Google restricts app installation on Android, controlling software use, not hardware. True freedom to run any code on owned hardware requires alternative operating system options and manufacturer support.
US military communications doctrine required paraphrasing messages to avoid sending the same message twice using different encryption. Paraphrasing meant rewriting the message to change its wording while keeping the same meaning.
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Managing ADHD requires a combination of medication, such as stimulants, and strategies like using a todo list, calendar, and journal to organize and prioritize tasks. By leveraging both internal changes, like medication and therapy, and external changes, like productivity systems and habits, individuals with ADHD can develop effective coping mechanisms and improve their productivity and ...
This tutorial is for beginners learning Jujutsu, a version control system that's easier to learn than Git. It's split into levels, with each level building on the previous one, and covers topics from basic problem-solving skills to advanced workflows.
Using a single large server can be a cost-effective and efficient approach for many web services, especially those with steady traffic, as it eliminates the need for complex cloud architecture and reduces overhead costs. However, cloud architecture may be beneficial for services with bursty or unpredictable workloads, such as those requiring content delivery networks or backups, and can offer ...
Quantum computers haven't factored 21 due to a 100x cost blowup from conditional modular multiplications. This is caused by a combination of factors including fewer multiplications by 1, reduced efficiency of the first-one's-free trick, and more expensive multiplications by 4 and 16.
The user got a Minimal Phone with an epaper display to read books and blogs without distractions, and it has been working well for them, especially for reading. However, the phone has some rough edges and bugs, such as a fingerprint forgetting issue and slow refresh rate, but the user is willing to accept these imperfections.
USB-C Power Delivery (PD) allows devices to negotiate and deliver up to 240 W of power with voltages up to 20 V and 5 A. The negotiation process involves a conversation between devices using messages to determine power delivery and data direction.
User describes Trump's speech patterns as "the weave" where he jumps between unrelated topics, using previous points to create a false sense of cohesion. User created a visualization to model this pattern using a git-graph-style diagram.
A neurologist Jonathan Howard's YouTube channel was deleted by YouTube after Vinay Prasad, the FDA's top vaccine regulator, demanded removal of six videos featuring Prasad. The channel contained videos of doctors and commentators, including Prasad, discussing Covid-19 and vaccines.
Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery used mercury-based laxatives called "thunder-clappers" to treat constipation. Archaeologists can find their campsites by detecting mercury in the ground, which was left behind after the pills were used.
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The UK's British Indian Ocean Territory is crucial in maintaining British territory with sunlight, but its sovereignty is being contested. If lost, the role of easternmost British territory would fall to the Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus.
Google detected unusual traffic from your network, possibly due to malicious software or a script. Solving the CAPTCHA will let you continue using their services.
Senior developers rely more on AI-generated code, with 32% saying over half their shipped code is AI-generated, compared to 13% of junior developers. Despite this, nearly 80% of developers say AI tools make coding more enjoyable, suggesting a morale boost may outweigh efficiency concerns.
Procmon is a Linux tool that traces syscall activity, similar to the Windows Procmon tool. It provides options to monitor specific processes and system calls, and can run in headless mode.
To upload designs, you'll need to enable LFS and have an admin enable hashed storage. More information
The user hacked the Solos Smart Glasses to display arbitrary images by reverse-engineering the Bluetooth protocol and creating a Python script to RLE-encode and send image data. This allows nondestructive use of the glasses, displaying useful information like email subject lines, weather forecasts, and home network service status.
Rick Beato, a music video podcaster, ranted against Universal Music Group's strict copyright claims that hinder music podcasting. He argues that these claims are against artists' interests and stifle music promotion on platforms like podcasts.
My routine is not applicable, I'm a summarizer. To summarize your input: You're concerned about excessive screen time and laziness, seeking advice on managing time and staying productive.
The article "AI is killing the web" by The Economist warns that AI is disrupting the internet by diverting traffic from publishers and making it harder for businesses to produce quality content. This could lead to a breakdown in the symbiotic relationship between businesses, Google, and the public, and may require new regulations to address the issue.
Nikic open-sourced TPDE and TPDE-LLVM, a 10-20x faster LLVM back-end. It targets x86-64 and AArch64 with similar performance and larger code size.
A 35-year-old software engineer Pratik Pandey died at Microsoft's office in Mountain View after working late nights for an extended period. His relatives are calling on tech companies to address employee pressure and anxiety.
Developers are being forced to use AI tools in their work, leading to frustration and potential job insecurity. This trend is causing problems with code quality and collaboration.
Ultrassembler is a high-performance RISC-V assembler library that optimizes speed and standard conformance, outperforming existing assemblers like as and llvm-mc. Its design features include zero-overhead exceptions, custom memory allocation, and optimized string comparison and lookup systems, allowing it to assemble RISC-V instructions quickly and efficiently.
Common Lisp is a statically typed, AOT compiled language with dynamic development flows. It has a unique type system where each value belongs to at least one type, and types are sets that can overlap.
Two companies with similar revenue and software produce one with 1 million lines of code and the other with 100 thousand lines of code. The company with fewer lines of code is better off due to easier understanding and modification.
