15 gay • lgbt • comingout • military
David Beebe profile
Marfa, TX musician, barkeep, former Justice of the Peace has a radio show popular at Fort Stockton prison
2024-06-14 music • marfa • texas • beebe • sjs
Cross stitch map
Geology of Tennessee in embroidery
2024-06-14 maps • textiles • embroidery • crossstitch • geology • tennessee
US military anti-vax propaganda
US military ran a social media campaign in the Philippines claiming the Chinese COVID vaccine didn't work
2024-06-14 uspol • politics • china • vaccine • covid • sinovac • philippines • trump
ARM vs Qualcomm
There's a major licensing dispute at the core of the hardware Microsoft is hanging their new AI push on.
2024-06-13 arm • cpu • licensing • qualcomm • nuvia • windows • microsoft
AI and team building
Long essay on the theme that training junior engineers is a good investment of time because they learn: AI does not learn from you.
2024-06-12 ai • engineering • training • culture • apprenticeship • hiring • programming
Houston LGBT radio archive
Tapes of radio shows dating back to the 70s were saved, now digitally archived
2024-06-12 archive • lgbt • history • texas • houston • gay • kpft
Musk's SpaceX sex
More news of inappropriate relationships with employees, including punishing an employee who refused to have his babies
2024-06-12 elonmusk • harassment • spacex • tirefire
SpaceX orbital bombardment
Company's launch vehicles are not burning up properly on re-entry, crashing all over the planet
2024-06-12 spacex • spacejunk • liability • space • elonmusk
HYBYCOZO
Sculpture artists making large geometric forms with cutouts
2024-06-12 art • sculpture • burningman • geometry • platonicsolids
Neutrinos
Accessible explanation of all the weird particle physics with neutrinos
2024-06-12 via:kottke • science • physics • neutrinos • particles
Orville Peck / PAPER
Interview and some not-very-explicit nude photos with the country musician
2024-06-11 orvillepeck • nsfw • photos • music • interview
Paywall bypassing
Simple list of various techniques to read paywalled web articles without paying
2024-06-11 paywall • journalism • news • drm • archive
nanoGPT spreadsheet
Visual programming for what's going on in modern neural networks
2024-06-11 ai • llm • chatgpt • spreadsheet • demo • visuazliation • programming
New PG&E rates
Clear article explaining a change in billing to include a flat $24/mo fee. Outcome is worst for existing solar customers
2024-06-11 pge • power • electricity • solar • rates • corruption • politics
Apple private cloud
Tech details on some interesting privacy tech for their AI deployment
2024-06-10 apple • privacy • ai • encryption • computing • verifiability
Kellan's linkblog
Yay, a new linkblog!
2024-06-09 kellan • linkblog • pinboard • bookmarks • blogs
Food carbon footprint
Beef is way worse than chicken or pork for global warming
2024-06-08 beef • globalwarming • food • methane • co2 • farming
Starlink maritime latency
Interesting unique data, measuring Internet speed from ships around the world
2024-06-08 starlink • internet • leo • latency • maps
Māori data storage
An experiment in indigenous sovereignty for cloud services
2024-06-08 Māori • newzealand • activism • datastorage • cloud • infrastructure
The Making of the Stonewall Myth
Academic treatment of why US LGBT liberation marks Stonewall as the main precipitating event, including prior history
2024-06-08 lgbt • history • via:aphyr • pride • newyork • stonewall • commemoration
Queer Vexillology
A subreddit with 21,000 members discussing various forms of Pride flags
2024-06-06 pride • lgbt • reddit • flags • symbols
More Is Different
Classic Paul Anderson systems science paper from 1972 arguing for the value of synthesis and emergent behavior and how reductionism is not sufficient for science
2024-06-06 science • sfi • systems • philosophy • reductionism
Comet webapps
2006-era term for different technologies for making websites update dynamically
2024-06-05 ajax • webapp • html • dynamic • javascript
Russian Starlink competitor
Company in Russia says they have inter-satellite laser links working. Still a long way to go to build out a constellation like SpaceX has.
2024-06-05 starlink • internet • isp • russia • leo • satellite
Original 8 color pride flag
The original LGBT flag also had hot pink and cyan blue stripes. Also each color has a meaning.
2024-06-05 pride • history • lgbt • flag • gilbertbaker
absquatulate
19th century made up slang for "leave in a hurry"
2024-06-05 language • history • english
Saudi tourism
Well written travel article about a place that's been hard to visit. Unfortunately it's also oppressive and dangerous and I still can't personally visit.
2024-06-05 saudi • tourism • lgbt • women • civilrights • politics • travel
Israeli propaganda
Yes, there are spambots on Twitter using AI to influence US politics
2024-06-05 israel • politics • twitter • spam • chatgpt • propaganda
u/Sfmetermaid
Reddit user who presents themselves as an SF parking enforcer. Can't verify but looks plausible, including sharing information that looks non-public.
2024-06-04 politics • sanfrancisco • dpt • parking • metermaid • reddit
The Erik Prince group chat
What a bunch of right wing lunatics talk about in semi-private.
2024-06-04 fascism • america • politics • uspol • erikprince • laralogan
Proud Boys resurgent
Long, upsetting article about one of America's most successful fascist organizations
2024-06-04 politics • trump • uspol • fascism • nazis • proudboys
TinyLD
A very small Javascript library to identify text in 64 different written languages
2024-06-03 programming • languages • i18n • javascript • nodejs
Case for Covid lab leak
A thoughtful and well sourced article about possibilities of Covid being a lab leak. Archive link: https://archive.is/Da2LB
2024-06-03 nytimes • covid • china • politics • lableak
SF Truffle Man
Lovely profile of San Francisco's beloved weed dealer, now going legit
2024-06-02 drugs • marijuana • truffles • dolorespark • sanfrancisco • sf
AI SPVs
A new trend in selling private company shares to private investors without a public market
2024-06-02 spv • ai • vc • scam • investment • money
Atlanta water failure
One of America's great cities has no water downtown, probably won't for days
2024-06-01 atlanta • water • infrastructure • america
uBlock Origin Lite
Ad blocker's solution for Google turning the screws with Manifest v3. Seems to work but have some limitations
2024-06-01 adblocker • browser • chrome • ublockorigin • ublock • privacy • ads • google
iTerm2 ChatGPT plugin
AI feature that made people made was moved to an optional plugin
2024-06-01 ai • chatgpt • iterm2 • privacy • opensource
San Marco bridge pride
Florida's governor banned LGBT Pride lighting on the state's bridges, so residents did their own with flashlights
2024-06-01 pride • politics • protest • lgbt • florida • sanmarco • acostabridge