Outlawing advertising would remove mechanisms for personalized manipulation and force politicians to snap back into reality. This would be a liberating act, allowing people to think critically and break free from addictive digital content.
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Unscramble hidden words in daily grid puzzles based on fun categories!
Xnu was not a pure microkernel system with user-space servers. instead, it took mach and integrated the bsd code into the kernel address space for speed. the first iphone os was based on darwin 9 (same core as leopard) darwin 15 also saw apple unify the code base for os x and ios further – as they introduced watchos and tvos - essentially running on tiny apple watch hardware (s1
John sutter: negotiating is a deal between you and companies to exchange labor for money. he says if you've received multiple offers, you should keep the door open to other offers - preferably overlapping at the same time as possible. companies want to be like bidders in secret auctions, and they know there's almost no risk in doing so, so they'll probably accept. the second part of this ...
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This guide teaches electricity and electronics fundamentals through practical, easy-to-follow instruction. It covers modern electronics and Integrated Circuits with online exam access for knowledge assessment.
Body doubling is a productivity strategy where an individual with ADHD works alongside someone else to stay focused and motivated. This technique can help create accountability, reduce procrastination, and boost productivity by providing a sense of calm and focus.
Nebula Sans is a modern sans-serif font designed for legibility in digital and print applications. It's available under the SIL Open Font License with six weights and two styles.
Google and OpenAI have rolled out multimodal image generation abilities, allowing AI to directly control image creation. This technology enables AI to produce high-quality, precise images with clear writing and precise control.
The author recreated Daft Punk's "Something About Us" in Ableton Live 12, using modern software to capture the emotional essence of the original track. The recreation was a personal interpretation, blending nostalgia with modern production techniques.
We emulated iOS using QEMU, starting with alephsecurity/xnu-qemu-arm64, then using Pongo to apply checkra1n patches and modifying the kernel to get a functional iOS emulated with UI.
President Trump announced tariffs on foreign countries ranging from 10 to 50 percent. The tariffs are based on a flawed formula that inflates the rates, resulting in higher tariffs than necessary.
The sql evaluation engine that ships with vitess was originally implemented as an ast evaluator. the new design yields spectacular results: the interpreter is just faster, says samuel a. he says the trade-off between optimization and complexity doesn't make sense in real life. this is the first step toward implementing java's first full jit compiler, if you will, in octo
The shell is at the heart of the wizard’s magic because it is the gateway to controlling the system. kt: ken thompson, co-creator of unix alongside ritchie; bwk: brian w. kernighan, author of several influential unix programs and books. shell scripts are computer programs designed to be run by a unified shell, which is decorated with symbols that represent the most important special ...
Swift community has improved WebAssembly support over the years. A pitch is proposed for further development of WebAssembly support in Swift.
Christophe Szpajdel, a 54-year-old part-time Co-op worker, is a renowned artist known as the 'Lord of the Logos' for his striking logo designs. He has worked with famous clients like Rihanna and has received international awards for his work.
The openVertebrate project provides free 3D vertebrate anatomy models and data to researchers and the public. The project includes CT scans of over 13,000 specimens, with representative species across the vertebrate tree of life.
This OCR system extracts structured data from educational materials like exam papers, supporting multilingual text and visual elements. It achieves over 90% accuracy and generates AI-ready outputs in JSON or Markdown.
NASA scientists found that Earth's reflective cloud cover has shrunk by 1.5% per decade, allowing more light in and boosting global warming. This trend could be a feedback of climate change that might accelerate warming into the future.
University of Michigan engineers developed a modified battery manufacturing process with microscale channels and a stabilizing coating to enable fast charging in cold temperatures. This approach can charge lithium-ion EV batteries 500% faster at temperatures as low as 14 F without sacrificing energy density.
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin discovered "cratonic thinning" in the North American continent, where the underside is dripping away in blobs of rock. This phenomenon is likely caused by the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in the Earth's mantle, which is a slow process that will eventually stop.
The course "Free Variable as Effect, in Practice" teaches compiler development in OCaml, focusing on incremental, step-wise development and extensible effects. It covers parsing, type-checking, analyses, optimizations, and assembly generation.
The 88x31 button originated on Netscape's website in 1995 as a promotional tool for their Navigator browser, and its popularity grew as users remixed and shared the buttons. Despite its limitations, the 88x31 button has maintained its status as a standard ad format due to its engagement and nostalgic value, and it continues to be used today by many websites.
On June 17, 2025, our email-to-text and text-to-email service is going away. This means you won’t be able to use email to send or receive texts. Also, others who have AT&T WirelessSM won’t be able to use email to send you a text or use text to send you an email. Have Business or Internet of Things (IoT) account? Learn how ending email-to-text service might impact you.
