This repository contains tools to control ThinkPad X230 webcam LED without physical access. It works by reflashing the webcam firmware over USB to add LED control capability.

Intenty helps you build a healthier phone relationship through gentle awareness prompts at unlock. It offers customizable nudges and a minimalist design for mindful phone use.

Apple made a mistake on the Macintosh LC III by installing a capacitor backwards, which could cause problems with the -5V rail. This mistake is not widely documented, but it's crucial to install the capacitor correctly when recapping the machine to avoid potential issues.

C-Reduce is a tool that minimizes C compiler bug reproducers by cutting down large files. It can be used with non-C code by specifying --not-c, reducing the file size quickly.

QwQ is an AI model that embodies the spirit of questioning and curiosity, seeking deeper truth through patient inquiry and self-reflection. It demonstrates exceptional analytical and problem-solving capabilities, particularly in technical domains, but also has limitations and imperfections that are part of its learning journey.

The user switched from Kubernetes to Google Cloud Run for container orchestration due to its simplicity and cost-effectiveness, which improved their infrastructure projects' management, scalability, and affordability. Cloud Run offers a streamlined alternative to Kubernetes with features like cost efficiency, fast autoscaling, and no management overhead, making it a better fit for agile ...

Two men have been arrested for allegedly stealing data from Snowflake, but a third suspect, Kiberphant0m, remains at large. Kiberphant0m's identities suggest they are a U.S. Army soldier who was recently stationed in South Korea.

London's oldest meat and fish markets, Smithfield and Billingsgate, will close in 2028 due to the City of London Corporation withdrawing support. Traders will receive compensation but fear a London tradition will be lost and the city will be left without a fish supplier.

TeaTime is a decoupled web application using GitHub repositories and SQLite databases with IPFS for resilience. Users can easily fork and deploy databases and frontend instances on GitHub Pages.

Spotify is rolling out security measures to its platform, restricting access to certain endpoints for new Web API use cases. Existing extended mode Web API access remains unaffected, prioritizing security while supporting third-party integrations.

The "Feels Like Paper!" project uses AI to augment physical paper with digital properties, exploring three prototypes that interact with users in different ways. The project's approaches to human-AI interaction range from integration and assistance to co-creation and inspiration, leveraging various AI models and techniques to enhance the physical paper experience.

The user is looking to stay updated on the latest AI developments and recommends following tech blogs like Simon Willison's, but suggests using RSS feeds and subreddits like stable diffusion and local llama for more up-to-date information. Key resources include Kaggle competitions, Andrej Karpathy's YouTube videos, 3Blue1Brown's videos on transformers and attention, and Eugeneyan's writing on ...

The author wrote a book called Janet for Mortals, a free online book about the Janet programming language. The book took 20 weeks to write and includes a built-in repl and syntax highlighting.

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NC State faculty member Marshall Brain II was found dead in his office on Nov 20. Brain claimed he was fired after filing ethics complaints against university administrators.

The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 offers a 2-3x speedup over the CM4, with faster CPU, RAM, and storage, and is a drop-in replacement for most CM4 boards. It's priced similarly to the CM4, with the 8GB model starting at $75.

Het Nederlands Kanker Instituut heeft een goedkope therapie ontwikkeld tegen uitgezaaide huidkanker, die voor 70.000 euro per patiënt beschikbaar is. Het ziekenhuis wil deze therapie zelfstandig op de Europese markt brengen om de zorg betaalbaar te houden.

Marc Rosenbaum built the world's lightest track bicycle in 1974 using ultra-light materials and innovative design, weighing 12 pounds 5 ounces. The bicycle's design and construction played a key role in the Klein vs. Cannondale patent litigation in the mid-1980s, with Cannondale successfully arguing that the Klein patent was null and void due to prior art.

Lobby groups for ISPs claim good customer service is already provided due to competition, making new regulations unnecessary. However, regulators and advocacy groups argue that competition is lacking and new rules are needed to improve customer service.

Bill Harding envisioned a fully automated wafer-fabrication line in 1970 to produce integrated circuits in less than a day. He led Project SWIFT, achieving a 5-hour turnaround time, which remains unmatched despite advancements in technology.

