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January 9, 2023
— remarkable 2016 article about a woman who self-diagnosed her rare genetic mutation and spotted it in others #
— it’s patched now, but unclear how long the dead-simple security lapse existed via @briankrebs #
— with Dark Sky shuttered, here’s a clean alternative built on Pirate Weather, a free and open compatible API #
— “Black people were 24% of those killed last year, while making up only 13% of the population” via jwz #
January 6, 2023
— surprising number of small but useful services for only $20/year, made by a single dev #
— made with Dittytoy, a simple Javascript API for making generative music online #
— sadly, his “OfficeSpace project” didn’t try to transfer rounded down fractions of a penny #
— Bert Fan upgraded Creative Labs’ classic 1991 speech synthesis chatbot that shipped with Sound Blaster cards #
— a London furniture conservator suggested dots, lines, and symbols denote lunar months for tracking animal life cycles, making it the earliest writing in human history #
— a large language model with text-to-speech output interacts with users in chat, while a separate AI plays games like Minecraft and osu via Garbage Day #
January 5, 2023
— website that tells you how many people are also looking at it, when they leave, and that’s it via Today in Tabs #
January 4, 2023
— they cite the pandemic, but also went through a painful acquisition breakup in 2020 #
— her six-album run from 1970-1976 is basically flawless via openculture.com #
January 3, 2023
— easily capable of outposting every human on earth, ChatGPT and LLMs like it will flood the web with a neverending tsunami of SEO bullshit #
— Brian Moore made a device that only lets you type “lol” if you’re actually laughing #
January 2, 2023
— excellent site promoting Marcin Wichary’s upcoming book about keyboards; don’t miss the interactive 3D view at the top #
— the only manual that references The Dukes of Hazzard, meatloaf, and the territorial imperatives of trumpeter swans #
— Maciej Ceglowski returns from hiatus with the first in a series on why sending humans to Mars is a bad idea #
January 1, 2023
— he hired a historical researcher to uncover the real history of a subject he covered in 2021 #
— Sherlock Holmes, Metropolis, The Jazz Singer, Puttin’ on the Ritz, My Blue Heaven, and so much more #
