This brings to my mind the rune graffitis found on the Hagia Sophia mosque: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_inscriptions_in_Hagia_So...
Readit Newsflobosg commented on The beauty of a text only webpage albanbrooke.com/the-beaut... · Posted by u/speckx
Maybe one of my favorite examples
Another well known one and particularly interesting since it's one of the most valuable companies in the world and this is their real website and not something they've just kept for historical purposes or something. https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
I would pay good money to watch a clear-glasses-framed youngster pitch Buffet on turning the BH website into a progressive web app.
Lots of examples here (although many do have some amount of styling): https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html
flobosg commented on Laptop Support and Usability (LSU): July 2025 Report github.com/FreeBSDFoundat... · Posted by u/grahamjperrin
Earlier I used FreeBSD on ThinkPad W520 (because keyboard):
- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2022/04/14/freebsd-13-1-on-th...
.. and recently moved to FrankenPad T25 that is based on T480 (because keyboard):
- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/freebsd-14-3-on-fr...
I do everything on FreeBSD including work.
Some of the topics I covered:
- Unlock Laptop with Phone
- Conferencing and Meetings
- Netflix Signal Telegram
- Network Management with network.sh
- FreeBSD Power Management
- FreeBSD Suspend/Resume
- Oldschool Gaming on FreeBSD
- Minecraft Server in FreeBSD Jails Container
- Secure Containerized Browser
- Print on FreeBSD
- Scan on FreeBSD
- Sensible Firefox Setup
- Operate Android Device on FreeBSD
- FreeBSD Alongside Windows
To just name a few ... because I am slowly closing to 200 of these FreeBSD related articles.
% ls ~/misc/verblog/POSTS | wc -l
175
> FrankenPad T25
TIL. It looks really nice!
flobosg commented on How to Scale Proteomics asimov.press/p/proteomics... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
On the other hand, there’s been some progress and proofs of concept regarding the use of nanopore technology for protein sequencing. Hopefully something useful comes out of it.
flobosg commented on Germany's identity crisis: The trains no longer run on time washingtonpost.com/world/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
Trains here are bad and the ones to/from Frankfurt are almost always delayed IME but surely you have other options to fall back on for getting there (or to whatever airport) that take less than "several hours".
Good luck with those fallback plans when your train stops in the middle of nowhere for an extended period of time. Or getting a full refund for that taxi you had to take to reach your intended destination.
flobosg commented on Some thoughts on journals, refereeing, and the P vs NP problem blog.computationalcomplex... · Posted by u/luu
“Frontiers” journals are crap, so it’s no surprise. But I don’t understand why editors let this happen. It’s similar to academic fraud: if you lie about results nobody cares about, you’ll never get caught; if you lie about big things, suddenly the hammer comes down. And for what benefit? It’s not like they walked away with a payday from splitting the open access fee. There’s nothing wrong with desk rejecting an author by saying “if your result is true, publish it somewhere better”
Despite the similarity in naming, Frontiers of Computer Science (Front. Comput. Sci.) is not published by Frontiers Media SA, but Springer and Higher Education Press. Note, however, that Frontiers Media does publish Frontiers *in* Computer Science (Front. Comput. Sci. (Lausanne)).
flobosg commented on Germany's identity crisis: The trains no longer run on time washingtonpost.com/world/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
In the last few weeks I’ve had friends lose/almost lose their flights in Germany because their trains were several hours late.
flobosg commented on Germany's identity crisis: The trains no longer run on time washingtonpost.com/world/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
The punctuality of the trains has been more of a joke for quite a bit, I don't think it's a big part of German identity.
The part that is really terrible are the long-distance trains. Not that the regional trains are always punctual, their reliability varies a lot per route. But they're not as bad as the long-distance trains.
One big recent improvement is the Germany ticket, for 58 EUR per month you can take any regional train or bus.
> But they're not as bad as the long-distance trains.
In my recent experience the most punctual trains I’ve taken have been long-distance ones, namely IC (as opposed to ICE). Not sure why, though.
flobosg commented on Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/pseudolus
there are many separate problems of scientific fraud. I think these issues sometimes get confused which is unhelpful.
1. apparently-legitimate papers in prestigious journals with fraudulent data. extremely bad.
2. legitimate papers in legitimate journals which, innocently or not, just used bad methods and have wrong conclusions. this is "the replication crisis".
3. totally fake papers in paper mills with no meaningful peer review. it's really easy to spot these, no one is individually getting taken in by the results, but...
3a. sometimes they wind up in a meta-analysis, which is really bad because people might trust the meta analysis.
Problem 1 is morally worst and much more common than one would hope. Outright fabricated data in a Nature or NEJM publication (as has happened) is a disaster.
Problem 2 is amenable to reform for the most part (fields are already doing this).
Problem 3 isn't a problem at all for scientific knowledge per se, although universities and funding bodies might not be pleased their scientists are buying fake papers. You can just ignore the paper mills.
But Problem 3a can actually alter policy, which is pretty serious.
4. Plagiarism
I really think a big chunk of the problem is that it’s very hard for anyone to say to their employer that they shouldn’t be doing work. People like having a job and finding work not to do feels scary.