There 👏 is 👏 no 👏 such 👏 thing 👏 as 👏 a 👏 secure 👏 backdoor.
techcrunch.com/2024/10/07/the-…
China reportedly hacked the wiretap systems required by U.S. internet providers under a 1994 U.S. wiretapping law.Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
FREAKING FINALLY
"Buttons are back, baby!! This piece has been 15 years in the making, more or less."
@mimsical in the WSJ on the resurgance of physical buttons for interfaces.
"Fundamentally, the problem with touch-based interfaces is that they aren’t touch-based at all, because they need us to look when using them."
Materiality and embodiment ftw.
[gift link, courtesy of the author]
wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/tou…
Allora, che dite, ci vediamo oggi?
#aspassonellastoria #storia #mappe #catastoteresiano #archivioiniziative #gep
It is a truth universally acknowledged that for greater social media engagement, one should share pictures of cats.
“I’m going to buy him a copy of the Mythical Man Month. Actually I’m going to buy him two copies so he can read it twice as fast.”
— Unknown
#Q4TD #Quote #Quotes q4td.blogspot.com/2024/09/im-g…
“I’m going to buy him a copy of the Mythical Man Month. Actually I’m going to buy him two copies so he can read it twice as fast.” —...q4td.blogspot.com
Yesterday was an important anniversary that supporters of #Russia (Soviet Union) do not like to remember:
September 17, 1939 was the day when the Soviets enthusiastically joined the Second World War, on the side of their ally - Nazi Germany.
That's why in Russia they don't like to talk about the Second World War, which they helped start.They prefer to talk about the Patriotic War, that is, the events after they were betrayed and attacked by their former ally.
So Cards Against Humanity just sued M*sk for ruining a piece of land they bought in Texas for their customers...
Elon Musk stole your land, and now he owes you $100.www.elonowesyou100dollars.com
Haiku R1/beta5 has been released
Ancient Babylonian map of the world: A 2,900-year-old clay tablet revealed
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/wo…
World News: The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map. Depicting a circular world withTOI World Desk (Times Of India)
"Prima di poter vedere questa ricetta, accetta i cookie nostri e di SETTECENTOSESSANTACINQUE nostri collaboratori."
Uhm no, forse settecento sono un po' troppi, e comunque volevo vedere come fare gli spatzle, non i biscotti.
Grazie lo stesso giallozafferano, ma cortesemente vaffanculo
@petealexharris that's what i'm thinking too yeah. Also gave prime numbers outside the range I asked for.
Llms are garbage in 99% of applications today 😂
This article fundamentally changed how I look at weird inauthentic smiles, especially on people not steeped in American culture.
AI and the American Smile medium.com/@socialcreature/ai-…
I just boosted this but a bunch of my followers don't see boosts and this post from the esteemed @robpike is *important*.
commandcenter.blogspot.com/201…
This is how it's done.
I spent a few days a while back in a board meeting for a national astronomy organization and noticed a property of the population in that ro...commandcenter.blogspot.com
Also, I've been reading up on the history of the first digital computers (ENIAC, etc.). It sure seems like females had a big impact, although little credit. And yet there's Adm Hopper, who was a leader from nearly the beginning, and had great influence on the field. In her NSA lecture, she mentioned that she hired young people and told them to "try it!" instead of waiting for approval.
Why she's not more central to the history is a mystery. But a great role model.
On Friday, September 13, a truck bound for the Georgia-based tabletop and video game company Trivium Studios took a turn too sharply, spilling 216,000 gaming dice onto Interstate 75 in Atlanta in what could be the biggest unintentional dice roll ever…Mike Fahey (Kotaku)
Recent movies and TV.
The Final Programme (1973): By the director of Dr. Phibes based on a Michael Moorcock book that I never read. WTF did I just watch? It's like Captain Kronos meets Zardoz. I am baffled that this came to be. Zeta One (1969): Again,...
jwz.org/b/ykYy
Announcement: Firefish will enter maintenance mode
For those who have been supporting Firefish and me, I can’t thank you enough. But today, I have to make an announcement of my very difficult decision: As of today’s release, Firefish will enter maintenance mode and reach end-of-support at the end of the year. The main reasons for this are as follows.
