Thoughtful piece on what open source means in a business context

A browser extension for changing your geolocation

Run an AI in your browser with hardware acceleration

Good photos and references for a type of ocean map

New dataset to estimate solar power potential

Course syllabus for a form of generative art, exhaustively enumeration all geometric combinations of some rule system

Scholarly article on the depiction of homosexual acts in Peruvian erotic art from 100-800 AD. (Full article is on sci-hub.)

NSFW, a collection of sexually explicit art from pre-Columbian Peru

Details from a dump of the satellite Internet terminal

Lovely Swiss design

Some details of the satellite ISP from a large website operator

A plan for global warming

A game that rewards exploring new places

Investor syndicate wants to build a new town between Fairfield and Rio Vista

Reflections on HTMX developers on not using any Javascript build

Long awaited DLC for the factory game is finally revealed. It's kind of the Space Exploration mod but made more accessible.

Non-dissident literature reifies the political control

Hacker firmware for ESP based devices common in Internet of Things small products

Makes beautiful maps from OSM data. A reimplementation of prettymap with speed and a webapp

A nice demo of an easy SIMD calculation (Latin1 to UTF-8)

Recent details on the indigenous family living in the Amazonian rainforest and the Brazilian politics surrounding their home

Extraordinary documentary about the last members of an Amazon rainforest group living disconnected from modernity

Simon Willison gave a talk / overview of recent AI work from a hands-on perspective

A map of hurricanes and tropical storms that got to or near California

Collection of code and data to make LLMs accessible to programmers

Nice endorsement of open source. (Although the actual license has a couple of anticompetitive restrictions.)

Gorgeous ritual object made of human bone

Reflection on reclaiming the entertainment stereotype of Bad Gays

Advice for small local AI work. Buy an NVidia GPU with as much VRAM as you can find.

Simon Willison's data exploration tool now has a hosted version

A very easy to use set of Python drivers for running AI models

A theory of the narrative structure of interactive games

NSFW, a clip of the sexiest of the scenes in the new gay romance movie. Not porn but definitely more explicitly anal sex than I've ever seen in mainstream entertainment.

Some basic rules for using Unicode in 2023 in the simple ordinary way. UTF-8 everywher!

Measurement of carbon impact and wealth of nations

Detailed profile of a gay couple, newly married. Felts is famous for coming out at age 90.

New linkblog is born!

Technical details from an active participant running her own server

Some details of the unique history of the Hawaiian town that burned down

An obscure but super gay Barbie doll ended up in the movie

A standard for mnemonic passwords. Main application is Bitcoin wallets but generally applicable idea. 2048 words in the list.

Image hosting alternative now that imgur is bad

NYT article on charities active in relief for the Maui wildfires

A pioneer in CPU scavenging reflects

A paywall bypassing login shared amongst journalists

Another Internet speed test, this one does some nice statistics on latency and repeated tests

Who is behind the mysterious site that's so useful for accessing web content

Early career character from comedian Mark Proksch.

Nice history of Black Twitter and discussion of efforts to reproduce the community elsewhere

A simple tool for making map vector tiles

After 30 years of quiet the Barbie Liberation Organization strikes again!

Stressful tale of a near disaster from a bug in an overengineered crypto system