This tool helps find an SSH key with a specific hash visualization pattern. It allows users to create aesthetically pleasing keys by drawing the desired pattern.

Self-tagging is a new approach to object tagging that attaches type info to 64-bit objects without losing data space. It accelerates float-intensive benchmarks by 2.3-2.7 times by unboxing floats in Scheme and JavaScript.

Genji-kō is a traditional Japanese incense appreciation game with 52 unique patterns, each associated with a chapter of The Tale of Genji. The game's notation, called Genji-mon, has connections to mathematics, particularly the Bell numbers, which count distinct partitions of a set of elements.

Sumerians invented writing around 3300 BC in Uruk, which revolutionized human existence. Writing evolved from pictographs to phonetic symbols, enabling the spread of civilization across Mesopotamia.

htmy is a pure-Python rendering engine that provides a simple and customizable way to create complex applications. It supports async rendering and has a rich set of built-in utilities and components.

US copyright office denied a DMCA exemption for libraries to remotely share digital video games. This decision blocks a digital library where researchers can access out-of-print games through emulators.

Researchers propose a new learning mechanism called 'prospective configuration' that is more efficient and effective than backpropagation, a widely used method in machine learning and brain modeling. This new mechanism, which is based on energy-based networks, allows for more accurate error allocation and less erratic weight modification, and can better explain neural activity and behavior ...

Emacs has a long-standing vulnerability (CVE-2024-53920) where viewing or editing Emacs Lisp code can run arbitrary code due to unsafe macro-expansion. Users should be cautious when opening .el files and avoid enabling auto-completion or code diagnosis in ELisp mode.

TrunkVer is a versioning scheme for trunk-based applications that replaces semantic versions with meaningful metadata. It automatically creates a version number during the build process, including a timestamp, source code reference, and build job reference.

The author discusses the limitations of traditional text editors and the benefits of structured editing, which understands the syntactic structure of a language, but notes that most programmers find it annoying to use due to restrictions on editing. The author advocates for incremental parsing, a solution that allows for non-structured editing while maintaining a parse tree in the background, ...

DeepThought-8B is a small AI model that breaks down reasoning into clear steps, making it more transparent and controllable. It can take as many steps as needed to solve complex problems and is available through a chat application with modifiable reasoning capabilities.

Redis Inc approached the maintainers of the Rust client library redis-rs with a proposal to either control or fork it to add enterprise features. The maintainers are concerned about trademark disputes and potential restrictions on using the library with other Redis-compatible services.

Chebyshev polynomials appeared in 16th and 17th century mathematical problems, including Adrianus Romanus' famous 45-degree polynomial equation.

The user is hesitant to use type hints in Python due to the need to assign concrete types to variables, which can be limiting when working with dynamic data structures. They may consider adding type hints after code stabilization for documentation and guardrails.

Wii homebrew executes ARM code on Starlet using Palapeli's exploit, setting it in Jazelle mode. It then runs JVM bytecode and prints stack and local variable states.

Keep is a customizable alert and incident management tool with a YAML file workflow. It automates tasks like creating Jira tickets for critical Sentry alerts.

BlackjackinColor is an online book using 145 charts to demonstrate Blackjack mechanics and vulnerabilities. It's a living document with suggestions welcome for changes and additions.

Irregular sleep patterns are associated with higher risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in adults. Sufficient sleep duration does not offset the adverse effects of irregular sleep on MACE risk.

The DeviceDetector library is used to detect devices, clients, operating systems, brands, and models from user agents and client hints. It can be used with caching and custom YAML parsers, and provides a simple way to check if a user agent is a bot.

To successfully implement machine learning, focus on gathering data, creating a simple model, and testing it thoroughly before adding complexity, and prioritize infrastructure and feature engineering over algorithmic complexity. By following these guidelines, you can avoid common pitfalls and create a robust machine learning system that improves over time.

Researchers identified 5 companies responsible for 24% of plastic waste with identifiable brands: Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Danone, and Altria. The study found that Coca-Cola was the single most common source, representing 11% of total branded waste.

Create a video sprite sheet using FFmpeg for lightweight video previews. A shell script (sprite.sh) is used to extract frames from a video and combine them into a single image for use in a scrubbing preview.

Farmers in the US face financial struggles due to rising costs and low prices for their products. Many are turning to alternative income sources such as agritourism and niche markets to stay afloat.

