VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Flash of unstyled content (Wikipedia)

   2025-06-08
   programming/css programming/html

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   • Render Blocking CSS
2. Admixfrog - A HMM to infer ancestry frogments (fragments) from low-coverage, contaminated data.

   2025-05-10
   ethnology genetics probability programming/c programming/c++ programming/python programming/r science statistics

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   • DReichLab/AdmixTools - Tools test whether admixture occurred and more
   • admixr (CRAN)
   • fgvieira/ngsDist - Estimation of pairwise distances under a probabilistic framework
   • ANGSD/NgsRelate - Infer relatedness and other summary statistics for pairs of individuals from low coverage Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
   • Science Direct - Population dynamics and genetic connectivity in recent chimpanzee history
3. Archiving URLs | Gwern

   2025-04-09
   network/http personal-knowledge/bookmark personal-knowledge/digital-garden programming/go programming/html programming/java programming/python web web/scraping

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   • Archiving Web Sites (LWN)
   • Robots.txt meant for search engines don’t work well for web archives

   Web page archive formats:

   • ARC (1996)
   • WARC (BnF, 2009)
     • WARC Specifications
     • The WARC Ecosystem

   Tools for crawling, scraping and archiving Web pages:

   • internetarchive/heritrix3 - Extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler project (Java)
   • internetarchive/Zeno - State-of-the-art web crawler (Go)
     • internetarchive/gowarc - Read and write WARC files in Go
   • webrecorder/pywb - Web Archiving Toolkit for replay and recording of web archives (Python)

   Self-hosted solutions:

   • ArchiveBox - A self-hosted app that lets you preserve content from websites in a variety of formats
   • Wallabag - Save and classify articles, read them later
4. Stratoshark - Explore and analyze applications at the system call level

   2025-01-27
   linux network/packet-capture/pcap network/packet-capture/wireshark

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   • Those Aren't Packets: How Stratoshark Brings the Power of Wireshark to the Cloud
   • Stratoshark: Extending Wireshark’s legacy into the cloud
   • Getting Started With Stratoshark
5. Ibis - A federated encyclopedia using the ActivityPub protocol

   2025-01-05
   community documentation federation network/activitypub programming/rust wiki/ibis

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   • Nutomic/ibis
   • Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative
   • Ibis release 0.2.0 - Federated Wiki with Shiny Redesign
6. UsenetArchives - One of the most extensive archives of Usenet newsgroups on the Internet

   2024-12-08
   bulletin-board-system forum/usenet history storage/tape text

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   • Converting UTZOO-Wiseman Usenet Tapes to Website with PostgreSQL backend using Python 3.8
   • 2.1 Million of the Oldest Internet Posts Are Now Online for Anyone to Read
   • DataHoarders, UsenetArchives.com now includes UTZOO-Wiseman tapes of the earliest internet posts made between Feb 1981 and June 1991
   • The UTZOO Wiseman Usenet Archive (data removed following legal action)
7. ElectroPortis - The famous SGI/IRIX ElectroPaint(tm) screensaver by David Tristram, ported to Windows

   2024-11-26
   art graphics/2d programming/c programming/c++ programming/javascript screensaver

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   • Electropaint History (archived 2011-07-26)
   • Silicon Graphics - Irix - ElectroPaint screen saver
   • iamralpht/elektropaintjs - Electropaint screensaver from IRIX in JavaScript

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       .\_O/ || |   |   OH WOW
    _ /  `._ \|_|_.-'  FREE SOFTWARE
   | /  \__.`=._) (_
   |/ ._/  |"""""""""|  LET ME IN
   |'.  `\ |         |   ON THIS
   ;"""/ / |         |
    ) /_/| |.-------.|
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8. Developer Certificate of Origin

   2024-11-22
   license linux/kernel open-source

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   • CLA vs. DCO: What's the difference?
   • Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO)
   • Github Apps - DCO
9. Image Dithering - Create the illusion of color depth in images on systems with a limited color palette

   2024-11-18
   color/palette game image/2d image/compression image/dithering image/noise indie programming/go programming/roff

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   • Re: Return of the Obra Dinn [GDC 2016 Demo Build] - Dithering Process
   • Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering
   • Cyan's Richard A. Watson - Dithering 101 (archive)
   • Differentiable Dithering
   • What the Heck is Blue Noise?
   • Generating Blue Noise Textures With Void And Cluster
     • Atrix256/VoidAndCluster
     • jdupuy/BlueNoiseDitherMaskTiles
   • Why Your Website Should Use Dithered Images
     • Dither Me This!
   • Why Your Website Should Not Use Dithered Images

