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Windows 11: Still a Waste of Time?

2025-02-04

A tech writer revisited Windows 11 and found it still lacking. File Explorer remains slow, Settings are inferior to Control Panel, and hardware requirements are unnecessarily stringent. The author criticizes Microsoft's insistence on TPM 2.0, arguing it's irrelevant for home users and contradicts Microsoft's own security narrative. While recent updates were relatively smooth, Explorer's sluggishness, poor UI design, and the ability for apps to override privacy settings persist. The conclusion? Windows 11 remains largely useless, its market share shrinking in favor of Windows 10.

(www.dedoimedo.com)

Tech

Serverless DNS Resolver: serverless-dns Takes Flight

2025-05-03

Serverless DNS Resolver: serverless-dns Takes Flight

serverless-dns is a Pi-Hole-esque serverless stub DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) and DNS-over-TLS (DoT) resolver. It runs on Cloudflare Workers, Deno Deploy, Fastly Compute@Edge, and Fly.io, leveraging free tiers for low-traffic use cases. Boasting sub-millisecond response times, it efficiently manages ~13M entries from 190+ blocklists using a succinct radix trie. The open-source project allows for custom configurations, log uploading, and offers a lightweight, high-performance DNS solution.

(github.com)

Development DNS resolver content blocking

In Praise of the 100-Page Idea: A Case for Brevity in Nonfiction

2024-12-22

Tracy Durnell argues for the value of concise nonfiction books, specifically those around 100 pages long. She finds these shorter works ideal for exploring a single, impactful idea without excessive detail, fitting modern readers' shorter attention spans. Durnell highlights several examples of excellent books in this length, contrasting them with longer works that she believes often dilute their core ideas through padding. She champions the efficiency of a focused approach, emphasizing the benefits of connecting multiple concise ideas to build a broader understanding over consuming lengthy, highly-detailed tomes.

(tracydurnell.com)

Misc reading books writing

OpenBSD Major Update: FILE Object Structure Becomes Opaque

2025-07-21

OpenBSD recently underwent a significant system update making the internal structure of the FILE object in its standard input/output library opaque. This means programs can no longer directly access the internal structure of the FILE object. The change is far-reaching, affecting libc and many libraries that depend on it, including libcrypto, libtls, and libssl. To ease the transition, some helper symbols are temporarily retained but will be removed in the future. Developers are strongly encouraged to use a snapshot upgrade to avoid potential problems.

(undeadly.org)

Development system update

Kim Jong-il, Kidnapped Filmmakers, and a Godzilla Rip-off: The Bizarre Story Behind Pulgasari

2025-05-05

Kim Jong-il, Kidnapped Filmmakers, and a Godzilla Rip-off: The Bizarre Story Behind Pulgasari

A seemingly abandoned building in Brooklyn houses the Spectacle theater, screening cult and cutting-edge cinema. Recently, it showcased Pulgasari, a bizarre Godzilla knockoff allegedly produced under the direction of Kim Jong-il. The film's story is even more outlandish than the movie itself. To elevate North Korea's film industry, Kim Jong-il kidnapped renowned South Korean director Shin Sang-ok and actress Choi Eun-hee, forcing them to create films. Their final collaboration, Pulgasari, became their ticket to escape. The film, a mix of political allegory and low-budget camp, is a uniquely demented spectacle.

(www.vanityfair.com)

Misc Kim Jong-il North Korean Cinema

Frankfurt Silver Amulet Rewrites Early Christian History

2024-12-18

Frankfurt Silver Amulet Rewrites Early Christian History

Archaeologists unearthed a groundbreaking artifact in a 3rd-century Roman grave near Frankfurt, Germany: a silver amulet, the "Frankfurt Silver Inscription." Dating back to 230-270 CE, this amulet predates previously known Christian artifacts in the region by almost 50 years. Its inscription, deciphered using advanced technology, contains exclusively Christian content, including invocations to Jesus Christ and biblical quotations. This discovery significantly pushes back the timeline of Christianity's presence north of the Alps, shedding light on its early spread and influence in Roman Germania. The find has major implications for archaeology, theology, and Roman history.

(archaeologymag.com)

Misc Christianity Archaeological Discovery Roman Empire

Australia Enacts World's Strictest Social Media Ban for Under-16s

2025-01-31

Australia Enacts World's Strictest Social Media Ban for Under-16s

Australia has implemented one of the world's strictest internet crackdowns, prohibiting children under 16 from using social media or creating new accounts. The law, effective in a year, holds social media companies accountable for verifying users' ages, with penalties reaching nearly $50 million for non-compliance. Facing opposition from tech companies citing free speech concerns and the potential for driving kids to unregulated online spaces, Australia's eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, is tasked with enforcement. The approach, drawing global attention, aims to shift responsibility for online child safety from parents to platforms, similar to past automotive safety regulations.

