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Python Block Delimited Notation Parsing Explained
8 Dec 2023 contrachrome.com (Archive)
"In Contra Chrome, Leah carefully charts this road and its terrain in a funny and easily accessible way. In webcomic form, she documents how over the last decade, Google’s browser has become a threat to user privacy and the democratic process itself."
An ActivityPub server with a single hardcoded 'King' service actor that acts as a chess arbiter.

Allows users to play chess against each other across the activitypub protocol
A hackable AI home assistant platform using the Google Nest Mini (2nd gen) form factor, consisting of:

- a custom PCB designed to be a drop-in replacement to the original, using the ESP32-S3 for audio processing
- a server for handling the transcription, response generation and Text-to-Speech from multiple devices on the same network
Open, decentralized, immersive worlds built on Matrix
28 Nov 2023 www.astralcodexten.com (Archive)
"You’ve probably heard AI is a “black box”. No one knows how it works. Researchers simulate a weird type of pseudo-neural-tissue, “reward” it a little every time it becomes a little more like the AI they want, and eventually it becomes the AI they want. But God only knows what goes on inside of it...
Until now! Towards Monosemanticity, recently out of big AI company/research lab Anthropic, claims to have gazed inside an AI and seen its soul"
28 Nov 2023 steamcommunity.com (Archive)
I was looking around for the first Alice game on Steam and couldn't find it, but found this tutorial on how to get the files needed for Alice: Madness Returns to have the original game alongside it
"Scrollbars. Ever heard of them? They’re pretty cool. Click and drag on a scrollbar and you can move content around in a scrollable content pane. I love that shit. Every day I am scrolling on my computer, all day long. But the scrollbars are getting smaller and this is increasingly becoming a problem. I would show you screenshots but they’re so small that even screenshotting them is hard to do..."