FeedCity

On the first- and second-order effects of software licensing.

A comprehensive guide on Rust macros

I was joking on Mastodon about how the zeitgeist has changed over the years, but its pattern is revealing itself: an acronym which merely drops letters. The Next Big Thing™ is clearly going to be “A”. 2010: Everyone needs an "API" 2020: Everyone needs "AI" 2030: Everyone ne...

Here are this week’s interesting links:

• Dishwashers are critical: At the heart of every restaurant
• Hahahah, oh ho ho ho, hahahaha: Microsoft’s Copilot falsely accuses court reporter of crimes he covered
• Astronomers back call for review of bonkers rule that means satellite swarms fly without environment checks

Enjoy!

(how good? how do we know?)

I quite enjoyed Pen & Teller’s Masterclass (paywall, sorry!). I learned some practical card tricks that came in handy while we sitting in the airport waiting for a connecting fight with restless kids. I also really enjoyed Pen & Teller’s reflections on the art of the...

I recently changed my workflow around authoring and publishing my site notes.jim-nielsen.com. Here’s the rundown. Before Pretty standard JAMstack type stuff. All my notes are markdown files in a git repository that live alongside the code generating the website, e.g. package...

Imagine you bake a delicious peach pie over the weekend, and you offer a slice to your friend. They respond:

“Wait, how is this different from every other peach pie that’s ever been baked? It seems really similar to another pie I had recently.”

Here’s the latest links. I was travelling the last two weeks, so I missed a week, and this one is late, but here we are:

• The staggering death toll of scientific lies
• Finally, yes please: Artificial intelligence is losing hype
• From the ‘absolute crap’ department: Peloton announces $95 “used equipment activation fee”
• Magic moment: Sydney aquarium filled with song after sea birds mourn death of gay penguin Sphen
• You don’t know how bad most things are nor precisely how they’re bad.
• Did you lose your AirPods?
• Person having ordinary skill in the art
• 200 meteorites on Earth traced to 5 craters on Mars

See you soon!

Short version: Secure Boot Advanced Targeting and if that's enough for you you can skip the rest you're welcome.Long version: When UEFI Secure Boot was specified, everyone involved was, well, a touch naive. The basic security model of Secure Boot is that all the code that end...

On ShopTalkShow no. 628, Chris and Dave got to talking about s3/r2 and hosted media solutions. Dave graciously gave a shoutout to my Netlify “public folder” workflow, which reminded me of something I’ve been meaning to write about. Chris mentions how he prefers being able to...

Can Kamala Harris break the global incumbency curse?

A taxonomy of frustrating code review behaviours, and some thoughts about them.

(The issues described in this post have been fixed, I have not exhaustively researched whether any other issues exist)Feeld is a dating app aimed largely at alternative relationship communities (think "classier Fetlife" for the most part), so unsurprisingly it's fairly popula...

From Emil Kowalski’s newsletter (my Feedbin cache for your convenience): I started writing more blog posts recently. I like it because it's different than X. You get a spike of views when you share something on X, but that dies off quickly. If you provide great value with y...

Recently a Dutch hacker was able to take control of 4 million solar panel installations (FTM (Dutch), Euractiv, Victor Gevers). And this wasn’t the first time something like this has happened either (PV Magazine). As usual, huge thanks are due to the many beta readers and experts who helped improve this article with their feedback, valuable insights and knowledge! This post was machine translated (not too well) from the original Dutch version, which was also more focused on The Netherlands.

There is now also an English version of this page with more EU relevance! Media: BNR, TenneT wil regels zien voor apps voor zonnepanelen en waarschuwt voor black-outs. Recent weer in het nieuws, een Nederlandse hacker kon 4 miljoen zonnepaneelsystemen overnemen (FTM, Euractiv). En dit was niet de eerste keer dat zoiets gebeurde. Zoals gebruikelijk weer veel dank voor de proeflezers en experts die mee hebben gedacht over dit artikel & zeer waardevolle bijdragen en kennis geleverd hebben!

Pathfinding applied to the software solution domain

An essay about status relativism