Links archives for 2025/12 - markjgsmith.com

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RAM prices are going through the roof, likely caused by the AI boom. lifehacker.com #
Tether has bee trying to buy italian football club Juventus. www.theblock.co #
JSDoc is TypeScript. hn. culi.bearblog.dev #
Google unkills JPEG XL? tonisagrista.com #
Miniflux implements the Google Reader API. miniflux.app #
Rob Zolkos opens up the hood on some of 37signals most popular products and discovers vanilla CSS is all you need. No build step. www.zolkos.com #
New warp drive designs are poping up. thedebrief.org #

Trump: Make Europe Austro-hungarian again. www.dw.com #
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zrepl is a one-stop, integrated solution for ZFS replication. zrepl.github.io #
"Simple cloud service to store ZFS snapshots" - Simple off-site backups. zfs.rent #
Syncthing - Open source software and protocol to synchronize files between 2 or more computers in realtime. No need to go through the cloud. syncthing.net #

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Trump signs order banning states from regulating AI. www.theguardian.com #
Underground art: exploring the unique designs of London’s tube seats. www.theguardian.com #
Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage rclone.org #
Singing for Animals compilation. I thought this was kind of amazing. www.youtube.com #
Parrot at the vet. Funny but not real. Also made me wonder if the previous link was real or not. The everything can be faked world is gonna be very weird. www.youtube.com #
Saylor selling his futuristic digital credit instruments in the middle east. The end is kind of wild. Infinity as a service? x.com #
Marktext - A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows. github.com #
CFTC Launches Digital Assets Pilot Allowing Bitcoin, Ether and USDC as Collateral. www.coindesk.com #

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Tiny Core Linux - Nomadic ultra small (~16MB) graphical desktop operating system capable of booting from cdrom, pendrive, or frugally from a hard drive. www.tinycorelinux.net #
First complete dictionary of ancient Celtic to be compiled. www.theguardian.com #
Bcachefs is an advanced new filesystem for Linux, ZFS inspired, Filesystem as a database. bcachefs.org #
Codeberg is a Github clone - "Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led effort that provides Git hosting and other services for free and open source projects". codeberg.org #
Liz Truss has started a podcast. Very right wing in places. justthenews.com #
I asked Gemini to tell me a really funny cellular automata themed joke. As is often the case, things got a bit ridiculus. gemini.google.com #
Cryptoeconomics - "Fundamental Principles of Bitcoin" - Audio version distributed via a podcast, kind of hardcore but contains concise descriptions of all the theories underpinning Bitcoin. voskuil.org #

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Tesla bros take the new full self driving (FSD) v14.2 for a spin going through Times Square in New York. Very impressive. www.youtube.com #
Officials in China warn of bubble occurring in the humanoid robotics industry. Already 150 companies make humanoids. www.digitaltrends.com #
Apple's market cap surpasses all but 6 top global economies. www.pressrundown.com #
Your mitochondria are under attack from artificial blue light, which is worrying because they produce ATP, the energy currency that powers literally everything your body does. vivarays.com #
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