Sunday, 18. February 12024
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What happend to the powertothepeople.at website?

(Here it is at web.archive.org.)

You say Jon Postel
I say Joyce K. Reynolds

(Via linux.com.)

Monday, 12. February 12024
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Something's bound to break
It better not be me

Sunday, 11. February 12024
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😔

Beneath the Rubble: Documenting Devastation and Loss in Mariupol.

A new report, digital multimedia feature, and 22-minute video analyze the civilian suffering and damage to thousands of buildings, including several hundred high-rise apartments, hospitals, educational facilities, and electricity and water infrastructure in Mariupol following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI.

Humans who want to engage in informal, unoptimised, personal interactions have to hide in closed spaces like invite-only Slack channels, Discord groups, email newsletters, small-scale blogs, and digital gardens. Or make themselves illegible and algorithmically incoherent in public venues.
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How would you prove you're not a language model generating predictive text? What special human tricks can you do that a language model can't?

The sinusoidal tetris – A tetris game with a twist.

No geometrical figures will fall from the sky. Instead, you control a sinusoid, defined by: f(x)=Asin(ωx+φ)f(x)=A*sin(\omega x + \varphi)

As heard at Al Zaytouna.

The story behind Fairuz’s song “Kanou Ya Habibi” and the Soviet army “Polyushka Polye”.

coffeestains.

This package provides an essential feature to LaTeX that has been missing for too long. It adds a coffee stain to your documents. A lot of time can be saved by printing stains directly on the page rather than adding it manually.

All you never wanted to know about JSON.

Judicious JSON.

JSON is a simple technology but has a lot of underlying topics to think about. This guide can help uncover those topics.

Jujutsu (jj) is a new version control system from a software developer at Google.

Jujutsu is two things:

  1. It is a new front-end to Git.
  2. It is a new design for distributed version control.