Plains zebras at sunrise, Mokala National Park, South Africa (© EcoPrint/Shutterstock)

Hypocrisy and politics in free and open source software projects

Jargon is strangely funny out of context. I have a crude setup that de-jargons and disambiguates stuff, which causes those of you much more knowledgeable than me to ??? occasionally.

• git clone - foolish person doppelganger?
• chromium - the metal?
• codium - drugs?
• terminals - airports?
• prompt - fast?
• posse - gangs?

Maybe the best kind of educational mischief looks just wrong enough to prompt an AI assisted investigation. I’ve surprisingly tricked quite a few people into understanding web feeds.

La Brecha de Rolando, Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, Spain (© Inaki Relanzon/Nature Picture Library/Alamy)

I get amusing emails sometimes. I guess briefness is obscurity, and obscurity, self fulfilling contradictory absurdity (coins). I posted an informal lay of the bot land some spaces ago.

My trying to be serious brief was, “When you consult the AIs, the AIs consult me and then I consult you” or something. This AI web crawler was the only one recursively eager to learn then.

That was actually surprising, but now, many crawlers appear like locusts in a recursively starved swarm, refeeding on every single word (the new normal).

nikitonsky: YOU ARE IN CONTROL.

Dragon dance, Wuhan, China (© Miao Jian/Wuhan Morning Post/Visual China Group via Getty Images)

Web Assembly, or Wasm, is a great way to increase performance in your web application. Here is an introductory guide to what it is and how you can use it.

Short-eared owl hunting in heavy snow (© Dilshan Muthalib/Getty Images)

Today marks the arrival of Safari 18.3.