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You might be right: I am indeed using https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/minecraft-server . I thought IDLE_SERVER was an upstream feature but it seems to part of that package's man…

Minecraft servers are resource hogs even when idle. Enable the built-in idle server shutdown (IDLE_SERVER=true). It automatically stops the server after a few minutes with no playe…

I'm not familiar with this -- is it in one of their games in particular?

Somewhat related, the experiment ongoing at https://www.ecdsa.fail/ is fascinating: it's a competitive, leaderboard-style research challenge trying to optimise a quantum circuit fo…

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It's being worked on right now: https://www.twitch.tv/pushcx

Same. I also find Niri paired with an ultrawide curved monitor to be particularly good.

Episode 4 of the BBS documentary covers Fidonet and is worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng0NE4lDP2U

We replace push advertising (unsolicited messages) with pull systems (discoverability on demand).

I'm not sure about the metaphors. The "Axe of Satisfaction" suggests that some of the ills of late-stage capitalism can be overcome through individual grit alone. Maybe we need to …

For me, Jellyfin makes my smart TV (running webOS) tolerable. It turns the TV into the appliance it should have been from the start, without ads, AI assistants, or silly apps.

I prefer the notion of Productive Failure [0]. [0] https://www.manukapur.com/productive-failure/

Micro Men (2009) is also a fun movie: it's a dramatised version of the Sinclair vs Acorn story.

"We ask that the use and possession of Proof-Of-Work cryptocurrencies be banned, with a one year max wait period to let the various projects transition to other technologies, like …

> Our goals throughout the effort, when articulated at all, have > always concerned themselves with building a comfortable relationship > with the machine and with exploring ideas …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP4PqVGudtg is a nice animation of AES. Of course, the inputs are fixed unlike the above.

The article doesn't mention it but entries can include an "annotate" field. I use it to add short summaries and notes. It is not used by the standard bibliography styles, but it ca…

BBS: The Documentary Part 4 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cm6EFYktRQ ) has some great interviews with Tom Jennings & co. on the beginnings, growth and decline of Fidonet. "It …

It is great to see a project like this being open-sourced. There are so proprietary blockchain analysis services with closed-source software. How do you handle forks and reorganiza…

Graph Drawing: Algorithms for the Visualization of Graphs by Tollis, Di Battista, Eades and Tamassia ( http://www.amazon.com/Graph-Drawing-Algorithms-Visualization... ). The book i…

Very cool. Are you able to compute the shortest paths on fly?