Senator Charles Sumner was brutally attacked with a cane by Representative Preston Brooks in 1856 due to their differing views on slavery. The cane was made of gutta-percha, a substance derived from trees in Southeast Asia that was later replaced by plastic.
Anaxagoras, a Greek philosopher, proposed that the universe is governed by a principle called 'Mind' and that the earth is a sphere, ideas that were revolutionary for his time and influenced later thinkers like Einstein. He was tried and banished from Athens for impiety after his theory of eclipses, which rested on the idea of heliophotism, was seen as a threat to the traditional view of the ...
A security researcher is addressing a vulnerability CVE-2025-7783 in Node.js, specifically in the Math.random() function. They aim to invert Xorshift128+, the algorithm behind Math.random(), using z3 solver or an improved algorithm.
The user installed EDK2 firmware on a Rock 5 ITX+ board to enable booting from USB. They successfully installed Fedora Rawhide and Ubuntu Daily, but sound and HDMI output were not working.
Alessia and Elia founded VibeFlow, a platform that lets semi-technical people build full-stack web apps from natural language prompts. VibeFlow generates both the interface and logic as a visual workflow, making it easier to maintain and scale apps.
Chicago has the highest number of lead water service lines in the nation, with 412,000 lines containing lead or contaminated with the metal. Residents in majority-Black and Latino neighborhoods bear the biggest burden, with 92% and 89% of service lines requiring replacement, respectively.
Red is a programming language with a native-code compiler for system and high-level scripting, supporting concurrency and multi-core CPUs. It has a DSL-oriented approach and a cross-platform toolchain, currently at alpha stage and 32-bit only.
To accelerate mathematical scientists' development, a series of textbooks is recommended to cover mathematics and physics in 2-3 years, focusing on fundamental areas and physics-inspired concepts. The list includes books on linear algebra, differential equations, topology, differential geometry, and quantum mechanics, providing a comprehensive and self-contained curriculum.
The user likes Go but finds it too vanilla and simple, leading them to explore other languages like V. They appreciate V's syntax and features, such as concurrency, channels, and receiver methods, but note that the language is still immature and has some quirks.
The user studied the "meta" of software by analyzing the dialogue between programming language designers, computer designers, and programmers, and discovered that programming languages are intimately linked to hardware architectures. They developed the concept of abstract machine models (AMMs) to describe the mental models that programmers use to predict the behavior of their programs, and ...
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The user is looking for a headless CMS for a community website with a non-technical admin, and mentions several options including Keystatic, Directus, Strapi, and PayloadCMS, but notes that Strapi is not suitable for pre-existing databases. The user recommends using website builders like Webflow or Squarespace with a built-in CMS for non-technical organizations, and suggests other options ...
Three Scottish brothers Ewan, Jamie, and Lachlan McClean set a new world record by rowing 14,000 km across the Pacific Ocean in 139 days. They raised over 795,000 pounds for clean water projects in Madagascar and will attend an event at Sydney's Maritime Museum after their well-deserved rest.
Cline now allows offline coding with Qwen3 Coder 30B, a powerful AI model that analyzes repositories and writes code. The setup involves downloading the model, configuring LM Studio and Cline, and enabling the compact prompt for local performance.
Replacing caches entirely with databases is challenging due to latency, consistency, and scalability issues. Databases can provide cache-like benefits with read replicas, but current limitations hinder their adoption as a direct replacement for caches.
Linear logic provides a solution to garbage collection problems in a functional language by using unity reference counts to avoid copying. It offers a more efficient implementation, Linear Lisp, which allows for "update-in-place" capabilities.
The author loved Hugo initially for its simplicity and speed but now finds it complicated and prone to breaking backwards compatibility. They plan to compile Hugo from source and freeze it to maintain a working blog.
Human fecal contamination is a public health concern in natural areas due to pathogens remaining active for over a year in outdoor environments. To address this issue, researchers recommend using trailhead toilets, digging cat holes, or removing all poop and toilet paper and disposing of it in a proper location using wag bags.
A Chinese research team developed a machine that transforms moon soil into durable bricks using solar energy. The machine is a step toward building lunar structures from local materials for China's International Lunar Research Station.
Meta's AI efforts are undergoing a significant shift with new hires, including Shengjia Zhao and Alexandr Wang, who are working to build "personal superintelligence." However, the transition has led to some departures, including several AI staff who have left the company after brief tenures.
The user wants to create a simple eBPF firewall that blocks traffic from a specific IP address and counts incoming packets per second using a Linux kernel and a Python script. The eBPF program is written in C and uses XDP to inspect and filter network packets, while the Python script manages the eBPF program lifecycle and prints packet counts and debug events.
A single machine with a single database instance handled a load of 4000 requests per second with some performance degradation and timeouts. After reducing the load to 3000 RPS, the system ran smoothly with no timeouts and response times under 1.5 seconds.
