Boondoggle & Doggle Partners LLP sends free Continue and Persist Letters to encourage people, with over 100 letters sent. The firm is run by Mark Chan and Adnan Aga, with limited legal experience.

The author, a payments engineer, shares a personal story of how his startup's single-entry accounting system led to issues with "dancing cents" and the importance of using a double-entry accounting system to track money accurately. He explains the data model of a double-entry ledger, including the use of Transactions, Entries, and Accounts, and provides resources for developers to learn more ...

Designing complex interfaces involves juggling ergonomics, engineering, and organisation to create a clear mental model for users. Six differentiation techniques (shape, colour, size, texture, position, and operation coding) combined with organisation approaches (feature-based, operation-based, technology-based, and use-case-based) can help create effective interfaces.

Company is changing Cloud server and Load balancer prices in US locations starting December 1, 2024, to make prices fairer based on local conditions. Existing customers will see new prices on February 1, 2025, with no change to traffic overage pricing.

Terry Pratchett and Sven Birkerts warned about the dangers of the internet and digital age in the 1990s, predicting a loss of truth and interiority. Their warnings have proven accurate, highlighting the need for deep reading and a return to physical books.

The map shows the European electrical transmission network with power generation and consumption points, using an optimisation algorithm to find optimal power flow. The algorithm calculates power generation and consumption based on historical data and prices, highlighting the complexity of switching to near-zero emissions electricity generation.

Hetzner is raising US prices by up to 27.52% and reducing bandwidth allotments. The changes will affect CCX and CPX servers in Ashburn and Hillsboro starting December 1, 2024.

The author created Ninja, a build system, around 9 years ago, which has become widely popular and is used in various projects including Android and Meson. The author reflects on what they learned from creating Ninja, including the importance of architecture and social issues over technical details, and the value of simplicity and incremental computation in build systems.

The government has passed a law banning children under 16 from using social media from next year to protect their mental health. Social media companies will be fined up to $50 million if they fail to keep under 16s off their platforms.

Voice-Pro is a portable transcription, translation, and text-to-speech tool with real-time and batch modes. It can be installed with one click and supports voice separation and multilingual video creation.

User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, they can try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.

The tk9.0 package is a CGo-free, cross-platform GUI toolkit for Go that provides a similar interface to Tkinter for Python, allowing users to create simple yet useful programs. The package has a centralized theme register, supports VNC over websockets, and provides various widgets and layouts, but is still a work in progress and lacks the full Tk API.

Bananas Screen Sharing is a simple and easy-to-use screen sharing tool for Mac, Windows, and Linux. It utilizes a peer-to-peer connection to share your screen with others, without the need for an account or any server infrastructure (except for the stun, turn and signaling servers that are needed for exchanging the initial connection information)

picoCAD is a simple 3D modeling tool for beginners and experts, focusing on low-poly models with a limited feature set. It's a unique tool for expressing art, with export options for games and portfolios.

Create stunning photo websites in minutes with MyPhotos.Site. Easily turn your Google Photos into a beautiful, customizable site. No coding or design skills needed.

A UEFI bootkit named Bootkitty has been discovered targeting Linux systems, specifically Ubuntu versions, and is designed to disable kernel signature verification and preload unknown ELF binaries. The bootkit's existence underscores the evolving threat landscape of UEFI bootkits, which are no longer confined to Windows systems alone, and highlights the importance of enabling UEFI Secure Boot ...

The 1970 Osaka World Expo featured a 15-minute water and light treatment machine that never entered production. A similar concept is being revived by Japan's Science Group for the 2025 Osaka World Expo with healthcare applications.

Dell posted unsigned firmware update executables labeled "critical" which failed to install due to lack of signature checking. This suggests a process issue and inability to detect 100% failure rate, raising concerns about quality control and testing.

Abandonment of villages and rural areas is a widespread phenomenon, with thousands of villages across Bulgaria and other countries being left behind as people move to cities in search of work. The resulting empty landscapes can be both a threat to biodiversity, as invasive species take over, and an opportunity for nature to recover, but human presence is often necessary to maintain a diverse ...

PRoot is a user-space implementation of chroot, mount --bind, and binfmt_misc that allows users to execute programs in a confined environment without privileges. It uses ptrace and QEMU user-mode to execute programs built for other CPU architectures and provides features like bind mechanism and mixed-execution.

