Verity covers well reasons to boycott Eurovision. I refrained from watching it since the genocide of the people of Gaza by the Israeli Army began in October 2023, that is this year and last year. It’s enraging to see the State of Israel’s song got second place this year: not only it wasn’t kicked out of the competition, but it was way too close to winning. TBH, I really don’t know if the public vote is organic or not, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it isn’t.

An exciting, fun video spilling the T on Eurovision! Woohoo! Yes, so fun! #unitedbymusic #esc2025

בחיפוש של משהו אחר נתקלתי במאובן המופלא והנוסטלגי הזה.

אתר ISF הוא אתר מדע בדיוני שהוקם עבור המשוגעים לדבר על ידי המשוגעים עוד יותר במטרה להוות כלי מידע עשיר ומגוון בשפה העברית, בכל הנוגע לתחומי המדע הבדיוני והפנטסיה בישראל ומחוצה לה.

צוות האתר מורכב מכותבים מקצועיים וממומחים בתחומי המדע הבדיוני, הפנטסיה, הקולנוע, הטלוויזיה, וכמובן הספרות הבדיונית. כל אחד מהעוסקים במלאכה עושה זאת ללא תשלום במטרה לקדם את תחום המדע הבדיוני והפנטסיה בארץ.

Upon joining Heroku a few years back, one of the maxims that I heard cited frequently was that of building small, sharp tools, the idea of building minimalist, composable programs that worked in concert to a degree of effectiveness that was more than the sum of their parts. The classic example of such a system was the Unix shell, which contains a set of small utilities that provide a highly effective operating environment. Despite its origin in Unix, a number of people at Heroku including a founder and a few lead engineers had found that it lent itself quite naturally to building modern web platforms.

I really like Stated Clearly’s attitude towards evolution by natural selection, evidence and science communication. Very true to its name.

Take note there are subtitles in various languages.

This bizarre little creature might look like nature couldn’t make up its mind—but hidden in its odd features are powerful clues about how evolution works.
In this episode of Stated Clearly, science communicator Jon Perry examines a living species that provides compelling evidence for evolution. Through close observation of this one animal, we explore how traits can be lost, how new ones emerge, and how environmental pressures drive change over generations.
Whether you're curious about evolutionary biology, teaching science in the classroom, or just love weird animals with amazing backstories, this video is for you.
🦎 Strange anatomy
🧬 Evolution in action
📚 Concepts made simple
This isn’t a lecture—it’s a journey through the living world that will leave you looking at snakes, lizards, and pregnancy, in a whole new light.
Watch now to see what makes this creature one of Darwin’s little monsters.
#EvidenceForEvolution #Evolution #Biology #StatedClearly #Darwin #ScienceEducation #WeirdAnimals #NaturalSelection

Also, read Melancholy Elephants.

i don't know that much about copyright law ; this post is more of a philosophical exploration of intellectual property . it's also not a comprehensive argument , as there are quite a few reasons i dislike intellectual property that aren't mentioned here .

א״ת: מראות קשים של מציאות קשה. חורבן בתים. חורבן בית.
CW: Horrible photos of horrible reality. Destruction.

לאחר כניסת הפסקת האש לתוקפה, תושבי עזה חוזרים לבתיהם החרבים. לצידם מגיעים לאזורים שעד כה לא היה אפשר להיכנס אליהם גם עיתונאים וצלמים – והתמונות שהם מצלמים מעידות על השיקום הארוך שמצפה לאזרחי הרצועה

I’m less optimistic than rolltime with regard to the ability of AI (at least as it is currently conceived) to be used for good, but the talk is fascinating nonetheless.

Friday, July 12, 2024: 8:00 pm (Marillac Auditorium): For more than a year now, "AI" has been the tech world's most expensive obsession. The scramble to burn money as fast as possible is both unprecedented and utterly familiar - but not every resource is as endless as venture capital funding. AI technology's energy consumption is beginning to approach that of a small country, and it shows no signs of shrinking. How can we reconcile our hunger to compute with the need to avert ecological devastation? Is it possible for progress and sustainability to coexist? And how can hackers help computers save themselves? This talk brings a fresh perspective to discussions on the problems, possibilities, and future of the human relationship to computing.

Tracked Music by Dubmood + Master Boot Record / Razor 1911, released 19 April 2025

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An amazing upcoming Famicom/NES game. The demo is brilliant, and I can’t wait for the rest 🍌

A new action puzzle game for NES and Famicom!
From team members behind the legendary Elite Beat Agents and Osu! Tatakae Ouendan! comes BANANA BASH!, a brain busting arcade action-puzzle game for NES and Famicom that will take you on a wild ride through an unforgettable blue-skied and sunny retro gaming experience!

