You can’t trust the internet anymore
I like things that are strange and a bit obscure. It’s a habit of mine, and a lot of this blog is to document things I haven’t heard of before, because I wanted to learn about them. I mean, jeez, I’m certainly not writing blog posts about strip mahjong because the people demand it. But […]
Gemini 3 Deep Think drew me a good SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle
Gemini 3 Deep Think (via) New from Google. They say it’s ”built to push the frontier of intelligence and solve modern challenges across science, research, and engineering”. It drew me a really good SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle! I think this is the best one I’ve seen so far – here’s my previous […]
Internet Increasingly Becoming Unarchivable
As part of its mission to preserve the web, the Internet Archive operates crawlers that capture webpage snapshots. Many of these snapshots are accessible through its public-facing tool, the Wayback Machine. But as AI bots scavenge the web for training data to feed their models, the Internet Archive’s commitment to free information access has turned […]
A header-only C vector database library
A lightweight, header-only C library for storing and searching high-dimensional vector embeddings with optional multithreading support. Header-only implementation (single file: vdb.h) Multiple distance metrics (cosine, euclidean, dot product) Optional thread-safe operations via #define VDB_MULTITHREADED Save/load database to/from disk Custom memory allocators support No dependencies (except pthreads for multithreading) Python bindings (refer to vdb.py) /*test.c*/ #include […]
uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts
A maintained uBlock Origin filter list to hide all traces of YouTube shorts videos. Copy the link below, go to uBlock Origin > Dashboard > Filter lists, scroll to the bottom, and paste the link underneath the ’Import…’ heading:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts/master/list.txt > uBlock Origin subscribe link < (does not work on GitHub) Bonus: hide YouTube Comments https://raw.githubusercontent.com/i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts/master/comments.txt […]
Show HN: Arcmark – macOS bookmark manager that attaches to browser as sidebar
Arcmark is a native macOS bookmark manager built with Swift and AppKit that attaches to any browser window as a sidebar. Inspired fully by how the tabs organization works in Arc browser’s sidebar, so that the author could finally stop using this browser and try something else. arcmark-demo-video-1-720.mp4 Why Arcmark? Browser-Attached Sidebar – Float alongside […]
Amsterdam Compiler Kit
THE AMSTERDAM COMPILER KIT V6.2+ ================================ © 1987-2005 Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam 2025-04-17 INTRODUCTION ============ The Amsterdam Compiler Kit is a complete compiler toolchain consisting of front end compilers for a number of different languages, code generators, support libraries, and all the tools necessary to go from source code to executable on any of the platforms […]
A Review of M Disc Archival Capability. With long term testing results
The ProblemAnyone who wishes to archive material, be it images, documents, or videos, is faced with an almost unsolvable problem when one considers our over-reliance on new technology. Computer drives are predicted to have a life span of five years, flash cards even shorter. Magnetic creep, doping chemical migration in semi-conductors, failing physical parts, and […]
Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say
“The nature and content of the Defendants’ communications with these technology companies” is “critical for determining whether they crossed the line from governmental cajoling to unconstitutional coercion,” EFF’s complaint said. EFF Senior Staff Attorney Mario Trujillo told Ars that the EFF is confident it can win the fight to expose government demands, but like most […]
Vim 9.2 Released
The Vim project is happy to announce that Vim 9.2 has been released. Vim 9.2 brings significant enhancements to the Vim9 scripting language, improved diff mode, comprehensive completion features, and platform-specific improvements including experimental Wayland support. New Features in Vim 9.2 Comprehensive Completion: Added support for fuzzy matching during insert-mode completion and the ability to […]