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Wordpress drama
Harsh conclusion, but summary of the conflict between Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine
2024-09-28
wordpress • business • mullenweg • licensing • trademark
OpenFreeMap
A no bullshit free web map. Ambitious, I hope it succeeds
2024-09-28
maps • openstreetmap • osm • hosting
Trump watches
The leader of the Republican party is hawking cheap knockoff watches
2024-09-28
watch • trump • tacky • china • scam • dignity • uspol • politics
Porgera Update
American friend of mine reports on news from Papua New Guinea, intense violence in Enga province and its valuable gold mine
2024-09-27
png • papuanewguinea • porgera • enga • gold • mining • violence
Indie Wiki Buddy
Browser extension to help you find good wikis instead of SEO spam sites like Fandom
2024-09-22
wiki • games • fandom • wikigg • browser • extension
Starlink research
Academic in Victoria, BC studies Starlink as a user
2024-09-22
starlink • networking • research • satellite
qntm pubishing deal
"There is No Antimemetics Division" is one of the most interesting sci-fi novels I've read in the last 5 years. He's got a publishing deal now and is doing a rewrite.
2024-09-22
qntm • books • publishing • scp • antimemetics
SF homeless shelters
Detailed and insightful stories of homeless people in SF and their relationships with shelters
2024-09-21
sanfrancisco • homelessness • sf • shelter • humanrights
We Were Illegal
Interview with the author of their family's history in Texas
2024-09-21
texas • history • crt • immigration • politics • mythology
485M year climate record
New science about Earth's temperature at a geologic scale
2024-09-21
globalwarming • climatechange • climate • science • paleontology • history
Project Skydrop
Game conceptualist Jason Rohrer has created a real life treasure hunt, having hidden a gold trophy in the woods somewhere
2024-09-20
games • treasure • map • rohrer • gold
US presidential elections
Detailed piece on how weird America's election is and what all could go wrong in 2024 as the Republicans try to subvert it
2024-09-18
politics • gop • republicans • trump • elections • votingrights • uspol
Rowboat data explorer
Fathom launches a tool for making sense of tabular data
2024-09-17
excel • csv • datasette • datascience • analysis • fathom
Mozilla Mastodon shutdown
mozilla.social is going away dec 17
2024-09-17
mozilla • firefox • mastodon • socialmedia • fediverse
Starlink offers NTP
GPS time from the dish at stratum 1
2024-09-17
starlink • gps • time • ntp • synchronization
Europa Clipper
Interesting engineering hero story for a NASA spacecraft
2024-09-17
nasa • engineering • europa • jupiter • mosfet • radiation • transistor • electronics
Trump Cryptoscam
World Liberty Financial, a new cryptocurrency business venture that has all the hallmarks of a scam. His entire family is in on it along with two shady hucksters
2024-09-17
trump • politics • crypto • cryptocurrency • cryptoscam
PKfail bigger than thought
The debacle of Secure Boot just keeps getting worse, every major PC manufacturer has shipped devices with insecure keys.
2024-09-16
secureboot • pkfail • security • pc • badtech • uefi
ScriptSource
A reference for writing systems, includes detailed entries about Unicode status
2024-09-15
unicode • language • writing • linguistics
A16Z + CCP
Cryptoscam VC company invested in the company that makes Eve Online last year, that's why they announced some blockchain nonsense now
2024-09-15
ccp • eveonline • games • cryptoscam • blockchain
Eve Online with blockchain
Innovative online game company is launching a new blockchain thing in 2024 for some reason
2024-09-15
eveonline • games • ccp • cryptoscam • blockchain • redstone
Murderbot author interview
Martha Wells speaking to the Mountain View library
2024-09-14
books • murderbot • writing • novels • marthawells
Internet Archive decision
Thoughtful article about why the appeals court's decision on copyright and book lending was bad
2024-09-14
copyright • library • internetarchive • sharing • fairuse • publishing
Doze Stopper
An Android app that claims to disable the thing breaking Android notifications. Testing now.
