InfiniDysk
More software for streaming video live from Usenet. Evolution of NzbDav, seems to be a friendly fork?
Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog
A collection of interesting links, a few a day.
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NzbDav
A solution for streaming any pirated media from Usenet to Plex. It's a WebDAV server that integrates to do the downloads and streaming
heretic
Tools for removing censorship in open weight LLMs
US bike map
Long distance bike routes across the United States
Panic DDOS
Beloved Portland software company got attacked by someone demanding a ransom. They didn't pay and are fixing up the mess.
mathowie breaks bad
Sweet story from Matt about being 17 and getting his revenge on a bad boss
Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields
A gem of a website, detailed info on obscure and closed airports.
Out Late With David
A podcast for and about people who came out LGBT later in life
DRAM spaghetti
Attacks on a system by reprogramming its memory controller on the fly, giving you full access to all RAM protected or not
Big Walk comments
New game is a popular fun social experience, a game developer talks about why it works
Deflocking Grass Valley
My small town decided to remove a deployed Flock system. This is the statement from the police, they seemed pretty amenable.
Nazi Twitter earnings
After Musk bought Twitter ad revenue declined by ⅔
Ubuntu Touch
A small group keeps the Linux-for-smartphones alive, at least on a few devices
DeiNaoero clip
Fun video of a woman from Naoero (Nauru) speaking in a mix of Nauruan and English
Black Imago
Online multiplayer game, explore a maze. Not sure how good this is but it's novel.
Bosch Butt Music
Playing music found in Hieronymus Bosch's painting "The Garden of Earthly Delights".
Tom’s Game | Succession | HBO - YouTube
Consumed with thought of a potential prison sentence, Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) reflects on his and Greg’s (Nicholas Braun) divergent career prospects and thei...
A Scanner Darkly
Trailer for the 2006 Linklater film of PK Dick's fascinating book. The movie is really special and worth a watch.
Rasam
Article about the highly spiced Indian broth and Usha's upcoming cookbook
AI for code and writing
A software engineer reflects on the difference in using AI to write code vs prose
Not Like Other Girls
New short story by A.L. Goldfuss
AL Goldfuss interview
Funny short interview with a new scifi/horror writer
Jeff Dean leaves Google
The soul of Google leaves to do a new AI-for-research thing with Sanjay and some other top Googlers.
WebZFS
Nice Web GUI for ZFS disk storage on a server
Alaska election update
More malfeasance in the Alaska election office: they know they disenfranchised 3048 voters but aren't doing anything to fix it.
Flockhopper Map
Online map of surveillance camera network in the US
Slaveholder's Rebellion
An op/ed about how the term "Civil War" is whitewashing in the US for what used to be called "Slaveholder's Rebellion"
endoflife.date
Handy reference showing support dates and end-of-life for various software and hardware systems
Bitcoin attack
Some Bitcoin wallet didn't use good random numbers and now people's money is being stolen
Caldera Music
A new music playing server from the guy who founded Plex and wrote Plexamp
Trellis
AI-native dev environment, puts Claude Code together with git and service management and logs to help work on production systems
Fake tech ads
Funny spoofs of bad tech advertising, some AI inflected
Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy
Detailed notes from an open source contributor about mistreatment by Ruby Central
Satyress
"Creating general purpose robots for dangerous jobs". Unclear if this is real or satire or a pipedream.
Everything in its Wrong Place
Radiohead classic retuned to a major key.
Pir-i Bakran
Example of Kufic calligraphy, a beautiful and geometric stylized form of Arabic writing
Alaska vote fuckery
1500 people had their right to vote curtailed in what looks like partisan election tampering
Sovanna Chan
Cambodian chef living in Oakland teaching people how to cook Khmer food online
Vsync tester
Web browser tool for testing display consistency and latency
Earth reflecting less energy
A deep dive on the Earth's diminishing albedo. We're absorbing more energy at a faster rate than climate models predict. That's very bad for global warming. It's also bad for what it says about the state of climate change prediction.
Google Selfie sign-in
New login option for Google, a very short video of your face
Vimm's Lair
An archive of classic videogames with direct downloads of game images
Skate 3
Some madman has ported Skate 3 to PC, originally with an Xbox 360 emulator but he's now rewritten the whole render system to stand alone.
Baldwin gay bio
Short review of a new biography of James Baldwin focussing on his homoromantic relationships
Harry Hay considered
A nice short evaluation of the gay rights pioneer, without being afraid of talking about his flaws
Evan's Jujutsu tutorial
New tutorial from an engineer with particular expertise
Minecraft nostalgia
Young man reflects on growing up with Minecraft and what it means to him 15 years later
Pimento cheese
The history of the iconic Southern cheese spread
Queer Gösta Adrian-Nilsson
Swedish modern artist who did a lot of homoerotic cubist works of sailors
Kowloon walled city
A very detailed panorama, high res scan