Update: I put together a report here Report of Observations Regarding the Pokemon Playtests/Prototype Cards About the tracking dots Most home and office printers add metadata to printed sheets in the form of very tiny yellow dots (sometimes called a machine…

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LACSD) committed wholesale abuse of sensitive criminal justice databases in 2023, violating a specific rule against searching the data to run background

Philip Ball finds Nicholas Carr’s “Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart” disturbingly compelling.

Last year, the teams responsible for Pixel and Android were merged into one division, and Google today announced a “voluntary exit program.”

January 20, 2025 – “Claws      see-through      like egg white / Ears         moving                 listening / Eyes        moist                    limpid”

Hamilton’s quaternion number system $latex {\mathbb{H}}&fg=000000$ is a non-commutative extension of the complex numbers, consisting of numbers of the form $latex {t + xi + yj + zk}&f…

This paper is from Pat Helland, the apostate philosopher of database systems, overall a superb person, and a good friend of mine. The paper...

macOS system monitor in your menu bar. Contribute to exelban/stats development by creating an account on GitHub.

A collection of website seizure banners created by government agencies.

What do optical frequency combs do?

A “build system” is one of the most important tools in a developer’stoolbox. Roughly, it figures out how to create runnable programs froma bunch of different...

The Open Source control plane for self-managed, BYOC, and on-prem deployments. Everything you need to distribute applications to self-managed customers out of the box. - glasskube/distr

Neurons in the brain are organized such that nearby cells tend to share similar functions. AI models lack this organization, and past efforts to introduce topography have often led to trade-offs...

Learn how Qodo Merge boosted AI code suggestion acceptance by 50% by cutting distractions and focusing on critical issues.

Reproduce Deepseek R1 „aha moment“ and train an open model using reinforcement learning trying to teach it self-verification and search abilities all on its own to solve the Countdown Game.

This talk announces the first public release of sixos, a two year project to create a nixpkgs-based operating system using skarnet's s6 s...