JSON Schema Demystified: Dialects, Vocabularies and Metaschemas

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If you’ve ever tried to dive into JSON Schema, you’ve probably encountered a wall of terminology that makes your head spin: schemas, metaschemas, dialects, vocabularies, keywords, anchors, dynamic references. It feels like the community invented new words for things that already had perfectly good names, just to make the rest of us feel inadequate. I’ve […]

C++ Web Server on my custom hobby OS

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After a long break from working on my hobby operating system, I finally got back into it and finished a very important milestone: a working web server. Web browser accessing HTTP server on my OS Networking was always integral to my hobby project. The first goal was getting the basic networking stack working: Ethernet, IP, […]

Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism

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I don’t remember when I first started noticing that people I knew out in the world had lost their sense of erotic privacy, but I do remember the day it struck me as a phenomenon that had escaped my timeline and entered my real, fleshy life. It was last year, when I was having a […]

So you wanna build a local RAG?

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When we launched Skald, we wanted it to not only be self-hostable, but also for one to be able to run it without sending any data to third-parties. With LLMs getting better and better, privacy-sensitive organizations shouldn’t have to choose between being left behind by not accessing frontier models and doing away with their committment […]

Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker

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Air Loom – 3D Flight Paths Initializing 3D Space… N S E W Fly Mode Controls W/A/S/D – Move forward/left/back/right Space – Move up Shift – Move down Mouse – Look around Click anywhere to start flying

Lobsters Interview

By Susam Pal on 12 Sep 2025 I recently had an engaging conversation with Alex (@veqq) from the Lobsters community about computing, mathematics and a range of related topics. Our conversation was later published on the community website as Lobsters Interview with Susam. I should mention the sections presented in that post are not in […]

True P2P Email on Top of Yggdrasil Network

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English | Русский True P2P Email on top of Yggdrasil Network What is Tyr? We’re taught that email must go through servers. Why? Because the Internet was built around centralized infrastructure. Every email you send travels through multiple servers – your provider’s server, maybe a few relay servers, and finally your recipient’s provider’s server. Each […]

Meta hiding $27B in debt using advanced geometry

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FSG LLC’s preliminary rating explains how a data center and selective eyesight create a perfectly legal accounting miracle. 28-Nov-2025 | 09:12 CST Beignet Investor LLC’s $27.3 Billion Senior Secured Debt Assigned Preliminary A+ Rating; Outlook Superficially Stable FSG LLC (Flexible Standards Group) Analyst: Tom BellwetherContact Information: None available**Because of the complex nature of financial alchemy, […]

Don’t tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to

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Don’t tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to This is a story about a very interesting bug that I tracked down yesterday. It was causing a bad effect very far from where the bug actually was. emacsclient The emacs text editor comes with a separate utility, called emacsclient, which can […]