Weird little guys of FOSS
a helpful list
bsdclown/filthy_human_hands: The Filthy Human Hands (FHH) License v1.0 - Disroot Forgejo: Brace yourself, merge conflicts ahead.
"It may come as an uncomfortable surprise to discover that everything in the known world is actually made up, including this license."
Regressive JPEGs: (Maurycy's blog)
"Besides unconventional rickrolls and other trolling, this has no practical applications: there's no way to add timing information, so playback is entirely dependent on network delay." absolute arcane wizardry
There's no such thing as Just a Tool | deadSimpleTech
"For a human-fork gestalt, this is a prohibitive amount of chilli."
The AI Hater's Manifesto
"Everything you see is the result of elevating people who value and build things based on growth. LLMs offer so many promises to those who don’t want to build anything of value — a way to seem like you’re 'investing in American infrastructure,' a way to be sinophobic, a way to crush workers, a way to pretend like you care about the future... all wrapped in a tool that can give you enough facts to pretend you know anything safe in the knowledge that most people are trained to believe somebody who sounds smart."
Return the Favor - by Mike Brock - Notes from the Circus
"The morally serious position is not do not impose costs. The morally serious position is impose costs on people attempting to end democratic governance, because failing to impose those costs will result in democratic governance ending. The alternative is losing the country to a movement that will not extend to you the courtesy you are extending to them."
It's time to talk about my writerdeck
"Console only- no x11 or Wayland, no desktop getting in my way."
Bucktooth 2.0 key layout for Preonic by jeriClaire · Pull Request #5258 · qmk/qmk_firmware
good iso keyboard layout, for reference, even if the specifics aren't for me
LLM Statement - Anna Liberty
good statement, very direct, cc0/public domain
How to self-host servers in your living room on static IPs - Leah Rowe's Sleepless Rants
"Have you ever wanted to host a server at home or in your office, but you can’t because the ISP won’t give you static IPs? This guide is for you."
Literary Hub » Steven Thrasher on the Killing of Jason Arday
"The mediocre 'journalists' covering Jason’s downfall are vultures. His death was a breaking news event in the New York Times, Guardian and BBC—publications, I can personally attest, which have ignored the work of many brilliant Blackademics in recent months, but which will giddily announce their deaths."
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
"On my trip to Montréal, I was stopped by security in Gare Centrale and informed that tripods weren't allowed and asked, au franglais, whether I was recording or taking a picture. Rather than try to answer that philosophical question in a language I don't speak, I just said 'désolé' a few times and put away the tripod, which seemed to be sufficient."
I'm done using AI – Brett Codes
"So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good. Add on top of that the negative environmental, community, and economic impacts of AI, and it became extremely apparent to me that something's gotta change."
W O R K — Jordan Cunliffe
gorgeous and thoughtful data visualization/embroidery
A plausible, scalable and slightly wrong black box: why large language models are a fascist technology that cannot be redeemed - The Grey Literature
"To paraphrase Tolstoy, 'Accurate data retrieval is all alike; every LLM response is inaccurate in its own way.'"
The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves - Linebender
"This curve behaves surprisingly similarly to a cubic Bézier, especially at smaller angles, but when pushed has very different behavior. Overall it has smoother curvature variation and is more likely to have monotonic curvature. It contains within it a few valuable analytic curves, and is also good at approximating a wide range of others."
Brewing Collectives
small, sweet little guide for forming a permacomputing collective. "Fermentation is a method, a slow, interdependent process shaped by invisible collaborators. Like microbes that preserve and transform, our work ferments beneath the surface, unfolding, unfinished."
How to Read a Visual Poem – Keith S. Wilson
succinct, clear, good references
HTML5 Genetic Algorithm 2D Car Thingy - Chrome recommended
strange as it sounds, i feel like there must be a part of the human brain that evolved specifically to produce pleasure in response to breeding Jovian monster trucks
Whose freedom is it anyway?
"And the vocabulary in which you are asked to evaluate the arrangement is supplied by the same master. Accept that the product is an intelligence, that ingesting your work is learning, that its failures are hallucinations, and that freedom means you are free from owning anything of all that. Every sentence available to you has been arranged in advance, so that refusal comes out sounding like superstition and fear of the future." really wonderful synthesis