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UK's Illegal Cybertruck Faces Uphill Battle for Legalization

2024-12-15

UK's Illegal Cybertruck Faces Uphill Battle for Legalization

Yianni Charalambous, a UK car customizer, is attempting to register a Tesla Cybertruck for road use in the UK, following a similar success in the Czech Republic. However, the Cybertruck's sharp design clashes with UK and EU pedestrian safety regulations, posing significant challenges. Its unique steer-by-wire system, reliance on OTA updates unavailable in the UK, and incompatibility with EU recall systems further complicate matters. Experts deem its chances of passing the UK's IVA test extremely slim.

(www.wired.com)

Tech Tesla Cybertruck Car Modification Safety Regulations

Kelp: A Go-based Homebrew Alternative for MacOS

2025-05-19

Kelp: A Go-based Homebrew Alternative for MacOS

Kelp is a Go-written binary package installer for MacOS, designed as a Homebrew alternative. It addresses several Homebrew pain points, such as waiting for formula availability and keeping multiple computers updated with a single manifest. Kelp supports installing multiple packages at once (coming soon), custom configuration paths, and handles Github API rate limits. Users manage packages via simple command-line instructions, including adding, installing, updating, and specifying custom binary names and installing from sources other than Github Releases.

(github.com)

Development

Kokoro TTS: A Lightweight and Efficient AI Voice Synthesizer

2025-05-17

Kokoro TTS is an AI-powered text-to-speech engine boasting 82 million parameters, striking a balance between model size and performance. Its standout feature is the ultra-fast real-time audio generation, producing naturally expressive AI voices that understand context and emotion. Supporting multiple languages including American and British English, French, Korean, Japanese, and Mandarin, Kokoro TTS offers flexible voice customization, catering to both content creators and developers for podcasts, audiobooks, and application integration.

(kokoroai.org)

AI lightweight model

curl.se Traffic Analysis: 2TB/day, Where's All the Traffic Coming From?

2025-02-22

curl.se Traffic Analysis: 2TB/day, Where's All the Traffic Coming From?

The curl.se website handles 62.95 TB of traffic per month, averaging over 2 TB per day and peaking at 3.41 TB. While detailed logs are unavailable, data shows that of 12.43 billion requests, only 1.12 million were curl package downloads (less than 10% of total traffic). The vast majority of traffic (99.77%) is handled by the Fastly CDN cache. However, widespread use of HTTP/1.1 and TLS 1.2 suggests a significant amount of non-browser traffic, possibly from bots or other tools. Analysis indicates that 207.31 million downloads of 100KB-1MB files (likely CA certificates) could account for a large portion of the remaining traffic. Traffic is evenly distributed globally, unlike previous concentrations in China.

(daniel.haxx.se)

Tech network traffic

Double-Keyed Caching: How Browser Cache Partitioning Reshaped the Web

2025-01-09

Double-Keyed Caching: How Browser Cache Partitioning Reshaped the Web

To enhance privacy, browser caching has shifted from a simple key-value store to double-keyed caching (or cache partitioning). This fundamentally changes how resources are cached: previously shared across sites via public CDNs, now each site maintains its own copy. While bolstering privacy by preventing cache probing, timing attacks, etc., this leads to lower cache hit rates and increased network load. The article analyzes this impact on various resources (shared libraries, fonts, large models), proposing solutions like domain consolidation, module federation, and smart resource loading. The era of shared public CDNs may be ending, but the web's adaptability will prevail.

(addyosmani.com)

Development browser caching

JMAP Turns 10: A Decade of Open Email Protocol

2024-12-23

JMAP Turns 10: A Decade of Open Email Protocol

Fastmail celebrates the 10th anniversary of JMAP, its open-source email protocol. Over the past decade, JMAP has evolved from initial concept to a mature standard, incorporating email, contacts, and calendar functionalities, through industry workshops, collaborations with developers, and IETF standardization. Looking ahead, Fastmail plans to enhance the Cyrus IMAP server and continue promoting JMAP adoption to improve user experience and make it the industry standard for email.

(www.fastmail.com)

Development open-source protocol email

Benchi: A Lightweight Docker-based Benchmarking Framework

2025-04-03

Benchi: A Lightweight Docker-based Benchmarking Framework

Benchi is a minimal benchmarking framework leveraging Docker to create isolated environments for measuring application and infrastructure performance. It simplifies the benchmark setup and execution process, supporting Docker Compose for environment definition, CSV metric export, custom hooks, and real-time monitoring of container statuses and metrics. Installation is flexible, offering Go and shell script options. Detailed configuration and usage examples cover metric collectors, test step definition, and Docker Compose integration, streamlining performance testing and analysis.

