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: HYPERBLAM by Heydon Pickering “HYPERBLAM [created by Heydon Pickering] lets you make music with HTML. It’s a declarative …

: light-dark() light-dark() CSS color function helps to make better color schemes for websites.

: Most of “AI” is a rebranded side effect of the surveillance technology.

: Still warms my heart after 7 years: people making music with floppy drives.

: RFC 1149 Packet loss is likely with avian carriers.

: Back to 90s Ruffle is a Rust-based Flash Player reimplementation.

: Google’s YouTube Music is now testing “AI” radio announcers, mainly to mess up the experience of …

: How does YouTube verify student’s educational status? Identity verification is a multi-national industry that remixes data between educational …

: This is impressive work of art: wearable wedding dress made of 3 kilograms in LEGO bricks. Designed …

: Surprisingly, totally awful lack of ‘security’ on a call-recording application that sells people’s …

: Shopify was behind the RubyGems hostile takeover Shopify was behind the last week’s hostile takeover of RubyGems and other Ruby-based projects, …

: Trouble in Ruby land Overview of the outcome of recent hostile takeover of RubyGems’ infrastructure.

: There will be paid advertising on OpenAI systems. That will make OpenAI even less reliable as a data …

: YouTube goes full speed towards disasters.

: Moderation in a challenge on social media platforms All platforms (including Mastodon) are required to do certain levels of moderation to stay compliant …

: Out-out from LinkedIn’s GenAI data mining You should opt-out from the data mining of your posts.

: Nvidia bought ~4% of Intel Intel still holds the key technologies for x86 CPU computing.

: Shelly Power Strip 4 Gen4 Multi-purpose automation at home or office.

: Netlify pricing change is a disaster Netlify limits Free tier users to only 20 builds a month.

: Sigma 200mm f/2 DG OS | Sports Expensive 200mm lens that looks good based on the details.

: Reducing risk of malicious ads New method for blocking accidental visits to search engine ads by using enterprise policies for …

: No more spam from IEEE Disable unwanted spam emails from IEEE’s “Communication Preferences”.

: Learning standards Start learning standards-based techniques.

: Future Increased uncertainty about future requires preparing for potential future(s).

: EXIF data discovery Overview of an article from Harley Turan about ways to access and search EXIF metadata from a …

: Ideas for a website List of ideas for new /pages

: Bluesky adds Saved Posts feature Overview of a new feature from Bluesky platform.

: Problems with social media platforms Platforms are structurally different from each other, even when they compete with each other (with a …

: Today I Learned that there is a city called Norway in the State of Michigan, USA.

: Names makes things easier to remember Manton Reece has a good naming convention for Micro.blog servers.

: Updated About page with a bit of actual content.

: I really like this example from Ethan J. A. Schoonover on how Obsidian can be used to plan RPG …

: How to blog Blog posts are timestamped snapshots of your past.

: blog.autiomaa.org New blog is available via subdomain of my personal website.

: The minimalistic layout of my tiny new blog on this platform feels nicely focused. Less focused on …

: Mobile games are largely an escape room from reality (when people are either too tired or too bored …

: Many people seem to be considering to move away from GitHub, but even while their own repositories …

: Trying out Micro.one Trying out Micro.one because it’s really nicely priced at $1 per month. While it has a bit less …