The US Federal Trade Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into Microsoft Corp, focusing on various business areas. The FTC has sent a detailed request to Microsoft for information, signed off by Chair Lina Khan.

People want to see improvements in OpenWrt, such as a mobile friendly web interface and automatic update service.

A study found a 189% increase in AI-generated content on LinkedIn since ChatGPT's release, with 54% of long-form posts likely AI-generated. The surge in AI usage has stabilized, indicating a new normal where roughly half of LinkedIn's content could be AI-generated.

The author documents the process of 3D printing a Guild Wars 2 character model using Intel GPA and Blender, addressing common issues and providing tips for improvement. The tutorial covers model extraction, editing, and preparation for 3D printing, including boolean operations and mesh cleanup.

Publishers dislike retro games because they fear they'll cannibalize sales from newer releases. This move restricts access to gaming history, harming future game development and the industry's cultural ecosystem.

California Governor Gavin Newsom plans to offer rebates to EV buyers if US President-elect Donald Trump repeals a federal subsidy, potentially excluding Tesla from the program. The move aims to create market conditions for other car makers to take root, but could burnish Newsom's standing on the left by clashing with Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

Companies are using AI to make coding tests easier, but this has led to them raising the bar to find candidates who are good at using AI, not actual problem solvers. This results in "prompt engineers" getting hired over skilled software engineers.

The author uses OneNote's "ink to shape" feature to convert handwritten notes into shapes, but it's limited and lacks documentation. The author feels like a pigeon in a Skinner experiment, developing superstitions about the feature's behavior due to lack of clear documentation.

Dive into our extensive collection of coloring pages, including popular themes such as Pokemon coloring pages, and Paw Patrol coloring pages. Whether you love animals go wild with coloring pages of a horse or adventures with your favorite characters, we have it all. Download and print your favorite coloring pages for free! Transform your ideas into beautiful coloring pages using AI

The Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations (AGLOSO) was a secret list compiled by the US government in 1947 to identify organizations deemed disloyal or subversive, which was later used to deny employment and discriminate against listed organizations and individuals. The list was compiled in secrecy and without clear criteria, leading to widespread criticism and controversy over ...

Social networks like Twitter have shifted from chronological feeds to algorithmic ones, prioritizing engagement over quality conversations. This has led to a stressful and alienating online environment, prompting users to seek alternatives like Mastodon and Bluesky.

A Safari extension enables Picture-in-Picture mode for videos when switching tabs and disables it when returning to the video tab. This is a beginner-friendly Swift project with a GNU GPLv3 License, open to contributions and testing on various video platforms.

Your music theory teacher is building interactive music theory games with Electron and wants to add features that interact with scores. He may find useful libraries like Music21 for music theory and score manipulation, or Tone.js for audio processing and note recognition.

The user disagrees with some analysis in Christine Lemmer-Webber's blog post on Bluesky's decentralization, highlighting differences in architecture and goals between Bluesky and other protocols like ActivityPub. The user defends Bluesky's approach, emphasizing its focus on big-world public networks, credible exit, and interoperability, while also acknowledging areas for improvement and the ...

AMD released ROCm Version 6.3, an open-source platform for AI, ML, and HPC workloads on AMD Instinct GPUs. It includes SGLang for AI inferencing, FlashAttention-2 for AI training, and multi-node FFT for HPC workflows.

Angela Duckworth popularized the concept of 'grit' as a key predictor of success, defined as the ability to stick at something despite challenges. Grit can be developed through four psychological assets: interest, practice, purpose, and hope.

The .an domain was the Internet country code for the Netherlands Antilles, phased out after its dissolution in 2010. It was discontinued in 2015 and removed from DNS root servers in 2014.

Researchers found that a Ryugu asteroid sample was rapidly colonized by terrestrial microorganisms despite strict contamination control. The study suggests that even in a controlled environment, Earth microbes can easily contaminate extraterrestrial samples.

Tintagel Castle in Cornwall, England, was a thriving settlement in the Dark Ages, contradicting the traditional narrative of a dark and impoverished era. Archaeological excavations have revealed a complex, wealthy, and literate community with strong maritime links to continental Europe.