(www.npr.org)

Tech child safety internet regulation

The Math Behind the Perfect Onion Dice

2025-08-17

The Math Behind the Perfect Onion Dice

Millions of YouTube views prove it: dicing an onion perfectly is a common quest. This article dives into the optimal onion-cutting technique, using mathematical modeling and standard deviation calculations to reveal that radial cuts, aimed at approximately 96% of the onion's radius, yield the most uniform pieces, outperforming vertical cuts. While perfect uniformity might not drastically improve your cooking, the study offers a fascinating example of applying mathematics to everyday problems.

(pudding.cool)

Misc onion optimal cutting technique

Tenstorrent: An Analysis of the AI Hardware Startup Landscape

2024-12-15

Tenstorrent: An Analysis of the AI Hardware Startup Landscape

This article delves into a deep dive analysis of Tenstorrent, an AI hardware startup. Initially skeptical, the author, after meeting with the Tenstorrent team and gaining a thorough understanding of their architecture (a mesh topology featuring high-performance RISC-V CPU cores and AI cores) and software stack, revised their opinion. The article details Tenstorrent's technical specifications, including its unique Baby RISC-V cores and efforts to reduce latency. The author argues that Tenstorrent's open-source strategy, strong engineering team, and rational business model give it a unique advantage in the competitive AI hardware market, expressing optimism for its future.

(irrationalanalysis.substack.com)

AI AI hardware

Foqos: Reclaim Your Focus with NFC

2025-01-21

Foqos is a focus app leveraging NFC technology to help users stay on task. Create multiple profiles for different scenarios (work, study, bedtime, etc.). Write these profiles to NFC tags for instant activation with a single tap – no unlocking or app opening required. Foqos is free, private, and open-source forever. No subscriptions, tracking, or data collection. Just pure focus.

(www.foqos.app)

Development focus app

The Matrix Calculus You Need For Deep Learning

2025-03-29

The Matrix Calculus You Need For Deep Learning

This paper aims to explain all the matrix calculus you need to understand deep neural network training. Assuming only Calculus 1 knowledge, it progressively builds from scalar derivative rules to vector calculus, matrix calculus, Jacobians, and chain rules. Through derivations and examples, the authors demystify these concepts, making them accessible. The paper concludes with a summary of key matrix calculus rules and terminology.

(explained.ai)

AI matrix calculus

Record-Breaking 7.3 Tbps DDoS Attack: A Wake-Up Call for Internet Security

2025-06-20

Record-Breaking 7.3 Tbps DDoS Attack: A Wake-Up Call for Internet Security

Cloudflare reported a record-breaking 7.3 Tbps distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, unleashing 37.4 TB of junk traffic in just 45 seconds. Attackers 'carpet bombed' nearly 22,000 destination ports of a single IP address, exploiting the UDP protocol's lack of connection verification to overwhelm the target server. This incident highlights the escalating threat to internet security and the growing scale and sophistication of large-scale DDoS attacks.

(arstechnica.com)

Tech UDP protocol

tldraw Computer: A JavaScript-Dependent Machine

2024-12-20

tldraw Computer: A JavaScript-Dependent Machine

tldraw has released a computer called "tldraw computer," but it requires JavaScript to run. This suggests the computer might be web-based or heavily reliant on a JavaScript runtime environment, rather than traditional hardware architecture.

(computer.tldraw.com)

Hardware web-based computer

Rule-Based Programming: Revolutionizing Interactive Fiction Development

2025-01-18

This article explores a rule-based programming model for interactive fiction (text adventure game) development. The author traces the evolution from early FORTRAN and LISP-based games to object-oriented programming, highlighting the limitations of the object-oriented approach in handling complex game logic, especially numerous exceptions and dynamic changes. A more flexible rule-based model is proposed, breaking down game logic into a series of rules triggered by conditions, resulting in cleaner, more maintainable code. This allows for easier handling of exceptions and dynamic changes, improving reusability and scalability. While acknowledging challenges like resolving rule conflicts, the author believes this approach holds promise for revolutionizing interactive fiction development.

