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2025-11-11

• 10:47 UTC Real VT102 emulation with MAME – Real VT102 emulation with MAME MAME, the Multi-Arcade Machine Emulator, can now emulate your favourite UNIX terminals. Amazing stuff Tags: mame retrocomputing terminals vt102 hardware hacks unix emulation

2025-11-10

• 12:14 UTC The ‘Three-Body Problem’, the Imperative of Survival, and the Misogyny of Reactionary Rhetoric – The ‘Three-Body Problem’, the Imperative of Survival, and the Misogyny of Reactionary Rhetoric Very interesting; it seems China has "gongye dang", its own alt-right, misogynistic techno-nationalistic movement, which chooses to kick back against "baizuo" and "shengmu" in an "anti-wokeism" fashion. Turns out they are big fans of Lui Cixin's "Three-Body Problem" trilogy: It has become clear that the narrative structure of the Three-Bodies series, just like the gongye dang techno-nationalist discourse, is masculinist and misogynistic. Liu explicitly depicts human society under deterrence peace as ‘feminised’, noting the physical as well as mental feminisation of the ‘new era’ men. The qualities conventionally associated with femininity, such as love, compassion, and moral sentiments, are blamed for the extinction of human civilisation, whereas qualities associated with masculinity, such as rationality, determination, and aggression, are framed as key to civilisational survival. The reactionary rhetoric adopts a similar strategy, which is not only evidently anti-feminist, but also feminises social justice issues ‘as a prelude to devaluing and subduing them’ (Kaul 2021: 1624). By labelling anyone with any concerns about human rights or equality a shengmu, this rhetoric constructs certain ideas and political agendas as feminine as a way of delegitimating them: they are either hopelessly idealistic or dangerously undermine stability, growth, and ‘national interests’. Tags: literature review gender scifi misogyny books culture three-body-problem liu-cixin woke china
• 11:04 UTC What Would “Good” AI Look Like? – What Would “Good” AI Look Like? Anil: "it's possible to imagine some traits of an AI system that could credibly offer an alternative to the offerings that are currently dominating the conversation." He lists the following highlights, in summary; Content consent; Hallucination-free; Green; Actually open source; Community-led; Accessible. "We simply need to start thinking through the implications of a fundamentally better approach to AI, and to understand that all of these things are extremely possible. Consumer-grade AI tools that are actually good do not have to be a hallucination." Tags: ai llms future good-ai anil-dash tech
• 11:01 UTC An exploration on what could be a leftist position on generative AI – An exploration on what could be a leftist position on generative AI Jacky Alciné's essay with a black, US-leftist take on generative AI, the tech industry, and the immediate and planned impact of it on society and work Tags: how-we-work socialism jacky-alcine politics left-wing black ai llms future tech

2025-11-06

• 10:39 UTC What the hell have you built. – What the hell have you built. ? Did you just pick things at random? ? Why is Redis talking to MongoDB? ? Why do you even use MongoDB? A single-use-site update for the classic, now-12-year-old architecture shitpost Tags: shitposting funny architecture riak redis mongodb ouch scalability

2025-11-05

• 12:52 UTC Ireland was a key founder of the UN Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons – Ireland was a key founder of the UN Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons TIL that Ireland was a key founder of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty: Within the framework of the United Nations, the principle of nuclear non-proliferation was addressed in negotiations as early as 1957. The NPT process was launched by Frank Aiken, Irish Minister for External Affairs, in 1958. (via Gerard Cunningham) Tags: via:faduda history ireland un nuclear nukes non-proliferation frank-aiken

2025-10-30

• 12:26 UTC Aisuru botnet switches from DDoS to “Residential Proxies” – Aisuru botnet switches from DDoS to "Residential Proxies" Aisuru, the botnet responsible for a series of record-smashing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks this year, recently was overhauled to support a more low-key, lucrative and sustainable business: Renting hundreds of thousands of infected Internet of Things (IoT) devices to proxy services that help cybercriminals anonymize their traffic. Experts say a glut of proxies from Aisuru and other sources is fueling large-scale data harvesting efforts tied to various artificial intelligence (AI) projects, helping content scrapers evade detection by routing their traffic through residential connections that appear to be regular Internet users. Tags: aisuru botnets proxies residential-proxies ai scraping iot infosec security
• 11:50 UTC Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers – Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers James Padolsey suffered a stroke at the age of 29, but has been able to continue his software engineering career despite this. This is a list of some key advice he's collected since then, and is well worth taking on board, even for those of us who are still well but who'd like to reduce cognitive strain in general Tags: programming health strokes brain coding work how-we-work

2025-10-24

• 12:23 UTC episodic-memory plugin for Claude Code – episodic-memory plugin for Claude Code "a memory system for Claude that gives it perfect recall of everything it's worked on as far back as you have logs" Tags: memory llms claude claude-code plugins
• 12:22 UTC asg017/sqlite-vec – asg017/sqlite-vec "A vector search SQLite extension that runs anywhere" -- this is nifty. Vector embeddings in an embedded database! Tags: sqlite databases sql search vectors vector-embeddings fuzzy-matching

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