On June 9th, 2020, early into a still raging pandemic, I received my PinePhone UBports Community Edition. It's incredible how fast these two years went by, and how much the PinePhone experience improved in the meantime. This is just a subjective post about…

Silero Models: pre-trained text-to-speech models made embarrassingly simple - snakers4/silero-models

In December, 2020, Apple did something insanely great. They changed how iOS, their mobile operating system, handled users’ privacy preferences, so that owners of iPhones and other iOS devices could

When I was a child I assumed that all the adults running the world knew what they were doing. Now that I am an adult, I am under no such illusions. Just look at the current British government. They…

When people talk about great nation-wide public transit systems, names such as Japan or Switzerland are often mentioned. In this article I will show what makes Switzerland’s network so unique and why it is has become so popular.

It’s much less scientific—and more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you may think.

This book is an introduction to computer science. It will teach you to program, and do so in ways that are of practical value and importance. However, it will also go beyond programming to computer science...

Not very good, but it fails in interesting ways.

The fight over a tunnel project in Belgium has revealed extraordinary levels of toxins in the water, soil, and people near the company’s factory.

Paige Thompson developed a tool to identify misconfigured AWS accounts which she used to hack Capital One and others.

In order to store less data we will no longer accept NEW PayPal and Credit card subscriptions (recurring payments). One-time payments are not affected.

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Withholding security for money feels a little gray-hat.

WebAssembly has gone through quite a transformation this last year, while the wasm language landscape is slowly shifting, the more notable change is in what people are using WebAssembly for. The use of wasm for serverless, containerisation and as a plug-in…