(eblong.com)

Game Interactive Fiction Rule Engine

Common Lisp Web App Tutorial: A Guestbook Example

2025-05-04

Common Lisp Web App Tutorial: A Guestbook Example

This tutorial walks through building a simple guestbook web application using Common Lisp, highlighting the language's challenges, particularly its lack of comprehensive documentation. The author covers project setup, database connection, template rendering, route definition, and compares code size against a Python Flask equivalent. The tutorial concludes by weighing the pros and cons of using Common Lisp for web development, suggesting it's better suited for lower-level tasks and high-performance computing, with limited advantages in typical web backend development.

(www.scotto.me)

Development

Eating Spaghetti by the Fistful: A Neapolitan Street Spectacle

2024-12-17

Eating Spaghetti by the Fistful: A Neapolitan Street Spectacle

In 19th-century Naples, eating spaghetti became a unique spectacle. People would grab handfuls of spaghetti and shove it into their mouths with surprising speed. This unusual custom attracted numerous tourists and became a Neapolitan specialty. The article traces the history of this practice, from the price drop of pasta in the 17th century, to its role as an important food source for the poor, and its eventual disappearance with societal changes.

(www.atlasobscura.com)

Misc spaghetti Naples street food

Clojure Civitas: A Shared Scratchpad for Clojure Ideas

2025-08-05

Clojure Civitas: A Shared Scratchpad for Clojure Ideas

Clojure Civitas simplifies publishing Clojure projects. Forget setting up new projects, blogs, or repos; just fork this repo, create a namespace, code, commit, and submit a pull request to share your explorations and ideas. It supports various output formats including comments, charts, markdown, and hiccup, making it easy to document experiments, share findings, and build a knowledge base. The platform encourages community contributions and provides visualization tools and easy sharing, making your Clojure journey smoother and more efficient.

(github.com)

Development development platform

arXivLabs: Experimenting with Community Collaboration

2025-03-03

arXivLabs is a framework for developing and sharing new arXiv features directly on the website, fostering collaboration between individuals and organizations. Participants must adhere to arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. Got an idea to improve the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

(arxiv.org)

Development

Editing the 80,000+ Page Peirce Papers: A Herculean Task

2025-03-15

The Harvard Peirce Papers, comprising over 80,000 manuscript pages, present a monumental editing challenge. This article details the rigorous selection and editorial principles employed to curate and publish this vast collection of largely unpublished writings. Utilizing modern textual scholarship and leveraging digital tools, the editors aim to present the most complete and accurate representation of Peirce's intellectual output across various disciplines.

(peirce.indianapolis.iu.edu)

Misc textual scholarship Peirce critical edition

DARPA Shatters Records with Long-Range Wireless Power Beaming

2025-06-16

DARPA's Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program has achieved a breakthrough, setting new records for wireless power transmission. The POWER Receiver Array Demo (PRAD) successfully beamed over 800 watts of power over a distance of 8.6 kilometers (5.3 miles) for 30 seconds. This accomplishment utilizes a novel receiver technology converting laser energy into usable electricity with over 20% efficiency. Scalable for use in platforms such as UAVs, this technology promises to revolutionize military energy supply, eliminating reliance on traditional, vulnerable methods.

(www.darpa.mil)

Tech wireless power beaming laser energy transmission

Campsite Open Source: A Monorepo Deep Dive

2025-01-14

Campsite Open Source: A Monorepo Deep Dive

The Campsite open-source project is a large monorepo containing the entire codebase for their application. While no longer actively maintained, it's a valuable resource for learning how Campsite works and forking for non-commercial projects. The project relies on numerous services, including S3, Pusher, Imgix, 100ms, and OpenAI, requiring extensive configuration for local setup. Detailed instructions are provided for local development, covering environment variable setup, service integration, and running the web app, marketing site, Storybook, and desktop app.

(github.com)

Development local development

PHP Compile-Time Generics: A Pragmatic Compromise

2025-08-11

PHP Compile-Time Generics: A Pragmatic Compromise

Generics have long been a sought-after feature for PHP, but runtime implementation has proven incredibly difficult. The PHP Foundation team proposes a different approach: compile-time generics limited to interfaces and abstract classes. This offers most of the benefits of generics while avoiding many pitfalls. By performing type checking at compile time, it significantly improves efficiency and reduces errors. While runtime generics remain impossible with this approach, it represents a substantial improvement, warranting serious community consideration.

(thephp.foundation)

Development Compile-Time

Streamlining Monorepo Development with Turborepo and pnpm

2025-08-20

Streamlining Monorepo Development with Turborepo and pnpm

This guide outlines best practices for developing, testing, and submitting code within a Turborepo-based monorepo. It covers efficient methods for navigating, installing, and creating new React packages using pnpm, leveraging Vitest for targeted testing, and ensuring code quality with ESLint and TypeScript. The guide emphasizes running linters and tests before commits and provides a clear PR title format.

