Decoding Cardano’s Liber de Ludo Aleae (via qz.com).
The most fundamental principle of all in gambling is simply equal conditions, e.g. of opponents, of bystanders, of money, of situation, of the dice box, and of the die itself. To the extent to which you depart from that equality, if it is in your opponent’s favor, you are a fool, and if in your own, you are unjust.
Discord, or the Death of Lore.
When the free image-
hosting site ImageShack made the realization that they were losing buckets of money hosting images for free, and shifted over to a subscription model that also cut off legacy accounts, deleting them in fact, the question was who would care.
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It turns out, in the breadth of time, ImageShack was the unofficial official clearinghouse of diagrams and illustrations of web discussion boards that had limits (or difficulties) hosting images. (…) This was very helpful for technical diagrams and explanations that would cover (at the time) larger resolutions of graphic information.
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So, when ImageShack killed what had been 13 years of these illustrations, they definitely probably saved the business, and they ensured everyone who was hosting with them was truly engaged, but they also lobotomized hundreds, possibly thousands of forums and discussion groups and absolutely wiped an entire collection of reference documents from the web at the same time.
Battle for Libraries.
The nonprofit Internet Archive is appealing a judgment that threatens the future of all libraries. Big publishers are suing to cut off libraries’ ownership and control of digital books, opening new paths for censorship.
It smells so nice… in fact it, smells like coffee and cream!
Parfumerie J.B. Filz Wien, 1810—2023.
Café de Vienne. Hoch lebe die Wiener Caféhaustradition! Ein tèt a tèt zwischen Café und Vanille – sowie warmen, holzigen Noten. Belebt und umhüllt gleichzeitig vollaromatisch.
Minimal, the browser extension for peace of mind.
Minimal is a browser extension to experience a minimal, less attention grabbing internet experience. Internet should be a tool, not a trap.
Relevant: Simplify Gmail.
Stop saying “technical debt”.
Here’s the effect: the minute we trot out the term “tech debt,” everyone is upset but no one is listening. Each conversant assumes they know what we’re all talking about, but their individual pictures differ quite a bit. It sounds to the business like the engineers are asking for three weeks free from the obligation to release any features. They remember the last time they granted those weeks: within a month the team was underwater again. When businesspeople don’t want to grant a “tech debt week” because they saw with their own eyeballs that the last one improved the team’s capacity zero percent, how can we expect them to grant us another one with alacrity?
Pizzoccheri: la Ricetta originale dei Pizzoccheri alla valtellinese.
Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market with Dagster, dbt and BigQuery.
So where does one buy stars? No need to go surfing the dark web. There are dozens of services available with a basic Google search.
Why we cannot have nice things.
abusus: das Recht, die Sache in Form und Aussehen zu verändern
You know it’s wrong if your VPN provider is acting up.
The chat control proposal does not belong in democratic societies.
The European Commission is working on a legislative proposal called chat control. If the law goes into effect, all EU citizens will have their communications monitored and audited. Now is the time to stop it.