Every year or two I remember what’s probably the most scarily/stunningly impressive linguistic feat I’ve ever seen. Every time, I think I must be mistaken, then I read the thing, and I just shake my head in disbelief. It’s been twenty years. Let me tell you…

Communications in distributed teams: a write-up of my talk from FrOSCon 2020, Cloud Edition.

The last time I wrote about the timezone database on this blog, the database was under threat from a lawsuit. Fortunately that lawsuit w...

The most advanced solution in groupware, communication and collaboration: grommunio offers an open source platform for everyone!

The problem — lack of private incentives to repurpose off-patent drugs

Creator economy is a buzzy, often catchall term used to describe independent contractors. But in reality, most of the innovation has revolved around passion-project content (Substack for writing, Teachable for courses, etc.) and niche side projects. To date…

The main options are espeak, Gnuspeech, spd-say, MBROLA, PicoTTS and the festvox project which festival and flite are part of. While I found espeak to be the simplest system to use, festival produced the best results when used with the right voices. This…

As Europe prepares to ban combustion engines, Italy, home of high-powered, high-testosterone sports cars made by Ferrari and Lamborghini, is already looking for ways around the proposed restrictions.

— By Shrey Mehta, Kaushik Barodiya

The European Union must not cave in to pressure to put new gas-fired power stations in its green rulebook if it’s serious about fighting global warming, according to a letter sent to the bloc’s leaders by over 150 nonprofit groups.

AS13335 is a CLOUDFLARENET, and there are a lot of connections to the 22/tcp from it, which is very strange behaviour for the DDoS protection service...

Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai in 2019 was warned that describing the company's Incognito browsing mode as "private" was problematic, yet it stayed the course because he did not want the feature "under the spotlight," according to a new court filing.

A company renowned for adding lightness is applying that approach to electrification.

I haven’t been able to release an extension in over a month, and I don’t appear to be the only one. It is affecting both the listed and unlisted versions of my extensions. Moreover, this appears to be affecting many users of this forum, and possibly all extension…

Some disturbing facts and my personal experience with Proton AG

The Internet Archive set out in the 1990s with an improbable mission to become the “Library of Alexandria Two”; by 2020, they’ve arguably surpassed that goal, plus delivered their collection straight to the masses. It’s the only repository where a NASA recap…