Hypothesis: LLM agents are the new high-level programming language

Software

Here’s a remix of FFVI that’s supposedly okay to start with even if I haven’t played FFVI before. Fixes some bugs and makes the game more thinky, supposedly.

I’m playing the DS remake of Final Fantasy IV right now (belatedly after getting a big spoiler from the Magic card for Cecil) and it made me curious to check out if the SNES versions had any fun romhacks and yes!

This turns FFIV into an open world game. But I’d better finish the story normally first.

via: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-do-you-structure-your-nixos-configs/65851

Drawing a one-to-one correspondence between media consumption and behavior is always dicey—and never more so than when a high percentage of the audience is consuming a very different text than the one that is there. And it’s important to take a step back and check for alternate interpretations of the media we’re criticizing. All too often, feminist critiques of heterosexual porn wind up saying more about our views of women and sex than they do about the porn itself.

In conclusion: porn research is very bad and we don’t know anything. So it goes.

via: https://thingofthings.substack.com/p/polysemy-and-porn

A fast, modern, cross-platform XMPP client for communities and organizations.

OR: why you should sell onions on the internet

Ben Sparks explores hidden depths of a seemingly simple game.

Tic-tac-toe on a magic square. Hella neat, and hammers home how important representation is in mathematics.

Hong Kong Milk Tea is a very strong, perfectly sweet cup of tea enjoyed in bakeries, cafes and restaurants across Hong Kong. Here’s how to make it at home!

Renders HTML on the terminal, pretty good output, weird I hadn’t heard about it before.