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2024-09-19 22:51:06

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Is it available in DRM-free formats from anywhere?

2024-09-17 20:47:57

If (presumably) Mossad have figured out a way of remotely turning any lithium-ion battery into a bomb, say goodbye to taking your phone with you when you next fly.

2024-08-31 11:05:10

Some madlad has built an 8-bit computer whose CPU is made from discrete logic chips, runs microcode and can currently be programmed to run 6502 or Z80 machine code.
They don’t say how big this thing is, but the photos suggest that it’s surprisingly small.
https://hackaday.io/project/190345-isetta-ttl-computer

2024-08-29 10:04:56

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1920x1080, like last year

2024-08-22 17:18:50

Books/TV/broadcast media didn’t kill folklore, but the idea of “intellectual property” declared war on it.
https://ohai.social/@TarkabarkaHolgy/113005840795154394

2024-08-13 01:06:59

I caught the #aurora over #Stockholm tonight, for only the second time since moving here. It was quite impressive tonight.
#AuroraBorealis
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2024-08-08 19:48:17

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Well, given that it’s Italian, the -o suffix kind of gives it away

2024-08-07 22:47:59

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Or Saudi Arabia. I heard they have better golf courses.

2024-08-06 23:54:37

Scientists in communist-era East Germany developed unbreakable glassware by infusing glass with potassium ions that inhibited cracks. After the wall fell, the factory was shut down and sold for scrap, as market capitalism had no place for consumables that don’t actually get consumed (see also: the Phoebus cartel and light bulbs). Though now somebody is allegedly crowdfunding an attempt to develop an updated version of this glass (that will also be recyclable):
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/aug/06/superfest-unbreakable-drinking-glasses-east-germany

2024-07-30 14:35:25

The prefix 'zucker-' should be adopted for ideas to do with surveillance capitalism and #enshittification. I.e.,
- zuckerbox: a siloed social media/communication platform where links to outside are restricted and access to your friends is gatekept by engagement-maximising algorithms
- zuckerbots: systems that harvest data from user activity and communications to build ad-targeting profiles,
and so on.