Core of the article: the cathedral, the bazaar, and the workshop - https://jamesmunsch.com/words/2026-01-18-the-atelier--craft-...
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b1n commented on The Cathedral, the Bazaar and the Workshop jamesmunsch.com/words/202... · Posted by u/b1n
Title: The Atelier: Craft, Code, and the Coming Guild
Related (but not linked) The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999) (241 points, 2023, 165 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35939383
Apologies if this is against the rules.
I linked to a sub-heading of the article (which I think is the core and most important part of the article) and named the link after that.
Re-submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761556
b1n commented on OpenAI is building a social network? theverge.com/openai/64813... · Posted by u/noleary
It makes no sense to build a social network nowadays.
With Mastodon and Bluesky around, users have free options. Plus X and Threads, and you can see how the market is more than saturated.
IMHO they should look into close collaboration/minority stake with Bluesky or Reddit instead. You have a huge pool of users already, without the need to build it up from the ground up from scratch.
Heck, OpenAI probably has enough money to just buy Reddit if they want.
Also, what is their USP? "Join our social network so we can train our models on your data!"
b1n commented on Linux running inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator github.com/ading2210/linu... · Posted by u/shantara
I've invented a replacement for the PDF format.
It's called Locked Markdown. `*.lmd`.
It provides 98% of the functionality most people use PDFs for, without all the extra bullshit.
The Spec:
- The most popular Markdown Spec (git flavour?)
- At the top of the page place a hash sum of the markdown below a marker on the page.
LMD Reader:
- Prevents editing the markdown.
- Warns user if the hash sum is not valid.
Example:
```lmd
sha256 77ec0f678315f8a207c3501137e1dfc9642b79a9c93e21807df7b5242846c05c
-------------------------------
# Header 1
Paragraph of text about how bloated the PDF format is.
```
Zip .lmd together with images/videos if required.
Even before the rise of AI music, they started "customizing" playlists based on the algorithm, so that you see different songs compared to someone else who subscribes to the same playlist.
This was one of the reasons why I left Spotify. There are hundreds of posts about this issue on the Spotify community site, e.g.
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Content-Questions/Option-to...
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Content-Questions/Spotify-P...
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Your-Library/I-Sent-a-Playl...
Cory Doctrow goes into the reasons behind the rise of playlists and the control it gives the platform over their users/artists. Worth a read.
b1n commented on The UX of Lego Interface Panels (2020) interactionmagic.com/UX-L... · Posted by u/rcdemski
Only tangentially related, but just yesterday I learned of Lego's defunct "Modulex" brand, and the serious and apparently widely popular Lego-brick-based project management display boards from the '60s to the '90s.
The small size and comforting pastel colors seemed especially inviting to me.
It makes me yearn for more tactile and actually pleasant-to-work-with computer UIs.
What is modulex: https://www.newelementary.com/2017/11/old-bricks-what-are-mo...
b1n commented on · Posted by u/StealthyStart
You should be embarrassed by the obviousness of this spam.
this guy was harassing tanks as they were leaving. he harasses and climbs on the tank and is unharmed. eventually others drag him away.
you can see the tanks are leaving the square in a wider photo here: https://pc.blogspot.com/2012/06/tank-man.html
it is not clear to me if he is harassing the tanks because he disagreed with them or because he wanted them to go back. it seems no one has interviewed him or the soldier he talked to so we'll never know.
EDIT: I should note that one of US ally Israel's favorite tactics is to run over defenseless Palestinians with tanks and US made bulldozers. Well documented, with gruesome photos that will make you retch at a pink stain that used to be a person. They also ran over Rachel Corrie, a U.S. citizen peace protestor in 2003. Israeli soldiers celebrate this event by eating pancakes: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-so...
Anyway here is an image of our very own tank woman. Her last photo as she stares down an Israeli bulldozer with incredible courage.
https://www.reddit.com/r/lastimages/comments/1bgt5ls/last_im...
The future of state LLMs is not censoring subjects - it's slowly but surely persuading people using your LLM that your version of events - or your spin on that event - is the truth.