20 random bookmarks

2025-02-26

7265.

XnConvert · Batch Image Converter | Image convert | XnView.com

www.xnview.com/en/xnconvert

Batch photo resizer and image converter to crop, convert, compress, resize images.

2025-02-08

7262.

Obscure Islands website

amanvir.com/obscure-islands

2024-08-31

7225.

QR code generator

fietkau.software/qr

Iwebdev side project: QR code generator

  • It's instant, purely client-side, and has no ads or upsells.

  • It has a variety of color, shape, and logo embedding options.

  • There's PNG and SVG export.

The included logo selection is, let's say, "opinionated" and features lots of familiar faces if you enjoy federated social platforms. 😄

2024-07-10

7200.

toot by https://fosstodon.org/@eclecticpassions

fosstodon.org/@eclecticpassions/112761615943006931

2024-06-13

7172.

toot by https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom

fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/112607624581372432

Those were, of course, tree swallows in a barn.

Here's a barn swallow in a tree.

2024-06-12

6966.

Pipe your git diff output into dunk to make it prettier!

github.com/darrenburns/dunk

Prettier git diffs in the terminal

2024-05-08

7152.

toot by https://chaos.social/@lindworm

chaos.social/@lindworm/112407333083152134

Eine Google suche kostet im extremen bis zu 0.0003 kWh oder auch 1.08kJ. Eine ChatGPT-4 Anfrage in dem Bereich von 0.001-0.01 kWh(3.6-36 kJ)

Also ist das 3-36 mal mehr um eine Antwort zu bekommen, die mit Glück richtig ist und mit Sicherheit nicht vollständig.

und alle so "This is awesome!"

ich komme da nicht mehr mit. Echt nicht.

7149.

toot by https://hachyderm.io/@dave_andersen

hachyderm.io/@dave_andersen/112406723571546260

shit shit shit shit shit. Dealt with my first set of AI-generated-code plagiarism cases this semester.

Dear students: LLMs are terrible plagiarists and they do not give a damn (or have any capacity to care or avoid doing so) if they get you in deep doodoo by reproducing verbatim code from existing repositories on github or from web pages. And on assignments, it's quite likely to happen.

We didn't identify these cases by using an AI detector: They were identical to a source on the web!

2024-05-04

7147.

toot by https://mastodon.decentralised.social/@wezm

mastodon.decentralised.social/@wezm/112381479166922925

✍️ New post! I realised after mentioning the title case web page earlier today that I had not written about the other projects on my projects domain, 7bit.org. This post remedies that covering the following:

- Dew Point Forecast ­— 7 day weather forecasts that include the dew point
- RSS Please — Generate RSS feeds from web pages
- Titlecase — Convert text to title case
- MacBinary — a MacBinary decoder

<https:www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2024/7bit-projects/>

[#weather](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/weather) [#VintageMac](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/VintageMac) [#rss](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/rss) [#dewpoint](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/dewpoint)

2024-04-22

7140.

toot by https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom

fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/112316252276386437

Golden hour is for rabbits too.

2024-04-15

7130.

toot by https://mastodon.social/@harshil

mastodon.social/@harshil/112273758345114562

2024-01-30

7103.

toot by https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon

fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/111847212411180202

Here's some ridiculously exciting news...

One of the most useful nerdy documents on the internet is "Beej's Guide to Network Programming", a comprehensive tutorial on C socket programming that's been continually improved since 1995

I just found out Beej has a new guide (started in March 2023) called "Beej’s Guide to Networking Concepts" - which teaches networking concepts using Python!

<https:beej.us/guide/bgnet0/>

2024-01-20

7094.

toot by https://mastodon.social/@chockenberry

mastodon.social/@chockenberry/111790221631363045

This product image on Amazon has the mystery of a Renaissance painting.

2023-12-18

7080.

toot by https://fosstodon.org/@soller

fosstodon.org/@soller/111602942350402876

This is cosmic-term, a very WIP project that takes the alacritty_terminal crate providing the majority of terminal code but rewrites the renderer to support additional features such as bidirectional text and ligatures. It will support both software and GPU rendering, and will have additional UI sugar provided by libcosmic as they are implemented.

<https:github.com/pop-os/cosmic-term/>

2023-11-29

7070.

toot by https://mastodon.social/@leebennett

mastodon.social/@leebennett/111494222938094440

[@gedeonm](https://mastodon.social/@gedeonm) Having just watched Showtime’s “Billions” show and saw the storyline of Ax’s failure to organize a bank, I’d wager Apple would have a very rough time of it, if they even wanted to.

2023-11-22

7066.

toot by https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon

fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/111451770280971152

Written news articles often have a secret language to them which hints at the underlying reporting process - language like "according to **two people familiar with** the board’s deliberations".

I don't think these are at all obvious to people who haven't worked in news, so I wrote an article about them:

Deciphering clues in a news article to understand how it was reported
<https:simonwillison.net/2023/Nov/22/deciphering-clues/>

2023-09-12

7045.

toot by https://social.holovaty.com/@adrian

social.holovaty.com/@adrian/111051579403314995

My first proper album is released today! It's called Melodic Guitar Music.

Recommended if you like melodies, or guitars, or music. Now available on Bandcamp and streaming services:

<https:www.holovaty.com/melodic-guitar-music/>

2023-07-28

7024.

toot by https://cosocial.ca/@timbray

cosocial.ca/@timbray/110789867142232744

2023-07-15

7023.

toot by https://drupal.community/@deviantintegral

drupal.community/@deviantintegral/110720647779345681

2023-02-20

6986.

toot by https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon

fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/109895049104910787

For everyone who's up to date with Abbott Elementary: are you a truckie?