(github.com)

Development

Ludum Dare Cancels 2025 Events

2025-01-15

Mike, the founder of Ludum Dare, announced the cancellation of all 2025 events due to a confluence of financial, health, and family issues requiring his immediate attention. He needs to focus on finding work and addressing personal matters. This isn't the end of Ludum Dare, but a temporary hiatus. Mike cites difficult circumstances and apologizes for any inconvenience. Updates will be posted on the official Ludum Dare BlueSky account.

(ludumdare.com)

Game event cancellation

Getty Images and Shutterstock Merge to Create Visual Content Giant

2025-01-07

Getty Images and Shutterstock Merge to Create Visual Content Giant

Getty Images and Shutterstock announced a merger of equals, creating a leading visual content company with an enterprise value of approximately $3.7 billion. The combined entity will offer a significantly expanded library of still images, videos, music, 3D models, and other assets. The merger promises increased investment in content creation, event coverage, and technological innovation, including generative AI. Significant cost synergies are projected, reaching $150-$200 million annually within three years, boosting earnings and cash flow from year two. This strategic move positions the new company to better meet the growing demand for visual content and compete effectively in a dynamic market.

(newsroom.gettyimages.com)

Tech Merger

Mastercard Denies Responsibility for Steam's NSFW Game Removal

2025-08-04

Mastercard Denies Responsibility for Steam's NSFW Game Removal

Two weeks after Valve removed a large number of NSFW games from Steam due to pressure from credit card companies, and one week after Itch.io followed suit, Mastercard released a statement denying responsibility. Mastercard claims it allows all lawful purchases through its system, adhering to the rule of law. However, it also requires merchants to prevent Mastercard cards from being used for unlawful purchases, including illegal adult content. While the removed games are legal in the US, they may violate laws in other countries. Valve stated it attempted to communicate directly with Mastercard but Mastercard communicated with payment processors and acquiring banks instead, leading to the games' removal. This highlights the influence of payment processors and credit card companies on game content moderation and the impact of public pressure on the gaming industry.

(www.pcgamer.com)

Game NSFW games

Rust and C Memory Allocators Clash: A Silent Disaster

2025-08-04

Rust and C Memory Allocators Clash: A Silent Disaster

This article recounts a programmer's experience with a memory management interview question involving Rust and C, sparking a deep dive into the complexities of allocator interoperability. By building a comprehensive testing framework, the author experimentally explores the mixing of different allocators, discovering that such mixing frequently results in silent memory corruption. The article delves into the underlying concepts of virtual memory, heap structure, and CPU cache architecture, analyzing allocator characteristics and ultimately summarizing the risks and debugging strategies involved in mixing allocators. The findings highlight the insidious nature of silent memory corruption, where seemingly successful execution masks underlying vulnerabilities.

(notashes.me)

Development

From Dead Inventory to Global Phenomenon: The Insane Story of Sport Stacking

2025-02-14

From Dead Inventory to Global Phenomenon: The Insane Story of Sport Stacking

A couple risked their life savings buying over 800 boxes of defective plastic cups from Hasbro. These cups, with holes drilled in their bottoms, seemed worthless. However, leveraging the father's clowning background and the mother's PR skills, they transformed cup stacking into a global phenomenon, reaching thousands of schools and building Speed Stacks, a multi-million dollar company that changed countless lives.

(defector.com)

Startup Sports

Back to 2007: A Retro Web Dev Adventure

2025-05-31

Back to 2007: A Retro Web Dev Adventure

Tired of the complexities of modern web development, a seasoned programmer decided to go back to basics. He built a simple ranking system using Sinatra, Sequel, and SQLite, rediscovering the joy of web development from 2007. No complex MVC frameworks, no massive databases, just lightweight code and fast responses. He cleverly leveraged the performance of modern hardware, achieving satisfying results with the simplest technology. This brought back the lost joy of programming and rekindled his passion for coding.

(github.com)

Development retro dev lightweight app

Reclaim WSL Disk Space: A Manual and Automated Guide

2025-08-19

Reclaim WSL Disk Space: A Manual and Automated Guide

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) virtual disks can bloat over time, consuming significant disk space. This tutorial provides both manual and automated methods to compact WSL virtual hard disks (VHDX), freeing up valuable disk space. The manual method details a step-by-step process using PowerShell and DiskPart commands; the automated method provides a PowerShell script for one-click compaction. Regardless of the method chosen, you can effectively resolve WSL disk space issues and maintain efficient system operation.

(www.freecodecamp.org)

Development

Understanding the 'Quality World' in Choice Theory

2025-02-11

Understanding the 'Quality World' in Choice Theory

This article explores the concept of the 'Quality World' within Choice Theory/Reality Therapy. Using engaging examples like the parable of the blind men and an elephant, and a classroom exercise, the author illustrates how each individual's perception of reality is unique, forming a personal 'Quality World' comprised of images fulfilling their basic needs (love/belonging, power/self-worth, freedom, fun, physical survival). These images shape behavior, and understanding and supporting another's 'Quality World' is key to building strong relationships. The article also touches upon how unmet needs can lead to negative behaviors, highlighting the importance of accessing an individual's 'Quality World' to help them make more life-sustaining choices.

