It’s the first half of 2021 – nearly five years since the “first half of 2016” – but in many ways not much has changed. The United Kingdom is still trying to figure out Brexit, another Justin Bieber song hit #1 on the charts (is it too late now to say sorry?)…

The rsync.net Warrant Canary is now 15 years old: rsync.net/resources/noti…

The long read: A growing chorus of scientists and philosophers argue that free will does not exist. Could they be right?

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Early alphabetic writing in the ancient Near East: the ‘missing link’ from Tel Lachish - Volume 95 Issue 381

Protocol is a command-line tool to display ASCII RFC-like protocol header diagrams for both existing network protocols or user-defined ones (using a very simple syntax). Protocol is written in Python and it's open-source software.

Disclaimer: The post is more about understanding LUTs and HaldCLUTs and writing methods from scratch to apply these LUTs to an image rather than coming up with CLUTs themselves from scratch. Outlin…

Will the shifts brought on by the pandemic, favoring online retailers over bookstores and established authors over new ones, change publishing forever?

🖥 A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron. I'm sorry. - felixrieseberg/macintosh.js

TikToker makes ‘scamcoin’ as a joke and within an hour it’s worth ~$70mln lmao.

Ed Balls Day is a bit of fun and the stuff of nonsense. It celebrates and remembers the day (28 April 2011) when British politician Ed Balls tweeted his name thinking he was entering it into a sear…

Iran has updated its rules on officially mined cryptocurrencies like bitcoin so they can be used more widely for import payments.

A study from Oxford Brookes University researchers has found that vertical wind turbine design is considerably more efficient than the traditional form factor in large-scale wind farms, and in a certain arrangement can increase performance by up to 15 per…

No more green bubbles.