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from my link log —
The rise and fall of the OLAP cube.
https://www.holistics.io/blog/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-olap-cube/
saved 2021-07-05

The Rise and Fall of the OLAP Cube
A definitive history of the rise of the OLAP cube, how it's affected our industry, and what comes after.

In the last, guttering hours of the year, it’s tradition to look back on the last 12 months’ #TTRPG activity and reflect. You can read last year’s summary at https://dice.camp/@davej/113747664699824381…

Seems like a good day to bring back this 2021 post: https://systemsapproach.org/2021/07/19/decentralizing-the-internet-again/

Second big batch of Epstein files includes many mentions of Trump
Three days after releasing a large tranche of Jeffrey Epstein documents that contained few mentions of Donald Trump,
the Justice Department on Monday disclosed thousands more files that included wide-ranging references to the president.

The documents show that a subpoena was sent to Mar-a-Lago in 2021 for records that pertained to the government’s case against Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s accomplice in sex …

Second big batch of Epstein files includes many mentions of Trump
After a first batch of Epstein document had few mentions of President Trump, the Justice Department disclosed thousands more with many references to the president.

from my link log —
Do low-level optimizations matter?
https://cantrip.org/sortfast.html
saved 2021-07-18 https://dotat.at/:/GHHBV.html

An old thread about a 2021 project (incl. animations) for #TilingTuesday...
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111510598139643775

> 7 ans après ce post.
30 ans après les faits.
En France, les victimes engagées en tant que parties civiles attendent toujours que la justice bouge.
Le dossier OKC-Spatz a été rouvert en 2021. Depuis ?
Silence.
La Belgique a jugé.
L’Espagne a protégé Spatz.

Unfortunately dwl turned out to be in maintenance mode.
Fortunately enough dwm has been out of maintenance mode since 2006.
Dwm is consistently the only thing since 2021 for which I happily return to X11.

I'm surprised that many people just seem to realize that the golden cage by #Apple is actually a golden cage! 🤷
What have you thought when you decided for that (overpriced) #lockin situation?
Of course, an #iOS

from my link log —
Updating the Golang memory model.
https://research.swtch.com/gomm
saved 2021-07-13 https://dotat.at/:/AWX11.html

For the past 15 years, I've observed San Francisco leaders talk about how important climate action is - but not actually do a lot. There now a petition asking the Mayor to take meaningful action at
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/mayor-lurie-implement-…

Mayor Lurie: Prioritize Climate Action Plan goals as you restructure city government
San Francisco approved a detailed and comprehensive Climate Action Plan in 2021 with a top-line goal of net-zero GHG emissions by 2040. Some progress towards this goal has been made since then, including general fund budget money awarded over the last few years to the SF Environment Department, for the first time ever. But we are now in danger of going backwards in our fight to mitigate climate change. Mayor Lurie and the Board of Supervisors recently approved a 2-year budget that revokes...

From Birdwatch to Community Notes, from Twitter to X: four years of community-based content moderation
Saeedeh Mohammadi, Narges Chinichian, Hannah Doyal, Kristina Skutilova, Hao Cui, Michele d'Errico, Siobhan Grayson, Taha Yasseri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09585

From Birdwatch to Community Notes, from Twitter to X: four years of community-based content moderation
Community Notes (formerly known as Birdwatch) is the first large-scale crowdsourced content moderation initiative that was launched by X (formerly known as Twitter) in January 2021. As the Community Notes model gains momentum across other social media platforms, there is a growing need to assess its underlying dynamics and effectiveness. This Resource paper provides (a) a systematic review of the literature on Community Notes, and (b) a major curated dataset and accompanying source code to supp…

from my link log —
Kill It With Fire: dealing with legacy systems. (book review)
https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/kill-it-fire
saved 2021-09-09