Details on how oil processing works

OpenAI's explanation for a weird fixation in its LLM

A fix for a thorny integration problem for Linux systems

Fedora's atomic package manager. Instead operating systems plus user customization in snapshots you can easily apply or rollback

Some explanation of the failures at an essential piece of software development infrastructure. They're under 90% uptime for the month according to the unofficial status page.

Experimental work to give certain programs priority for GPU memory

A series of early 1900s political scandals involving the Kaiser of Germany which resulted in the weakening of the kingdom

Homoerotic painting from 1911

Details on why the AI acted dumb the last few weeks

Manifesto from the exe.dev founder about what they're doing

New software development infrastructure raises $35M in VC

Run Linux under Windows 95. Glorious hack.

LGBT history, a New York protest against anti-gay laws

AI coding agent, this one is built with a minimal / extensible philosophy and is designed to be run and customized locally

One of the best movies of the 1970s is free to stream this month

A British television play that had an explicit theme of gay love

Very early Tom of Finland, 1957. Super gay

Summary of mathematicians using LLMs to help make proofs. Characterizes the difference of the AI "thinking" strategy

Virtual machines that launch in under 1 second, used for agent tasks and other sandboxing

New coding model of interest if you run AI coding agents locally

A conveyance that almost was.

More AI caution from a friend of mine, this one about the danger of automated AI attacks against poorly funded open source infrastructure

The conclusion of Aphyr's essays on AI and LLMs. I don't agree but he's got a lot of thoughtful commentary to consider.

Details of how a video game developer creates good romance stories in RPG games

Exhaustive look at regional cuisines from an American expat perspective. There's a good video too.

Word coinage for nostalgia for a past you didn't experience

Aggressive typesetting for a trans romantasy: varying fonts and colors and layout

The AI coding agent is having some bad days, temporary dementia. Folks are mourning it.

Fried whole chiles, excellent bar snack

A visual Unicode picker

A modern replacement for the venerable Unix login system. This one can handle serial logins with password, start PPP sessions, start ssh sessions..

Excellent food channel on Youtube

Disodium Inosinate and Disodium Guanylate are food additives that boost the umami flavor of MSG

Systems expert with a very critical take on AI from a thoughtful perspective.

Driving business in Oman saves a bunch of money moving from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap

Positive queer vibes

Famed investigative journalist Ronan Farrow digs deep on Sam Altman and characterizes his management and business persona. Also briefly talks about allegations of sexual abuse and dismisses them.

A tiny LLM trained on a constrained domain. A learning exercise, showing you can build your own LLM

Overview of the new version control system that can replace git

Beloved Nevada City community member passed away, a nice obituary of her impact on our small town

Report from Linux kernel team seeing they're seeing a significant rise in legitimate security bug reports, AI generated