This is a companion site to my CuriousMarc YouTube Channel and my R2-D2 Build Log. On this site you'll find documentation and more information related to the various projects and machines featured in the videos: vintage computers, Apollo space hardware,…

All users can now opt-in to our Threads Beta! Threads helps declutter the main room timeline by moving conversations and topics into the right panel.

The EU’s new legislation is designed to explain the web to users.

As a live-in tutor, I’ve watched rich families adapt to Vladimir Putin’s war

After 16 hours of discussion, negotiators from the European Parliament and EU governments have just made deal on a new EU Digital Services Act. Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer sat at the negotiating table as Rapporteur for the Committee on Civil Liberties…

This blog post was originally a wall of text on GNOME’s Discourse to involve the GNOME Project community in the shaping of the GNOME Foundation’s programmes.
The GNOME Foundation has not been giving as much news as we wish it has, but doesn’t mean nothing…

Rare is the person who could expertly comment – in a single interview! – on the rise of NFTs and their origins in the virtual worlds of gaming, the logic of the emerging regime of techno-feudalism, and the folly of El Salvador’s Bitcoin-heavy negotiating…

I don’t know if this is a new trend or if I’m just noticing it now, but more and more the popular wisdom seems to be that you shouldn’t monetize your hobby. That if you do, it turns it into a job, a hustle1; that it sucks all the fun out of it. Putting aside…

Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

When I first read the Chinese war manual “Unrestricted Warfare” in 1999, I thought it was wacky. I was flying B-2 Stealth bombers out of Whiteman Air Force Base in western Missouri and rea

$34 million, or 11,539 eth, is permanently locked into the AkuDreams contract forever. It cannot be retrieved by individual users or by the dev team.

The refund processing, which is complete, sets each bid status to 1.

My favorite internet service provider, init7, is rolling out faster speeds with their infrastructure upgrade. Last week, the point of presence (POP) that my apartment’s fiber connection terminates in was upgraded, so now I am enjoying a 25 Gbit/s fiber internet…