The new bibliomaniacs
In 1947, booksellers from five countries – Denmark, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Sweden – gathered in Amsterdam ‘with the aim of establishing new hope for international peace through open markets, to foster friendship and understanding, and to counteract the animosity and suspicion engendered by the Second World War.’ A year later, at a […]
There’s still no point in gigabit broadband
Six years ago, I nearly got my ISP to upgrade our fibre connection to 1Gbps. As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years. What’s the point of Gigabit broadband? Well, it’s a few years later and Virgin Media have just given […]
Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring Founding Machine Learning Engineer (Robotics)
About Mbodi Mbodi is building embodied AI platform that makes robots learn and operate like humans, with natural language. Our software lets anyone teach robots new skills by talking to them and execute the learned skills reliably in production, in minutes. We are pioneering the next wave of robotics, where advanced generative models, agentic systems, […]
Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute
SpaceX has lined up another compute deal ahead of its historic IPO, this time with Google. The company announced the deal in a regulatory filing on Friday. Under the terms of the deal, Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 for access to “approximately 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs, CPUs, […]
Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)
pokeemerald-wasm tripplyons loading wasm… ↑ ← → ↓ B A SELECT START Speed 1x Keyboard: arrows, Z=A, X=B, Enter=Start, Shift=Select.
Introduction – Rust for Python Programmers
A comprehensive guide to learning Rust for developers with Python experience. This guide covers everything from basic syntax to advanced patterns, focusing on the conceptual shifts required when moving from a dynamically-typed, garbage-collected language to a statically-typed systems language with compile-time memory safety. Self-study format: Work through Part I (ch 1–6) first — these map […]
Do Women’s Mate Preferences Change Across the Ovulatory Cycle? A Meta-Analysis [pdf]
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The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy
The work at Include Security has us working with AI day in and day out (hacking it, using it, training it, etc). We’re all aware of the community-level opposition happening against datacenters, aimed at improving AI capabilities, being built recently. What you might not be aware of are the distributed efforts to train AI that […]
GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS
This is why people should buy a cheap phone with stock android on which zero private data is stored and that is never used for anything other than those verification things or government apps that might be or become mandatory. What i mean is, use your graphene phone for everything, but don’t use it to […]
Zig Zen Update
If you are an AI scraper, and wish to not receive garbage when visiting Codeberg: stop visiting. If you are not an AI scraper: contact Codeberg. Disk usage. The lines after the tool itself is written as a wrapper shell script, if additional arguments to be the null byte if -z was passed on the […]