Thanks, N.!
Hyperlinks subvert hierarchies!
The Subversive Hyperlink (via adactio.com).
The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962.
What would you say is the first microcomputer? The Apple I from 1976? The Altair 8800 from 1974? Perhaps the lesser-known Micral N (1973) or Q1 (1972)?
Fighting Phantasms for over a decade.
Why We Can’t Build Better Cities.
Python Dependencies Are Fixable.
I was shocked when I started working with NodeJS teams at how aggressively and (frankly) recklessly they would add dependencies to a project. However NPM and Node are designed around that model of lots of external dependencies and they've adopted a lot of things that people have come to expect.
Relevant: pip-compile --generate-hashes
What is a generative large language model from a technical perspective?
Really Large Git Repositories.
Relevant: git maintenance
You say you're trying to find the fire.
But to me, it looks like burning.
osquery exposes an operating system as a high-performance relational database. (Via lobste.rs.)
This allows you to write SQL queries to explore operating system data. With osquery, SQL tables represent abstract concepts such as running processes, loaded kernel modules, open network connections, browser plugins, hardware events or file hashes.
This industry is money-hungry, energy-hungry, and compute-hungry, yet it doesn't seem to be doing anything to sustain these otherworldly financial and infrastructural demands, other than the fact that people keep saying that "artificial intelligence is the future." And while some claim that AI can help fight climate change, it's impossible to argue that "suddenly using more and more power for a negligible return" is good for the environment.