On January 19, 2025, ByteDance shut down access to TikTok and other owned/operated apps for US users, causing an 85% traffic plunge and a rapid shift to alternatives like RedNote.

The company said TikTok was coming back online in the U.S. after President-elect Donald Trump provided assurances to its service providers.

How scholars achieved some of the most consequential intelligence victories of the twentieth century

Using your Apple device as an access card in unsupported systems - kormax/apple-device-as-access-card

Newly unsealed documents show how Meta used LibGen, a pirated library of ebooks, to train its Llama 3 chatbot.

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Learn Robotics and ROS 2 Have you been looking for a good place to start your robotics and ROS 2 learning journey? Look no further! We are proud to announce that together with the University of Eastern Finland, we have open-sourced the robotics part from…

Gmail's long had a segmented/tabbed inbox and Apple added their own (to iOS) recently. I've long used manual mail rules to label and sort inbound messages into different folders.

So how hard could it be. As input we have something like Fri, 17 Jan 2025 06:07:07 in UTC, and we’d like to turn this into 1737094027, the notional (but not actual) number of seconds that have passed since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC.
Trying to figure this out…

A comprehensive guide for Linux Network (Socket) programming - nguyenchiemminhvu/LinuxNetworkProgramming

Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in.

Piece by piece, experts carefully transported the Phoenician vessel to dry land, where it will be studied and preserved

Let's make a tiny, standalone CA! We'll use a Raspberry Pi 4, YubiKey 5 NFC, and Infinite Noise TRNG.

Take control of your content consumption with RSS and Atom feeds. Escape algorithmic black boxes, gain more control over what and how you consume in order to be more intentional with your media consumption.

A discussion on why forcing dark mode on users can lead to poor user experience, the impact of high contrast ratios on readability, and the need for better guidelines in dark mode design.

AI’s ability to create value rests on the philosophy determining how and what it learns.

A collection of shorter posts by LessWrong user meemi