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"Generative models can be powerfully useful—if you’re willing to adapt your approach."

"This recently mapped Bronze Age fortress is just one among hundreds."

"Without these necessary hate speech and other policies, Meta is giving the green light for people to target LGBTQ people, women, immigrants, and other marginalized groups with violence, vitriol, and dehumanizing narratives. With these changes, Meta is continuing to normalize anti-LGBTQ hatred for profit — at the expense of its users and true freedom of expression."

"Not everything that happened this year was terrible."

"Users might overlook things that change too fast — and even when they do notice, changeable screen elements are harder to understand in a limited timeframe."

"From 0.1 seconds to 10 years or more, user interface design has many different timeframes, and each has its own particular usability issues."

"A lot of developers still believe the Web would be better if we had One Browser To Rule Them All. At first, that might sound nice in theory. Less testing! Less inconsistency! Less bugs! But this is forgetting our users. Would it be good to effectively force them to use a single browser? To deny them the possibility to choose their preferred user interfaces and features? Of course not! It’s forgetting that competition drives innovation. "

"When every blog has the same hero section, when every portfolio follows the same grid, when every restaurant site looks interchangeable, we create an echo chamber of sameness. The cost isn’t just visual monotony – it’s the slow erosion of the web’s ability to surprise, delight, and showcase truly individual perspectives."

Bootable distro like DBAN, except it's actually been updated since 2015. Runs on 32 and 64-bit Intel/AMD
(via BoingBoing and Schneier on Security)

Linux kernel, FreeBSD userland, LLVM toolchain, Musl C library.
"...a general-purpose Linux-based OS born from unhappiness with the status quo. We aim to create a system that is simple, transparent, and easy to pick up, without having to give up practicality and a rich feature set."