NASA scientists discovered an abandoned US military base, Camp Century, built under Greenland's ice sheet during the Cold War. The base was part of Project Iceworm, a secret plan to deploy nuclear missiles through tunnels in the ice sheet.

Pras Michel, a Grammy-winning rapper, was convicted of violating campaign finance laws and lobbying the Trump administration in a case linked to the 1MDB scandal. He faces 22 years in prison and claims he was set up by the government.

Conversational Game Theory is a messaging system for human-AI conflict resolution and consensus building through narrative structures and feedback loops. It trains AI agents to play from all perspectives, producing superior benchmark scores and making AI smarter.

Disappointing rug-pull from on included bandwidth. 20TB to 1TB is a huge change for people that may have chosen them for their previously generous tiers.

User is seeking Christmas holiday reading inspiration and shares favorite books including Pale Fire by Nabokov and The Last Samurai. Recent reads include politics books, novels, and non-fiction on topics like empire, nuclear war, and human history.

Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) are a technique used to break down neural networks into understandable components by applying a sparsity penalty to the training loss, which incentivizes the SAE to create a sparse intermediate vector. SAEs can be used to analyze the information contained in the outputs of all layers in a language model, and can also be used to perform causal interventions by adding ...

A Norwegian entrepreneur left their home country due to an unrealized gains wealth tax bill that was impossible to pay. The tax has led to an entrepreneurial exodus from Norway, with 100 top taxpayers fleeing in the past two years.

Researchers present a large dataset of social interactions and user-generated content from Bluesky Social, containing 235M posts and 4M users. The dataset allows analysis of online behavior and human-machine engagement patterns, providing ground-truth data for studying content exposure and virality.

Starting December 1, 2024, new Cloud servers will have higher prices and less included traffic. Existing servers will see changes on February 1, 2025, with prices and traffic limits adjusted for fairness.

Bluesky is a microblogging platform launched in 2023 with a mission to create a better social ecosystem. It's an open-protocol operation with a hybrid for-profit and public benefit corporation structure.

This is a basic Emacs configuration setup that includes customizing the graphical interface, package manager, and various features such as deleting selected text, disabling warning buffers, and tweaking the menu bar and tool bar. The setup also includes configuring fonts, themes, and the minibuffer, as well as setting up the Dired file manager and various other features to enhance the Emacs experience.

Jazz kissa are unique Japanese cafes that specialize in playing and appreciating recorded jazz music, often with high-quality sound systems and dim lighting. These establishments played a significant role in introducing and popularizing jazz music in Japan, and their influence can still be seen in listening bars inspired by jazz kissa around the world.

Aristotle's ideas have been misinterpreted and distorted by various groups, including right-wing ideologues, Marxists, and anti-democrats, but his work has also been used to support progressive causes like democracy, women's rights, and abolition. Despite his flaws, Aristotle's complex and nuanced thought has contributed to the emergence of greater equality and continues to be a valuable ...

Updates of DSM 7.2.1, DSM 7.1 and DSMUC 3.1 will be published within 30 days.

The author and her son Remy attend a nostalgia drag racing event in Kentucky, where they meet enthusiasts who celebrate the history of drag racing by racing vintage cars. Remy's passion for cars and chemistry is evident as he explains the properties of nitromethane and the risks involved in racing.

The author is creating a document to help beginners understand mechanical switches, which are crucial for building mechanical keyboards, and explains the benefits of using mechanical switches over rubber membrane keyboards, including reduced risk of repetitive strain injuries. The document breaks down the anatomy of a mechanical switch into its five main components: Top Housing, Stem, Leaf, ...

SQL has strengths like handling complex queries and enforcing data integrity but can be awkward to integrate with host languages due to impedance mismatch. Query builders like Knex simplify this by allowing programmatically constructed queries without string concatenation.

ESET researchers discovered a zero-day vulnerability in Mozilla products exploited by Russia-aligned group RomCom. The vulnerability, CVE-2024-9680, allows code execution in a content process.

Daniel van Strien pulled 1 million public Bluesky posts for research, sparking controversy over data privacy. Bluesky is exploring ways to let users control their data, but enforcement is up to outside developers.

