Valve Steam Deck https://www.steamdeck.com/en/
Steam Deck
Available now.
Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/hubble-back-famed-space-telescope-has-new-lease-life-after-computer-swap-appears-fix
Science
‘Hubble is back!’ Famed space telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch
Email suggests famed space telescope could quickly resume scientific observations
Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content” https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505#zippy=%2Cmisleading-content
Google
Abuse Program Policies & Enforcement - Google Docs Editors Help
The program policies below apply to Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Vids, and new Sites. These policies play an important role to maintain a positive experience for everyone that uses Google produ
The Framework Laptop is now shipping https://frame.work/blog/the-framework-laptop-is-now-shipping-and-press-reviews
Framework
The Framework Laptop is now shipping, and press reviews are up!
The Framework Laptop is now shipping—and reviews are impressive. See why "It's the ultimate Right to Repair Laptop," according to PCWorld.
BirdNet – Identify Birds by Sound https://birdnet.cornell.edu
TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/TSMC-eyes-Germany-as-possible-location-for-first-Europe-chip-plant
Nikkei Asia
TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant
Taiwanese chipmaker looking at ways to lower costs at planned Japan factory
Columbo: an origin story (2018) https://columbophile.com/2018/02/17/columbo-an-origin-story/
THE COLUMBOPHILE BLOG
Columbo: an origin story
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first airing of Prescription: Miurder, here’s a little bit about the origins of the Columbo character – and the actors who played him before …
How Dwarf Fortress is built https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/07/28/700000-lines-of-code-20-years-and-one-developer-how-dwarf-fortress-is-built/
Stack Overflow Blog
700,000 lines of code, 20 years, and one developer: How Dwarf Fortress is built
Dwarf Fortress is one of those oddball passion projects that’s broken into Internet consciousness. It’s a free game where you play either an adventurer or a fortress full of dwarves in a randomly generated fantasy world. The simulation runs deep, with new…
Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-go-brrr/
Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mozilla-common-voice-adds-16-new-languages-and-4600-new-hours-of-speech/
Mozilla Foundation
Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech
The Mozilla Common Voice initiative has released a new, expanded data set featuring 16 new languages — like Basaa and Kazakh — and 4,622 new hours of sp…
CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative https://calyxos.org/
Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-apples-child-protection-features-spark-concern-within-its-own-ranks-2021-08-12/
Reuters
Exclusive: Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks -sources
A backlash over Apple's move to scan U.S. customer phones and computers for child sex abuse images has grown to include employees speaking out internally, a notable turn in a company famed for its secretive culture, as well as provoking intensified protests…
1800s Astronomical Drawings vs. NASA Images (2016) https://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/08/19/1800s-astronomical-drawings
The New York Public Library
1800s Astronomical Drawings vs. NASA Images | The New York Public Library
Comparing astrological drawings from our Digital Collections to NASA images—how similar do you think they are?
Show HN: Sturdy – online-first version control focused on collaboration https://getsturdy.com/
Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt https://scotthelme.co.uk/heres-another-free-ca-as-an-alternative-to-lets-encrypt/
Scott Helme
Here's another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt!
As the use of HTTPS continues to increase across the Web, we need more support from Certificate Authorities that issue the certificates to make it all work. I'm a huge fan of Let's Encrypt and what they're doing, but if we want to encrypt the entire Web,…
Manim: An animation engine for explanatory math videos https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim
GitHub
GitHub - ManimCommunity/manim: A community-maintained Python framework for creating mathematical animations.
A community-maintained Python framework for creating mathematical animations. - GitHub - ManimCommunity/manim: A community-maintained Python framework for creating mathematical animations.
My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019) https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1146135405793669121
Twitter
foone
Ahh yes, my mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption so it can accept incoming connections. This is a totally normal thing to happen