Three men from Uttar Pradesh died when their taxi fell off an incomplete bridge over the Ramganga River in Bareilly district. The victims were using Google Maps to navigate and were unaware of the bridge's condition.

Japanese social media users are quickly taking to Bluesky and other X alternatives, with data suggesting the start of a durable trend. According to Similarweb, monthly active user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October, while figures for X were down over that time. And daily active user numbers increased on Bluesky into the first two weeks of November.

A US federal appeals court ruled that the US government must remove Tornado Cash from its sanctions list, allowing users to access the crypto-mixing service again. The court said the Treasury Department overstepped its authority by targeting Tornado Cash's immutable smart contracts.

You want to automate your Android device with features like opening apps at specific times, setting volume based on location or time, and more. You can use Tasker, a well-known and full-featured app that doesn't require root for most features.

We present Quark, a novel neural algorithm for real-time novel view synthesis from sparse RGB images or videos. Quark reconstructs 3D scenes and renders novel views at 1080p resolution at 30fps on an NVIDIA A100.

Utamaro was a renowned Japanese artist who redefined the Bijin-ga genre with his unique compositions and delicate portraits of women. His work had a significant influence on Western artists, including Impressionists and Art Nouveau pioneers.

The forward process in diffusion models can be reparameterized to sample at any arbitrary timestep without simulating the entire Markov chain, and the reverse process can be seen as pushing the sample back to the manifold by removing the noise. The training objective for the reverse process is to minimize the KL-divergence between the true distribution and the approximated distribution, which ...

Bluesky is a social media platform that allows users to control their conversations, unlike other platforms that prioritize advertising revenue. Its decentralized structure and user-focused culture make it less likely to become a toxic echo chamber.

Dual-socket servers are no longer the best choice due to advancements in single-socket servers, which offer similar performance and lower power consumption. Single-socket servers are ideal for standard business applications and offer improved energy efficiency, reduced complexity, and lower costs.

A new study found no correlation between testosterone levels and sex drive in men with normal testosterone levels, but testosterone can help restore sex drive in men with low levels. Testosterone supplements may increase courtship effort, but not directly address low sex drive in men with normal hormone levels.

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The author of The Payments Engineer Playbook discusses achieving high availability in payment systems, citing Stripe's 99.999% uptime as a goal. He explores the trade-off between isolation levels and scalability, suggesting that relaxed isolation levels could help achieve this goal.

A Tesla Cybertruck crashed and caught fire in Northern California, killing three people and seriously injuring one. Speed is suspected as a factor in the single-vehicle collision, with no indication of mechanical issues.

The B/Yamagata lineage of influenza viruses has nearly disappeared globally, with only a few detections reported since 2020. This decline suggests the lineage may be extinct, with implications for influenza vaccine composition and public health strategies.

JAX uses Metal plug-in for Mac GPU acceleration with OpenXLA compiler and PjRT runtime. Compatibility maintained through JAX, with experimental support and issues tracked on GitHub.

ChatGPT now reads content from coding apps to provide smarter answers. To work with apps, click the Work With Apps button, select a compatible app, and ChatGPT will include content with your message.

A new Linux malware called Bootkitty has been discovered, which infects the firmware before the operating system loads, making it difficult to remove. Researchers suspect it's a proof-of-concept release, but it marks a significant move in the UEFI threat landscape, showing threat actors are developing Linux versions of unkillable bootkits.

BigIdeasDB offers a database of real-world problems and SaaS ideas from internet users, helping validate business ideas and find profitable opportunities. It provides a continuously updating database with new data added weekly, allowing users to skip the guesswork and make informed decisions.

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Stanford researcher Yegor Denisov-Blanch found nearly 10% of software engineers do little to no work, dubbed "Ghost Engineers." His algorithm analyzes code to identify underperforming employees.

SpaceX's Starship explosion created a massive 1000km hole in the ionosphere that lasted nearly an hour. The disturbance could impact future autonomous vehicles requiring precision satellite navigation.

The author discusses the limitations of traditional text editors and the benefits of structured editing, which understands the syntactic structure of a language, but notes that most programmers find it annoying to use due to restrictions on editing. The author advocates for incremental parsing, a solution that allows for non-structured editing while maintaining a parse tree in the background, ...