The world’s largest open-source open-data library. Mirrors Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and more.

Anna’s Archive is a non-profit project with two goals:
Preservation: Backing up all knowledge and culture of humanity.
Access: Making this knowledge and culture available to anyone in the world.

More interesting and eye-opening thoughts from viznut!

It is now more than a year since I wrote my "early notes" about Permacomputing. At that time, I was not yet aware of anyone else having similar ideas, so I've now decided to write an update that connects my ideas with the existing discussions and activities. I also want to share some new ideas I have been pondering about.

Collection of wallpapers recolored to the Everforest colorscheme

This piece convinced me to install 9front] on a Virtual Machine and play with it. More superficially, it also convinced me to switch to a [[https://π.duncano.de/ | Plan 9 cursor theme on my Linux machine 🤪

Plan 9 is an operating system designed by Bell Labs. It’s the OS they wrote after Unix, with the benefit of hindsight. It is the most interesting operating system that you’ve never heard of, and, in my opinion, the best operating system design to date. Even if you haven’t heard of Plan 9, the designers of whatever OS you do use have heard of it, and have incorporated some of its ideas into your OS.

Plan 9 is a research operating system, and exists to answer questions about ideas in OS design. As such, the Plan 9 experience is in essence an exploration of the interesting ideas it puts forth. Most of the ideas are small. Many of them found a foothold in the broader ecosystem — UTF-8, goroutines, /proc, containers, union filesystems, these all have their roots in Plan 9 — but many of its ideas, even the good ones, remain unexplored outside of Plan 9. As a consequence, Plan 9 exists at the center of a fervor of research achievements which forms a unique and profoundly interesting operating system.

A holistic approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture.

Permacomputing encourages the maximization of hardware lifespan, minimization of energy usage and focuses on the use of already available computational resources. It values maintenance and refactoring of systems to keep them efficient, instead of planned obsolescence, permacomputing practices planned longevity. It is about using computation only when it has a strengthening effect on ecosystems.

- Design For Disassembly
- Design For Encapsulation
- Design For Descent

My favourite chiptune internet radio. Also available on YouTube. See also the mixtapes.

(The site is HTTP only; no HTTPS and that’s OK for this purpose, even if not ideal)

Hi there!
My name is Kirill, I live near Moscow and work as an engineer. Sometimes I hear these sweet and simple melodies we all love. At such moments, when a warm mixture of groove and slight nostalgia covers me, I fight my laziness and share my findings with you.

Some parts (like the AI bit) didn’t age so well, but this is a fascinating piece by all means. I’m reading part II (the 2021 update) now.

viznut.fi has no HTTPS support, so if your browser complains about it just dismiss the warning and go on like it’s the 1990s… 🖧

This is a collection of random thoughts regarding the application of permacultural ideas to the computer world.

There are other ways to achieve the same result (such as using inotifywait directly), but this is by far the easiest one.

A utility for running arbitrary commands when files change. Uses kqueue(2) or inotify(7) to avoid polling. entr was written to facilitate rapid feedback on the command line.

Some of these are familiar from my early Linux days (late 90s / early 00s)… God I’m old 🦕

A small collection of tools for the X Window System, some more and some less obscure. For cool terminal tools, see Kristof Kovacs’ Cool, but obscure Unix tools. All applications have been tested on FreeBSD but should run on other Unix-like operating systems as well.

This is a 2022 re-recording of my lost 2014 NSConference blitz talk of the same name that gives a short rundown of what HyperCard was and why it was so amazing.

I remember how as a young kid I thought wearing a watch and glasses made me a kind of a cyborg and it was awesome. This wonderful zine of wheelchair (and, by generalisation, beneficent technology) joy is along the same lines.

Wheelchairs are beautiful, a marvel of technology. They are mech suits, cybernetic enhancements, they are machines that we join with in a nourishing symbiotic relationship. They are not prisons; wheelchairs are liberation. They are freedom, they are a walk in the park, they are the sunlight on my face after years in dark tunnels.
There is so little media about the joy that wheelchairs bring, how powerfully they transform our lives. That’s why I’m writing this zine. Not for abled people, but for someone like me who once hated and feared the thing that would make me whole again.

Freya Holmér’s (@acegikmo@mastodon.social) video about generative AI and its consequences is deep, interesting and thought-provoking.

