I think it was in Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal that a con man mused that the easiest people to rip off were other con men, or at least those who aspired to be so, because all you had to do …

How a small group of activists (our correspondent among them) got leaf blowers banned in the nation’s capital

Why does Google prepend while(1); to their (private) JSON responses?

For example, here's a response while turning a calendar on and off in Google Calendar:

while (1);
[
['u', [
['smsSentFla...

The Indian linguist Pāṇini created the world's first generative grammar circa 500 BCE, a complete formal denoscription of the Sanskrit language.

This post is hard to write, both in the emotional sense but also in the “I would have written a shorter letter, but I didn’t have the time” sense. Hence, please assume the best of intentions when reading it—it is not my intention to make anyone feel bad about…

The Boeing 737 MAX is the latest mass-market jet, meant to easily transport passengers around the world. And that’s what it has been doing — safely — since its debut in 2017. However, Sunday’s crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX is the second fatal incident…

Some people think old folks’ homes are lovely. Fine. If that appeals to you, you are welcome to move right in. Not me.

In this month's Estonian parliamentary elections, a whopping 44 percent of the ballot was cast using e-voting.

Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer

Last month, I sat down and decided to at the very least attempt to fix our XHCI (USB 3 host controller) bus driver. Issues with it have been the most significant problem users have been facing, as most hardware made post-2012 has an XHCI chip as the …

This blog posts describes how to issue Let's Encrypt certificates for internal servers. We used this mechanism to issue a cert to 65,000+ internal machines.

Smithsonian geographer Doug Herman explains the traditional science of traversing the ocean seas

In Vancouver, where sky-high real estate prices have made ownership impossible for many, it’s suddenly not too difficult to live like a king.

Bruce Schneier, security guru, said that technologists should become policy makers and lawmakers, because tech and society are so intertwined.

Prague Astronomical clock is the oldest working astronomical clock in the world. Read this article to learn more about famous clock tower in Prague.

California is hard to beat. There are richer places with worse weather, there are (a few) nicer climates with worse economies, but it’s…

A loophole that was apparently responsible for plastic waste imports quadrupling was closed, the environment ministry said.

The hunt for a millionth-of-a-second advantage in the town best known for Wayne’s World is getting heated. 

Here's a summary of why Grammarly are predatory and why you should avoid them. I am not a lawyer™. This is my layman reading, but they are pretty explicit about a lot of these practices. Posting because I've seen a lot of people oblivious to what they're…

You can’t win. You can only control how quickly you lose.