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Tech bros are shallow
Excellent summary of the reaction to the Musk / Twitter texts. These emperors are wearing no clothes.
2022-09-30 tech • twitter • musk • investors • billionaires • vapidity
Internet timekeeping
New Yorker on the history of NTP and its evolution
2022-09-30 ntp • time • networking • davidmills • chrony • community
AI Data Laundering
Details of how aggressive AI datasets are producing trained models which are then used without respect for the source material's license
2022-09-30 ai • copyright • licensing • creativecommons • machinelearning • meta • training
Mars First Logistics
Interesting looking game in development, physics based game building a Mars colony
2022-09-29 games • physics • kerbalspaceprogram • mars • demo
RIP Google Stadia
Faltering game streaming service is being shut down. With full refunds for customers (!)
2022-09-29 gaming • games • stadia • streaming • google • shutdown
Tumblr porn in 2022
Matt Mullenweg explaining the realities of hosting adult content in 2022
2022-09-28 internet • porn • tumblr • appstore • creditard • safety • business • via:waxy
Pig butchered
Details of a victim of a cryptocurrency confidence scam
2022-09-28 cryptocurrency • scam • metatrader • fraud
GPS Geoid correction
Technical details of getting mean sea level altitude, creating a Web API for lookups
2022-09-28 gps • geoid • msl • altitude • elevation • gis • api
ALARM Project
Algorithmic redistricting, a Harvard data experiment
2022-09-27 politics • redistricting • gerrymandering • elections
Redistricting commissions work
Data shows that non-partisan redistricting produces more competitive, non-partisan electoral districts
2022-09-27 poiltics • redistricting • gerrymandering • migurski • elections
No Right to Rebellion
Op/ed about how the Constitution (and the 2nd Amendment) in no way enshrines a right to rebel against the American government
2022-09-27 politics • 2ndamendment • 2a • guns • insurrection • coup • rebellion • revolution
Tripitaka Koreana
800 year old woodblocks of a religious text, 52M Chinese characters. Huge book and old.
2022-09-27 archive • books • writing • korea • buddhism • printing
Loop Habit Tracker
A nice simple open source daily task tracker
2022-09-27 apps • android • opensource • habits • quantifiedself • gamification
Xi Jinping rumor spread
About the false story that got some traction
2022-09-26 propaganda • rumor • china • xi • xijinping • news • journalism
Church bingo attacked
Fascists with guns attacked a bingo event in Katy, Texas.
2022-09-26 acceleration • church • lgbt • bingo • drag • guns • violence • america • politics • proudboys
Plausible Analytics
A privacy friendly, self-hostable alternative to Google Analytics
2022-09-26 analytics • web • statistics • tracking
summarize.tech
AI summarizes Youtube videos
2022-09-25 via:waxy • youtube • ai • summary
Porting Factorio to Switch
Details from a game developer of adapting a PC game to Nintendo's handheld
2022-09-25 games • switch • nintendo • factorio • programming
Silphion
Lost Roman-era herb may have been rediscovered
2022-09-24 cooking • food • history • herbs • asafoetida • via:metafilter
Star Trek: The Motion Picture enhanced
Original producers spent a bunch of time redoing special effects and editing to make the movie tighter
2022-09-24 startrek • movies • films • editing • nostalgia • vger
Examine
A database style website attempting to be rational about nutritional supplements and health claims
2022-09-23 health • supplements • medicine • science
BirdCast
Forecasts of bird migrations for the US with data and visualizations
2022-09-23 birds • forecast • migration • animals • nature
bottle-imp for WSL2
Third party package for Microsoft's Linux that smooths over some integration problems with systemd. Open source in action!
2022-09-23 wsl • systemd • opensource • linux • sysadmin • microsoft • windows
Lehr's German Specialties
Update on Noe Valley's odd little German specialty store
2022-09-22 german • noevalley • sf • store • shopping
Details on the Multiocular O, the Unicode oddity
2022-09-22 language • slavonic • eyes • religion • ꙮ • metafilter
WSL and systemd
Microsoft's Linux environment embraces the standard init process
2022-09-21 wsl • linux • systemd • init • unix • sysadmin
Block Party's plan
How the founder of the Twitter middleware sees user empowering moderation tools for social media.
