Something felt off. Tim Searchinger lacked the proper credentials to say exactly what was off that day in the spring of 2003. He was a lawyer, not a scientist or economist. He was reading a complex…

Jump in apps disguising internet users’ location threatens to undermine government efforts to protect children

Two schools of thought about the purpose of copyleft have been at odds for
some time. Simply put, the question is: are copyleft licenses designed primarily to protect
the rights of large companies that produce electronics and software
products, or…

Command-line process multiplexer. Contribute to sebastien/multiplex development by creating an account on GitHub.

It started with a simple thought: four bytes in a hash table bucket look just like an integer. Luckily, this one idea led to a deep dive into bit-twiddling and a 2x performance boost.

Sprout is the name of my new machine that just arrived. The crowd-funded laptop. Since this beauty is graciously sponsored by a large crowd of people a felt I should share a little bit of its journey and entry into my life. First I needed a name for it, and…

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: We say everything... just not the oldest hardware. Unix Epochalypse less than 13 years away

: 1,400% jump in sign-ups as users try to avoid age verification checks when surfing adult sites

Butterflies, deep time, and climate change

AI companions, other forms of personalized AI content and persuasion and related issues continue to be a hot topic.

In the field of cybersecurity, a distinction is made between the "blue team" task of building a secure system, and the "red team" task of locating vulnerabilities in such systems. The blue team is more obviously necessary to create the desired product; but…

Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps - 9001/copyparty

I’ve been building Kidz Fun Art (web, iPad & Windows) since 2021, so 4 years at time of writing. It’s a tablet optimized application intended to be used by children of all ages &#82…

I got a bit concerningly obsessed with birds for a few months.

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: Some heading into retirement, others to private sector

Intrusive age-verification checks under the UK’s Online Safety Act are the latest step towards total censorship of the web.