jan linkdump

some cool shit that it’s read/watched recently and thinks others should probably see too. or not. it’s not a cop.

youtube videos

• Evanescent (ft. メグッポイド GUMI, Kamui Gakupo)

  friend recommended this, and it’s fucking beautiful. the art and animation is fantastic.

• The Remarkable Computers Built Not to Fail

  good 45 minute video essay about the history of tandem.

• Ephemeral Cathodic Relay - Commodore 8296 PET demo by Genesis Project and Distant Future

• [COMMENTATED TAS] Kirby Super Star Ultra 100% Speedrun - 1:35:09

• SiIvaGunner’s Infinite Quality Achieved w/ Twitch Chat & SiIva Chat Replay

  this is a recording of the stream, so might not be the best to watch if you just want to watch the visuals directly, link to the visuals only

  an utterly banger album, must have been cool as hell to be there live. also, furries in the audience ^_^

articles

• Black Triangles wayback

  a good term for infrastructure work that unblocks other work, but is on its face, boring.

• Write the most clever code you possibly can wayback

  writing Clever Code(tm) as a learning tool.

  to add to that, code golf is a great way to learn the niche parts of your language! you should try and write code under arbitrary restrictions (one statement, minimal size, no variables, etc) to force you to learn more aspects of the language you’re working in. it will come in handy when you’re able to recognise when a technique learned there is actually the cleanest way to write code in a “real” situation.

• Tools For Treason wayback

  a good post that it was linked while talking about the ethics of building anonymity software.

  you can’t code for ethics, if you do your job right there’s no way for you to prevent someone from using a given tool. (and if you do build a backdoor in, then The State can compel you to prevent access to people it doesn’t like.)

  that’s not to say all tools are built equally. technology is still political, and what you build changes who benefits. anyone can use Tor, but it’s much more useful to those who want to circumvent censorship than those who want to do the censoring, so Tor’s existence is anti-censorship.

  that does mean allowing both queers and fascists to publish websites, but you can’t prevent one without preventing the other.

  it’s an open advocate for tor (runs a snowflake proxy tor) since ultimately, it’s doing more good than harm, and fascists would be doing just fine without tor.

• Make The Golf Course A Public Sex Forest! tor

  (nsfw text.)

  not a fucking joke, and it stands by this. good pamphlet.