Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog

Nice Web GUI for ZFS disk storage on a server

More malfeasance in the Alaska election office: they know they disenfranchised 3048 voters but aren't doing anything to fix it.

Online map of surveillance camera network in the US

An op/ed about how the term "Civil War" is whitewashing in the US for what used to be called "Slaveholder's Rebellion"

Handy reference showing support dates and end-of-life for various software and hardware systems

Some Bitcoin wallet didn't use good random numbers and now people's money is being stolen

A new music playing server from the guy who founded Plex and wrote Plexamp

AI-native dev environment, puts Claude Code together with git and service management and logs to help work on production systems

Funny spoofs of bad tech advertising, some AI inflected

Detailed notes from an open source contributor about mistreatment by Ruby Central

"Creating general purpose robots for dangerous jobs".

Radiohead classic retuned to a major key.

Example of Kufic calligraphy, a beautiful and geometric stylized form of Arabic writing

1500 people had their right to vote curtailed in what looks like partisan election tampering

Cambodian chef living in Oakland teaching people how to cook Khmer food online

Web browser tool for testing display consistency and latency

A deep dive on the Earth's diminishing albedo.

New login option for Google, a very short video of your face

An archive of classic videogames with direct downloads of game images

Some madman has ported Skate 3 to PC, originally with an Xbox 360 emulator but he's now rewritten the whole render system to stand alone.

Short review of a new biography of James Baldwin focussing on his homoromantic relationships

A nice short evaluation of the gay rights pioneer, without being afraid of talking about his flaws

New tutorial from an engineer with particular expertise

Young man reflects on growing up with Minecraft and what it means to him 15 years later

The history of the iconic Southern cheese spread

Swedish modern artist who did a lot of homoerotic cubist works of sailors

A very detailed panorama, high res scan

Go with no grid, free placement of stones.

Microsoft never revoked some shim signing keys that were compromised years ago

A tiny part of Australia has a timezone 45 minutes ahead of the rest of the region

Big bug in popular security software: "a user with ssh access can obtain a root session"