Amazing, beautiful stuff.
It’s always interesting to hear about how incredibly important Open Source projects are (barely) maintained. This one is a pretty interesting story. There must be a lot of pressure on these people.
Also relevant: https://xkcd.com/2347/
If you thought NSO Group and their Pegasus spyware was bad… well you were right. But these assholes are possibly worse, and doing nothing but damage to societies that cannot be possibly defended with any excuse.
This is brilliant.
This is a pretty cool game for guessing photo dates.
Great photos of the making of the last 747.
This is a cool (in a bad way) crowd-sourced database of tech company layoffs.
SVG icons extracted from the 30th Anniversary Mac Font
Probably best Mexican bakery in town. Noting here for future recall.
This is great. BASIC was the first programming I learned as a six year old kid. I never knew Einstein’s collaborator came up with it.
Read parts 2 and 3 as well.
Saved for reference during my next trip.
An interview with famous writer Thelma Kirsch.
This helps you find the people you follow on Twitter on Mastodon. It assumes the Twitter profile publishes the Mastodon handle in their bio, user name, location field, URL field or in their pinned tweet. I added mine to my bio.
The tool found corresponding Mastodon accounts for about 10% of the people I follow. Most of them are colleagues in high-tech or people related to high-tech. I hope this improves.
This is incredibly adorable.
This is a very coherent intelligent write up of why Musk buying Twiiter is a terrible idea.
This is a really beautiful explanation with interactive visualization of how sound works. It’s a bit basic for anyone with an engineering degree but I still got a kick out of it since it’s so nicely done.
Another impressive use of machine learning: create a depth map of a photograph, which is then used to adjust lighting in 3d space in a realistic manner.
1-click installer of Stable Diffusion for macOS.
Stable Diffusion feels essentially like magic to us 2022 cavemen.
Cool website shows “notable” people in their birthplace.
Comparison satellite photos of Cerro Prieto 2015 vs 2022.
Impressive view of the water crisis.