Should I write one of those email newsletters instead of posting?
A behind the scenes look [at viper race rave] (phlogios.itch.io)
The line between genius and madness is really in play here. I’m of course interested because it’s retromac and EV Nova related, but it’s also a shining example of people doing really interesting things in the retrocomputing space. Today’s technology isn’t the only valid technology to build for.
Hallucinated package names fuel ‘slopsquatting’ (The Register)
Now that’s a brilliant exploit. Wish I’d thought of it. Finally a use case for LLMs!
mirsoft.info
That site is a relic! you don’t see many sites like that around these days. I was looking for the EarthSiege music to remix, but found the MIDI already perfectly well arranged. You love to see it.
La Brea Tar Pits team clarifies more details about “dire wolf” DNA situation (reddit.com)
Been following this story, because not only do they seem to be deliberately disregarding the famous cautionary tale of Jurassic Park, they’re also doing it in a way that’s raising fraud-eyebrows, not just safety eyebrows.
Another good post about it here.
We’re sorry we created the Torment Nexus (antipope.org)
Did you ever wonder why the 21st century feels like we’re living in a bad cyberpunk novel from the 1980s?
It’s because these guys read those cyberpunk novels and mistook a dystopia for a road map. They’re rich enough to bend reality to reflect their desires. But we’re not futurists, we’re entertainers! We like to spin yarns about the Torment Nexus because it’s a cool setting for a noir detective story, not because we think Mark Zuckerberg or Andreesen Horowitz should actually pump several billion dollars into creating it. And that’s why I think you should always be wary of SF writers bearing ideas.
Turbo Pascal 3.0 Compiler / Code Generation Internals (pcengines.ch)
When you’re as enthusiastic as I am for old school computing, you’re bound to run into people writing with fondness about Turbo Pascal. I had no idea someone had reverse engineered the thing.
Where the wood-wide-web narrative went wrong (undark.org)
This amounts to what you might call a retraction of the sensational wood-wide-web story you probably heard or saw a few years back, but I wish it was longer snd more detailed. Never heard of undark before, but will keep my eye on it.
Unauthorized Experiment Involving AI-generated Comments (reddit.com)
I almost wrote a whole angry post about this, but 404 Media did it better than I would have, so I’ll confine my thoughts to this little blurb.
This is yet another example of the AI community refusing to play by the rules and justifying their disregard for other people’s freedom of choice with self-aggrandizing platitudes about how what they’re doing is ‘so important’ that the cost to others doesn’t matter.
RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory (Ars Technica)
I’m glad that not only did someone finally write this explicitly, but they also slogged through enough material to find a smoking gun.
Colorsquad16 (colorsquad.bandcamp.com)
This is a treasure trove of IDM artists you may never have heard of. Iceleaps, Predawka, _ir and Utopia Cloak make great showings here.