Progress

Vacation. Did lots of things. Nothing of note.

Articles

• CVE-2020-19909 is everything that is wrong with CVEs -- daniel.haxx.se
• curl - Bogus report filed by anonymous - CVE-2020-19909
• Splatt3R: Zero-shot Gaussian Splatting from Uncalibrated Image Pairs
• Why has Japan been hit with rice shortages, soaring prices despite normal crops? - The Mainichi
• Rachel Thomas, PhD - Your Immune System is Not a Muscle
• ChartDB
• Rerun — Rerun
• The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus – Baldur Bjarnason
• Math: Interesting problems in computational number theory for the Homelab. – The Quarky Engineer
• GitHub - sjpiper145/MakerSkillTree: A repository of Maker Skill Trees and templates to make your own.
• Language Log » Two Dots Too Many
• GitHub - remipch/solar_concentrator: Homemade automated solar concentrator 🔧 ☀️ 🔎
• Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch
• Bypassing airport security via SQL injection
• GitHub - getomni-ai/datasets: Public datsets made with https://getomni.ai/
• GameNGen
• The Simple Algorithm That Ants Use to Build Bridges -- Quanta Magazine
• Free Public APIs
• Studie: Klimaschutzpolitik wirkt, wenn sie ans Geld geht
• Random thoughts about Unity · Aras' website
• Welcome to py5! — py5 documentation
• List of OSM-based services – OpenStreetMap Wiki
• Hacking a Virtual Power Plant -- rya.nc
• Tracking supermarket prices with playwright
• 2024-07-31 just disconnect the internet
• How Great was the “Great Oxidation Event”? - Eos
• Kaltleimetikettiermaschine – Wikipedia
• Making my local LLM voice assistant faster and more scalable with RAG -- John's Website
• Chebyshev Approximation and How It Can Help You Save Money, Win Friends, and Influence People - Jason Sachs
• Here comes the Muybridge camera moment but for text. Photoshop too (Interconnected)
• The Galloping Horse Problem And The World’s First Motion Picture -- Amusing Planet
• Die Welt wird besser! -- Effektiv Spenden
• ZenDiS -- Zentrum Digitale Souveränität
• Berliner Spielplatzkarte: why only Berliner?
• The secret inside One Million Checkboxes -- eieio.games
• Following up "Mother of all htmx demos" -- David Guillot
• The Bug in the Computer Bug Story - JSTOR Daily
• Faxlore - Wikipedia
• Six Things I Know For Sure About Marketing To Engineers
• Your pie doesn't need to be original (unless you claim it so) • Buttondown
• Dear internet, I'm a 26 year old lady who's been developing a science-based, 100% dragon MMO for the last two years. I'm finally making my beta-website now, and using my 3D work as a base to create my 50+ concept images. Wish me luck, Reddit; You'll be th
• There is only one amphibian emoji
• Why Medieval Women Sometimes Fought in Bloody Trials by Combat - Atlas Obscura
• Changes in Need for Uniqueness From 2000 Until 2020 -- Collabra: Psychology -- University of California Press
• Iron as an inexpensive storage medium for hydrogen -- ETH Zurich
• 500 Python Interpreters • Izzy Muerte
• Buy, Borrow, Die - Explained : BuyBorrowDieExplained

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - chartdb/chartdb: Free and Open-source database diagrams editor, visualize and design your DB with a single query.
• Quickstart – vlcn.io
• GitHub - Dicklesworthstone/llm_aided_ocr: Enhance Tesseract OCR output for scanned PDFs by applying Large Language Model (LLM) corrections.
• GitHub - markuman/sms: simple mbtiles server
• GitHub - robinmoisson/staticrypt: Password protect a static HTML page, decrypted in-browser in JS with no dependency. No server logic needed.
• GitHub - pyrustic/asyncpal: Preemptive concurrency and parallelism for sporadic workloads

Books

• Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovski: The book is really good, even though it's a bit too much at times. Of course, you have to show the steady and quick decline of humanity from time to time. But the ending seems a bit forced to me.