Peer to peer networking tools

Developer demo of the $1B gaming fraud goes diastrously wrong

Simple static website with various images that demonstrate HDR and gamuts other than sRGB

More software for streaming video live from Usenet. Evolution of NzbDav, seems to be a friendly fork?

A solution for streaming any pirated media from Usenet to Plex. It's a WebDAV server that integrates to do the downloads and streaming

Tools for removing censorship in open weight LLMs

Long distance bike routes across the United States

Sweet story from Matt about being 17 and getting his revenge on a bad boss

A gem of a website, detailed info on obscure and closed airports.

A podcast for and about people who came out LGBT later in life

Attacks on a system by reprogramming its memory controller on the fly, giving you full access to all RAM protected or not

New game is a popular fun social experience, a game developer talks about why it works

My small town decided to remove a deployed Flock system. This is the statement from the police, they seemed pretty amenable.

After Musk bought Twitter ad revenue declined by ⅔

A small group keeps the Linux-for-smartphones alive, at least on a few devices

Fun video of a woman from Naoero (Nauru) speaking in a mix of Nauruan and English

Online multiplayer game, explore a maze. Not sure how good this is but it's novel.

Playing music found in Hieronymus Bosch's painting "The Garden of Earthly Delights".

Trailer for the 2006 Linklater film of PK Dick's fascinating book. The movie is really special and worth a watch.

Article about the highly spiced Indian broth and Usha's upcoming cookbook

A software engineer reflects on the difference in using AI to write code vs prose

New short story by A.L. Goldfuss

Funny short interview with a new scifi/horror writer

The soul of Google leaves to do a new AI-for-research thing with Sanjay and some other top Googlers.

Nice Web GUI for ZFS disk storage on a server

Online map of surveillance camera network in the US

An op/ed about how the term "Civil War" is whitewashing in the US for what used to be called "Slaveholder's Rebellion"

Handy reference showing support dates and end-of-life for various software and hardware systems

A new music playing server from the guy who founded Plex and wrote Plexamp

AI-native dev environment, puts Claude Code together with git and service management and logs to help work on production systems

Funny spoofs of bad tech advertising, some AI inflected

"Creating general purpose robots for dangerous jobs". Unclear if this is real or satire or a pipedream.

Radiohead classic retuned to a major key.

Example of Kufic calligraphy, a beautiful and geometric stylized form of Arabic writing

Cambodian chef living in Oakland teaching people how to cook Khmer food online

Web browser tool for testing display consistency and latency

A deep dive on the Earth's diminishing albedo. We're absorbing more energy at a faster rate than climate models predict. That's very bad for global warming. It's also bad for what it says about the state of climate change prediction.

New login option for Google, a very short video of your face

An archive of classic videogames with direct downloads of game images

Some madman has ported Skate 3 to PC, originally with an Xbox 360 emulator but he's now rewritten the whole render system to stand alone.

Short review of a new biography of James Baldwin focussing on his homoromantic relationships

A nice short evaluation of the gay rights pioneer, without being afraid of talking about his flaws

New tutorial from an engineer with particular expertise

Young man reflects on growing up with Minecraft and what it means to him 15 years later

The history of the iconic Southern cheese spread

Swedish modern artist who did a lot of homoerotic cubist works of sailors

A very detailed panorama, high res scan

Go with no grid, free placement of stones. Looks like a coherent game.

A tiny part of Australia has a timezone 45 minutes ahead of the rest of the region

A statement in favor of using AI tools for working on the Linux kernel

A funny fictional map that was in the NYTimes in 1992, by Douglas Coupland of all people

A little toy: draw Conway's Life patterns and the webapp plays sounds related to them

A modern Do-Not-Track system, which has some legal teeth in California. Every HTTP request adds a header asking to opt out of data collection.

New California program to opt out of data brokers, looks promising. Goes live August 1.

Medium-big online community ports its Rails app to use sqlite as the database

Another gaming focussed Linux distribution, this one based on Debian

A nice overview of the history of wine in the United States

New Food & Wine article captures what makes Houston dining so exciting. (The print version has more stuff in it.)

Remarkable video of a bison flipping a man eight feet in the air

A Linux desktop environment with some aggressive aesthetic choices, but thoughtfully designed

A de-Googling alternative for Android notifications that's privacy and open source

Lovely photos of vintage industrial design

Report from a large AI coding project, porting a Javascript transpiler from Zig to Rust

A short piece on medieval medical illustrations

A very thorough history of Emacs variants, going back to TECO Emacs and including variants like Gosling and Lucid.

Making randomization in generative art interesting by giving it some texture

Analysis of census data showing where USians say their people are from: Mexican, Chinese, German, etc.

Warscape of Ukraine includes miles and miles of fiber optics cables from drones, now being used by birds to build nests.

Web-centric OpenStreetMap with a focus on usability including mobile.

Relaunch of an Internet-based travel guide, this one using AI to help people keep travel guides updated

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