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"I've been building the PiDP-8/I kit from Obsolescence Guaranteed, a modern 2:3 scale replica of the 1968 PDP-8/I computer that runs in emulation on a Raspberry Pi. It's beautifully done and highly recommended."

"The fonts of writings on this page are “revises” – renaissances – digital. They are more or less inspired by printing characters used in the 1840s to 1900 but adapted to numerical uses and to a more international (and sometimes inclusive) typography."

"BookWyrm uses the ActivityPub protocol to send and receive user activity between other BookWyrm instances and other services that implement ActivityPub, like Mastodon. To handle book data, BookWyrm has a handful of extended Activity types which are not part of the standard, but are legible to other BookWyrm instances."

"The tl;dr is that search got really good suddenly and really easy to build because of AI."

Bookmarks for commodore stuff

"Seeing as how it's the start of a new year, and since maybe you are hoping to start getting your own shit together (spoiler alert: my shit still isn't), I thought I'd share how I use very lightweight daily journaling to create reflections of each day, month, and year. And how those have helped me to maybe at least start getting my shit in order if not together."

"You might be thinking “All the things I use JS for, I need JS for”. That might be true, but it's good to know that both browser makers and specification writers have been porting a lot of functionality over to CSS and HTML that up to a few years ago needed JS. And that's what this article is about."

"Recent work claims that large language models display emergent abilities, abilities not present in smaller-scale models that are present in larger-scale models. What makes emergent abilities intriguing is two-fold: their sharpness, transitioning seemingly instantaneously from not present to present, and their unpredictability, appearing at seemingly unforeseeable model scales. Here, we present an alternative explanation for emergent abilities: that for a particular task and model family, when analyzing fixed model outputs, emergent abilities appear due to the researcher's choice of metric rather than due to fundamental changes in model behavior with scale"

"Unlike the BBC, most sites have adopted the "Eternal CSS" pattern. When fashions change, the entire site gets a facelift - which means ancient articles look modern. This can mislead readers into thinking old information is new.
Here's (one way) this can be fixed - inspired by Moriel Schottlender fabulous historic CSS selector."

"Generate your own memes in the style of 'you wouldn't steal a car', 'you wouldn't download a house', etc."