Sunday, 16 March 2025
quote [ Buried deep inside your computer's Intel chip is the MINIX operating system and a software stack, which includes networking and a web server. It's slow, hard to get at, and insecure as insecure can be. ]
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Friday, 14 March 2025
quote [ The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what?s just a large rock ]
dancing in a Saturn's moon
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Tuesday, 11 March 2025
quote [ By enhancing communication networks, this challenge aims to build resilient, adaptable urban systems for the future, and aligns with broader smart city initiatives, and serves as a model for transitioning technology developed in federal labs into public use, enhancing its reach and impact. ]
String cans taken to an nth degree.
Some competition I stumbled across in my rambling searches, even comes with DOD prize money.
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Wednesday, 19 February 2025
quote [ As Google gives you the choice to opt out of cookie tracking, it silently starts collecting your online habits with fingerprinting. ]
Inspired by Facebook, but worse due to using persistent fingerprinting. Note that this was summarized by an alternative, privacy-focused service, so biased maybe.
Finger-focused soundtrack in extended came to my mind ? funk from The RADARS.
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Saturday, 15 February 2025
quote [ Celebrating the lasting impact of 'Pale Blue Dot.' This photo of Earth was captured from nearly 4 billion miles from Earth in 1990. ]
Pale blue dot in the universe
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Wednesday, 12 February 2025
quote [ one size does not fit all, even if it suits the majority ]
Opinion piece about offloading stuff to digital media.
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Tuesday, 4 February 2025
quote [ Scientists are studying its bowel movements, its dazzling sparkle, and its relation to us. ]
A sweaty old anus just ain't gonna fly
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Friday, 31 January 2025
quote [ Thousands of mounds and hills scattered across the Martian landscape offer yet more evidence of the planet?s wetter past, according to recent research. ]
To Mars, to Mars, we'll go
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Sunday, 26 January 2025
quote [ Scientists released an update to a model that maps the ever-moving pole and has significant implications for navigation systems ]
All the way up to the North Pole.
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Wednesday, 15 January 2025
quote [ 'It probably would've ripped me in half' ]
I call meteorites to strike the lands
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