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Linkblog on linkding
I switched the backend for my linkblog.
2026-06-16 blogs • linkblog • linkding • me • pinboard • tech
Alberta rat control
Alberta has no rats. It has set up a border at Saskatchewan to keep them out.
2026-06-16 alberta • canada • rats
Billionaire group chat
Gossip from a Signal group of billionaires freaking out about a one time California tax
2026-06-15 california • guillotine • politics • taxes • uspol
Hockney paintings
Guardian with a lovely gallery of some of Hockney's most loved paintings
2026-06-14 hockney • art • obituary • gay • lgbt
Ben Franklin canoodling
A 1767 sketch by Charles Peale showing Ben Franklin with a young lady in his lap
2026-06-14 sex • funny • history • benfranklin • franklin • sketch
Fable jailbreak?
Swift shutdown of Anthropic's new LLM may have been based on Amazon researchers figuring out how to circumvent safeguards
2026-06-14 uspol • politics • anthropic • llm • ai • alignment • jailbreak
Queer Fascism and the End of Gay History
Thoughtful essay on how same-sex love is not synonymous with liberalism or progressivism
2026-06-14 history • weimar • nazi • politics • queer • lgbt
More Arch malware
Popular package repository has another wave of malware. It will keep doing so until the AUR folks change their security model.
2026-06-14 malware • arch • linux • supplygain • aur
176 chili peppers
A beautifully written and illustrated guide to chile
2026-06-13 chile • chili • pepper • heat • capsicum • scoville • food • via:metafilter
David Hockney appreciation
Lovely essay from someone who knew the artist well
2026-06-13 hockey • obituary • art • aids • gay • lgbt • newyorker
Bright Data botnet
"Legitimate" malware bundled with TV streaming apps turns your TV into a content-pilfering web scraper
2026-06-13 ai • llm • malware • botnet • internet • tv
Arch AUR attack ongoing
Major package repository keeps getting infected with new malware
2026-06-12 arch • linux • security • badtech • aur
Arabic typography
Detailed article about the complications of rendering Arabic text correctly, rooted in history
2026-06-11 arabic • via:lobsters • fonts • typography • typesetting • culture
Florida's surgeon general
Top medical government official is spreading crank ideas about "structured water"
2026-06-11 medicine • science • florida • politics • uspol • water • batshitinsane
Arch supply chain attacks
Arch Linux has a popular package repository called AUR. It's a frequent target of attacks to inject malware, so KDE is going to stop including it
2026-06-11 badtech • security • supplychain • arch • linux • aur • kde
Bad Gays
A fun queer history podcast
2026-06-11 podcast • history • gay • lgbt • queer
Working with Mythos
A poetic, slightly awed account of using Anthropic's newest LLM to build complex software products
2026-06-10 claude • mythos • ai • llm • programming • via:waxy
Corrupting a ZFS File
Fun exploration of figuring out how to bash the bits on a raw disk to deliberately trigger file corruption for ZFS to detect and correct
2026-06-10 zfs • disk • filesystem • hacking
Claude self-sabotage
New AI is deployed with a guardrail that if you try to use it to improve AIs, you will get silent corruption. Protecting their IP? Preventing the singularity? It's a bit baffling.
2026-06-10 ai • llm • claude • singularity • training • intelligence
Maurice Terminal Note
The 1913 gay novel had an afterword written in 1960
2026-06-08 gay • lgbt • novel • maurice • forster
Fadedpage
A collection of free ebooks, I think mostly things out of copyright. They have been proofread and edited
2026-06-08 books • ebooks • free • culture • epub • copyright • canada
IP KVMs
Roundup of hardware to remotely access a PC
2026-06-05 kvm • ipkvm • via:hackernews • hardware • homelab
GPS numbers station
Navigation satellites have been broadcasting encrypted data for over a decade. Really neat analysis.
2026-06-05 gps • cryptopgraphy • steganography • military • security • via:lobsters • cool
Fedora Silverblue hacking
Nice notes about working with an immutable OS while also heavily tinkering and customizing
2026-06-05 via:lobsters • linux • desktop • fedora • immutable • atomic • overlay
Unsloth Gemma 4 QAT
Some deep-in-the-weeds details about boiling down an LLM to a small size you can run on a single desktop computer (or phone)
2026-06-05 llm • quant • unsloth • google • ai
X11 sunsetting
A popular Linux desktop environment is dropping the choice of using the old X-Windows system. It's Wayland now, although an X11 compatibility system will continue
2026-06-05 linux • kde • plasma • x11 • wayland • graphics • gui • unix • history
Arch Linux Gay Mirror
Install Linux with LGBT pride!
2026-06-05 gay • arch • linux • lgbt • russia • protest
Remove Paywalls
Yet another service, seems to be working now
2026-06-04 paywall • web • internet • informationwantstobefree
LEGO Sagrada Familia
$800 lego sculpture, some assembly required
2026-06-04 lego • architecture • sagradafamilia • cathedral
Starlink 1200 connections
ISP discloses that their CGNAT is limited to 1200 open connections per customer
2026-06-04 starlink • spacex • cgnat • internet • isp
rsync and outrage
Author of important tool answers people criticizing him for using AI tooling
2026-06-04 ai • tridge • rsync • llm • coding • engineering
PairDrop
A browser-based tool for facilitating file transfers on a LAN
2026-06-03 filesharing • webrtc • wormhole • lan • utility
The Jesus Trip (1971)
The unlikely source of a lengthy sample in the new Boards of Canada album
2026-06-02 music • sampling • jesus • cult • boardsofcanada • religion
NixOS generators
Build Nix images for a variety of deployment targets like Amazon EC2 or DigitalOcean
2026-06-01 nixos • nix • vps • hosting