   Command-line dithering tools:

   • makew0rld/didder (Go CLI)
     • makew0rld/dither (Go library)

   Online dithering tools:

   • Dither It! - A Web application to dither images
     • alexharris/ditherit-v2
   • Building Retro Dither: Dithering Algorithms, Run-Length Encoding, Resource Forks and More!
   • Blue Noise in Futhark
     • Munksgaard/bluenoise
10. LED Matrix Materials Guide

    2024-07-08
    diy electronics/led programming/c++ raspberry-pi

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    • LED Matrix Software
    • marian42/ledcpp
11. Leela Zero - Go engine with no human-provided knowledge, modeled after the AlphaGo Zero paper

    2024-05-02
    game/go neural-network programming/c++ programming/java research

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    • leela-zero/leela-zero
    • featurecat/lizzie - Leela Zero Interface
    • Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge [PDF]
12. oss-security - backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise

    2024-03-31
    compression/lzma compression/xz linux programming/c programming/shell/bash security security/backdoor

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    • XZ Utils backdoor
    • xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained
    • /r/Linux - XZ Utils backdoor
    • Debian Bug report logs - #1068024 revert to version that does not contain changes by bad actor
    • FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor
    • LWN - A backdoor in xz
    • Everything I Know About the Xz Backdoor
13. Desmos - Graphing Calculator

    2024-03-31
    calculator mathematics mathematics/equation plot visualization

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    • Getting Started: Desmos Graphing Calculator
    • Desmos: A Definitive Guide on Graphing and Computing
    • Des-blog
    • /r/Desmos
    • /r/Desmos - Wiki
14. What is an idiomatic way of representing enums in Go?

    2024-02-28
    programming/go

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    • golang/go #19814 - proposal: spec: add typed enum support
    • golang/go #28987 - proposal: Go 2: enums as an extension to types
    • Go Enums Suck: let's make them suck less
15. LWN - What every programmer should know about memory

    2023-07-22
    hardware hardware/cpu hardware/ram memory memory/cache performance

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    • What every programmer should know about memory (Full PDF version) Mirror
    • Part 1: Introduction & Commodity Hardware Today
    • Part 2: CPU Caches
    • Part 3: Virtual Memory
    • Part 4: NUMA support
    • Part 5: What programmers can do
    • How much of ‘What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory’ is still valid?
16. When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Source Hardware Companies

    2023-07-17
    3d-printer community diy electronics embedded open-hardware patent

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    • More on the Shifting State of Open Source Hardware
    • Stratasys Lawsuit, Patents and More: An Interview with MakerBot’s Bre Pettis
    • Prusa - The state of open-source in 3D printing in 2023
17. Forgejo | Beyond coding. We forge.

    2023-06-24
    agile/kanban programming/go self-hosting source-code-management/git

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    • forgejo.org
    • Codeberg launches Forgejo
    • Forgejo User Guide
    • Forgejo Admin Guide
    • Open issues labeled 's/Gitea/Forgejo'
    • Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea
    • forgejo/meta#86 - [Discussion] Relicensing Forgejo as copyleft
    • forgejo/sustainability
18. golang.org/x/tools/present - Interactive Go slide presentations and articles

    2023-06-12
    document/pdf presentation programming/go programming/latex

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    • golang.org/x/tools/present
    • golang.org/x/tools/cmd/present
    • Present slides to PDF?
    • [rfc] present -o=slides.pdf
    • sbinet/present-tex - Create LaTeX/Beamer slides from present
19. So your institute went cold turkey on publisher X. What now?

    2023-06-05
    article internet/browser research

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    Related:

    • Accéder à des articles scientifiques de manière éthique [FR]
20. Reverse engineering the CAN messages for a BMW F Series Gear Selector

    2023-03-03
    editor/vim embedded programming/python programming/python/ipython programming/rust reverse-engineering

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    Article Series:

    • https://www.projectgus.com/2022/06/bmw-f-series-gear-selector-part-one-failures/
    • https://www.projectgus.com/2022/06/bmw-f-series-gear-selector-part-two-breakthrough/
    • https://www.projectgus.com/2022/07/bmw-f-series-gear-selector-part-three-success/

    Supporting Repository:

    • https://github.com/projectgus/car_hacking
    • https://github.com/projectgus/car_hacking/tree/main/bmw_gear_selector

    Related Projects:

    • https://github.com/tenderlove/initial-v