2024-09-13
android • dozemode • idle • battery • notifications • pixel • phone
NSFW: shaving cream bears
Arty but sexually explicit photos of two men playing with shaving cream
2024-09-13
nsfw • erotic • sex • shavingcream • fetish • gay • bear • photography • photos • ytetic
Energy after Fire
High level view of how renewable electricity generation is really good
2024-09-13
electrify • globalwarming • power • via:metafilter • rmi • electricity • solar
Reka: Baba Jaga, the game
Base builder with you building a hut on fowl's legs
2024-09-12
games • babayaga • slavic • basebuilder
Demonization of Haitians
Details on how the Republican Party spun up a Nazi-like libel against Haitians in Ohio
2024-09-12
uspol • politics • fascism • propaganda • nazis • republicans • trump • vance
Transparent Textures
A zillion noise backgrounds with simple patterns, composable
2024-09-12
via:hackernews • design • background • texture • noise • graphics • wallpaper
Ancient Rapanui DNA
New study finds Easter Island people are mostly Polynesian but had a 10% admixture of Native American dating to 1250-1430 CE
2024-09-12
genetics • anthropology • polynesia • rapanui • easterisland • history
LLM politics
Political leaning tests applied to chatbots finds a leftist bias, also a libertarian one
2024-09-12
research • llm • politics • bias
pwning .mobi
Hijacking a TLD by buying the .net domain name for their previous whois server
2024-09-11
hacking • funny • mobi • dns • security • tld • domainname
Flagmaker & Print
Inexpensive large custom flag makers
2024-09-11
flags • design • printing • fabrication • flag • pride • Vexillology
FutureRack
Computer racking as home furniture
2024-09-09
funny • furniture • rackmount • via:jnoxon • cats • ethereum
Lower temperature meat
Cooking charts for cooking chicken, beef, and pork to a lower temperature but holding it longer to make it safe
2024-09-09
cooking • food • safety • foodsafety • temperature • salmonella
Copy-on-write archiver
Like tar but the archive isn't a copy, just reflinks to the original files.
2024-09-08
archive • files • tar • car • backups • reflink • xfs • btrfs
Jojos
History of the fried potato snack in Oregon
2024-09-08
jojo • language • oregon • frenchfries • food • potato • fries
Screw the Pooch etymology
Fun story about the vulgar phrase which may have been coined in 1950 by a Yalie
2024-09-07
language • etymology • slang • english • yale
Test Ad Block
Site that loads 135 different ad scripts to see which ones your ad blocker blocks
2024-09-06
adblocker • ads • ublock • testing • web • via:lobsters
Tiny Tiny RSS
Self hosted feed reader, hackable
2024-09-06
rss • atom • feedreader • reader • feeds • internet • browsing
systemd + musl
Modern Linux system manager ported to tiny libc alternative
2024-09-05
alpine • linux • systemd • via:lobsters • musl
Internet Archive loses appeal
Bad news for anyone who reads books or enjoys content
2024-09-04
internet • archive • copyright • internetarchive • archive.org • openlibrary
StreetPass for Mastodon
Nice little browser extension; it keeps track of Mastodon accounts of people whose web pages you happen to visit
2024-09-03
mastodon • social • discovery • metadata • chrome • extension • socialmedia
Backrest for backups
A really nice config manager for the Restic backup system with a good web interface
2024-09-03
backups • restic • sysadmin
Lunar escape systems
Bonkers plan for evacuating astronauts from the moon by basically sitting on some RCS thrusters and steering by hand
2024-09-03
nasa • moon • 1960s • apollo • escape • batshitinsane
Zoom and Enhance
Details of a film trope most famous from Blade Runner
2024-09-02
film • bladerunner • trope • enhance
Ted Chang on AI and art
Argument AIs can't produce art. I'm more optimistic about AI as a useful tool but he makes a bunch of important arguments very clearly
2024-09-02
ai • art • chang • creativity
ICs and Navajo
A couple of points of contact between integrated circuit manufacture and the Navajo nation
2024-09-01
navajo • history • fairchild • intel • indian • nativeamerican • manufacturing • aim