Game UI is an underappreciated art form, so here I am, in this video - appreciating it.

I’ve tried some other tools for downloading documents from Issuu. Some didn’t work, some produced text as blurry images. This one seems to work perfectly as of now (2025-04-28).

I’d say f@#k Issuu and their anti-social, anti-archival, anti-accessibility restrictions but there’s stuff you can find only there, unfortunately.

A POC downloader that creates "true" PDF files, which contain real text and vector graphics

CW: a musical instrument made out organs of a real-life animal (a drum) is being used in this video.

In today's episode we take a look at the strange world of star trek music theory. From the Lixian scale and Klingon Solfege, to the real world Klingon Opera, 'u' - to the pages of the Klingon dictionary where we explore a nonatonic, 9-EDO interpretation of Klingon music let us boldly go where no microtone has gone before!

A wonderful introduction to tracker music and its history, very well done with regard to both the presentation and editing and the content itself.

Topics. Introduction; The Dawn of 16-Bit Computing; Multimedia Powerhouse; Early Amiga Music Software; SoundMonitor; The Ultimate Soundtracker; ST-01 Samples; Soundtracker’s Commercial Fate; The Demoscene; Early Soundtracker Clones; Noisetracker; Tracker Musicians; Doskpop; Chiptunes; Protracker; MED / OctaMED; Trackers in the Mainstream; Later Amiga Trackers; PC Audio; MIDI Soundcards; Screamtracker; Second Reality; FastTracker; Impulse Tracker; The Advent of CD-ROM; Epic MegaGames; Contemporary Trackers; The Sound of 16-Bit; Finding Out More; Credits

Having watched the concatenative programming talk, I had a glance on the conference’s YouTube channel and was struck by the multitude of interesting talks (well, titles…). I’m grateful for the speakers to have presented their talks and for the organisers to have organised the conferences and making the video files available for all.

Strange Loop was a multi-disciplinary conference that brought together the developers and thinkers building tomorrow's technology in fields such as emerging languages, alternative databases, concurrency, distributed systems, security, and the web.

A wonderful and clear CS background for stack-based languages (I’m interested in Uxn mostly, but the general theory is fascinating). I find this all extremely aesthetically pleasing.

In this talk we’ll explore stack-based programming languages, in which your program operates directly (and only!) on a stack of values. It might seem daunting at first to program without variable names, but the simplicity of stack-based languages makes them interesting to reason about mathematically, and also fun to tinker with! We’ll look at how stack-based languages are concatenative, letting you break apart your program into arbitrary pieces without affecting its meaning. We’ll compare them with combinatory logic, and see how small we can make our language while still being Turing-complete. And we’ll show how they make good low-level (but still readable!) assembly languages, by examining a Uxn program and running it on a variety of interesting hardware.

This should have 41K stars, not 41 stars… 🌟

I can’t wait to test this one out! (Hopefully tomorrow). Like Uxn + NDS = 💘

7 track album

Adventure Movie which inspired SpielbergOriginal movie: Cesta Do Pravěku, (Karel Zeman, 1955)Song name: John Williams - Jurrasic Park ThemeInteresting facts ...

So, let’s have a dedicated Uxn thread! Sound potato What? Uxn is a portable 8-bit virtual computer inspired by forth-machines, capable of running simple tools and games programmable in its own assembly language. In English: Imagine a workstation that is so simple that it can be implemented in an afternoon by a single person. Imagine that every tool/application is a only a few bytes. Software for Uxn are most similar to roms for the classic Nintendo, except that the console is designed es...

I haven’t read all of this gigamegahypersuperthread, but it is too amazing not to share.

hello! in this first section of the uxn tutorial we talk about the basics of the uxn computer called varvara, its programming paradigm in a language called uxntal, its architecture, and why you would want to learn to program it.

Had great fun learning the first day of the Uxn tutorial from this webpage, only to discover it is available also on Gemini, which I prefer. So the first day is bookmarked here, and the next ones will be bookmarked on Gemini.

I think I found a new favourite fantasy console computer thingy. I love PICO-8 and TIC-80 deeply, but there’s something in Unx’s minimalism that stands out.

The most customizable typing test website with a minimal design and a ton of features. Test yourself in various modes, track your progress and improve your speed.

I use Monkeytype in order to practice Colemak DH wide.

A collection of illustrated notes on the virtual machine uxn.

Installing and setting up Betula was a breeze with Caddy. I now run it on my laptop, which is not online all of the time, but I hope to move it to an Ethernet-connected Raspberry Pi which should be always online in the not-too-far future.