Friday, 1 March 2024
quote [ could be that, you know, when things change for better, we just have a tendency to just accept the new, better reality and pretend the old thing didn?t happen. Hey, that?s done. I?d rather not discuss it. ]
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Monday, 26 February 2024
quote [ As we moved away from FOSDEM, we embraced different ways to organize a political gathering around free technology production. What we?re doing here did not exist before, except to a point in some related hacker circles. Moreover, FOSDEM remains subjugated by the same corporate sponsors that we refuse to see in our community spaces. ]
An alternative list of events and spaces rejecting common corporate open source sponsors. Started in France and looks like a loose movement.
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Sunday, 18 February 2024
quote [ By analyzing reports of people who got off track, researchers are advancing the science of ?lost person behavior.? ]
The search and rescue of the person I knew
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Sunday, 11 February 2024
quote [ You hand over 80 American Dollars. Yevgeni slides out a little warranty card from inside the ArVid package, writes in the date of purchase and signs it. You step out of that store into the crisp air of a 1995 Moscow day. A proud owner of an ArVid 1030. ]
Interesting concept and a lot of anecdotes on why this thrived under 90s circumstances. There's even a making-of.
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Saturday, 10 February 2024
quote [ How do we make money?
Well, currently we don't. We are bootstraped and trying to keep costs low. In the future we will have, clearly labelled, contextual ads based on your current search query and a subscription option without ads. Just to re-iterate; we will only use your current search to match ads and will never track you across searches. ] Great small open source search from Denmark building it's own index ? also recommended by Rohan ?Seirdy? Kumar whose overview has some additional info. Quote via About page.
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Saturday, 3 February 2024
quote [ It?s worth remembering that while a cubic meter of water weighs 1,000 kilograms; a cubic meter of hydrogen weighs only 71 kilograms.
On a volumetric basis, hydrogen?s energy density is a quarter that of jet fuel, and only 40% of that of LNG. Since ships are volume constrained (think Suez Canal, Panama Canal, etc.), this inevitably means more trips. ] From a business analyst. A lot of nitpicking on how you can hypothetically transport clean energy and the limits of it.
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Wednesday, 31 January 2024
quote [ I still can't explain how he got his hair like that. The first $5000 of revenue from this video will be donated to the Sanjay Mortimer Foundation:
Our Patrons made this tribute possible. This was a difficult but important video for me, and I'm glad I could finish it. Thanks to E3D for allowing us to tour their factory, setting up SMRRF, and just being great people. Thanks to 3DMusketeers, Josef Prusa, and countless others who helped me understand Sanjay's legacy. Thanks to Sanjay himself for playing a short but crucial role in my channel's history. I still have all those filaments he sent. ] Interesting bit of 3d printing history.
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Monday, 22 January 2024
quote [ Appin was a leading Indian cyberespionage firm that few people even knew existed. A Reuters investigation found that the company grew from an educational startup to a hack-for-hire powerhouse that stole secrets from executives, politicians, military officials and wealthy elites around the globe. Appin alumni went on to form other firms that are still active. ]
Honestly, I'm surprised groups like this aren't uncovered more often.
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Saturday, 20 January 2024
quote [ Discussing the piratical efforts to rip people off by counterfeiting computer hardware. It?s been happening for more than 40 years. ]
Priced to sell, but counterfeit
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Monday, 15 January 2024
quote [ First he organized a dinner at one of the city?s finest restaurants. Then he took everyone to a local movie theater to see ?Deep Throat.?
Not long afterward, the committee voted unanimously for the I.B.M. bar code, adopted in April 1973. ] Quote is from the linked NYT article. Also, it would have almost been a round code.
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Bit yucky but extremely interesting. Triggered my own cockroach playtime memories. Article ends with an anthropology discussion (quote).