Maybe I should add a ‘odd hardware’ category.
- “Open source is everything!“
- Epistemological Slop.
- Pomera DM250 Tinkering.
- MNT April 2025 Update. The handheld prototype is interesting.
- The DNS system isn’t a database and shouldn’t be used as one. “Lies in order to create truth” is one way to describe DNS.
- Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries and Poisoning Well and anticrawl. I am seeing multiple AI text poisoning tools being published, which gives an idea of the size of the problem. (first two via)
- A local perspective: roughly 15% of my traffic logs for the Digest in the past week contain the line “bot”, which is probably an undercount of actual activity. If I was running more heavyweight services this would definitely concern me.
- Poisonify, same but for music. (via)
- The Qwerkywriter.
- DOOM plus DOOM 2. I had no idea how many rewrites there were.
- Why is there a “small house” in IBM’s Code page 437? (via)
- Digital hygiene. (via)
- Don’t use AI for technical answers.
- If it hadn’t been C, what language would have been most common? Brian Kernighan’s answer.
- “What I Saw at the Evolution of Plan 9” by Geoff Collyer. Read the Closing Thoughts section at the end. (PDF, via)
Your unrelated music of the week: Keep Pushing from clipping. (via)