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Bobby Prince, '90s FPS game musician extraordinare and longtime id Software associate, has died at 81. Now, early on, there were things like Commander Keen and Eat Your Vegetables, which were cute and amusing yet almost completely orthogonal to his later output. Correspondin...

My last attempt at a vacuum tube technically worked, but not very well because there was a lot of glass between the anode and cathode: Because of this, many any electrons that miss anode and build up on the glass. This negative charge will keep accumulating until it's...

The real valuable capability MCP offers over skills/CLI is isolating the auth flow outside of the agent’s context window, and potentially out of the harness completely. [...]

Maybe the idealized form of MCP is just an auth gateway for the API and nothing else. That’d still be a win.

— Sean Lynch, comment on Hacker News

Tags: model-context-protocol, llms, ai, generative-ai, skills

Today's links The Big Con: Making the pile of shit bigger won't increase the number of ponies underneath it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: TVA v SETI@Home; Telemarketers v DHS batphones; Matt Stone's MPAA censorship memo; Stonehenge pocket watch;...

"We see these AIs as a galaxy glittering with capabilities, but at their center, invisible to the naked eye, holding all the constellations together, is an unimaginably massive black hole of data."

Although I’ve played way too many games for way too many hours over the way too many years I’ve been writing these histories, it’s safe to say that I haven’t spent more time with any one game than Heroes of Might and Magic II. Partly this was down to circumstance. Heroes II showed up on the […]

You’ve probably heard the term.

It’s meant to convey how difficult it can be to start something.

“Blank page paralysis”.

But for my money, beginning is easy. Finishing is the hard part.

In software, they call it “the last 90%”.

In logistics, they call it “the last mile”.

It’s that final stretch that’s disproportionately hard.

Finishing makes something real and finite, subject to judgment.

As I near completion, there’s a little voice in my head that says, “As long as it’s unfinished, there’s nothing wrong with it. It’s still potentially perfect!”

I don’t struggle with blank page paralysis.

But I am paralyzed in the face of a full page ready for publishing.

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For the better part of the last several hundred years, coal was the fuel of choice for generating power.

Today we launched a new plugin for Datasette, datasette-apps, with this launch announcement post on the Datasette project blog. That post has the what, but I'm going to expand on that a little bit here to provide the why. The TL;DR Datasette Apps are self-contained HTML+Java...

Release: datasette-acl 0.6a0

This release expands datasette-acl from table-only permissions toward a general resource-sharing system.

Alex Garcia did most of the work for this release - we're fleshing out the plugin that will allow multi-user Datasette instances finely grained control over who can access which resources within Datasette.

Tags: datasette, alex-garcia

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For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. This week, researchers from multiple security firms concluded that the Popa botnet is linked to NetNut, a "residential proxy" provider operated by the publicly-traded Israeli firm Alarum Technologies Ltd [NASDAQ: ALAR].

Today's links AI digital sovereignty risk doesn't exist: If 'risk + AI = risk – AI', then 'AI = 0'. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Napster x librarians; Flickr API reciprocity; KFC's Mega Jug v diabetes research; Hambone virtuoso; Google fiber x b...

On designing finger-friendly interactions. (7,700 words. 38 playgrounds.)

Ten million downloads a week, one maintainer, zero dollars.

This is the most overwritten book I've ever read. Unfortunately, Alan Moore knows exactly how much polysyllabic pressure it takes to transmogrify base coal into precious gems. With lines like "his shaved suede skull made him look like a wilted thistle" and "There was a rumour of pink lipstick circling her mouth" you know you're in for a treat. Even better than the joyful prose of Bob…

Since at least 2008, every time there’s an option to either make the money track real value or make sure things don’t go down, they chose the latter. As a result, money is increasingly uncoupled from reality.

You'd think that given the same bytes of input you'd get the same bytes of output. lol. lmao. No, you don't. It's complicated.

Chinese AI lab Z.ai released GLM-5.2 to their coding plan subscribers on June 13th, and then yesterday (June 16th) released the full open weights under an MIT license. Similar in size to their previous GLM-5 and GLM-5.1 releases, this is 753B parameter, 1.51TB monster - with...