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Sally Sax, writing for the Association of Research Libraries: Twenty-five years after the US copyright office’s first DMCA review, libraries operate in an increasingly non-competitive digital information environment. A lack of digital...
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 26th June 2026 I hadn’t realised it had been three years since the first record from Costa Rican death metallers Astriferous, and ‘Pulsations from the Black Orb’ was a firm favourite of mine (check...
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai and Zack Whittaker, TechCrunch: Under current U.S. hacking laws, a human can face criminal charges for breaking into someone else’s computer without permission. But when an AI agent autonomously hacks into a...
Posting these things is a hostage negotiation. This stuff I'm making this week has been a for real internal battle. These things so rarely look like what I think they will and only sort of feel like I want them to feel when I look at...
I discovered today that my blog post from yesterday didn't post automatically to my Mastodon account—which I assumed was due to an error made. But instead, I found out that Robb Knight's EchoFeed is shutting down. The reasons he lists...
Zsh glob qualifiers can select files by many built-in attributes: type, size, modification time, and more. But when no built-in qualifier fits, you can bring in the e or + qualifiers to run arbitrary code, making globs a fully...
Photo by charlesdeluvio on Unsplash🍕 I’m JA Westenberg. I write essays about technology, philosophy, productivity, and what it means to be human. If you like ideas that take their time, you’re in the right place.While you’re here, a few...
The Last Museum, according to the website’s “About” page, is a search engine for museum art. It features a searchable database of over 5 million artworks, and intends to grow well beyond that. You can choose sections like “Artists”,...
The first recording today starts with the end of Jakers: The Adventures of Piggley Winks. There’s a trail for Dani Day. Then it’s Shaun the Sheep – Fetching. Bitzer does a bit of frisbee fetching. It goes over the wall, and Bitzer...
Nota bene: Today’s post contains the next installment of my multi-part review of Adam Smith’s 1784 pamphlet Additions and Corrections to the First and Second Editions of Dr. Adam Smith’s Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth...
Magical musical musings care of the marvellous John Matthews. Music To Watch Seeds Grow By is an ambient imprint, curated by Ran$om Note’s Wil Troup and Tia Cousins, that aims to provide a soundtrack to gardening, plant cultivation and...
To list all files in your repository as they were at a given commit, use git ls-tree with its -r and --name-only options: $ git ls-tree --name-only -r <commit> Replace <commit> with any commit reference: a SHA, a branch name, a tag like...
(updated: 7 Aug 2026) As part of Code Trek, I just created 2 user scripts for Hacker News: HackerBrain – pulls comments into a sidebar for any item of interest. HackerTrain – shows an expandable ladder/train of newest best comments. As...
On holiday in Algeria, I've been going frequently to some coastal rocks called əṣ-Ṣṭuħ الصطوح, from the plural of ṣṭəħ صطح "flat terrace roof", and occasionally eating šṭiṭħa شطيطحة "stew". I haven't done any dancing (šṭiħ شطيح)...
I have been writing about the limitations of audits and compliance systems for several years. In Accountability and Transparency in Modern Systems, I wrote about systems producing evidence continuously rather than assembling it...