Nelson's Linkblog 2024-11

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Details of Trump's pick to head NIH. His writing during Covid was full of deceit and harmful agenda, including publishing bad studies without peer review

2024-11-30 covid • nih • politics • trump • uspol

Simple web analytics. Uses a hosted tracking pixel, so not as private as running your own, but it's hosted so simpler

2024-11-29 analytics • apache • stats • web

Another simple, privacy-protecting web analytics package

2024-11-29 analytics • apache • stats • web

Simple Sabotage

Culture jamming and malingering for the 21st century

2024-11-29 culture • funny • politics • sabotage • workplace

Project Plowshare

1960s/70s American program to use "the friendly atom" for construction. Why plow when you can nuke?

2024-11-29 america • construction • farming • funny • nuclearweapons • wikipedia

The clearest explanation I've ever seen about line buffering, block buffering, and tty output vs simple file / pipe

2024-11-29 buffering • cli • linux • shell • stdlib • unix

Google altering websites

Some bullshit Google app is now rewriting web pages and injecting links back to Google's own ad-stuffed pages.

2024-11-27 ads • antitrust • google • web

Sensitive Research

Home page / portfolio of Tom Jennings, a creative engineer and famous homosexual

2024-11-26 art • fidonet • gay • homocore • lgbt • projects • rambler • tomjennings

Very interesting web spreadsheet with live Python code running in it. Company is shutting down and open source released the tech.

2024-11-26 neptyne • notebooks • observable • programming • python • spreadsheet

StoryGraph update

Goodreads alternative has momentum

2024-11-26 books • goodreads • reading • socialmedia • storygraph

Major new mobile operating system, to compete with iOS and Android. Coming from Huawei

2024-11-26 android • china • huawei • mobile • os • phone

Coin-op vendors

Funny set of stereotypes about people who sell arcade game

2024-11-26 arcade • coinop • funny • games

SQLite's Use Of Tcl (2017)

I had no idea the database was originally written to be used as a TCL extension. Explains a lot of good things.

2024-11-23 embedding • programming • sqlite • tcl • via:lobsters

Musk brigading government employees

Personally singles out a mid-level civil servant for harassment. Angry mob piles on.

2024-11-23 elonmusk • fascism • harassment • musk • politics • uspol

The popular automation game has a test suite with 6000 tests

2024-11-23 development • factorio • games • testing

Zlibrary access

Reddit wiki has up to date URLs for accessing the download site for unlicensed books

2024-11-21 books • download • ebooks • epub • zlib • zlibrary

Egoless Engineering

New McFunley just dropped. A really smart talk about engineering and release process

2024-11-21 devops • engineering • releases

Francis Williams painting

Extraordinary art history study of a painting of a Black Jamaican man from the 18th century

2024-11-20 art • arthistory • haleyscomet • jamaica • via:metafilter

The Platonic Blow

W.H. Auden's 1948 gay erotic poem. NSFW.

2024-11-20 1940s • auden • erotic • gay • lgbt • poetry

Fun new Bluesky firehose visualization

2024-11-19 bluesky • emoji • via:waxy • visualization

Bantam Tools Artframe

New computer controlled plotter with a fully controllable z-axis so you can use paint, variable pressure on pens, etc

2024-11-19 bantamtools • computers • emsl • plotter • plotterart

Using OSM vector tiles

Exciting news, vector tile data is live from OpenStreetMap!

2024-11-19 maps • programming • vectortiles • via:hackernews

Starlink sold out

Parts of the western US have a waitlist to get Starlink service again

2024-11-19 broadband • congestion • internet • isp • starlink

Fine-tuning LLMs at home

Surprisingly technical article on how you can customize a Llama model to your specifciations

2024-11-19 ai • llama • llm • lora • training

Bluesky starter packs

Third party site with a database of 52,000 starter packs

2024-11-19 bluesky • socialmedia • starterpack

New global warming emissions dashboard from imagery of methane, etc that comes from Planet Labs and a large consortium

2024-11-18 carbonmapper • data • globalwarming • maps • methane • planetlabs • satellites

Love, Acceptance, and Screeching Modems

Notes on early LGBT community online, including my old home of soc.motss

2024-11-17 bbs • gay • history • lgbt • motss • socmotss

Voyager 1 backup radio

After partial failure a radio makes its first transmission in 43 years

2024-11-17 engineering • resilience • satellite • space • via:hackernews • voyager

Butt interview with an activist in the nation of Georgia. (One mild NSFW picture.)

