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How did Bresenham represented pixel grids to derive his line drawing algorithm?

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/280811.280913

VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project

https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/standards/complaints/

https://bitstring.software/

https://blog.calebjay.com/posts/accept-or-reject/

https://www.deepki.com/about/#certifications-awards

https://deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle3

https://www.edpb.europa.eu/system/files/2024-10/edpb_guidelines_202401_legitimateinterest_en.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_(video_game)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_Jack%27s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Computer

https://github.com/deepkit

https://github.com/voided-org

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/hubfs/Reports/lf_ar24_121524a.pdf?hsLang=en

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44894521

https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1glo8tv/petition_at_the_european_parliament_on_the/

https://scr.wfcdn.de/6759/Apple-vs.-Apfelkind-1319197155-0-0.jpg

https://startupnews.com.au/news/the-buildkite-story/

https://www.theverge.com/news/758192/apple-cinemas-lawsuit-response

https://web.archive.org/web/20230916074647/https://deepkit.io/blog/introducing-deepkit-framework

https://x.com/rough__sea/status/1953335245412946327

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4NIFzG8NcU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5XfYTgm4x8

What are unrelated cost of switching to Linux you know?

https://libimobiledevice.org/

Do you still bookmark websites?

https://www.are.na/ya-1sec/bookmarks-1ntdk32bur0

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bookmark-search/fcjphnojgeikgjajhlihdjnljnbpfhmi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku

https://floccus.org/

https://github.com/jamesrr39/chrome-bookmark-search/blob/master/src/dal/chromeBookmarkFetcher.ts

https://github.com/kal247/App-bookmarks

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+linkding

https://github.com/sebsauvage/Shaarli

https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/bookmarks

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=password4321%20container&sort=byPopularity&type=story

https://karakeep.app/

https://linkding.link/

https://linkhut.org/

https://notes.kateva.org/2024/09/the-end-times-have-come-for-pinboardin.html

https://raindrop.io

https://tab-session-manager.sienori.com/

F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/server/epyc/4004-series/amd-epyc-4124p.html

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/refs/heads/master/tools/aapt2/

https://www.androidauthority.com/best-app-stores-936652/

https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev/

https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/release-notes/issues

https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/release-notes/issues.en.html#i386-reduced-support

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/01/05/building-red-hat-enterprise-linux-9-for-the-x86-64-v2-microarchitecture-level

https://www.ebay.com/str/evolutionecycling

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_5_6_a

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_10h

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions#Later_versions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mel

https://f-droid.org/en/news

https://forum.f-droid.org/t/call-for-help-making-free-software-builds-of-the-android-sdk/4685

https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass/issues/90

https://github.com/cygnusx-1-org/Discoverium/

https://github.com/docker-library/mysql/issues/1055

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/593

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/593#note_2681207153

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/593#note_2690000843

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/172048751

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/438515318?pli=1

https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-July/143289.html

https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/4/25/409

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/u-s-says-chinese-telecom-giant-huawei-did-business-iran-n1136551

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19914838

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38505229

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38926156

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44799861

https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2575933-beschietingen-bij-zoektocht-naar-eten-elke-dag-op-een-ander-lichaamsdeel

https://source.android.com/docs/core/virtualization

https://wiki.debian.org/InstructionSelection

https://wimvanderbauwhede.codeberg.page/articles/frugal-computing/

https://xkcd.com/1172/

https://youtu.be/eunYrrcxXfw

Tell me about the best programmer you worked with

https://a.co/d/9SuUXIn

Mozilla Firefox Is Dying

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-brand-next-era-of-tech/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

Which Linux or windows desktop do you find the easiest and fastest?

https://www.ancsite.com/bringing-back-windows-xp-style

https://manuals.omamix.org/2/the-omarchy-manual

How are you teach your kids programming in 2025?

https://hackclub.com

https://perl.fandom.com/wiki/TIMTOWTDI

How do you verify that an uncensored model is uncensored?

https://kagi.com/search?q=How+do+you+verify+that+an+uncensored+model+is+uncensored%3F&r=us&sh=4fxOzRuBYSwDsiuHnc0n0g

What's the best free AI coding assistant available?

https://openrouter.ai/rankings#apps

How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?

https://artificialanalysis.ai/?models=gpt-oss-20b%2Cgemma-3-27b%2Cgemma-3-12b%2Cgpt-4-turbo%2Cgpt-4

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09343

https://www.baseten.co/resources/guide/the-baseten-inference-stack/#the-challenge-of-building-fast-cost-efficient-and-reliable-inference

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177.amp

https://bdachelp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/23196026000027-BD12NWES-12-000-BTU-Inverter-Technology-Window-Air-Conditioner

https://www.cerebras.ai/system

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/27/openai-sees-5-billion-loss-this-year-on-3point7-billion-in-revenue.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/google-will-let-companies-run-gemini-models-in-their-own-data-centers.html

https://docs.vllm.ai/en/stable/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoscaling

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistics_engineering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development

https://fin.ai/research/think-fast-reasoning-at-3ms-a-token/

https://futurism.com/chatgpt-bleach-vinegar

https://www.infracloud.io/blogs/inference-parallelism/

https://jax-ml.github.io/scaling-book/

https://lmsys.org/blog/

https://medium.com/@wearegap/a-brief-introduction-to-optimized-batched-inference-with-vllm-deddf5423d0c

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44149238

https://openai.com/api/pricing/

https://openai.com/index/march-20-chatgpt-outage/

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/openai-taps-google-unprecedented-cloud-deal-despite-ai-rivalry-sources-say-2025-06-10/

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-energy-carbon-emissions-chatgpt

https://www.seangoedecke.com/inference-batching-and-deepseek/

https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/gpu/48u/srs-gb200-nvl72

https://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BWhy%20didn%27t%20Larrabee%20fail%3F%5D%5D

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60763-d477541-Reviews-Rice_to_Riches-New_York_City_New_York.html

https://ut.philkr.net/advances_in_deeplearning/

https://xcancel.com/sama/status/1876104315296968813

How do you tune your personality to get better at interviews?

https://www.google.com/search?q=bob+firestone+job+interview+answers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmp_--Oow5o

What toolchains are people using for desktop app development in 2025?

https://akkartik.name/freewheeling

https://avaloniaui.net/

https://beeware.org/project/toga/

https://caniuse.com/native-filesystem-api

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FileSystemObserver

https://flutter.dev/multi-platform/desktop

https://www.get-notes.com/

https://github.com/9001/copyparty/

https://github.com/flamendless/Slab

https://github.com/mappu/miqt

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/154

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

https://github.com/QotoQot/Octospace

https://github.com/reciperium/temporis/

https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/3988

https://github.com/wailsapp/wails

https://kivy.org/

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

https://linklever.net/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44800048

https://rpdillon.net/redbean-tiddlywiki-saver.html

https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/cross-platform-tuis-are-easier-than-cross-platform-guis/

https://xojo.com

What alternatives to GitHub are you using?

https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/220795/where-should-i-host-software-for-individual-papers-in-2025-now-that-github-is-pa

https://blog.tangled.sh/stacking

https://codeberg.org

https://forgefed.org/

https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/server/

https://git-send-email.io/

https://git.disroot.org/

https://radicle.xyz

https://srctree.gr.ht/repo/srctree

https://srht.site/limitations

https://tangled.sh

https://tangled.sh/@tangled.sh/core

Does Microsoft gain anything from the constant annoying rebranding?

https://i.insider.com/4e0b340dcadcbbdd35120000