A tech design history teacher created a web simulator of the Blob Keyboard, a 2005 iPhone prototype that tested touchscreen typing accuracy, with guidance from Ken Kocienda. The simulator aims to recreate a turning point moment in iPhone development, allowing users to experience the iterative nature of design and UI history.
AMD's RDNA 4 GPU introduces dynamic VGPR allocation mode to improve occupancy and register usage tradeoff. This feature allows threads to adjust register allocation mid-execution, but can lead to deadlock scenarios and requires careful driver management.
The Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, are the first to reach interstellar space and have been exploring it for nearly 48 years. The mission is gradually losing power and instruments are being turned off, but the team hopes to keep the spacecraft operational until 2027.
The author, an ORM maintainer, criticizes the protocols of relational databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, citing issues with connection management, error handling, and prepared statements, which can be complex and lead to performance problems. The author suggests that improving the query protocol, such as by introducing idempotency keys and predictable prepared statement identifiers, could ...
Meta released Llama 4 Scout and Maverick models on GroqCloud, enabling developers to build personalized multimodal experiences. The models offer advanced performance and low costs, with Llama 4 Scout running at 460 tokens/s and Llama 4 Maverick available soon.
Europe's digital public square is dominated by US-based social media platforms, undermining its autonomy and exposing it to disinformation and geopolitical coercion. To reclaim control, Europe needs to build its own sovereign social media ecosystem to counter disinformation, protect democratic integrity, and preserve cultural diversity.
They increased PDP-1 production by 10% in two days. Still polishing and hiding for two weeks to complete the work.
Researchers at Brunel University found that saccharin, an artificial sweetener, can kill multidrug-resistant bacteria and make existing antibiotics more effective. This discovery could help combat antibiotic resistance, a major threat to modern medicine, and potentially lead to a new therapeutic approach.
Many of these books were scanned by other people and contributed for me to post here. i've found that most of the technical books published before 1964 never had their copyrights renewed, so now are in the public domain. the best introduction to tube hi-fi i've seen, the first volume starts with the nature of sound, and covers various feedback methods and their implementation around one ...
Rollie Free set the world motorcycle speed record in 1948 by cutting wind resistance with a horizontal body position and minimal clothing. His record of 150.313 miles per hour was later broken by Rocky Robinson in 2010 with a speed of 376.363 miles per hour.
A video of bill atkinson demonstrating how to make art on the macintosh has gone viral. the video shows how easy and quick the program is to use, but also how it works with actual pixels, he says - unlike many other raster image painting programs of the time! atkinsons: if we want to understand the core functionality and design of graphical programs, we should not read it linearly... knut
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US judge Sidney Stein denied OpenAI's motion to dismiss The New York Times' copyright claims against ChatGPT. Stein ruled that OpenAI must prove the NYT knew ChatGPT would infringe copyrights before its release in November 2022.
404 pages, where joy and errors meet. A growing gallery of 404 page designs from around the internet. For all those lost pages, error pages & page not found out there.
The user is setting up Neovim with pytest integration and Docker support for a project in progress, allowing for contributions. The setup includes custom keymaps for running pytest and attaching/detaching from a Docker container.
The writer moved to Goa, India in 2020 and found a simpler, more connected life, pursuing art and sports, and making lasting connections with locals. Now, as a tourist, they feel disconnected and soulless, yearning for the depth and possibility of their previous life in Goa.
A project is being created to strengthen the ML supply chain by providing verifiable claims about model integrity and provenance, allowing users to check claims rather than trusting model trainers. The project uses Sigstore and traditional signing methods to create a sigstore bundle that contains verification material and a payload, enabling users to verify model integrity and detect tampering.
Mercantilism is a nationalist economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports of an economy. the bulk of what is commonly called "mercantilist literature' appeared in the 1620s in great britain, says robert w. scott. scholars have argued that mersantilist policies may have contributed to war and motivated colonial expansion in america
AdNauseam is a browser extension that automates ad clicks to obfuscate user data and protect against tracking. It allows users to fight back against unilateral surveillance by advertisers.
Tunnock's teacakes were banned from RAF flights 60 years ago after a cockpit explosion but have now been cleared for flying. Tests in an altitude chamber found the teacakes did not explode when decompressed, as long as they are frozen and wrapped.
The user modified a HackPack IR turret to track the International Space Station (ISS) by calculating its position using the SGP4 algorithm and a Two-Line Element set from NORAD. They designed and 3D printed a new base for the turret, wrote code to control the stepper motor and servo motor, and connected it to a WiFi network to update the ISS's position in real-time.
Loader's number is the output of loader.c, a C program that generates the largest possible output on a theoretical machine with infinite memory. It is defined as D^5(99), where D(k) is an accumulation of all possible typing judgements in the calculus of constructions.