The Join Order Benchmark (JOB) was designed to evaluate cardinality estimation, cost models, and join enumeration in query optimization, and its results showed that cardinality estimation errors are widespread and often the dominant factor behind poor query plans. The JOB benchmark has contributed to the growth of research in query optimization and cardinality estimation, and its impact has ...
A large-scale study found that people who ate within an 8-hour window had a 135% higher risk of dying from cardiovascular disease. Researchers advise caution for those with heart disease or diabetes, suggesting personalized dietary advice may be more effective than time-restricted eating.
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Researchers created glow-in-the-dark plants by injecting succulents with phosphor particles that absorb and re-emit light. The plants shine brightly in various colours, lasting up to 120 minutes, and can be triggered again and again.
The page is a quine that prints its source code as output, a self-replicating program. It works with HTML and CSS tricks to insert and hide tags.
🖥️ Smooth side panel view – code on the left, lyrics on the right. ℹ️ Why? – To respect Spotify API rate limits, you need your own ID. Set Tracks Cache Max Size (spotilyrics.setTracksCacheMaxSize) – configure the maximum number of tracks cached for lyrics. This project is licensed as Unlicensed. Feel free to use, hack, and remix it – but no warranties 😉
A user installed a web browser called Netsurf on their reMarkable 2 tablet using XOVI and AppLoad. The process involved SSH connection, downloading and installing various files, and configuring paths to enable Netsurf to run on the device.
The user reflects on their experiences with old-school Roguelike games like Angband, NetHack, and ADOM, highlighting their struggles and frustrations with each game's unique mechanics and quirks. They ultimately find success with Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup (DCSS), a game with a clear design philosophy and exquisite game balance that presents a challenge that is both rewarding and unforgiving.
The author argues that cards are often overused and can be replaced by applying the proximity principle, which groups elements together based on their proximity. This approach can lead to better results and reduce cognitive burden.
Computing has evolved from requiring deep technical expertise to making computers more accessible and useful to humanity through AI. AI represents the natural continuation of this trend, allowing humans to focus on goals rather than instructions.
The author dislikes the term "AI" and prefers "LLMs" for Large Language Models, criticizing their oversimplification of human experience and the hype surrounding them.
To access Sniffly's dashboard, use http://localhost:8081 or a chosen host/port, and use port forwarding for remote servers. You can change settings with commands like sniffly config set and view them with sniffly config show.
The user discusses the limitations of decentralized social media platforms like Mastodon, citing concerns about data loss and lack of recovery options when servers go down. In contrast, the AT protocol, used by Bluesky, offers a more robust recovery scenario with relays that can store user data and allow for easy account migration.
Josef Bacik is leaving Meta after years of working on Btrfs and stepping back from Linux kernel development. He's joining Anthropic to help scale their infrastructure using his kernel and systems experience.
A Polish CEO, Piotr Szczerek, stole a hat meant for a child from tennis player Kamil Majchrzak at the US Open. The incident went viral and resulted in Szczerek's business being review bombed and Majchrzak giving the child an autographed hat.
The PFP library is a Haskell module for probabilistic functional programming. It uses distributions to represent outcomes and allows for declarative description and evaluation of probabilistic situations.
Canadian tourists are largely avoiding the US due to recent policies and behavior of the current president, leading to a significant decline in international tourism. The US is expected to lose $12.5 billion in international visitor spending in 2025, with a full recovery to pre-pandemic levels unlikely until 2029.
This Go package displays animated messages with a bunny holding a sign. It can show multiple messages in sequence and clear the last message.
User uses git to manage dotfiles without a dedicated manager, ignoring all files with a .gitignore and manually adding desired files. This setup allows for versioned and synchronized dotfiles across machines.
The author provides advice for writing puzzles, specifically for the MIT Mystery Hunt, emphasizing the importance of providing a fun experience for solvers and avoiding frustrating or tedious puzzles. To achieve this, the author suggests considering various sources of inspiration for puzzle mechanisms, collaborating with others, and paying attention to detail to ensure elegance and coherence ...
A baby type checker for Python is being developed to catch type errors early and act as documentation, supporting primitive types, containers, functions, assignments, binary operators, indexing, type unions, and type narrowing. The type checker uses the ast module to parse Python code, identify type annotations, and compare them with the actual types used in the code, catching various type ...
Emproof developed a binary rewriting tool called Emproof Nyx to protect embedded systems from reverse engineering and exploitation. Nyxstone is an open-source assembly and disassembly library based on LLVM.
Gullies are opening in African cities, displacing 118,600 people in the DRC alone between 2004 and 2023. Urgent action is needed to prevent hundreds of thousands of people from being displaced within the next 10 years due to these expanding gullies.
Federal efficiency rules and water conservation standards have made dishwashers less efficient, taking 2.5-4 hours per cycle. Many Americans are abandoning dishwashers, opting for handwashing due to convenience and cost-effectiveness.
Q.js is a lightweight front-end framework that works with plain HTML and JavaScript, offering features like direct DOM updates, autoloading methods, and built-in batching and caching. It's designed for building reusable components and pages, with a unified philosophy that ties it to the larger Qbix platform.