Progress

A pretty regular work week. Sweet!

And then: carnival!

Articles

• Weird Kaggle, the superiority of books, and other reflections — Epi Notes
• Pee If You Want to go Deeper – Work hard, tri hard: yes, it is one of those days when one reads about how to go pee as a female diver in a drysuit.
• Making any integer with four 2s - Eli Bendersky's website
• It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds - Bert Hubert's writings
• European word translator: an interactive map showing "binge" in over 30 languages
• Tokio + prctl = nasty bug -- Kobzol’s blog
• [2110.01111] Is this the simplest (and most surprising) sorting algorithm ever?
• Answering reader feedback: war rooms vs. deep investigations
• The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife - Wikipedia
• AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years
• GitHub - Hawzen/hdp: What would happen if we didn't use TCP or UDP?
• RFC 768 - User Datagram Protocol
• Handeln statt hadern – FragDenStaat
• "The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab" - A "Study" - James Pae
• freelancing: How I got clients, part 1 (5min read)
• Gametje
• Python -- OpenSCAD
• Why are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower-case letters? – Terence Eden’s Blog
• Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC - Ars Technica
• Bazzite – The next generation of Linux gaming: Alternative OS for Steam Decks
• Playtron: Alternative OS for Steam Decks
• The Concentration City - Wikipedia
• A Year in the Linear City - Wikipedia
• I Went To SQL Injection Court — Quarrelsome
• Breakout 71
• The Miserable State of Modems and Mobile Network Operators - The Golioth Developer Blog
• You Must Sneak Human Remains Into Disney World by One Shot Network
• Unicode subscripts and superscripts - Wikipedia
• The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding
• Transit of Venus - Wikipedia: well, we missed it.
• You Should Make Cross Views – Ryan Moulton's Articles
• vlmrun-cookbook/notebooks/01_schema_showcase.ipynb at main · vlm-run/vlmrun-cookbook · GitHub
• GitHub - hemashushu/docker-archlinux-gui: This tutorial introduces a method for running GUI applications directly in containers (such as Docker and Podman) without installing any additional software.
• Map Hidden Structures With a $100 DIY Muon Tomographer - IEEE Spectrum
• An update on our Terms of Use
• Download RCU (r2021.002)
• Lucy Letby did not murder babies, claim medical experts
• Pathfinder 1: The airship that could usher in a new age
• Why it's so hard to build a jet engine - by Brian Potter
• Friedrich der Ungeschickte: Merz bestätigt in der ersten Woche alle Vorurteile - n-tv.de
• how to gain code execution on millions of people and hundreds of popular apps - eva's site
• Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server -- Diego Siqueira
• Daily Azure Shit (@azureshit@mastodon.social) - Mastodon
• Postgres as a Graph Database: (Ab)using pgRouting
• The Dino 🦕, the Llama 🦙, and the Whale 🐋
• 3,200% CPU Utilization
• Quad9 Faces New DNS Censorship Legal Challenge in France from Canal+ -- Quad9
• GitHub - ClemHeyd/PCR7500: Craziness.
• Cross-Site Requests -- SMAGIN
• API design note: Beware of adding an "Other" enum value - The Old New Thing

Libraries, programming, etc

• Good Game Insights - AI-powered Video Game Industry Insights
• GitHub - deepseek-ai/DeepEP: DeepEP: an efficient expert-parallel communication library
• GitHub - rocky/python-uncompyle6: A cross-version Python bytecode decompiler: A native Python cross-version decompiler and fragment decompiler. The successor to decompyle, uncompyle, and uncompyle2.
• decompyle3 · PyPI: A native Python cross-version decompiler and fragment decompiler. A reworking of uncompyle6.
• davidteather/python-obfuscator: I got tired of writing good code so I made good code to make bad code: One night I got bored of writing good code, so I made good code to make bad code.
• billythegoat356/Hyperion: The most powerful 100% Python obfuscator.: Hyperion is the most powerful fully Python obfuscator for Python scripts, developped by billythegoat356 (me) and BlueRed.
• Oxyry Python Obfuscator - The most reliable python obfuscator in the world
• QQuick/Opy: Obfuscator for Python
• python-obfuscator · GitHub Topics
• Falldog/pyconcrete: Protect your python script, encrypt it as .pye and decrypt when import it
• python-minifier · PyPI
• pyminifier · PyPI
• qfcy/pyc-zipper: A tool for packing, unpacking, compressing and obfuscating Python bytecode files (.pyc) . Python字节码文件(.pyc)压缩、加壳、脱壳、混淆工具。
• User Documentation — Nuitka the Python Compiler: "Nuitka is the optimizing Python compiler written in Python that creates executables that run without a separate installer. Data files can both be included or put alongside. Nuitka is fully compatible with Python 3 (3.4 — 3.13) and Python 2 (2.6, 2.7), and works on Windows, macOS, Linux, and more — essentially, wherever Python is already compatible with your system."
• GitHub - deepseek-ai/smallpond: A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS.

Books

• Snowglobe
• Influx
• The Steerswoman's Road

Games

• Mars First Logistics
• Lego 2K Drive
• Jedi Survivor

Other media

• Are Vacuums the Future of All Fried Chicken? - YouTube: no, they are not
• Jim Jefferies Taking an MD Sufferer to See a Prostitute - YouTube
• I Recreated Shazam's Algorithm from Scratch because no one is hiring jnr devs - YouTube
• Star Trek TNG Theme but the theme is coming from the Enterprise-D - YouTube
• This ESP32 Antenna Array Can See WiFi - YouTube
• RARE Japanese Toshiba Typewriter - YouTube