California now has more EV charging ports than gas nozzles with 178,500 total EV ports compared to 120,000 gas nozzles. The state aims to ban gas-powered vehicles by 2035 despite federal efforts to deprioritize the shift.
SpacetimeDB is a relational database system that allows direct upload of application logic into the database via stored procedures called modules. It enables clients to connect directly to the database and execute logic inside the database for real-time applications.
A new study suggests dietary changes can reduce endometriosis pain for half of those living with the disease. Cutting out gluten, dairy, and caffeine, and reducing processed foods may help alleviate symptoms.
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Erica Synths made legacy DIY eurorack projects open-source with Gerber files and schematics. Users can build modules like Delay and Dual VCA with some components available on the Erica Synths website.
Reciprocal tariffs are calculated to balance bilateral trade deficits between the US and its trading partners by adjusting tariff rates. The US has run persistent trade deficits for five decades, indicating the need for tariff adjustments to balance trade.
A third of respondents admitted that sexual interest in children was key reason why they searched for child sexual abuse material. the word “rape” is banned, but permitted terms include “dazed”, “broken”, and interactions based on power abuses are common - but not all of them are related to the performer – dc tony garner says. “there are pressures on men in modern life, and porn is one of the outlets
The writer is struggling with a quiet Saturday, and their mind is filled with thoughts urging them to do various tasks. They've learned to visualize their thoughts as a friend, Becky, and ignore her constant chatter.
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Colossal Biosciences aims to bring back the woolly mammoth using gene-editing technology, but its efforts may be misguided and prioritize spectacle over conservation. The company's plans could lead to suffering for elephants and mammoth calves, and there are more effective ways to combat climate change and protect endangered species.
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde calls for a European payments revolution to secure financial sovereignty and reduce reliance on US and Chinese platforms. A unified capital market could add up to €3 trillion annually and pave the way for deeper fiscal integration.
For small businesses on Hetzner Cloud, k3s is the optimal orchestration platform due to its balance of Kubernetes compatibility and cost structure. It offers production-grade availability and 40% lower operational costs compared to MicroK8s at scale.
The user set up a Minecraft server inside a FreeBSD Jail container, installed necessary packages, and configured the server to run with a specific version of Java. The server was started and is running properly, with the user able to connect to it from a Windows client.
User shares QEMU guest automation recipes, including serial port redirection and network card setup. Recipes also cover setting up public keys for passwordless SSH access to the guest system.
Refugees in Dzaleka camp, a central African settlement, gather for a football match on Sundays. This scene contrasts with typical Sunday rest, as residents work hard during the week.
Researchers studied 73 protoplanetary disks in the Lupus star forming region and found most are small and compact with no large-scale gaps. This suggests most stars do not host giant planets, but may form super-Earths instead.
The US trade deficit is not necessarily bad, as it can be a sign of investment and consumption, but it can also lead to deindustrialization if imports displace domestic production.
W.G. Sebald's posthumous book Silent Catastrophes: Essays explores Austria's literary tradition and its writers' responses to fascism and authoritarianism. Sebald's work emphasizes the importance of melancholy as a form of resistance and a means of preserving the past against erasure.
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The programming profession is facing a rift between traditional "Craftsmen" who code by hand and "Vibe Coders" who rely on AI for code generation. A balance must be struck between AI assistance and manual programming skills to maintain the craft's value and relevance.
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Nissan considers transferring some Japanese production of the Nissan Rogue to the US to avoid new tariffs. The move would shift production from a Fukuoka factory to the US as early as summer.
Gary Carlston, co-founder of Brøderbund, shared his experiences, including his time in Sweden and how the company was formed, and discussed their popular games such as Lode Runner, SimCity, and Carmen Sandiego. He also talked about his role in the company, his departure and return, and the success of Carmen Sandiego, which became Brøderbund's most popular brand.
Coqui TTS offers voice cloning capabilities and granular control over voice characteristics for personalized voice synthesis. It provides high-quality speech synthesis for various applications, including smart home devices, video games, and medical support.
Rust's memory safety features are not enough to prevent all types of bugs, and developers must handle risks and edge cases such as input validation and business logic correctness. Common gotchas in safe Rust include integer arithmetic overflows, type conversions, and security vulnerabilities that can be prevented with careful coding practices and tools like clippy lints.
Donald Trump's proposed tariffs may strengthen US manufacturing and create jobs by taxing consumption and subsidizing production. However, their effectiveness depends on the circumstances, and they may not be as disastrous as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930.
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Plateful is a grocery shopping app that helps users create and share lists, track nutrition, and find deals. It simplifies grocery management with features like meal planning, budgeting, and shopping mode.
New York City's 50-year-old property tax system overtaxes large multifamily buildings, making it harder to build apartments to solve the housing crisis. The system unfairly benefits homeowners, especially in white neighborhoods, and hinders development of multi-family housing.