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Wordpress drama
Harsh conclusion, but summary of the conflict between Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine
2024-09-28 business • licensing • mullenweg • trademark • wordpress
OpenFreeMap
A no bullshit free web map. Ambitious, I hope it succeeds
2024-09-28 hosting • maps • openstreetmap • osm
Trump watches
The leader of the Republican party is hawking cheap knockoff watches
2024-09-28 china • dignity • politics • scam • tacky • trump • uspol • watch
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 enga • gold • mining • papuanewguinea • png • porgera • violence
Indie Wiki Buddy
Browser extension to help you find good wikis instead of SEO spam sites like Fandom
2024-09-22 browser • extension • fandom • games • wiki • wikigg
Starlink research
Academic in Victoria, BC studies Starlink as a user
2024-09-22 networking • research • satellite • starlink
qntm publishing 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 antimemetics • books • publishing • qntm • scp
SF homeless shelters
Detailed and insightful stories of homeless people in SF and their relationships with shelters
2024-09-21 homelessness • humanrights • sanfrancisco • sf • shelter
We Were Illegal
Interview with the author of their family's history in Texas
2024-09-21 crt • history • immigration • mythology • politics • texas
485M year climate record
New science about Earth's temperature at a geologic scale
2024-09-21 climate • climatechange • globalwarming • history • paleontology • science
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 • gold • map • rohrer • treasure
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 elections • gop • politics • republicans • trump • uspol • votingrights
Rowboat data explorer
Fathom launches a tool for making sense of tabular data
2024-09-17 analysis • csv • datascience • datasette • excel • fathom
Mozilla Mastodon shutdown
mozilla.social is going away dec 17
2024-09-17 fediverse • firefox • mastodon • mozilla • socialmedia
Starlink offers NTP
GPS time from the dish at stratum 1
2024-09-17 gps • ntp • starlink • synchronization • time
Europa Clipper
Interesting engineering hero story for a NASA spacecraft
2024-09-17 electronics • engineering • europa • jupiter • mosfet • nasa • radiation • transistor
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 crypto • cryptocurrency • cryptoscam • politics • trump
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 badtech • pc • pkfail • secureboot • security • uefi
ScriptSource
A reference for writing systems, includes detailed entries about Unicode status
2024-09-15 language • linguistics • unicode • writing
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 blockchain • ccp • cryptoscam • eveonline • games
Eve Online with blockchain
Innovative online game company is launching a new blockchain thing in 2024 for some reason
2024-09-15 blockchain • ccp • cryptoscam • eveonline • games • redstone
Murderbot author interview
Martha Wells speaking to the Mountain View library
2024-09-14 books • marthawells • murderbot • novels • writing
Internet Archive decision
Thoughtful article about why the appeals court's decision on copyright and book lending was bad
2024-09-14 copyright • fairuse • internetarchive • library • publishing • sharing
Doze Stopper
An Android app that claims to disable the thing breaking Android notifications. Testing now.
2024-09-13 android • battery • dozemode • idle • notifications • phone • pixel
NSFW: shaving cream bears
Arty but sexually explicit photos of two men playing with shaving cream
2024-09-13 bear • erotic • fetish • gay • nsfw • photography • photos • sex • shavingcream • ytetic
Energy after Fire
High level view of how renewable electricity generation is really good
2024-09-13 electricity • electrify • globalwarming • power • rmi • solar • via:metafilter
Reka: Baba Jaga, the game
Base builder with you building a hut on fowl's legs
2024-09-12 babayaga • basebuilder • games • slavic
Demonization of Haitians
Details on how the Republican Party spun up a Nazi-like libel against Haitians in Ohio
2024-09-12 fascism • nazis • politics • propaganda • republicans • trump • uspol • vance
Transparent Textures
A zillion noise backgrounds with simple patterns, composable
2024-09-12 background • design • graphics • noise • texture • via:hackernews • 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 anthropology • easterisland • genetics • history • polynesia • rapanui
LLM politics
Political leaning tests applied to chatbots finds a leftist bias, also a libertarian one
2024-09-12 bias • llm • politics • research
pwning .mobi
Hijacking a TLD by buying the .net domain name for their previous whois server
2024-09-11 dns • domainname • funny • hacking • mobi • security • tld
Flagmaker & Print
Inexpensive large custom flag makers
2024-09-11 vexillology • design • fabrication • flag • flags • pride • printing
FutureRack
Computer racking as home furniture
2024-09-09 cats • ethereum • funny • furniture • rackmount • via:jnoxon
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 • foodsafety • safety • salmonella • temperature
Copy-on-write archiver
Like tar but the archive isn't a copy, just reflinks to the original files.
2024-09-08 archive • backups • btrfs • car • files • reflink • tar • xfs
Jojos
History of the fried potato snack in Oregon
2024-09-08 food • frenchfries • fries • jojo • language • oregon • potato
Screw the Pooch etymology
Fun story about the vulgar phrase which may have been coined in 1950 by a Yalie
2024-09-07 english • etymology • language • slang • yale
Test Ad Block
Site that loads 135 different ad scripts to see which ones your ad blocker blocks
2024-09-06 adblocker • ads • testing • ublock • via:lobsters • web
Tiny Tiny RSS
Self hosted feed reader, hackable
2024-09-06 atom • browsing • feedreader • feeds • internet • reader • rss
systemd + musl
Modern Linux system manager ported to tiny libc alternative
2024-09-05 alpine • linux • musl • systemd • via:lobsters
Internet Archive loses appeal
Bad news for anyone who reads books or enjoys content
2024-09-04 archive • archive.org • copyright • internet • internetarchive • 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 chrome • discovery • extension • mastodon • metadata • social • 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 1960s • apollo • batshitinsane • escape • moon • nasa
Zoom and Enhance
Details of a film trope most famous from Blade Runner
2024-09-02 bladerunner • enhance • film • trope
Ted Chiang 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 • chiang • creativity
ICs and Navajo
A couple of points of contact between integrated circuit manufacture and the Navajo nation
2024-09-01 aim • fairchild • history • indian • intel • manufacturing • nativeamerican • navajo