30 Apr 2025 Search

Some legal risk avoidance notes for independent sites: Online Safety Act Notes for Small Sites — Russ Garrett, A guide to potential liability pitfalls for people running a Mastodon instance by Denise. (Not legal advice, consult your lawyer…)

The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers by Iain Thomson. (yes, it’s a clickbait headline, but worth it.)

Europe Has Failed, But Ukraine Might Still Save It by Phillips P. O’Brien. Even though the return of the openly pro-Putin Donald Trump to the White House was at least a 50-50 proposition for most of 2024, European states refused to accept the reality staring them straight in the face.

Docling Technical Report. This technical report introduces Docling, an easy to use, self-contained, MIT-licensed open-source package for PDF document conversion. It is powered by state-of-the-art specialized AI models for layout analysis (DocLayNet) and table structure recognition (TableFormer), and runs efficiently on commodity hardware in a small resource budget. The code interface allows for easy extensibility and addition of new features and models.

Two Peoples by Brian Jacobs. The likes of Google and Meta realised early and have exploited brilliantly the reality that he who controls measurement controls revenue.

Why Individual Rights Can’t Protect Privacy by Daniel Solove. While I admire the CPPA’s effort to educate, the notion that the ball is in the individuals’ court is not a good one. This puts the on individuals to protect their privacy when they are ill-equipped to do so and then leads to blaming them when they fail to do so.

Cutting back poppies and harvesting seed on Weeding Wild Suburbia, How to Make Seed Bombs on MrBrownThumb. Happy California Golden Poppy season to all who celebrate.

Molly White’s napkin math: I saved hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month just from switching from Substack to self-hosted Ghost

BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody’s heard of by Jeff Geerling. (Not for navigation, for timekeeping)

Ian Jackson: Rust is indeed woke In the Rust community, we care about empowerment. We are trying to help liberate our users. And we want to empower everyone because everyone is entitled to technological autonomy. (For a programming language, empowering individuals means empowering their communities, of course.)