(thebetterplan.org)

Psychology Choice Theory Reality Therapy Quality World

UA Engineer Develops Novel Plastic Recycling Process

2025-01-05

UA Engineer Develops Novel Plastic Recycling Process

Dr. Jason Bara and his team at the University of Alabama have pioneered a new plastic recycling process using imidazole. This method effectively breaks down polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyurethane, overcoming limitations of traditional chemical recycling. Imidazole acts as a reagent without needing additional solvents or catalysts, offering cost-effectiveness and producing valuable chemical intermediates. The technology promises to significantly improve plastic recycling rates, particularly for challenging materials like polyurethane foams found in packaging, car seats, and more, contributing significantly to environmental sustainability.

(news.ua.edu)

Tech chemical degradation imidazole

Springfield Weekend Weather Forecast: Sunny and Warm

2024-12-16

Springfield weather today is sunny with a temperature of 72°F, humidity at 55%, dew point of 65°F, barometric pressure of 12 PPI, north wind at 6 mph, and visibility of 35 miles. July precipitation is 1 inch. The weekend forecast predicts sunny skies and warm temperatures throughout, along with moderate humidity. Clark St. pool is back open, come on down!

(unworld.neocities.org)

Misc weather forecast Springfield weekend weather

nix-ninja: Incremental Builds with Nix

2025-04-03

nix-ninja: Incremental Builds with Nix

nix-ninja is an incremental build tool leveraging the Nix build system. It parses ninja.build files, generating a derivation per compilation unit, and uses content-addressed derivations for granular, Nix-native incrementality. It's compatible with the ninja CLI, supporting both local and Nix derivation execution. Currently experimental and reliant on unreleased Nix features, it already builds simple C++ examples and even Nix itself. Contributors are welcome; milestones 0.1.0 (correctness) and 0.2.0 (performance) are outlined.

(github.com)

Development Incremental Builds

VC's Last Hope: An AI Bubble and Sam Altman

2025-05-11

VC's Last Hope: An AI Bubble and Sam Altman

The Q1 2025 Venture Monitor reveals a moribund venture capital industry, except for AI, which is almost entirely reliant on OpenAI. High interest rates have dried up funding, leaving VCs scrambling and hoping for an AI miracle fueled by OpenAI's aggressive spending. The report blames Trump's tariffs, overlooking the industry's support for him. Early-stage funding is stagnant, many startups are dying, IPOs are rare, and exits are almost nonexistent. VCs are keeping existing companies afloat with late-stage funding and secondary sales. The future of venture capital remains uncertain and precarious.

(pivot-to-ai.com)

Startup

Shef: Cook Up Shell Recipes Without the Mess

2025-03-11

Shef: Cook Up Shell Recipes Without the Mess

Shef, a powerful CLI tool, lets you create complex shell workflows without the headache of writing intricate bash scripts. Inspired by CyberChef, Shef uses a simple YAML format to chain commands, incorporate interactive prompts, implement loops and conditional logic, and build reusable recipes. It streamlines shell scripting by offering features like templating, transformations, and easy error handling, making it a game-changer for automating tasks and managing complex processes.

(github.com)

Development shell scripting

Disney's 'Go Away Green': Camouflaging Infrastructure

2025-02-12

Disney's 'Go Away Green': Camouflaging Infrastructure

Disney Parks utilize a range of muted colors, including various shades of green, gray, brown, and blue, dubbed "Go Away Green," to seamlessly blend infrastructure like speakers, fences, and trash cans into the environment. This clever camouflage technique, inspired by military colors, minimizes distractions and enhances the immersive experience, focusing visitor attention on the attractions rather than the park's functional elements. The strategy is applied to large buildings and smaller infrastructure alike.

(en.wikipedia.org)

Design Theme Park Design Color Theory

Critical Flaw: Entra ID Vulnerability Allows Global Tenant Compromise

2025-09-18

A critical vulnerability in Microsoft Entra ID allows attackers to compromise virtually any tenant globally (excluding national cloud deployments). Undocumented "Actor tokens" and a flaw in the Azure AD Graph API enable full access. Attackers can brute-force or leverage B2B trusts to obtain a user's netId, impersonate administrators, and gain complete control, accessing sensitive data and modifying settings. No prerequisites are needed. Microsoft patched the vulnerability (CVE-2025-55241), highlighting inherent risks in the Actor token design.

