Illustrations for Border Guards by Greg Egan

What the Samotsvety group can teach us about predicting the future.

The goal is to get the correct reflection color using as few iterations as possible within a single shader.

A special IATA meeting was held in London to define a sandwich, and hear violations. The airline industry body declared that sandwiches had to be “cold… simple… unadorned… inexpensive” and had to “consist of a substantial and visible chunk of bread.” Moreover…

In praise of...Excel

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How to describe a scintillating scotoma?

GPU & Accelerator process monitoring for AMD, Apple, Huawei, Intel, NVIDIA and Qualcomm - Syllo/nvtop

Taxpayers encouraged to try innovative new option before April 15 deadline IR-2024-68, March 12, 2024 WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service announced today the full-scale launch of the innovative Direct File pilot and encouraged eligible taxpayers in…

Today, we’re open sourcing Ozone, a tool that lets a team of moderators or curators collaboratively review reports, create labels, and inspect content on the atproto network. Later this week, we’re opening up the ability for users to run their own independent…

We're celebrating the World Day Against Cyber Censorship by officially announcing WebTunnel, a new type of Tor bridge designed to assist users in heavily censored regions to connect to the Tor network. Available now in the stable version of Tor Browser.

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The lean isn’t…

Linux is gaining ground on the desktop as it becomes easier to use and as Microsoft’s attention shifts towards cloud services.

The nonfiction writer Lucas Mann offers advice for essayists worried about whether they have anything interesting to say.

Article Do You Use It? How TidBITS Readers Install macOS Updates - TidBITS says that “Some people even wait until Apple announces or even releases the next macOS version, under the theory that it somehow isn’t fully baked until then.”. I wait until the next…

My 495 bytes language written in Z80 machine code when I was age 9.

Odes & Satires, and other matters of stuff & things.