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13 Oct, 2019

Programming

CollapseOS

TL;DR: Someone is making an 8-bit OS just in case to be useful in post-collapse scenarios.

With a copy of this project, a capable and creative person should be able to manage to build and install Collapse OS without external resources (i.e. internet) on a machine of her design, built from scavenged parts with low-tech tools.
Don’t Look Into The Light

TL;DR:

making something microservices out of the gate is a terrible idea

Again, I can relate to this on so many levels
imagededup

A python tool to remove duplicates from a large collection of images.

So FINALLY I can tidy up my “anime” and “wallpapers” folders!
(who am i kidding, they are the same folder)

The Web Can’t Survive a Monoculture

TL;DR: another anti-chrome ~~rant~~^W argument (and another one I agree with).
Common Kestrel

This species is able to see near ultraviolet light, allowing the birds to detect the urine trails around rodent burrows as they shine in an ultraviolet colour in the sunlight
Ken Thompson’s elusive Unix password is finally hacked

…and it’s a chess move in descriptive notation.
Artifact: What Went Wrong?

Never played Artifact (nor Dota 2), and this article lists some reasons why (beyond being merely interesting).

Doom:VS — Earthless

Here’s an album that I’ve listened to a while back, but gave it another go this week (now that I actually have it on an actual CD).

What can I say, it is a very neat funeral doom album, sad, beautiful, powerful and sometimes overwhelming.

My favorite quote is probably from the end of the album:

Now that you’re gone
Winter’s come
Please let me rise
Please let me feel
Sandbreaker - Sandbreaker EP

Given I’m still reading Dune and it’s sequels, the timing on this EP couldn’t be more perfect.

It’s a doom/death album that’s clearly inspired by Dune, and is otherwise a regular doom/death thing.