In February, Kainoa suddenly transferred the ownership of Firefish to me. This transition came without prior notice, which took me aback. I still wish Kainoa had consulted with me in advance. At that time, some people were already saying that “Firefish is coming back”, making it challenging to address the situation. Also, since there were several hundred active Firefish servers at that point, I could not suddenly discontinue the project, so I took over the project unwillingly.
Over the past seven months, I have been maintaining Firefish alone. All other former maintainers have left, leaving me solely responsible for managing issues, reviewing merge requests, testing, and releasing new versions. This situation has had a significant impact on my personal life.
Frankly speaking, there are numerous bugs and questionable logic in the current Firefish codebase. While I attempted to fix them, balancing this work with my personal life made it clear that it would take ages, and I’ve started thinking that I can’t manage this project in the long run. Additionally, vulnerabilities have been reported approximately once a month. Addressing vulnerabilities, communicating privately with reporters, and testing fixes have proven overwhelming and unsustainable. Moreover, a certain percentage of users have made insulting comments, which have severely affected my mental well-being and made me fearful of opening social media apps.
I will do my best to refund the donations made to Firefish via OpenCollective, but that’s not guaranteed.
firefish.dev
and info.firefish.dev
will remain operational until the end of February 2025, after which they will return a 410 Gone status.
Server admins may downgrade Firefish to version 20240206
/1.0.5-rc
and migrate to another *key variant, or may fork Firefish to maintain.
Downgrade instructions: firefish.dev/firefish/firefish…
Thanks,
naskya
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reminds me of a MAXQ DSP I read about described as "opcode-less"
Every part of the chip would do something every clock cycle, so the "instructions" were nothing but a set of operands for all the units
Seems like quite a rare design now -- probably because scheduling, pipelining, and speculative execution have beaten it in total throughput
Amazing how silicon design has changed
These days the internet is filled with so called "money gurus" showing off their wealth on social media and trying to teach you how to become rich
But one major issue with that is..
WHY would they wanna do that. IF they are rich from forex trading or whatever, why in the world would they wanna spread the word
They are making money on people who buy their "courses" to become rich, not from trading
Please, don't fall for this bs!
You are worth so much more
One of the most exciting aspects of the new Bus Pirate is how easy it is to create add-on modules -- which the community have started calling "planks" to go along with the Pirate theme.
Which planks would you like to see developed?
hackaday.com/2024/08/29/walkin…
The Bus Pirate multi-tool has held a place of honor in many a hardware hacker’s toolbox for years, and the latest generation of the gadget powered by the Raspberry Pi RP2040/RP2350 offers sig…Hackaday
The Monospace Web: A minimalist design exploration
owickstrom.github.io/the-monos…
<- I rather like this. I bet that behind the scenes it's nowhere near as simple as it looks, though.
@jwb
Leveraging the #Hypotenuse keeps it shorter ... and the wheels and lumber ... started at separate locations!
A frame also allows for hauling things that would not have any hope of being self-supporting ...
Though I have strapped wheels to a canoe before as a self-supporting bike trailer...
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Sunday, Sept 1, 2024, 8PM CT (1AM Monday UTC)
IT'S #MONSTERDON
we will be watching
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
"This remake of the classic horror film is set in San Francisco. Matthew Bennell (Donald Sutherland) assumes that when a friend (Brooke Adams) complains of her husband's strange mood, it's a marital issue. However, he begins to worry as more people report similar observations. His concern is confirmed when writer Jack Bellicec (Jeff Goldblum) and his wife (Veronica Cartwright) discover a mutated corpse. Besieged by an invisible enemy, Bennell must work quickly before the city is consumed."
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please watch and live post it with us
On my quasi-blog: "Code review antipatterns".
trainwreck design ( 2024-08-14):
the year is 2024, and i want to know my disk space
usage.
@opny721 Why do there have to be dozens and dozens of mounts of some random kernel-provided file system, shown at the same importance as actual disks?
In this example, df could provide some sort of information architecture to separate out the cruft from the "important" mounts.
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