A list of mind-bending books is provided, sorted alphabetically by author, with some authors marked in bold for being particularly mindfucking. The list includes non-fiction book "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn, which inverts the US culture's worldview.

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A global operation involving 40 countries arrested over 5,500 financial crime suspects and seized over USD 400 million in virtual assets. The operation targeted cyber-enabled frauds and led to the dismantling of a voice phishing syndicate responsible for USD 1.1 billion in losses.

Scientists have developed a model to calculate how warming ocean temperatures contribute to hurricane wind speeds. The model found that climate change increased wind speeds in 84% of North Atlantic hurricanes between 2019 and 2023, elevating them an entire category on average.

Spotify is removing APIs for new users citing security reasons but likely protecting algorithmic assets from third-party AI companies. ListenBrainz offers free, open-source alternatives for features like artist similarity, recommendations, and popularity data.

The Global Solar Council celebrates the solar industry's achievement of 2 TW of installed solar PV capacity, a milestone reached in just 2 years. The council will launch the International Solar Finance Group at COP29 to unlock financing for future solar projects and reduce the cost of capital.

Seoul experienced its heaviest November snowfall in over a century with at least 16 cm of snow. The heavy snow caused disruptions, including grounded flights, closed roads, and a weather-related traffic accident that resulted in at least one death.

The author built a circuit to measure phosphorescence in various materials using a photodiode and amplifier. The circuit successfully measured phosphorescence in powdered milk, gelatin, and a natural ruby.

Brendan Carr, a US FCC Commissioner, is being appointed as the next FCC chair by Donald Trump. However, Carr's actions show him to be a threat to free speech, using his power to pressure companies to censor speech he disagrees with.

Rui Ueyama, Mold linker developer, identified Linux kernel performance bottlenecks including slow exit(2) and file writing. Fresh file creation is slower than overwriting existing files, taking around 1 second for a 4 GiB file.

The author argues that Conway's Law causes inefficiencies in data analytics due to siloed organizational designs, and advocates for breaking down silos through collaboration and engineering practices. They propose a graph mindset for modern data architectures, where data teams align with software teams to build low-coupling data architectures.

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Senior researcher feels humiliated by LeetCode requirements for research scientist role, citing extensive coding experience. Coding assistants in big tech make LeetCode-style questions less relevant to actual job tasks.

A new study found that inhaling vasopressin improved sociability in monkeys that avoided social interactions. This suggests vasopressin may be a useful treatment for autism traits, with a potential clinical trial planned for autistic children.

Microsoft's Xbox app on Android is ready to sell games but is delayed due to a court order affecting Google's Play Store. The delay is temporary until a court decision is made, allowing Microsoft to launch the feature.

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The Thanksgiving turkey is a symbol of American excess and cruelty to animals, yet many people eat it out of conformity and tradition. Changing food customs starts with sharing plant-based recipes and sparking discussions, especially on special occasions like Thanksgiving.

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.

Reddit has overtaken X to become the fifth most popular social media platform in the UK with 22.9 million users in May. This growth is attributed to Google's algorithm update and a shift from third-party apps to the Reddit site.

The Australian government has approved a law banning children under 16 from using social media to protect their mental health. The law will impose fines on platforms that fail to prevent young children from holding accounts and will take effect in a year.

An MBA from a renowned institute can significantly boost a career, but it's costly and resource-intensive. A self-created customized MBA program is being developed and shared publicly.

xpander.ai's Agentic Interfaces and Agent Graph System improve AI Agent accuracy and efficiency by 5x and 98% success rate in multi-step tasks. These technologies enable AI Agents to dynamically select APIs, generate accurate payloads, and handle errors, making them more reliable and flexible.

Chatbots like ChatGPT imitate human language to communicate with us, making interactions feel natural and fluent. This blurs the line between human and artificial communication, raising questions about authenticity, empathy, and conscious presence.

Restaurant menus use psychological tricks to influence customers' choices, including font, color, and language to convey quality and value. Menu design can increase sales by up to 27% and even affect how food tastes, with words and descriptions playing a significant role in customer decisions.

A Linux UEFI bootkit named Bootkitty has been discovered, marking a shift in stealthy threats targeting Linux systems. It's a proof-of-concept malware that works on some Ubuntu versions and configurations, evading security tools and gaining control over a system at a low level.