As the PS2 turns 20 in Japan, a look back on its PS1 backwards compatibility from the eyes of the former Sony engineer responsible for it.

{reading time: 12 minutes}It’s the Saturday before the first Thanksgiving of the 1970s, and shit in Portland has been blowing up with alarming regularity ...

A modern Hotline client for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS - mierau/hotline

Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded…

Introduction I created a Game Boy emulator in Ruby and released it as a gem called rubyboy! (I’d be happy if you could give it a star!)
And now it runs in the browser using WebAssembly!
Try the demo in your browser!
Screenshots Rubyでゲームボーイのエミュレータを作りました！
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In yesterday’s (Thursday) OpenFalklands blog, I noted that while a week may seem long in politics, even a single day can feel like an eternity […] Read More

Makers of content blockers, privacy add-ons say promises weren't kept

Use the reMarkable2 as an interface to vision-LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini). Ghost in the machine! - awwaiid/ghostwriter

AI's increasing competency at complex tasks like coding creates a boon for teams that want to harness AI to boost productivity. However, many teams haven't stopped to rethink their technical candidate screening and qualification process to account for these…

A bit about what's going on behind the scenes, simplified.

Scaling data and compute is critical to the success of modern ML. However, scaling demands predictability: we want methods to not only perform well with more compute or data, but also have their...

Background Cold-water immersion (CWI) has gained popularity as a health and wellbeing intervention among the general population. Objective This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the psychological, cognitive, and physiological effects…

Every ops team has some manual procedures that they haven’t gotten around to automating yet. Toil can never be totally eliminated. Very often, the biggest toil center for a team at a growing …

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The Deck: An Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Mobile, Turn by Turn Card Game Engine in Flutter - xajik/thedeck