Screens in Museums

First up, there was this article about parents getting annoyed because museums are putting too many screens everywhere for kids. Like, they bring their kid to see cool old stuff, not just stare at another iPad, you know? The post was called, "I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens."

Someone in the comments mentioned how cool it would be to use 3D printing for physical models instead of super expensive old ones, which makes total sense nowadays. And another person brought up how some schools, like Waldorf, actually delay introducing books and digital stuff until kids are older. Wild, right?

Charlie Kirk Event

Then, on a much heavier note, there was big news: "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah." It was pretty shocking. The comments section was, as you can imagine, a lot. People were talking about his past comments on gun deaths and how social media sometimes just fuels toxicity during these kinds of events.

Animal Crossing LLM Hack

But on a lighter, super nerdy note, someone did something awesome: "I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory." Yeah, you heard that right! They got an AI to generate the dialogue for the Animal Crossing characters on a GameCube. How wild is that?!

One comment called the whole thing "goblin mode" because the guy even used an LLM to write the memory scanner. It's like AI building AI to hack games. Also, someone else thought this could be a cool way to learn new languages by playing games, with the LLM tutoring you in real-time. Genius!

Pontevedra, Spain: Car-Free City

And get this, some city in Spain, "Pontevedra, declares its entire urban area a 'reduced traffic zone'." Basically, they've gone almost completely car-free in their city center. Sounds kinda amazing, right?

People were debating if this could work elsewhere. Some said it's great for livability, others pointed out that it only works if you have good public transport to nearby areas, which isn't always the case.

KDE Launches Its Own Linux Distro

For the Linux nerds out there, KDE (you know, the desktop environment) is apparently launching "its own distribution." It's focusing on being "immutable," which means the core system is read-only, making it super stable and secure. Think ChromeOS but for desktop Linux.

The comments were all about Flatpaks and how they're actually pretty good for managing dependencies and security, even if they take up more disk space. Someone even mentioned another immutable KDE distro called Aurora that they've been using daily, and it "just works."

OrioleDB Patent Goes Free

Remember OrioleDB, that new database tech? Well, Supabase announced that the "OrioleDB Patent: now freely available to the Postgres community." That's huge for open source! They bought another company just to get this patent and are now making it free. Pretty cool move.

The comments were mostly positive, with people discussing the intricacies of open-sourcing patents and how this could really help the Postgres community evolve faster.

TikTok's Cultural Feedback Loop

Finally, there was this interesting piece called "TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning." It's basically saying how TikTok's algorithms are now shaping everything, making content shorter, more impulsive, and creating this self-reinforcing loop.

A surprising comment mentioned that even Instagram started serving them violent content out of the blue, going from hiking videos to grenade drone footage. Yikes. Makes you think about what these algorithms are pushing sometimes.

Anyway, gotta run, catch ya later!