California’s Billionaire Tax Has the Signatures to Make the Ballot
California’s proposed billionaire tax appears headed for the November ballot after backers said they gathered more than 1.5 million signatures, well above the threshold needed to qualify. SF Standard reports: Backers of the initiative announced this weekend that more than 1.5 million people signed a petition to bring the one-time, 5% wealth ta … ⌘ Read more
FBI Raids Texas Home of Man Suspected of Firebombing Sam Altman’s SF Mansion
The FBI searched the Texas home of a 20-year-old man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s San Francisco residence. Authorities say the suspect also made threats at OpenAI’s headquarters, and reports indicate he had written extensively about fears over AI and opposition to AI executives.
The suspect reporte … ⌘ Read more
A robotaxi killed a beloved SF cat; city supervisor wants driverless car reform
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San Francisco Billboards - August 2025
Every time I take a Lyft from the San Francisco airport to downtown going up 101, I notice the billboards. The billboards on 101 are always such a good snapshot in time of the current peak of the Silicon Valley hype cycle. I’ve decided to capture photos of the billboards every time I am there, to see how this changes over time. ⌘ Read more
hinto-janai releases Gupax v1.3.10
hinto-janai1 has released Gupax 2 version 1.3.103 with multiple changes to its list of XMR remote nodes and visual/text modifications:
Remote Node changes:
- Removed monero1.heitechsoft.com
- Removed node.cryptocano.de
- Removed fbx.tranbert.com
- Removed home.allantaylor.kiwi
- Removed sf.xmr.support
Bundled Versions:
-P2Pool v4.2
-XMRig v6.22.2
The full changelog, sources, SHA256SUM and .asc files can be found … ⌘ Read more
MC in the US: OSFC, SF, Seattle, Microsoft
I attended the Open Source Firmware Conference (OSFC) on Oct 10-12 in
Sunnyvale, spent a long weekend in San Francisco, took a very long
train ride to Seattle, spent a week in the Seattle area, and held an
intimate talk at Microsoft. Managed to meet friends, drink some nice
beverages, and even see a show but came home with a heavy heart. Then
tried to relax in the cottage.
Get Over 5000 Free Icons & Symbols with SF Symbols
Apple has launched SF Symbols 5, a large collection of iconography for developers and designers to use in their apps for Apple experiences. If you’re a designer or developer, you’ll probably appreciate all the new symbols available that you can use in apps for the Apple ecosystem, whether for interface, toolbars, navigation, contextual menus, or … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/10/06/get-over-5000-free-icons-symbols-with-s … ⌘ Read more
I made a thing. Its a multi password type checker. Using the PHC string format we can identify a password hashing format from the prefix $name$ and then dispatch the hashing or checking to its specific format.
Dino: Stateless File Sharing: Source Attachment and Wrap-Up
RecapStateless file sharing (sfs) is a generic file sharing message which, alongside metadata, sends a list of sources where the file can be retrieved from.
It is generic in the sense, that sources can be from different kinds of file transfer methods.
HTTP, Jingle and any other file transfers can be encapsulated with it.
The big idea is that functionality can be implemented for all file transfer methods at once, thanks to … ⌘ Read more
Dino: Stateless File Sharing: Sources and Compatibility
This is my next progress post about my Google Summer of Code project of implementing Stateless File Sharing (sfs)
Like everything else we receive, we need to store the sfs sources in a database.
In this case, we are in a unique position:
Not only are there different kinds of sources, but even http sources on their own are not trivial.
For now, we only … ⌘ Read more
Trump’s Group has 30 days to remedy the violation, or their rights in the software are permanently terminated. SF Conservancy
I am out of popcorn, but might need some for this. 😂
http://www.sf.zone/ecrire-utiliser-les-verbes-introducteurs/ dialogue écriture
http://www.sf.zone/star-wars-harry-potter-secret-derriere-mythe/ mythe écriture
http://www.sf.zone/pourquoi-il-faut-bruler-ton-prologue-science-fiction/ prologue écriture
Hiring: Senior backend engineer at Monzo US #sf ⌘ Read more…
Hiring: Senior Backend Software Engineer at Fast #sf ⌘ https://jobs.lever.co/fast/f741551c-b2cb-4e94-a717-f9f084be8b6d
‘Scanners Live in Vain’ as realistic SF - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Scanners
Silicon Valley’s Latest Bizarre Craze Is ‘Organized Intimacy’ - VICE https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xnmme/sf-bay-area-scene-intimacy-party
World States and Mega Empires in SF | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/11/12/world-states-and-mega-empires-in-sf/
SF For Nothing, Stories For Free - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/06/sf-for-nothing-stories-for-fre.html
Robert Virding, Mariano Guerra - Implementing Languages on the BEAM - Code BEAM SF 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkAbwmn5Rv8
Joe Armstrong - Keynote: The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science - Code BEAM SF 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_jE0l7sYQ
Almost-Classics: SF Concepts and S… https://www.tor.com/2018/01/29/almost-classics-sf-concepts-and-settings-that-deserve-better-execution/
Why I barely read SF these days - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/02/why-i-barely-read-sf-these-day.html
Daniel Fischlin, et. al. – "The Charisma Leak": A Conversation with William Gibson and Bruce Sterling https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/gibsonsterling.htm