Details of a fabled psychedelic from my college, apparently actually 2C-B?

Detailed map and graphic library of all the amazing tombstones in the Baroque co-cathedral in Valetta, Malta

High level reporting on the latest open weights model out of z.ai in China, main theme is that Chinese AIs are only a few months behind the US ones in terms of quality

Detailed look at the new open weights LLM applied to a real world programming task

A little SVG app for making abstract colored patterns, like for screen wallpaper

Playlist of the recently released EP

An overhaul mod for Factorio that significantly changes gameplay.

Good civilian explainer on AIs programming to improve themselves

Details on BIOS settings for a particular miniPC.

The U.S. Colored Troops were among the first to arrive in Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation—yet their story has long been overlooked.

Open source AI agent under the Linux Foundation umbrella. My friend Douwe works on it.

Free, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging, a nice little new community

The open iMessage alternative for text messaging has a special business product with fancier messages

A new leaderboard / list of 5000 independent personal bogs

A story of a coding agent going through absurdly complex lengths to accomplish something. It's mostly scary and cautionary, but also exciting?

A funny little Brotato clone, a casual shooter that's surprisingly fun to play.

Bennet Foddy strikes again

A tool to save a full web page, as you see in your browser, for later archiving. Can also integrate with linkding.

I switched the backend for my linkblog.

Alberta has no rats. It has set up a border at Saskatchewan to keep them out.

Guardian with a lovely gallery of some of Hockney's most loved paintings

A 1767 sketch by Charles Peale showing Ben Franklin with a young lady in his lap

Swift shutdown of Anthropic's new LLM may have been based on Amazon researchers figuring out how to circumvent safeguards

Thoughtful essay on how same-sex love is not synonymous with liberalism or progressivism

A beautifully written and illustrated guide to chile

Lovely essay from someone who knew the artist well

Detailed article about the complications of rendering Arabic text correctly, rooted in history

A fun queer history podcast

A poetic, slightly awed account of using Anthropic's newest LLM to build complex software products

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

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.

The 1913 gay novel had an afterword written in 1960

A collection of free ebooks, I think mostly things out of copyright. They have been proofread and edited

Roundup of hardware to remotely access a PC

Navigation satellites have been broadcasting encrypted data for over a decade. Really neat analysis.

Nice notes about working with an immutable OS while also heavily tinkering and customizing

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)

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

Install Linux with LGBT pride!

Yet another service, seems to be working now

$800 lego sculpture, some assembly required

ISP discloses that their CGNAT is limited to 1200 open connections per customer

Author of important tool answers people criticizing him for using AI tooling

A browser-based tool for facilitating file transfers on a LAN

The unlikely source of a lengthy sample in the new Boards of Canada album

Build Nix images for a variety of deployment targets like Amazon EC2 or DigitalOcean