Another third party GitHub uptime monitor. This one is less apocalyptic than the unofficial monitor but may give a better picture of casual usability

Exploration of security concerns of containers and the practicality of using VMs to run untrusted code like AI agents

Huge 2021 government survey of household health In India of over 600,000 households. Includes a remarkable amount of detail.

Yet another bootable rescue / tool system

Silly daily game, nicely made

In 1901 visitors entered through the legs of an odd statue of a gold miner

Details on how oil processing works

OpenAI's explanation for a weird fixation in its LLM

A fix for a thorny integration problem for Linux systems

Fedora's atomic package manager. Instead operating systems plus user customization in snapshots you can easily apply or rollback

Some explanation of the failures at an essential piece of software development infrastructure. They're under 90% uptime for the month according to the unofficial status page.

Experimental work to give certain programs priority for GPU memory

A series of early 1900s political scandals involving the Kaiser of Germany which resulted in the weakening of the kingdom

Homoerotic painting from 1911

Details on why the AI acted dumb the last few weeks

Manifesto from the exe.dev founder about what they're doing

New software development infrastructure raises $35M in VC

Run Linux under Windows 95. Glorious hack.

LGBT history, a New York protest against anti-gay laws

AI coding agent, this one is built with a minimal / extensible philosophy and is designed to be run and customized locally

One of the best movies of the 1970s is free to stream this month

A British television play that had an explicit theme of gay love

Very early Tom of Finland, 1957. Super gay

Summary of mathematicians using LLMs to help make proofs. Characterizes the difference of the AI "thinking" strategy

Virtual machines that launch in under 1 second, used for agent tasks and other sandboxing

New coding model of interest if you run AI coding agents locally

A conveyance that almost was.

More AI caution from a friend of mine, this one about the danger of automated AI attacks against poorly funded open source infrastructure

The conclusion of Aphyr's essays on AI and LLMs. I don't agree but he's got a lot of thoughtful commentary to consider.

Details of how a video game developer creates good romance stories in RPG games

Exhaustive look at regional cuisines from an American expat perspective. There's a good video too.

Word coinage for nostalgia for a past you didn't experience

Aggressive typesetting for a trans romantasy: varying fonts and colors and layout

The AI coding agent is having some bad days, temporary dementia. Folks are mourning it.

Fried whole chiles, excellent bar snack

A visual Unicode picker

A modern replacement for the venerable Unix login system. This one can handle serial logins with password, start PPP sessions, start ssh sessions..

Excellent food channel on Youtube

Disodium Inosinate and Disodium Guanylate are food additives that boost the umami flavor of MSG

Systems expert with a very critical take on AI from a thoughtful perspective.

Driving business in Oman saves a bunch of money moving from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap

Positive queer vibes

Famed investigative journalist Ronan Farrow digs deep on Sam Altman and characterizes his management and business persona. Also briefly talks about allegations of sexual abuse and dismisses them.

A tiny LLM trained on a constrained domain. A learning exercise, showing you can build your own LLM

Overview of the new version control system that can replace git

Beloved Nevada City community member passed away, a nice obituary of her impact on our small town

Report from Linux kernel team seeing they're seeing a significant rise in legitimate security bug reports, AI generated

Cute interactive system that helps you understand modern email verificatioin

Mods for the gay sex app on Android, involving installing your own version of an app and a modding framework

Essential 90s queer punk zine has a revival

A fresh look at the authentication technology

A friend of mine has published a peer reviewed lengthy biography of the famous anthropologist Marshall Sahlins

Pictures of optimal square packing going up as many as 2000 squares

New vibe coding platform so simple you can build from your phone. A lot of friends of mine are excited about it. They've had trouble explaining what they do, this blog post is a start

A funny but useful hack for installing operating systems on hard drives

Standalone tool that looks at code changes in git and applies four different AI agents to do a code review

Scroll down for a remarkable image of political polarization by geography in Paris

Data on email signatures. About 30% of domains now are saying "if the mail is not signed right treat it as spam". More than I'd guess!

Tour of a 300kW charging spot in China. We are a decade behind having this in the US

Self-driving car expert has a car crash in a self driving Tesla, muses on the dangers of current AI systems. "We’re experiencing an uncanny valley of autonomy."

Detailed investigation into the artist's identity. It's a good yarn.

Example of the kind of content Facebook spams me with. These videos are real weird, uncanny AI stuff but also it's not clear what the endgame intent is

Popular DNS service lets you flush the cache for specific domain names

A satire project claiming to use AI to reproduce open source projects without any copyright or license

Open source no crap PDF processing tools. Work is done locally, no upload needed.

A theory that thousands of holes dug into a hill in Peru are a sort of storage and accounting system similar to the knot tying accounting technology

A link archiving service that's serious about being permanent and has support from libraries. A simple financial model

Moving robots made with various generic leg components bolted together. Reminds me of Karl Sims' old evolution experiments

Excellent overview of the major AI companies and the increasing concern that these systems are getting out of control. You don't need a sci-fi superintelligence to have a computer system that is dangerous.

New word puzzle from the Wordle creator

Marketing site for a new book about attention management in the Internet era

Agent programming prompts and framework

A more honest third party monitor of GitHub services. The vital service has under 92% of uptime for the last three months. Rumor is they are migrating everything to Azure and it is going very badly

Funny Onion gag

Fun but upsetting video about a good ol' boy in Louisiana originally from Vietnam

Simon Willison is writing a book-length guide to programming with AI agents

A humanizing essay from a Minnesotan working to protect his neighbors

Tony Gilroy finally gets to say what's on his mind

Old Internet chat system is getting a new version, the plans look serious

CIA World Factbook lives as a community-managed site

American AI companies complain competitors are probing their LLMs with queries trying to figure out how they think so as to improve themselves from it.

Māori language AI tools like voice transcription and voice synthesis, independently developed in the Māori community

A 1932 short story published in Vanity Fair, entirely in the medium of bank cheques

Young tech leader, the world's youngest self-made female billionaire (from scale.ai).

Lovely jazz from the Peanuts

A UI interaction where a button will press itself after some time if not interrupted

Thoughtful reflection on the compromises Apple has made to manufacture in China

Telnet is apparently not being blocked globally in the Internet infrastructure afterall