2022-09-21 blockparty • twitter • moderation • filtering • startup • tracy
Block Party funding
Twitter middleware that helps you choose who to see and block gets a $4.8M seed round
2022-09-21 twitter • blockparty • safety • filtering • moderation • tracy • startup
The Wretched of Middle‐Earth
Mills on Tolkien; analyzing how Lord of the Rings is rooted in European racist ideology
2022-09-21 racism • tolkien • fiction • europe • books • philosophy
Starlink deterioration
New data from Ookla about the ISP; median speeds are down from 90Mbps to 62Mbps in the US.
2022-09-21 ookla • starlink • congestion • spacex • isp • internet
Brython
Python scripting in the browser with a 1.2MB runtime
2022-09-20 python • programming • javascript • browser • development • web
Texas brunch attack
Fascists show up in Pflugerville (near Austin) to intimidate and harass people trying to have brunch
2022-09-20 politics • fascism • lgbt • drag • proudboys • texas • pflugerville
What3words and Wikipedia
Company editing its own Wikipedia page to remove criticism
2022-09-20 wikipedia • what3words • scam • maps
Political spam privileged
Google testing letting political begging spam get through spam filters
2022-09-19 spam • politics • google • gmail • filtering • email
Python dataframe
A generic API for 2d arrays of numbers used in high performance computing
2022-09-19 python • programming • cudf • pandas • matrix
Serbia EuroPride
A part of Europe still not safe for LGBT people has a pride parade
2022-09-18 lgbt • pride • serbia • belgrade • fascism
Riis Beach
Lovely photo essay about a New York City beach in the margins, popular with queer people
2022-09-16 lgbt • gay • newyork • nyc • riisbeach • beach • culture
Fog
Long, lyrical essay about fog and weather science in San Francisco
2022-09-15 fog • sanfrancisco • sf • weather
Heat Pumps
Excellent guide to considering a heat pump to heat and cool your house
2022-09-13 heating • cooling • hvac • globalwarming • home • appliance • furnace
The Houston Arrow
Detailed reporting on a stark demographic and geographic divide in Houston, the haves and have nots and the history of how we got there
2022-09-13 houston • demographics • socialjustice • freedmanstown • history • economics
Felt maps update
New data visualization / map building tool has a major new feature release
2022-09-13 maps • felt • mapbox • visualization • data • datascience
-ffast-math explained
Details on optimizations the dangerous compiler flag does
2022-09-13 compiler • fpu • floatingpoint • math • programming • optimization
Python modules vs FPU behavior
Detailed analysis of how some innocuous Python packages change the floating point behavior of the CPU in a way that can break scientific computation
2022-09-13 python • packaging • fpu • numericalcomputing • fast-math
Bufferbloat / Starlink
Expert group on ISP performance has a mailing list about Starlink
2022-09-13 starlink • isp • bufferbloat • internet • trafficshaping
Land, oil and ice
An eloquent essay about Alaska and global warming
2022-09-12 alaska • climatechange • globalwarming • oil • permafrost • wilderness
Death threats for Boise Pride
Kids dress-up event cancelled because of threats amplified by local Republicans
2022-09-11 politics • fascism • drag • lgbt • children • boise • idaho
Typography: grade vs weight
The difference between a slightly heavier letterform and a bold form
2022-09-11 fonts • typography • printing • weight
Wilderplace
A new puzzle adventure game with a lovely handcrafted look
2022-09-10 games • via:tmcw • puzzle • adventure
AI art banning
Art communities are starting to ban AI art, at least in part because it's prolific and not very good
2022-09-10 art • ai • machinelearning • gan • artstation • deviantart • furaffinity
Gao Rong
Artist who make sculptures of realistic objects with embroidery.
