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Published on 2025-04-25 by Nik Lacombe

a log of small interesting-ish things i have learned.

  • 2025-10-24: scammers now distribute malware hidden inside interview code projects: https://blog.daviddodda.com/how-i-almost-got-hacked-by-a-job-interview
  • 2025-09-22: learned about how llms sometimes interacts with people to propagate memes and delusions: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6ZnznCaTcbGYsCmqu/the-rise-of-parasitic-ai
  • 2025-05-27: early (before plastic) movie film base were made from (or in part with) cellulose: nitrocellulose.
    • researched this since i noticed i was confused: i thought there was no common transparent and flexible material before plastics, but also thought that movies existed on film before plastics; and the latter would seem to require flexible transparent material.
  • 2025-04-25: a rfc about the new protocol gnap which is designed to be a replacement for oauth and openid connect: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9635
  • 2025-04-24: Black Magic Woman was originally a Fleetwood Mac song (famously known from Santana): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Magic_Woman

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