Short review of Windows 11 following December 2024 patching, including fast updates, unchanged privacy configuration, extremely slow Windows Explorer with no option to disable the modern interface, numerous ergonomic and aesthetic problems, declining market…

Describe the bug New, direct-download, installation instructions indicate that users should choose an OS-appropriate version from the Download link under the Version History section of the extensio...

A tiny head carved from mammoth ivory looks back at us from the Stone Age.

If you are a current or former career Bureau of the Fiscal Service Employee, especially if you’re a legacy IT programmer with years of experience and especially if you are a COBOL programmer currently working on the PAM, SPS or any other adjacent team, contact…

Vanguard Group has slashed the fees for dozens of its mutual funds and ETFs in a record move that’s likely to send a shock wave through the asset management industry.

In November 2023, a large cache of Turing's wartime papers—nicknamed the “Bayley papers”—was auctioned in London for almost half a million U.S. dollars. The previously unknown cache contains many sheets in Turing’s own handwriting, telling of his top-secret…

Achieving Data Freedom Through Open Source and Rust

You don’t want to have a conversation with your computer, you want to build.

(quick links: add to your own Slack; source code)

Motion sickness is an issue that affects up to one third of people. Is there a way we can strive to make gaming more accessible to people who suffer from the more severe forms of motion sickness?

Apple today introduced Apple Invites, a new app for iPhone that allows users to create custom invitations to gather friends and family.

Jujutsu (jj), a new version control system written in Rust, has popped up on my radar a few times over the past year. Looked interesting based on a cursory look, but being actually pretty satisfied with Git, and not having major problems with it, I haven’t…

A study found TikTok's algorithm recommended more Republican-aligned content during the 2024 US election. Republican accounts saw more like-minded content, while Democratic accounts were shown more opposing views. This suggests a pro-Republican skew.

AI and Corporate Interests Gutted an Artist's Oasis

Five thousand Leningraders died of distrofia on Christmas Day 1941. One of them was Aleksandr Shchukin, a 58-year-old...

How mobile push notifications currently bring centralization to decentralized services, and how we can avoid it, even for mainstream configurations.
Published the 31/01/2025
This post will focus on Android.
We all know decentralized applications: emails,…

A 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has been given full control over the computer code that directs Social Security payments, tax returns and other payments owed to Americans — and sources inside the Treasury Department are freaking out and don't know…