Bora M. Alper

reminds me of academics who have thousands of paper PDFs on their laptop, with some degree of curation. maybe open software projects should have explicit bibliographies

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Anthropic found the origin of the NIST elliptic curve seeds: they were generated with drand48()! No one was seriously worried, but this should put some FUD to rest, completing the NIST ECC rehabilitation arc… just in time to be retired in favor of PQ. Also, we raised $36 Ki for ISRG. Yay!

Well since I messed up posting the link yesterday, here it is again (oops) spritely.institute/news/end-to-...

I am extremely excited by the fact that tptacek and mrkurt are making a phone/os sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09...

The contagion of fear bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...

it doesn’t matter how worthless you think the tech is, i can wholeheartedly assure you that you do not want to live in a world where anthropic and openai are the sole arbiters of who has accelerated learning, development, and production capabilities.

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

people who have been maintaining core open source projects for decades begging to make rent while millions are poured out for a neonazi who is vibing a "antiwoke" distro It's bleak

adding a message board feature to my homepage to make it more attractive to OpenAI agents like a bee hotel

Are there a lot of lactose-intolerant and gluten-intolerant people going around posting "slop unfortunately" at pictures of tres leches cakes?

You know it's a strange political moment when @naomiaklein.bsky.social and I are on the cover of the Financial Times. Our piece explores how climate change is fueling a new form of futureless fascism, and the public investments needed to shift course. Gift link: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

I don't think everyone needs to use AI. I don't think it's good that AI is being shoved everywhere when it's not wanted or asked for. But I don't find the complete hatred of all AI tools productive or helpful to building a better internet. And others appear to be feeling the same thing.

Multiple people I know have told me that they love the idea of Bluesky, and want it to succeed, but have abandoned it for X because the use agentic tools in their work and find them incredibly useful, and feel that any mention of their usage here leads to hate and ridicule.

Google replaced pushing Git tags for certain source code with obtaining source code via Google Drive after making a request through Google Forms. It's completely ridiculous and they've gradually become very slow at handling requests. They're in clear violation of the GPLv2 now.

Homebrew is thriving while other open source projects struggle. Its scarcest resource isn't money: it's maintainer motivation.

I think this is a very bad move, and the people behind Codeberg should re-consider there stance. blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o...

re: codeberg

When you've defeated the cone they put you in the Hannibal Lector

I love it: > The Rebel County has a new taxi app. > Owned by the drivers. > > Tap a Taxi is a driver-owned co-operative. No surge pricing, no hidden fees, just the meter price. Your fare stays with the driver. tapataxi.ie #TapATaxi #taxi #cooperative #ireland

i want to do a little ✨ ama about atproto ✨ in this thread. no question is too simple if you’ve been curious about atproto but don’t know much (anything?) about it, ask any question and i’ll try to explain it in my own words. (+ would love to hear from friends who aren’t very active on bsky)

New blog post: "Conviviality in computational science" https://blog.khinsen.net/posts/2026/07/06/conviviality.html "Conviviality matters for science for multiple reasons. One of them is epistemic: if you want to derive knowledge from your work, you need to know exactly what you are doing, and […]

🍱 Hello! My wife is running a short survey on food waste in Ireland and the UK as part of her masters thesis and would appreciate your input if you have < 10 mins. ❤️ → forms.cloud.microsoft/e/LU8Rbm4uBr #food #foodwaste #ireland #uk #survey

Fatboy Slim on the right side of history today in Brighton. Standing against racism with thousands of anti-fascists. Things you love to see ✊❤

If you can't call yourself out supporting verbal violence of harassment, the problem is not AI slop, but how lame humanity became in recent years.

Do you understand how serious it is that in Hacker News right now a violent issue against the rsync author is on the home page, full of normies commenting and upvoting it?

I think #rsync has been a true litmus test of anti-AI fanaticism. If you pile on someone who gave us rsync, because he still maintains it (and now against newly-armed attackers) using AI tools (to level the playing field), you need to question your life choices. medium.com/@tridge60/rs...

I started the podcast, because I actually think we are already doing all the things we need to do. We just need to scale them up by nudging people away from Amazon and towards the weird food coop in their town.

I host a podcast where I interview people running organizations like this. It's called Future Mending Radio and I have profiled food and tech coops, pay what you can restaurants, public parks, clothing swaps, and more.

This is why I think we have to open more businesses and coops with an ethical charter, to redirect flows of money from the worst global mega-corps into versions of community and mutual aid. The scale of the economy is way too vast to not engage on that terrain. We need assets and property.

WIRED got a copy of a New York Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau report that has a curious term for opposition to AI development and data centers: "anti-tech violent extremist activity." Great reporting here on how law enforcement is tracking big tech opponents www.wired.com/story/us-law...

Wrote a bit about why LLM-written text is so painful, even when the content itself is fine, and the importance of using your own voice jola.dev/posts/the-so...

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you have almost nothing to gain from spending money on self-help or body optimization books and courses. most supplements and health topics are bogus. but universal healthcare would meaningfully extend your probable lifespan.

It's been incredible to see the new apps and watchfaces devs cooked up for @repebble.com during the last 3 weeks - 360 faces and 211 apps!!! Thank you everyone for creating and hearting! We'll take some time to do judging then share the results later. developer.repebble.com/spring2026co...

we desperately need a radically pro-technology leftist movement, one that rejects palantir and silicon valley’s vision of “technology” without also becoming radicalized against technology

One of the things I wrote about is that the ATproto architecture requires a "god's-eye view", and that at best, we will probably end up getting a small pantheon of gods. Which is a less participatory form of decentralization. It does seem like where the ATmosphere is going currently.

🤯 > Always fascinated with traffic light countdown in Amap in China. Turns out it is implemented by crowdsourcing motion data. Had thought they had integration with city govs (which they do but with just a small number of cities). What is Google doing with maps [...]? x.com/RealYuanLiu/...

As I said elsewhere I am basically radicalized about this. We fight now for personal computing and personal agency or we lose another decade to closed clouds We push now for an open internet and open models. Nobody is going to hand it to us because they’re nice

Celebrating Saint Patrick's Day in Ireland on the 17th followed by 18 March Çanakkale Victory in Turkey. Kladderadatsch, 14 May 1916 doi.org/10.11588/dig...

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having used claude extensively for the past couple of months, i think there is still a lot of value to understanding your code and steering it intentionally. the amount of incidental complexity claude accumulates otherwise (which mostly results in bugs that it can't ever fix reliably) is staggering.