2022-09-10 art • contemporary • sculpture • embroidery • whiterabbit • china
NOAA - HRR Smoke
A technical model of smoke from wildfires
2022-09-09 fire • smoke • weather • forecast • california • sierra • aqi
David Shor's party
NYT style section goes hard after a young political data analyst
2022-09-08 style • funny • nytimes • politics • dnc • democrats • effectivealtruism
PNG Sculpture Garden
Stanford campus, art by people from Papua New Guinea
2022-09-08 png • art • papuanewguinea • stanford • anthropology • culture • sepik
EVs and CA grid
Lots of details on how electric vehicles interact with grid demand
2022-09-08 california • climatechange • electricvehicles • batteries • power • cars
Aues uf Schwiitzerdütsch
An entire subreddit in Swiss German, a language that until the Internet era was seldom written
2022-09-08 switzerland • swiss • german • swissgerman • culture • language
Glaciers of California
Surprising amount of permanent ice in the Southern Sierra, a little bit up north too
2022-09-08 glaciers • california • globalwarming • ice • mountains • sierra
Floating down the Guadalupe
New York media documents an old lazy Texas tradition
2022-09-07 guadalupe • texas • newbraunfels • hillcountry • river • summer
The Greatest Menace
Excellent podcast about 1950s/60s attempts in Australia to "eradicate homosexuality" with prison abuse. Deep investigation, interviews with living survivors
2022-09-07 lgbt • australia • history • gayrights • prison • sydney • newsouthwales
Attack on Riverside Pride
Southeastern California Pride event attacked by fascists
2022-09-07 riverside • fascism • lgbt • politics • civilrights • california • inlandempire
Truth Social financing problem
SPAC under investigation for fraud is also facing procedural problems
2022-09-06 truthsocial • trump • spac • propaganda • fraud • ipo • financing
Starship prompt
A smart prompt built on a Rust binary
2022-09-05 shell • programming • terminal • bash • prompt
Nerd Fonts
System to add a bunch of icons to popular fixed with terminal fonts, for extra shell prompt hijinx
2022-09-05 font • terminal • shell • icon
2022 Hugo Awards
Winners of the sci-fi awards
2022-09-05 hugos • scifi • books
Automattic stock plan
Company behind Wordpress has an unusual employee equity structure
2022-09-05 automattic • wordpress • stock • equity • options • compensation • startups
Campbell, CA library attack
Another story reading disrupted by extremists; in this one the parents defended the library
2022-09-03 lgbt • dragqueen • library • reading • fascism • hate
Large text compression benchmark
Big collection of lossless compression algorithms tested against Wikipedia text. Some exotic ideas here!
2022-09-02 compression • algorithms • benchmark • neuralnetworks • optimization
USB naming worsens
USB4 Version 2.0 added to the list of confusing USB specs
2022-09-02 usb • via:reddit • naming • product • usb-c
yt-dlp, youtube-dl fork
youtube-dl has had some development problems; this fork is popular
2022-09-02 youtube-dl • youtube • download • python • music • video
CA electricity infrastructure
Web map of transmission lines, substations, power plants
2022-09-02 maps • california • electricity • power • infrastructure • pge
California electric generation
Annual report of sources of electricity
2022-09-02 california • climatechange • energy • electricity • globalwarming
G100UL approved
After literally decades, FAA approves unleaded fuel for small airplanes
2022-09-01 lead • g100ul • 100ll • gas • pollution • aviation • airplanes • engines • via:hackernews
Trump coup pardons
Former president promises to pardon the people who violently attacked the US Capitol in a failed attempt to overthrow the government
2022-09-01 trump • politics • fascism • coup • pardon
Resiniferatoxin
A plant substance that's 1000x times hotter than capsaicin. Uses same sensory pathway, just more effective
2022-09-01 food • chile • scoville • heat • capsaicin
Corn Kid overexposure
The rise and fall of what was originally a charming kid video and quickly became a commercially exploited squeezed out husk
2022-09-01 corn • meme • culture • cornkid • ads • tiktok
Chengdu lockdown
China continues to curfew entire cities as part of its zero Covid strategy
2022-09-01 covid • china • chengdu • sichuan • lockdown • quarantine • curfew • civilrights • health
AMP in practice
Newspaper site ends AMP support, finds little impact on traffic
2022-09-01 amp • google • html • web • openweb
Skin of One’s Teeth
The odd idiom dates to an awkward translation in the King James Bible. "Lips" may be what was meant.
2022-09-01 language • idiom • english • hebrew • bible • kingjames • lips