(agents.md)

Development

CodeMic: AI-Powered Code Generation Tool

2024-12-22

CodeMic is an AI-powered tool that generates code based on natural language descriptions. It rapidly produces high-quality code, significantly increasing development efficiency. Both experienced programmers and beginners can easily use CodeMic, allowing them to focus on more creative aspects of their work. CodeMic supports multiple programming languages and continuously learns and improves, providing developers with powerful code assistance.

(codemic.io)

Development code generation developer tool

React's Default Dominance Stifles Frontend Innovation

2025-09-15

React's Default Dominance Stifles Frontend Innovation

React's dominance in the frontend landscape isn't due to technical superiority but rather a default preference, hindering innovation. Teams often default to React without considering project-specific needs, creating a self-perpetuating cycle. Frameworks like Svelte, Solid, and Qwik, offering superior compile-time optimizations, fine-grained reactivity, and resumability, struggle for adoption. The author argues that this default mindset prevents fair evaluation and urges a shift toward choosing frameworks based on merit, fostering diversity and ultimately, greater innovation in the frontend ecosystem.

(www.lorenstew.art)

Development Frontend Frameworks

Google Gemini: Privacy in a Gray Area

2025-06-29

Google Gemini: Privacy in a Gray Area

Starting July 7th, Google's Gemini assistant will access your phone, messages, WhatsApp, and utilities (even with Gemini Apps Activity off) to make calls, send texts, etc. Google claims this is for 'service reliability and safety checks,' deleting data after 72 hours without recording it in your Gemini activity. This gives Gemini deeper access than before, even when tracking is disabled. This blurs privacy lines, raising privacy concerns.

(www.laptopmag.com)

Tech

Viral TikTok: A Basement-Built Replica of NYC

2025-09-16

Joseph Macken spent over two decades painstakingly crafting a 1:50 scale model of New York City in his upstate New York basement. This massive undertaking features hundreds of thousands of buildings, landmarks, and geographical elements, spanning all five boroughs. His TikTok videos showcasing the intricate model have garnered over 20 million views, attracting widespread praise and even sparking discussions with museums about potential exhibitions. Currently on display at the Cobleskill Fairgrounds, Macken's mini-NYC is a testament to dedication and artistry. He's already planning his next project: a miniature Minneapolis, with Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Chicago on his future list.

(gothamist.com)

Misc

Supersolidity Achieved in a Photonic Crystal: A Breakthrough

2025-03-11

An international team has for the first time observed a supersolid phase in a photonic crystal polariton condensate, published in Nature. This groundbreaking research introduces a new platform for exploring supersolidity beyond traditional ultracold atomic systems. Supersolids uniquely combine the rigidity of a crystal with the frictionless flow of a superfluid. The researchers achieved this by condensing polaritons within a photonic crystal waveguide, enabling precise measurement of density modulations and probing the local coherence of the supersolid wavefunction. This work not only demonstrates a supersolid phase in a photonic platform but also paves the way for exploring quantum phases of matter in non-equilibrium systems, with potential applications in neuromorphic computing and advanced photonics.

(www.photonicsonline.com)

Tech Supersolid Photonic Crystal

Acronis True Image Causes Explorer.exe High CPU Usage

2025-08-24

Acronis True Image Causes Explorer.exe High CPU Usage

The author discovered that after installing Acronis True Image, plugging or unplugging an external monitor would cause Explorer.exe to consume a significant amount of CPU resources, resulting in system sluggishness. Through ETW tracing and debugging, the culprit was identified as a shell extension within Acronis True Image. This extension repeatedly calls CreateToolhelp32Snapshot to retrieve a list of running processes, leading to performance issues. Acronis is aware of the problem and plans to fix it. A temporary workaround is to delete a registry key or uninstall the software.

(randomascii.wordpress.com)

Development performance issue

Salt Typhoon Continues Telecom Attacks Despite US Sanctions

2025-02-15

Salt Typhoon Continues Telecom Attacks Despite US Sanctions

Despite US sanctions, the Chinese government-linked hacking group Salt Typhoon continues its attacks on telecommunication providers, according to Recorded Future. Five telecom firms were breached between December 2024 and January 2025, including a US affiliate of a major UK provider, and companies in Italy, South Africa, and Thailand. Salt Typhoon exploited vulnerabilities in Cisco devices and conducted reconnaissance on Myanmar's Mytel. Universities were also targeted, possibly for research access. While the US Treasury sanctioned Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology, linked to Salt Typhoon, Recorded Future expects the attacks to persist.

(techcrunch.com)

Tech

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