#linkblog — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #linkblog, aggregated by home.social.
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Claude is the "cool kid" of the retail AI services world. However, thanks to its snobbish attitude to some geographical locations, token limitations, and corporate ethos I ended up in the arms of Mistral. Why I use Mistral and why it honestly doesn't matter how great the model is as long as it serves your needs.
http://elizabethtai.com/2026/05/02/why-i-use-mistral-as-my-personal-paid-ai-service/
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I now have a microblog/link blog based on my bookmarks on Raindrop.io because I'm too lazy to blog regularly. Why not? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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🔗 "Introducing ChatGPT Atlas (simonwillison.net)"
Oh boy they did it. They really did a browser. Holy shit we’re in for a very fun SecOps ride!
👉 https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-simonwillison-net-2025-oct-21-introducing-chatgpt-atlas
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🔗 "The Oldest Known Melody (Hurrian Hymn no.6 - c.1400 B.C.)"
Life is so cool when you can listen to a 3400 year old piece of music played by a Lyre artist, streamed via a globe spanning network.
👉 https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-www-youtube-com-watch-v-qpxn2vxpmlc
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🔗 "As I remember London"
Christian Heilmann on how he remembers living in London - a stark contrast to the racist shit DHH wrote on his blog.
👉 https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-christianheilmann-com-2025-09-25-as-i-remember-london
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🔗 "Mark Zuckerberg sues Mark Zuckerberg"
This is too funny: A lawyer named Mark Zuckerburg is pissed because Facebook keeps disabling his account on terms of impersonating Mark Zuckerburg (Meta CEO).
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🔗 "Happy Birthday Monkey Island"
Moneky Island turns 35 this year, and I just discovered this old blog post by Ron Gilbert about the development and release process of a game in 1990.
👉 https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-www-grumpygamer-com-monkey25
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🔗 "Finnish City Inaugurates 1 MW/100 MWh Sand Battery"
A very interesting concept, and a great example of taking alternative approaches to energy management!
👉 https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/finnish-city-inaugurates-1-mw-100-mwh-sand-battery
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🔗 "Why 'Silksong' Took Seven Years to Make"
Silksong took 7 years to make and comes out in just two weeks! There were a lot of rumors about it in the past: People talking about the game being discarded, never coming out, the team going silent and not posting any updates... turns out, they were just having a great time!
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#linkblog #SuggestedRead #HollowKnight #Gaming #Silksong https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-www-bloomberg-com-news-newsletters-2025-08-21-why-silksong-team-cherry-s-sequel-to-hollow-knight-took-so-long-to-make
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🔗 "How I accidentally became PureGym's unofficial Apple Wallet developer"
Vadim Drobinin, frustrated with his gym app, reverse engineers the API and makes it Apple Wallet compatible to save a whooping 3.2h each year when going into the gym. This post is why I love being a programmer - finding an issue, working around it, making things work. Beautiful.
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#linkblog #SuggestedRead #PureGym #Reverse Engineering #Apple https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-dimsumthinking-com-blog-2019-08-06-applehatesyou-html
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🔗 "I'm never going back to Matrix"
A good post about Matrix and where it comes short - messaging, surprisingly. There's a reason folks use Signal over the decentralized Matrix chat protocol and service.
👉 https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-shkspr-mobi-blog-2025-07-im-never-going-back-to-matrix
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🔗 "Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives"
Once again, Perplexity is stealing data it isn't supposed to access - actively circumventing counter measurements like robots.txt files and IP/User Agent blocks.
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🔗 RE: "Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7.3Tbps of junk traffic"
That's just insane numbers.
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🔗 RE: "Tiny Robots Can Help Fix Leaky Old Water Pipes Without Having to Dig Up Roads"
So cool! Small-ish Robots living in pipes, cleaning and fixing them from within.
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🔗 RE: "Google Cloud Incident"
Google Cloud Platform suffered an outage on the 12th of June, caused by a null pointer exception in a central component. As always, the post-mortem / incident report by Google is detailed, blameless, and open which is very nice to see - I like reading through them and learning from their takeaways.
👉 https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-status-cloud-google-com-incidents-ow5i3ppk96rdumcb1ssw
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Karakeep: A web page saver system using AI to help search pages you've squirreled away
https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep
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🔗 RE: "How I Manage My Read Later List"
Sometimes the simplest solution can be the best.
👉 https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-marcel-io-posts-how-i-manage-my-read-later-list
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🔗 RE: "European Vulnerability Database"
There's now a European Vulnerability Database which tracks vulnerabilities!
👉 https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-euvd-enisa-europa-eu
#linkblog #SuggestedRead #security #vulnerability #cve #secops
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🔗 RE: "A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data"
I asked Gemma 3 running locally about "vegetative electron microscopy" and it gave me a super long answer explaining what it is - only that it is nothing but an error in AI data.
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#linkblog #SuggestedRead #AI https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-theconversation-com-a-weird-phrase-is-plaguing-scientific-papers-and-we-traced-it-back-to-a-glitch-in-ai-training-data-254463
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Kottke on #uspol: Thoughtful comments from an O.G. blogger about covering the current awful political situation in the US
https://kottke.org/25/02/a-programming-note-1
#mentalhealth #politics #linkblog #outrage #kottke #uspol #blogs #+ -
Justin's Linklog: Details on how a linkblog is implemented
https://jmason.ie/2024/11/16/201842a.html
#linkblog #blogging #pinboard #jmason #+ -
Linkding: Self-hosted bookmarks, a Pinboard alternative
https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding
#selfhosting #bookmarks #pinboard #linkblog #software #+ -
Kellan's linkblog: Yay, a new linkblog!
https://laughingmeme.org//2024/06/08/a-link-blog-in-2024.html
#bookmarks #linkblog #pinboard #kellan #blogs #+