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Medium mentions (2264)

• Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites

  Since this is effecting end users of websites directly. So instead of waiting for developer to fix it, this could help you stay protected until then https://medium.com/@wrongsahil/protecting-yourself-from-polyfill-io-malware-as-a-user-7be300ff8b94. - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

• The Bleak Genius of Michel Foucault

  If you're looking for an intellectual critique of Foucault, one of the best is Jean Baudrillard's book Forget Foucault from 1977. Baudrillard both admired the depth of Foucault's historically informed philosophical analysis but questioned its objectivity especially given Foucault had little to say about how power evolved with mass media & technology - and was in a sense always fighting the last war: > "If Foucault... - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago

• Show HN: A new social giving platform

  Picture this: you’re scrolling through your social media feed, feeling the usual blend of amusement and boredom until suddenly, a video catches your eye. It’s not just entertaining; it’s transformative. It inspires you, educates you, or maybe just brings a smile to your face when you needed it most. You’re filled with gratitude for the creator behind this masterpiece, but a simple “like” or “share” feels... - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago

• Show HN: We increased profits +42% for ecommerce with OSS data pipelines

  Long story short: Facebook Ads optimizes ad delivery based on ROAS (return on ad spent) but return is sales and not profits. I open sourced the data pipeline to do just that and explained it all here: https://medium.com/@theo_dot/how-we-increased-shopify-business-profits-by-42-in-3-months-using-data-d91de3add629. - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago

• Novel prompting approach for Alice in Wonderland problem

  Https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02061v1 research paper shows the reasoning breakdown in SOTA LLMs by asking a simple question, “Alice has N brothers and she also has M sisters. How many sisters does Alice’s brother have?” I investigated performance of different prompts on this question, and show that 'Expand-then solve' prompt significantly outperforms standard and chain-of-thought prompts. Article link -... - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago

Playscii mentions (3)

• Interesting retro-futuristic interactive interfaces for players?

  An alternative to your first link: https://jp.itch.io/playscii. Source: over 2 years ago

• The PsychDOS desktop environment is now available

  Oh, and to easily convert images to ANSI-like art on a modern system, use a program called Playscii (https://jp.itch.io/playscii). Source: about 3 years ago

• Pixel/ASCII Maps

  I found this cool ASCII art program on Itch.io called Playscii. After faffing about with it for a while I thought some of the character sets would work well for making maps. So I redrew the map of a Sky Tomb from the Stars Without Number adventure Hard Light. They're not spectacular (I'm still new to visual art) but I think they look super cool. I think this visual style fits really well with the OSR. Source: over 3 years ago