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Or its modern incarnation, Gemini. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

Stray thought: adding a library the PR submitter controls would be a good starting point for an XZ/SSH-style supply chain attack: badger & threaten the maintainers to add the depen…

That's not correct; Wired still produces a print edition every other month.

From https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/the-future-is-ours-to-...

Sex On Holidays Can Advance Happiness To Outrageous Amplitudes. Not suitable for a high school class, though.

Who would you cite as having done significant investigative reporting on Youtube? (setting aside the Pulitzers for poetry, music, fiction, non-fiction, none of which would be first…

I have rarely read a smugger blog post than this one. While the author isn't wrong about Final Frontier and their ultimately doomed practice of completing Kickstarter N with the fu…

Also Violet Blue's weekly cybersecurity roundups: the most recent is https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-15-126689368 .

Asimov's story The Feeling of Power seems relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power

A documentary from PBS's American Experience: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/nazi-town-...

Tom Lehrer: "It’s people like that who make you realize how little you’ve accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two…

Rebecca Watson wrote about them a week ago: https://skepchick.org/2025/02/the-rationalist-death-cult-spr...

My rule: when buying a 'lifetime' service, assume that equals 10 years and weigh the cost accordingly. A lifetime Nebula subscription is $300, so $30/year. Is that reasonable to yo…

You're motte-and-baileying here, since you began with "WordPress has been built by people employed by Matt either via Automattic or via his other entities", and are now writing "Wo…

"The Good Virus", by Tom Ireland, is an entertaining book about bacteriophage therapies, their history, and why they're difficult to scale up.

Erm, Python has accepted semicolons to separate statements since version 0.9.2, released in the fall of 1991.

I noticed the README comment about NNTP's limitations. I wonder if a new NNTP-over-HTTP protocol could find enough traction among the text-using crowd, or if ActivityPub could be u…

I think this just shows it's possible to write boring summaries, and log lines are often very non-specific. I read almost all of the Hugo-nominated fiction, and wrote these summari…

In the book club I run, we voted on books for a few years. I kept hoping the non-attending voters would choose the right books to bring them to a meeting, but the choices sometimes…

Of the names on that list, GvR, Barry Warsaw, and Paul Everitt were all at PyCon in Pittsburgh a few weeks ago. Barry is currently a member of the Python Steering Council and parti…

Iain Banks's "Against A Dark Background"?

For most entertainment topics, the-avocado.org has some lively discussion (based on Disqus).

He wrote "A Dog's Life" ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/11/08/why-are-s... ), a feature in the Post's magazine, in November 2021. (A heartbreaking story, if you're a…