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)