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Josper charcoal ovens
Spanish oven for cooking with charcoal or wood indoors
2023-09-29 bbq • cooking • food • grill • kitchen • restaurant • smoking • spain
Death of Vine
Conflict with the content creators, not just bad Twitter management, doomed the video product
2023-09-28 business • socialmedia • twitter • video • vine
Philips CPAP malfeasance
Medical device manufacturer hid evidence of serious problems from the FDA
2023-09-27 cpap • fraud • medical • philips • sleepapnea
About Polygon Indexing
Comments on a new geospatial library with interesting indexing
2023-09-23 database • gis • maps • rtree • spatialite
CERN big data
Petabyte-scale storage; moving from InfluxDB to VictoriaMetrics
2023-09-21 bigdata • cern • database • influxdb • rrd • timeseries
Rod of Iron Ministries
Moonie offshoot cult literally worships with guns
2023-09-21 america • cult • guns • moonies • politics
Lego salmon butchery
Fun stop motion animation
2023-09-20 animation • butchery • cooking • fish • food • lego • salmon • stopmotion • via:kottke
Reno Air Race Fatalities
A list with links to more info of the exciting but dangerous airplane event
2023-09-18 airraces • aviation • reno • safety
Trust & Safety coercion
Documentation of the harassment of people working to make Internet products more safe
2023-09-18 elonmusk • moderation • politics • trump • twitter • yoelroth
Labor unions and EVs
Details of the auto strike and how it's related to shifting labor landscape for electric cars and their batteries
2023-09-16 cars • electrify • evs • labor • politics • uaw • union
Qian Xuesen 钱学森
Details of the life of a Chinese Manhattan project researcher, in the context of the Oppenheimer movie's release in China
2023-09-16 china • history • manhattanproject • military • qian • rockets
Roguelike Pac-Man
Fun ironic spin on game design
2023-09-16 funny • games • pacman • roguelike • via:waxy
Kenji's Quesabirria
Video of making the awesome newly-trendy Mexican food
2023-09-15 barbacoa • birria • cooking • food • kenji • quesabirria
Deuteronomy 24:14-15
A Biblical entreaty to pay people daily for their work
2023-09-15 bible • employment • labor • laborlaw • payroll • religion
Google Visitor Experience
Corporate office is building a welcome for tourists and visitors
2023-09-15 bayarea • google • mountainview • tourism
Digital dependence
Musing on how relying on Google Maps, Grindr, or ChatGPT means we lose human skills
2023-09-15 chatgpt • culture • grindr • maps • navigation • technology
Migrants in the Darien Gap
Harrowing story of hundreds of thousands of people transiting the most dangerous land in the Americas trying to get to the US
2023-09-15 colombia • dariengap • immigration • migrants • politics
OSM tile traffic
Visualization of a year's traffic at OpenStreetMap's tile servers
2023-09-14 maps • osm • paulnorman • traffic • visualization • vruba
TESCREAL
A briefing on various problematic futurist ideologies, including some forms of AI hucksterism
2023-09-14 ai • culture • futurism • politics • tirefire • transhumanism
2010 Internet utopia
Linking for the commentson the final book, Clay Shirky's "Cognitive Surplus". A quick look back back on 2010 techno-optimism from a bleak view in 2023.
2023-09-14 culture • internet • optimism • utopia
Hexadecimal clock
Visualization of the 2038 problem by casting 32 bit time as 4 hands, each with 8 bits of the current time.
2023-09-13 2038 • clocks • time • unix • via:hackernews • visualization
Starlink revenue
$1.4B in 2022. Which is a lot but not what was hoped or needed.
2023-09-13 business • revenue • spacex • starlink
Heat pumps are efficient
New study finds heat pumps are more efficient than fossil fuel heaters, even in cold climates
2023-09-12 efficiency • electrify • globalwarming • heating • heatpump • power
18,000 year old NA artifacts
A find in Oregon may push back dates of the earliest humans in North America by a few thousand years
2023-09-12 archaeology • history • oregon • rimrockdraw
Musk and the Sacramento datacenter
Absolutely unhinged story of an unplanned move of servers. This ended up breaking a lot of Twitter, for months.
