dannyobrien

9 ms·

91.
by dannyobrien 1y ago
This is amazing -- thank you for building this! Amusingly, I too ended up searching for British computers -- there's a good article here on the Cantabrian explosion here. https://byte.tsundoku.io/#198301-042
92.
Meta Talks World-Lock Rendering for AR/Mr at Hot Chips 2025(servethehome.com)
3 points by dannyobrien 1y ago|0 comments
93.
by dannyobrien 1y ago
See also https://github.com/engstrand-config/dwl-guile -- Guile bindings for DWL, the even more minimalistic Wayland compositor https://codeberg.org/dwl/dwl
94.
Ed25519 Support in Chrome(ipfsfoundation.org)
3 points by dannyobrien 1y ago|0 comments
95.
by dannyobrien 1y ago
It's fairly unusual for FLOSS projects to register any trademark, and (despite this lack of strict IP protection) it's also very unusual for the owner of a trademark to ask or require a FLOSS project to change their name because
96.
How Does a Blind Model See the Earth(lesswrong.com)
2 points by dannyobrien 1y ago|1 comments
97.
by dannyobrien 1y ago
I mean, apart from the open question of whether the majority of money gets moved into tax havens, if the money is out of the economic system entirely, won't it just inflate away? I presume rich people want to put their money in instrum
98.
by dannyobrien 1y ago
It's a really good book! I was on the very edges of this scene for a chunk of the time described, and I thought it managed to catch a lot of the complexities without picking one possible narrative over another. Plus I learned a lot --
99.
by dannyobrien 1y ago
The glyphs themselves are written in PatEl: see https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/blob/main/packages/font-... for instance. If you look through the commit history, you can see Be5invis gradually e
100.
HTML-in-Canvas(github.com)
222 points by dannyobrien 1y ago|116 comments
101.
by dannyobrien 1y ago
I've been involved in a lot of discussions about "what is journalism? what do real journalists do?", and the best response I've heard was from Ian Betteridge (of Betteridge's Law fame), who told me "Journalists
102.
by dannyobrien 1y ago
As someone who was involved in the original guerilla digital activism that spawned the third-person URL format for independent UK government-watching websites (ie "Write to Them", "They Work for You"), I applaud your on-
103.
by dannyobrien 1y ago
See also https://github.com/engstrand-config/dwl-guile -- a fork with Guile Scheme support.
104.
by dannyobrien 1y ago
Max! I'm so happy that you're doing this! I was a huge fan of Keybase, and have spent the last few years praying (and sometimes brainstorming funding) a decentralized, open source version of it. Looking forward to digging into the
105.
by dannyobrien 1y ago
though those crashes show the limitations!
106.
by dannyobrien 1y ago
i am! oblomovka runs off a machine on my desk, which tends to crash whenever I walk out of my house, like today. However, this is an excellent notification that I'm now writing enough to maybe make it a bit more resilient. (For real da
107.
by dannyobrien 1y ago
Just after I took on my new role, I wrote to Kevin Kelly and asked if I could meet him (I assumed he wouldn't know who I was, even though we've met informally, but he did). I wanted to talk to him about talking about how to be opt
108.
by dannyobrien 1y ago
As the article mentions, DAT was mandated to be deliberately limited in its use by the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Home_Recording_Act -- the first MP3 players were sued under the definition in the law, and bare
109.
Creative Commons Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI(creativecommons.org)
4 points by dannyobrien 1y ago|0 comments
110.
by dannyobrien 1y ago
It's a quote from Snowcrash: https://profalexreid.com/2014/02/05/music-movies-microcode-a...
111.
by dannyobrien 1y ago
"It feels like" -- the first step I would make is to try and better understand what you're seeing. How often does this happen, compared to what you assume is human? Is it increasing? At what rate? Are there papers that confir
112.
by dannyobrien 1y ago
I think the compromise position here is to concentrate on the 1980s, and acknowledge that there was a lot of networking tech going on in academia in the 1970s. However, in context, what I was trying to convey was that the personal computin
113.
by dannyobrien 1y ago
That's funny! I mulled it a bit more after reading your piece, and I think some of the comments on lobsters that were considering the whole issue in a wider politicL framing. Thanks for replying!
114.
by dannyobrien 1y ago
At least in my experience, this is ahistorical. Personal computing in the 1970s and 1980s lived outside of academia, as did bulletin boards. The productive, creative, and empowering elements of the Internet and the Web were subversive actio
115.
by dannyobrien 1y ago
As I implied in an earlier comment, your conviction (if you're wrong on the inevitability of the direction), may be one of the things that leads it into that direction. Here's my historical take: in the 1960s and 1970s, computat
116.
by dannyobrien 1y ago
This is also where I am, and I guess it has been a source of mild and growing consternation since I first blagged an OpenAI GPT account when they were private, in an attempt to get ahead of what was coming -- both the positive and negative
117.
Corbent: Next‑Generation Direct Air Capture(lesswrong.com)
2 points by dannyobrien 1y ago|0 comments
118.
by dannyobrien 1y ago
Costs too much in what way? In time?
119.
by dannyobrien 1y ago
I'm a bit confused here. Are you saying that if I zero out the system prompt on any LLM, including those fine-tuned to give answers in an instructional form, they will follow your effect -- that nonsense prompts will get similar resu
120.
by dannyobrien 1y ago
So I just gave your blarghl line to Claude, and it replied "It seems like you included a mix of text including "blarghl unorthodox babble" followed by the phrase "The rain in Spain." Did you mean to ask about the we

More ›