2024-11-17 gay • georgia • lgbt • nsfw • sex • tblisi

Usenet feed growth

Usenet still exists and lately the amount of traffic is growing enormously

2024-11-17 networking • nzb • scene • socialmedia • usenet

Methane mapping

Fighting climate change with Planet Labs satellites detecting methane emissions

2024-11-17 environment • globalwarming • methane • planetlabs • remotesensing • satellite

City99 console font

A creative new programming font inspired by the aesthetics of the game Stray

2024-11-17 console • fixedwidth • fonts • mhoye • stray

Lorraine Gervais

Local singer in Grass Valley, also an ally to LGBTQ youth and just a lovely person

2024-11-16 ally • grassvalley • lgbt • lorrainegervais • music • nevadacounty

A "show me top links" based on your Mastodon and Bluesky feeds

2024-11-16 bluesky • linkblog • links • mastodon • via:waxy

Justin's Linklog

Details on how a linkblog is implemented

2024-11-16 blogging • jmason • linkblog • pinboard

Thune 2004 blog campaign

Interesting story of Republican strategists starting a deceptive pair of blogs to influence local newspaper coverage

2024-11-16 blogs • politics • socialmedia • southdakota • thune • uspol

Open source garage door

Radio receiver for $50 is open

2024-11-15 garage • garagedoor • home • opensource • radio • remote • via:hackernews

NZ parliament protest

Te Pāti Māori interrupts a vote on an anti-Māori bill

2024-11-14 kiwi • maori • newzealand • nz • parliament • protest

A tool kind of like rsync but using ZFS snapshots and other features to manage files

2024-11-13 filesystem • rsync • sysadmin • zfs

BenQ Programming Monitor

The coding marketing is silly but a high quality display with extra features like a KVM seems really nice

2024-11-13 display • hardware • monitor • pc • programming

California slow vote counting

Detailed explanation of why California takes so long to count ballots

2024-11-12 california • elections • politics • voting • votingrights

Sand pile visualization

2024 election voting depicted as piles of grains of sand, effective at showing individual and collective

2024-11-12 datavis • politics • uspol • via:flowingdata • visualization

A popular RSS feed reader

2024-11-12 atom • feedly • feedreader • reader • rss • software

The Animal in Decorative Art

Remarkable 1896 book of art prints

2024-11-12 1890s • animals • art • artnouveau • design • via:bookscout

A feature rich background noise generator, makes calm sounds of rain or quiet conversation or other sonic wallpaper

2024-11-11 audio • background • generator • noise • rainfall • whitenoise

Criterion Collection Supercut

1 second from every prestige film remastered by Criterion

2024-11-11 criterion • film • movies • supercut • via:metafilter

A simple framework for hosting bots on the Fediverse

2024-11-10 activitypub • bots • mastodon • rss • socialmedia

Chair causes display failure

Weird phenomenon: gas lift chairs generate an EMI speak when you sit or stand which can cause a monitor to momentarily blank out

2024-11-10 chair • electricity • emi • monitor • static

Bizarre oil platform city in the middle of the Caspian Sea

2024-11-10 architecture • azerbaijan • caspiansea • oil • soviet • via:hackernews

Self-hosted Bluesky

Most of the components in the social media system are federated, except the view application

2024-11-08 bluesky • bsky • federation • fediverse • hosting

Red crab migration

Wacky natural phenomenon, kind of slowly creepy

2024-11-08 christmasisland • crabs • migration • nature • via:metafilter

Shaunda Shane, skater

Sweet story of tracking down someone from a fantastic 1979 photo

2024-11-05 fayetteville • photos • skate • skateboard • skating • tonyhawk

curl -v https://google.com

HTTPS as metal song

2024-11-05 funny • html • http • internet • metal • music • protocols • tls

Anbernic RG35XX charging

The bizarre USB-C behavior of a popular Chinese handheld gaming / emulation console

2024-11-03 anbernic • charging • rg35xx • usb • usbc • usbpd

MacOS vs. software

Reports that MacOS 15.1 now *requires* applications be signed to be runnable. End of Macs as general purpose computing?

2024-11-02 antitrust • apple • badtech • macos • security • signature

Bridgy Fed future

Ryan considers options for the future of a useful bit of social media glue

2024-11-01 bluesky • federation • fediverse • governance • mastodon • ryan • socialmedia • threads

AI slop hoax parade

Thousands turned out in Dublin for a non-existent Hallowe'en parade, a rumor started by AI slop

2024-11-01 ads • ai • dublin • funny • ireland • scam • slop