2023-09-12 datacenter • devops • elonmusk • manic • ops • twitter
Erica Astrella at EFF
Tech leader also known as Erica Joy has joined the board at EFF
2023-09-11 eff • erica • ericajoy • governance • nonprofit
C2 Wiki
The original wiki, dating to 1995, full of discussions and history
2023-09-11 history • programming • wiki • wikiwikiweb
Facial Recognition
A survey of the state of the art: putting names to faces is a solved problem but the big tech companies have withheld it from the public
2023-09-10 ai • face • facebook • facialrecognition • google • privacy
1Password recovery process
A reddit comment from a 1Password security team member about the security of their special process to get access to an account via recovery
2023-09-10 1password • 2fa • password • security • socialengineering
Wyze camera disaster
Cloud hosted security product has a caching failure, shows people videos of other people's homes
2023-09-09 badtech • camera • cloud • privacy • wyze
Gay sex on screen
Interesting analysis of where we are with depictions of male/male sex on TV and film
2023-09-09 censorship • gay • heartstopper • lgbt • movies • sex • tv
AI Emojis
A little generative AI project
2023-09-08 ai • art • emoji • funny • generative • slack • via:waxy
Mullvad + Tailscale
Excellent networking tool adds an easy way to use Mullvad as a general VPN privacy
2023-09-07 browser • internet • privacy • tailscale • vpn
LLM visualization
Cool interactive look at what an LLM is doing, predicting the next words
2023-09-07 ai • llm • via:simonw • visualization
Flipper remote
A universal remote with the simplest set of buttons
2023-09-07 adaptive • av • elderly • remote • tv
Deadbeat Musk Twitter
A roundup of some of the lawsuits from companies whose bills Elon Musk refuses to pay
2023-09-07 elonmusk • fraud • lawsuit • musk • twitter
Atkinson Hyperlegible
A font designed for readability even with impaired vision
2023-09-06 accessibility • blind • disability • fonts • reading • text • typeface
Nisenan dispute
Native Americans near Nevada City have a years-long dispute about tribal membership. This article describes some of the factions and arguments
2023-09-06 california • indians • maidu • nativeamericans • nevadacity • nisenan • politics
The Boy and the Heron
New Miyazaki film, I think the last. There's a trailer!
2023-09-06 animation • ghibli • japan • miyazaki • movie • studioghibli
Burning Man schadenfreude
Thoughtful essay about mocking the elites who were suffering mud and discomfort at the desert party
2023-09-06 burningman • culture • elites • politics • schadenfreude
Hillshading with diagonal hatching
A plotter-friendly fill algorithm for terrain
2023-09-06 hatching • maps • plotter • plotterart
Postmarks
A new social bookmarking system, based on ActivityPub
2023-09-05 activitypub • bookmark • delicious • fediverse • linkblog • mastodon • pinboard • socialmedia
Paxton Impeachment
A briefing on the trial of Texas' corrupt attorney general
2023-09-05 corruption • impeachment • paxton • politics • texas
Nutrition data sources
Thoughtful list of specific information on food: calories, etc
2023-09-05 calories • database • dieting • fda • food • nccdb • usda
rclone
Sync various cloud storage systems on Linux command line. Includes a FUSE file system driver
2023-09-05 cloud • commandline • files • fuse • linux • mount • rsync
Reddit moderation concerns
Big purge of moderators after the protest results in changes in site quality
2023-09-04 api • community • content • moderation • mods • reddit
Australian indigenous language news
Some professional news samples in Kriol, Warlpiri, and Yolngu Matha
2023-09-04 aboriginal • australia • creole • indigenous • kriol • language • pidgin
FoodData Central
US government database of nutrition facts
2023-09-04 calories • cooking • dieting • food • nutrition
Climate Change Tracker
Excellent dashboard style visualization of key global metrics
2023-09-03 climatechange • dashboard • globalwarming • science • via:hackernews • visualization
3D Tenochtitlan
Renders of what is now Mexico City, in pre-Columbian times
2023-09-03 tenochtitlan • archaeology • aztec • cdmx • history • mexico
Dynapad
Some folks are porting the seminal Pad++ zooming interface to modern systems.
2023-09-03 benbederson • hci • jimhollan • pad • pad++ • research • ui • zoomable
Truth Social SPAC woes
The IPO financing scam ran in to SEC trouble and has been delayed and delayed, another deadline is in a few days
2023-09-03 fraud • politics • scam • sec • spac • trump • truthsocial
What 3 Words is a Mess
A detailed analysis of the stupid rent-seeking map company's bad system.
2023-09-02 addresses • badtech • geolocation • maps • what3words
My swordswallowing accident
2008-era blog from a circus act performer. Link is to the story of the actual injury, there's a whole blog about learning the act, the medical recovery, etc
2023-09-02 circus • esophagus • medical • swordswallowing • via:metafilter
How the Race Was Won
A lovely bit of visualization made from a composite photograph
2023-09-02 composite • infovis • photography • photos • race • visualization
Dangerous Tesla
"Full self driving "autopilot" tries to kill an expert electric car reviewer
2023-09-01 ai • autopilot • danger • fsd • liability • robotcar • tesla
Houston election manipulation
Texas shut down the election office in its biggest city
2023-09-01 houston • politics • texas • votersuppression • votingrights
✨California Forever✨
Details on the tech investment in what may be a new city
2023-09-01 california • city • housing • pipedream • solanocounty • urbanism