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NES SMB TAS
Someone figured out how to run arbitrary code in the game Super Mario Bros via control inputs. So here's a Tool Assisted run of him winning the game with a few minutes of music video in the middle
2025-09-29 funny • games • hacking • nes • nintendo • smb • tas • via:lobsters
War-ravaged Portland
Wholesome set of photos from Portlanders in response to Trump's bizarre attack on the city
2025-09-29 pdx • politics • portland • stumptown • trump • uspol
Normalizing Charlie Kirk
Thoughtful editorial on what it means that people venerate Charlie Kirk and ignore all the vile things he said and did
2025-09-28 charliekirk • politics • racism • uspol • whitesupremacy
Cracker Barrel bots
Last month's nontroversy was fueled by a coordinated propaganda campaign
2025-09-27 bots • crackerbarrel • propaganda • socialmedia
Peter Thiel eschatology
Tech leader is full-on bonkers, seeing the Antichrist's hand in efforts to fight climate change or regulate AI
2025-09-26 ai • antichrist • batshitinsane • climatechange • eschaton • politics • thiel • uspol
Tasklet AI
New AI service from email company Shortwave. It's a general AI that can do all sorts of basic tasks for you, particularly scheduling things
2025-09-26 agent • ai • automation • schedule • shortwave
Bundler belongs to the Ruby community
Response to the hostile takeover of core Ruby infrastructure
2025-09-25 andre • bundler • ruby • rubycentral
The DHH problem
More on why the Ruby community is such a mess: A prominent leader is an open white supremacist
2025-09-23 dhh • politics • racism • ruby • tirefire • ukpol • whitesupremacy
RubyGems takeover
More details on the ugly power move from DHH and Shopify to seize control of an open source platform
2025-09-23 dhh • drama • opensource • packaging • ruby • rubygems • shopify • sleaze
Raffi to Mozilla CTO
One of my oldest friends has taken a new role at Mozilla as their CTO
2025-09-22 ai • career • cto • firefox • mozilla • raffi
Health Sync
An app to get data out of Google's Health Connect into somewhere useful
2025-09-21 apps • fitness • health • tracking
Metafilter blocks Mississippi
New age verification law creates too much uncertainty so community site blocks the state
2025-09-21 ageverification • censorship • metafilter • mississippi • politics
Gen Alpha Slang
Funny language demonstration
2025-09-20 funny • genalpha • language • linguistics • slang • via:metafilter
Less is safer
A big Javascript app deliberately doesn't include many Javascript libraries to make their app safer, more resilient to bugs and attacks on third party software
2025-09-20 javascript • npm • obsidian • safety • supplychain
Goebbels Ends Careers
1939 article about an autocratic government ending comedians' careers because they mocked the Nazis
2025-09-20 autocracy • fascism • freedom • jimmykimmel • politics • uspol
Rainbow erasure (Houston)
LGBT landmark in my hometown removed and may not come back because of Federal anti-gay rules
2025-09-19 crosswalk • dot • gay • lgbt • politics • uspol
RubyGems destroyed
Political squabbles in the packaging ecosystem for a programming language, the result being Ruby Central did a hostile takeover of RubyGems
2025-09-19 dhh • politics • ruby • rubycentral • rubygems
Game taxonomy
Metrics for AAA and indie games
2025-09-16 aaa • budget • games • via:waxy • videogames
Steve Shirley
Obituary from a remarkable woman leading a software company in the 60s-90s
2025-09-15 feminism • software • tech • women
VapeServer
Hosting a website via SLIP on a tiny microcontroller from a drug delivery device
2025-09-15 arm • funny • hacking • hosting • internet • slip • vape
Xposed Modules
A list of modules you can use to patch Android apps using LSPosed / LSPatch
2025-09-14 android • apps • hacking • mods
LSPatch
A mod framework for Android system and apps. Patch stuff to work better without requiring root
2025-09-14 android • hacking • mods • patches
Account disasters
Problems logging in to various sites. The author is an expert in the involved technologies, having spent many years helping write the Chrome browser
2025-09-14 badtech • chrome • login • passwords
Fact Sheet 64
1945 propaganda from the US government to returning soldiers about the threat of growing fascism within in the United States
2025-09-12 army • fascism • politics • propaganda • uspol
Blacksky
ATProto tools for independent online communties
2025-09-11 atproto • black • bluesky • bsky • community • socialmedia
Epstein's Birthday Books
Some details of who else was pals with Epstein besides Trump. Nathan Myhrvold, Marvin Minsky, etc.
2025-09-10 corruption • epstein • rape • scandal • science
California humid heat
Weird weather pattern brings us really moist air
2025-09-09 california • climate • heat • monsoon • weather
Facebook video downloader
Chrome extension, this worked for me when every other method I know failed
2025-09-07 chrome • download • facebook • rip • video
Vibe tools
Simon highlights some of the software he's written using AIs. I love how personal these are. Not a big product, just something he whipped up in a few minutes for his own use.
2025-09-07 ai • bespoke • programming • tools
Navajo rug 555
Famous integrated circuit turned into a woven rug
2025-09-07 555 • art • chips • loom • navajo • rug • weaving
Android notification bug
This is affecting my phone: I just don't get sounds for notifications sometimes and have been missing messages. It's a bug and it may take Google six months to fix it
2025-09-05 android • badtech • bug • google • notifications • pixel
WizTree
A modern Windows disk space analyzer: fast using NTFS index
2025-09-04 disk • du • management • ntfs • spacemonger • storage
Passkeys in current deployment
Interesting stories from the reality of passkeys. Particularly interested how non-technical people are getting autoenrolled with them.
2025-09-02 authentication • identity • login • passkeys
Minecraft Kowloon City
Fascinating urban experiment recreated in the game
2025-09-02 games • hongkong • kowlooncity • minecraft • modelling
Cormac McCarthy's library
Sensitive article about the famous author's home stuffed with 20,000 books
2025-09-01 hoarder • literature • mccarthy • sfi • via:metafilter
sneak-link
A reverse proxy for web services but specialized to a few specific home hosting things like Immich and Nextcloud
2025-09-01 immich • internet • proxy • security • services