Still one of my favorite McSweeney’s articles: E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone. “MikeAtYahooDotCom@hotmail.com”
Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet
Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet
The security team from Brave took a look at Comet, the LLM-powered "agentic browser" extension from Perplexity, and unsurprisingly found security holes you can drive a truck through.
The vulnerability w...
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Our Favorite Objects: Galileo's Middle Finger (Classic)
Dylan goes on a journey to examine the preserved middle finger of astronomer, physicist, and engineer Galileo Galilei.
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Static Sites with Python, uv, Caddy, and Docker
Static Sites with Python, uv, Caddy, and Docker
Nik Kantar documents his Docker-based setup for building and deploying mostly static web sites in line-by-line detail.
I found this really useful. The Dockerfile itself without comments is just 8 lines long:
FROM ghcr.io/astral...
#478 – Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex
Scott Horton is the director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of The Scott Horton Show, co-host of Provoked, and for the past three decades a staunch critic of U.S. military interventionism.
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Phoenix.new
My thanks to Fly.io for sponsoring last week at DF to promote Phoenix.new, their new AI app-builder. Just describe your idea, and Phoenix.new quickly generates a working real-time Phoenix app: clustering, pubsub, and presence included. Ideal for multiplayer games, collaborative tools, or quick weekend experiments. Built by Fly.io, deploy wherever you want. Just try it, and see how far you can go.
Spatial Joins in DuckDB
Spatial Joins in DuckDB
Extremely detailed overview by Max Gabrielsson of DuckDB's new spatial join optimizations.
Consider the following query, which counts the number of NYC Citi Bike Trips for each of the neighborhoods defined by the NYC Neighborhood Tabulation Areas poly...
From John Ganz in Nov 2024: “a list of things I thought...
From John Ganz in Nov 2024: “a list of things I thought the fascism theory of Trumpism predicted could happen”. Many have come to pass. The obstinance in recognizing what’s plainly happening here is upsetting — it wasn’t hard to see it coming.
“We’re seeing an escalation of authoritarian power on many fronts that has...
“We’re seeing an escalation of authoritarian power on many fronts that has grown unmistakable.” Trump’s FBI Raid of John Bolton’s Home Looks Like a “Five-Alarm Fire”.
How to Make Sense of Trump’s Voting Rights Chaos. “It matters that...
How to Make Sense of Trump’s Voting Rights Chaos. “It matters that when the president reaches for a strategic distraction, he chooses one that matches Project 2025’s goals.” (Maybe DC’s occupation is, in part, voter intimidation?)
Has anyone tried these replacement memory foam ear tips for AirPods Pro...
Has anyone tried these replacement memory foam ear tips for AirPods Pro 2? Greedy for (even) better noise cancellation and sound quality…
“For many, the idea of a ‘frog sauna’ might sound bizarre,” but...
“For many, the idea of a ‘frog sauna’ might sound bizarre,” but this simple solution is saving some Australian frogs from a deadly fungus.
Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad. “It is worth taking the time, in...
Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad. “It is worth taking the time, in light of the president’s recent words, to revisit some of…the first-person accounts of formerly enslaved people discussing the myriad horrors they endured.”
James Dobson Is Dead, Was A Monster. “The world is a much...
James Dobson Is Dead, Was A Monster. “The world is a much worse place as a result of his life’s work; it would be a better place had he never been born.”
Full Match: Barça 5-0 Madrid (2010 El Clásico)
The other day I was surprised to learn that several years ago, FC Barcelona streamed the entire match of their Nov 2010 5-0 dismantling of Real Madrid to YouTube and you can still watch it in its entirety.
The El Clásico match was notable not only for how much Barça domin...
too many model context protocol servers and LLM allocations on the dance floor
too many model context protocol servers and LLM allocations on the dance floor
Useful reminder from Geoffrey Huntley of the infrequently discussed significant token cost of using MCP.
Geoffrey estimate estimates that the usable context window something like Amp or Cursor is ...
Quoting The Bluesky Team
Mississippi's approach would fundamentally change how users access Bluesky. The Supreme Court’s recent decision leaves us facing a hard reality: comply with Mississippi’s age assurance law—and make every Mississippi Bluesky user hand over sensitive ...
DeepSeek 3.1
DeepSeek 3.1
The latest model from DeepSeek, a 685B monster (like DeepSeek v3 before it) but this time it's a hybrid reasoning model.
DeepSeek claim:
DeepSeek-V3.1-Think achieves comparable answer quality to DeepSeek-R1-0528, while responding more quickly.
Drew Breunig poi...
ChatGPT release notes: Project-only memory
ChatGPT release notes: Project-only memory
The feature I've most wanted from ChatGPT's memory feature (the newer version of memory that automatically includes relevant details from summarized prior conversations) just landed:
With project-only memory enabled, Chat...
The Four Players That Span the Entire History of the NBA
Yesterday I posted an incredible fact about LeBron James: he has played against 35% of all of the players that have ever played in the NBA. Wondering about the Great Span of the NBA, I looked for the oldest player from LeBron’s rookie season, then for the oldest player in th...