Bjorn Stahl of the Arcan project wrote an insightful blog post The Day of a new Command-Line Interface: Shell [1]. He does a really good job of identifying problems and strategies for dealing with them, the UI of the results isn’t suitable to what I do though.
Using sqlite as an executable format (replacement for ELF) is one of the wildest ideas I’ve seen in a while, it might actually have some good use cases too [2].
Andrew Dana Hudson wrote an interesting LongNow article about SciFi’s focus on space travel when it seems unlikely [3].
TheDriven has an informative article about the “Hands Off Our Fuel” astroturf campaign that uses farmers as the face of an attempt to give tax exemptions to mining companies [4].
The Conversation has an interesting article about the new Chinese regulations restricting access to AI systems to prevent emotional dependence and prevent minors from having virtual partners or relatives [5].
Elana Hashman wrote an informative blog post about Python virtualenvs, has useful information for people who aren’t Python experts and just need to get stuff done [6].
We need more systems in the NTP pool, I would consider doing this if I had a server with an IP address that won’t change and no risk of bandwidth throttling [7].
Cory Doctorow has some interesting thoughts on the CEO fetish for “AI” even though it is almost never doing any good [8].
Steve Rose wrote an insightful article for The Guardian about the tech fascists of Silicon Valley [9].
Jacqui Lambie calls Pauline Hanson an “angry little woman” and a “bloody coward”, One Nation hate the rule of law [10].
The Conversation has an interesting article about Regime Change, the book about Trump by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan [11].
Elvira Barry wrote an insightful article about the many failures of the Russian legal system, it’s interesting to note that ALL those failures match things that the Trump regime is doing [12].
Pyotr Kurzin – Geopolitics YouTube channel has an interesting interview about “continental” vs “maritime” powers in the context of what the US and Russia are doing [13].
Maxinomica has an interesting video about how China obtained a monopoly on rare earth metals and what happens next [14].
Anarcat wrote an insightful blog post The people vs the AI overlords about the problems that “AI” software development is bringing [15].
John Goerzen wrote an interesting blog post discussing the issues related to LLM use in FOSS projects [16].
Cybernews has an article about an exploit for Samsung, Xiaomi, Oppo, and OnePlus phones due to bad OEM kernel drivers and bad OEM API proxies, no company should release devices with proprietry drivers [17].
Scott Santens wrote an insightful article about how retraining fails laid-off workers and why UBI is needed when workers get replaced by LLMs [18].
libroot has some information on the Snowden archive and why so little of it has been used by journalists, we need more answers about this [19].
Drew Devault’s list of Weird little guys of FOSS is interesting history about some people who are best avoided [20].