Links of the Day

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.

Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings, The Verge. This is a good use case for generative AI, though it’s not particularly impressive — it must be easy to swap one robot for another.

Mastodon: Designing Collections. “Collections” is the term Mastodon has adopted for Bluesky’s “Starter Kits,” i.e., a shareable collection of profiles. Mastodon’s implementation seems more robust to me and less prone to the abuses seen on Bluesky. It arrives this week on the main/developer server (.social) and on all others in Mastodon 4.6.

Session, a messaging app, will shut down in 90 days. Session is a “fork” of Signal with a somewhat questionable history. They failed miserably to raise USD 1 million in donations, which led the company to lay off everyone and schedule the service’s shutdown.

Someone acquired 30 WordPress plugins and implanted a backdoor in all of them, Anchor. If you have a WordPress site, it’s worth going through your list of installed plugins to check for any of these.

GNU nano 9.0. The highlight of this update is changes to horizontal screen scrolling, which now resembles that of graphical applications.

How much is your attention worth? A calculator that estimates how much advertisers pay to display ads to you. It’s interesting how the value of attention varies from country to country.

EZ Tree. A procedural tree generator. There are sliders and selectors to change various characteristics of the tree, with real-time rendering.