In tribal communities across Namibia, older, eccentric people are often accused of witchcraft and violently attacked. One man realized it was something else entirely.

Twenty years ago today, the first email on the postgis users mailing list (at that time hosted on yahoogroups.com) was sent, announcing the first numbered release of PostGIS.



The early history of PostGIS was tightly bound to a consulting company I had…

A new report says that Apple's iOS 14.5 App Tracking Transparency measures have seen ad spending fall by 10% as users choose not to be tracked.

Android 12’s privacy-focused permission deepens the woes of Facebook by vowing to end invasive location-targeted marketing

🖥️ A small, customizable and extensible MCU-class 32-bit RISC-V soft-core CPU and microcontroller-like SoC written in platform-independent VHDL. - stnolting/neorv32

A woman in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, watched State Police place a tracking device on her vehicle last weekend and contacted her local NAACP president, who was frankly unimpressed by the agency’s spycraft.

In Japan, local authorities are giving away renovation subsidies to incentivize people to move into the country's rural areas.

How to put a price on the limits of knowledge

It was a winter Sunday morning and the island of Oahu was asleep — its military at Pearl Harbor less alert than they might have been any other day of the week. The winter trade winds blow steadily from the northeast against the Hawaiian island, rushing…

You can mount code from your development machine into a container and save yourself tedious waiting times during development.

Edward Gorey’s imagery is in debt to the Surrealists, and, at times, in its use of line, to Aubrey Beardsley, but...

Allows super-imposing an image of your signature on a PDF. ** Note: you can also do this using Mac Preview, see Tools > Annotate > Signature (docs)** Why not use Adobe? I once had a Adobe subnoscription exactly for this purpose but I was unable to cancel it.…

How to decide what to use for autogenerated primary keys: UUID, serial or identity column? Recommendations are given!

tl;dr Nonprofit/pro bono organizations I suggest for offering mentoring/seeking
mentorship: Mentoring Club
[https://www.mentoring-club.com/the-mentors/category/software-engineering]
(experienced mentors, EU focus), Coding Coach [https://codingcoach.io/]…

The Internet King on why the Internet is a force for good, on media conformity, the inevitable triumph of the WEIRD, Crypto, Retards, etc.

Instead of paying musicians properly, the likes of Spotify have set up ‘donation’ buttons – thus passing the buck to fans, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The West’s involution finds its mirror image in the original coun­try of the future, the nation doomed forever to remain the country of the future, the one that never reaches its destination: Brazil. The Brazilianization of the world is our encounter with…