It’s short link title week!
- Networking for System Administrators (2nd Edition) is definitely happening.
- Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web. (via)
- Replacing Music Streaming Services with a Self-hosted Stack. (via)
- ELIZA turns 60. Check the bibliographic links at the end. (via)
- BSD-USER 4 LINUX or the BSDULATOR. (via)
- Selling Lemons.
- Abagious Tactics, a sort of sequel to Oblique Strategies. (via)
- PIRACYKILLS, a clever method to turn pirates into customers. (via)
- A dumb use of AI.
- A clever use of AI.
- MUNG origin.
- Other tech trees.
- Special admin tools. (via)
- Simple X11 configuration. Saved for my own benefit. (also via)
Current event: Roguelike Celebration 2025 is happening right now if you read this soon enough. If you missed it, there’s a related Steam sale filled with roguelike games.
Apropos tech trees: computer history condensed into one poster:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220126142618/http://computerposter.ch/assets/poster2019down.pdf
thats’s the german version though. I couldn’t find the english (and french) versions online — maybe they’re only available as print.
The story about Eliza is a great find! But it irks me that Weizenbaum apparently never thought to simply *ask* his secretary why she did that and how much she really “anthropomorphized” the software.