(dirkjanm.io)

Tech

Scientists Crack the Code of the Perfect Cacio e Pepe

2025-01-04

A team of scientists delved into the culinary arts, specifically the classic Italian dish Cacio e Pepe, to uncover the secrets behind its perfect creamy texture. Their research revealed starch concentration as the key factor influencing sauce stability. Starch levels below 1% (relative to cheese mass) lead to clumping, a phenomenon dubbed the "Mozzarella Phase," resulting in a separated and unpleasant sauce. The study also explored the impact of cheese-to-water ratios at a fixed starch level, observing a lower critical solution temperature and developing a minimal effective free-energy model to explain it. Ultimately, they presented a scientifically optimized recipe guaranteeing consistently flawless Cacio e Pepe.

(arxiv.org)

Misc food science culinary

From Nand Gates to Pong: A Journey of Building a Computer

2025-02-18

The author spent nearly a month completing the first part of the Nand2Tetris course, building a 16-bit Von Neumann computer from the ground up, starting with basic Nand gates, culminating in successfully running the game Pong. This journey provided deep insights into abstraction and significantly enhanced his software development skills from a hardware perspective. The author also shares his experience overcoming challenges, such as the struggle to understand multiplexers and the eventual eureka moment.

(tristanrhodes.com)

Development computer architecture programming learning

Handcrafting Your Git Repository: A Deep Dive into Git Internals

2025-07-17

Handcrafting Your Git Repository: A Deep Dive into Git Internals

This article provides a detailed explanation of how to create a Git repository manually without using any git commands. Starting with the creation of necessary directories and files, the author gradually explains how Git objects (blob, tree, commit) are stored and the principle of Content Addressable Storage (CAS). The article also explores Git's pack files and index files, and how to manually create a commit containing files. Finally, the author summarizes the elegance of Git's design and how understanding the underlying mechanisms can lead to better Git usage.

(drew.silcock.dev)

Development Internals

Sentry: Redefining Enterprise Software – The Fortune 500,000 Approach

2025-02-11

Sentry, with over 50,000 paying customers, challenges traditional enterprise software models. The author argues that focusing on building a product every customer wants, at a reasonable price, and targeting the "Fortune 500,000" is a superior strategy to the legacy model of solely focusing on large enterprises. This product-led growth approach prioritizes community building, branding, and low-friction customer experience over massive sales teams. The author claims this model isn't just viable but also efficient and measurable, offering a new pathway for enterprise software companies.

(cra.mr)

Development community building

Meta's AI Training Data Scandal: Leaked Emails Expose Torrenting of 81.7TB of Pirated Material

2025-02-16

Meta's AI Training Data Scandal: Leaked Emails Expose Torrenting of 81.7TB of Pirated Material

Meta is facing a class-action lawsuit for copyright infringement. Newly unsealed court documents reveal internal communications showing Meta employees used at least 81.7TB of illegally torrented data from shadow libraries like LibGen to train their AI models. Emails reveal employees voiced ethical concerns and even used VPNs to mask their IP addresses while torrenting and seeding copyrighted material. This contradicts previous depositions, bolstering the plaintiff's case and potentially significantly damaging Meta's defense.

(hothardware.com)

Tech

60 Minutes Investigates: Former NSA Employee Returns to Menwith Hill

2024-12-24

Former National Security Agency (NSA) employee Margaret Newsham returned to the Menwith Hill listening station in the UK at the invitation of the 60 Minutes crew. Years later, she was astonished by the base's expansion and, along with the film crew, risked arrest to get close to the facility for filming and interviews. Newsham recounted her experiences working at the base and shared her observations, in a thrilling adventure that revealed the massive scale and influence of this secretive listening station.

(cryptome.org)

Misc Menwith Hill listening station

Singular vs. Plural Database Table Names: The Case for Singular

2025-09-09

A common debate in database design revolves around whether table names should be singular or plural. While plural names (e.g., `users`) seem intuitive, the author argues that singular names (e.g., `user`) offer significant advantages. Singular names improve readability in SQL joins and prevent inconsistencies with ORMs that automatically pluralize names. Maintaining singular names ensures schema consistency and avoids potential naming conflicts.

(www.teamten.com)

Development

Incentives, Not Education: The Key to Solving Code Quality Issues

2025-02-15

Incentives, Not Education: The Key to Solving Code Quality Issues

Google once tried using a color-coded food program to encourage healthy eating among its employees, overlooking the impact of stress and time constraints. Similarly, addressing code quality issues shouldn't solely focus on educating engineers about coding standards. Instead, it's crucial to consider incentive mechanisms. Engineers writing poor code aren't necessarily lacking knowledge; they might be under pressure to meet deadlines or overwhelmed by demanding tasks. Therefore, the key to improving code quality lies in improving the work environment, providing adequate time, and establishing reasonable incentive systems, rather than simply emphasizing knowledge education.

(josvisser.substack.com)

Development incentive mechanisms

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