HOW TO - Riley Cox
very cool and clever card-driven small jacquard loom build
scificorridorarchive.com by Serafín Álvarez, 2013
needs a taxonomy (featureless white, rundown office, wet brutalist, pipes-and-rivets...)
Predictive Capital – Roads to terminal alienation, soil to server farm, reason to vibe – CreativeApplications.Net
"Vibe Coding severs this constitutive relation. The Vibe Coder does not enter the Symbolic order, but submits to its statistical imitation. The model offers no Law, no withholding, no exteriority. It does not confront, it echoes. It does not interpellate the subject, only returns a semblance of dialogue without ever addressing you as subject. The Vibe Coder becomes neither full author nor full subject, but a medium through which predictive recombination speaks —spoken by the model as much as speaking through it. The Symbolic order is not engaged but simulated. What emerges is not understanding, but interpolation: machinic consensus dressed in familiar cultural forms."
lcamtuf: "My 101 of analog electronics, …" - Infosec Exchange
thorough, accessible
Reverse engineering the incinerated Waymo - Placing Technologies
"[E]very time someone complains about vandalizing the Waymos in Los Angeles as some kind of violence against Alphabet’s balance sheet, just remember that Waymo isn’t profitable and never has been! They already lose money, the amount lost by destroying the car is pocket lint in the Alphabet balance sheet realm."
Is the AI Bubble About to Burst? | Verso Books
"[T]he way technology changes work is neither automatic nor inevitable. It is shaped by collective choices about what kinds of work, and what kinds of working lives, society is willing to sustain."
Deciphering Glyph :: I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now
"The process-engineering function of an LLM, therefore, is to prevent fundamental problems from ever getting fixed, to reward the rapid-fire overwhelm of infrastructure teams with an immediate, catastrophic cascade of legacy code that is now much harder to delete than it is to write."
🛠️ My Text Tools - Free, Online, Text Manipulation Tools
charming! hopefully it sticks around for a while and doesn't go all paywall on us
The 12-bit rainbow palette
"Using a 12-bit colour depth limits the available colours, so slight changes to luminance, chroma, and hue must be made, but these are small enough not to be noticeable. The resulting palette has evenly-spaced hues, only small variations in chroma, and smoothly increasing and decreasing luminance."
How to survive the weight of an entire industry trying to convince you that you're inadequate • Buttondown
"We are not building people up by giving them helpful tools, we are tearing people down by convincing them they can’t function without the tools"
Cap'n Proto: Introduction
"I... was the primary author of Protocol Buffers version 2, which is the version that Google released open source. Cap’n Proto is the result of years of experience working on Protobufs, listening to user feedback, and thinking about how things could be done better."
Surviving the Pan-decade: How to avoid COVID/ConFlu while traveling | securing.dev
some good tips
Design for 3D-Printing - Rahix' Blog
this is a tremendous resource, wow
You can’t feed generative AI on ‘bad’ data then filter it for only ‘good’ data – Pivot to AI
"What did you expect to happen, you’re trying to do security by filtering on an input that the 'attacker' can twiddle however they feel like"
Mika Tajima » Negative Entropy
"These works are simultaneously images and material records of their own making. Field recordings of production sounds were made at each site, then transmuted into digital spectrogram images using a linguistic audio software. Color was assigned to the wave forms, then translated into a pattern by a weaving technician to create a Jacquard fabric."
MAKE LITTLE GUYS: a (very brief) manifesto | Patreon
A little guy made without heart is uninhabited and will not have the correct little guy energy. You'll know.
[DAS VIDEOSPIEL] The Anxiety of Grinding – Evergreen Review
"Grinding is a fantasy by which the change you desire can be achieved by continuing to do what you are already doing in small, comfortable increments. Grinding is the copium of liberal democracy: enough small instances of inoffensive protest and general decorum will gradually push society to Max Level. Is Metaphor: ReFantazio an allegory😉 for the Obama administration, some mildly progressive status-quo-ing aestheticized as radical change?" (by Todd Anderson) I disagree with this but it is usefully provocative haha
skrifa - Rust
"A robust, ergonomic, high performance crate for OpenType fonts." (meant as a replacement for freetype)
What’s the Matter with Abundance? | Malcolm Harris
"Large increases in material output, we are assured, can save liberalism from the civilizational choice between socialism and barbarism. I disagree; refusing to be forthright about society’s structural antagonisms opens the door to demagogues who peddle false conflicts that still ring truer than the liberals’ false peace."
Most Researchers Do Not Believe AGI Is Imminent. Why Do Policymakers Act Otherwise? | TechPolicy.Press
"An engineering problem is solved when the structure works: a bridge bears the weight. However, a bridge bearing weight does not confirm one's hypothesis that bridges possess an understanding of gravity."