Inhabitants of three different Indonesian islands, 12,000 years ago, had a similar taste for sequins.

When I started writing online, the advice I got was to publish frequently and not overthink any single piece. The logic was this: the outcome for blog posts is a heavy-tailed statistical distribution—most pieces will be read by barely anyone, but a small…

I've been working off and on doing further Mac-ification to my updated fork of MacLynx, the System 7-compatible port of the venerable text b...

Has it really been that long? Apparently so. Valve originally announced their rebranding of Steam Play with Proton back on August 21st, 2018. Seems like a good time for a quick reflection being halfway to a decade old now with the tech that gave rise to the…

How to manage the snake-oil salesmen

A surge in borrowing costs is making home purchases more expensive with little relief in sight.

Building blocks for peer-to-peer applications

The Android Runtime (ART) is responsible for literally running applications on the OS and has been updated via Google Play system updates...

Why did we choose to build Convoy as an open-source project? In this article, I share our beliefs about open source and why it's important to us. Enjoy 🎉

Let’s take five minutes to lend the Middle Ages an ear.

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PipeWire is officially supported!

Utilizes pactl.
On Ubuntu / Debian / Mint / Pop!_OS you'll need pulseaudio-utils and pipewire-pulse (.deb will auto install).
On most other distros pip...

A high-level programming language for using computer vision. - capjamesg/visionnoscript

Jay Hou, Software Engineer, TrustFabric (transparency.dev)  Pixel Binary Transparency was originally announced in 2021; the following blog ...

Rather then view LLMs, Transformers, and diffusion models as part of a continuum with past "AI", it is worth thinking of this as an entirely new era and discontinuity from the past

Scientific Reports - Enhancement of mosquito trapping efficiency by using pulse width modulated light emitting diodes

Iraqi authorities on Sunday ordered the shutdown of LED advertisement screens installed across Baghdad after a hacker managed to show a pornographic film on one, security forces said, announcing...