stand in Steve Jobs' living room and produce oxygen
Sunday, 7 December 2025

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

quote [ Eich himself wrote in 2006 that ?ECMAScript,? the official name for the language standard, ?was always an unwanted trade name that sounds like a skin disease.? ]

No new facts for people in the know, but a nice recollection of 90s style programming and trademarks lingering in our machines. Also: the 10 days were a demo prototype, as the article states itself.
[SFW] [science & technology] [+4 Informative]
[by Paracetamol@3:56pmGMT] [0 comments]

Wednesday, 3 December 2025

enthusiast teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s

quote [ While there are a lot of caveats and limitations there, the fact that you could set up a speaker in your yard and conceivably store any amount of data in song birds is crazy. ]

This is about bits, not about IP over Avian Carriers. It's kind of about tunes in memory though.
[SFW] [science & technology] [+3]
[by Paracetamol@7:09pmGMT] [1 comment]

Thursday, 27 November 2025

Kicking Robots

quote [ Humanoids and the tech-­industry hype machine ]

I know you think the clankers are coming for you
[SFW] [science & technology] [+2]
[by ScoobySnacks@11:47amGMT] [0 comments]

Sunday, 9 November 2025

Declared dead last year, the Anthropocene is very much alive

quote [ As a scientific concept the Anthropocene is dead. But it?s such a helpful idea to think with, should we use it anyway? ]

cause the world is Anthropocene
[SFW] [science & technology] [+2 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@7:22amGMT] [1 comment]

Saturday, 1 November 2025

CSS Terrain Generator

quote [ Inspectable spikes, wedges, ramps and flats are stitched together into a voxel landscape. ]

A great little playfield that ? while rendering the terrain in CSS ? uses some Javascript to enable interaction (unlike CSS Minecraft).
Also note how the page uses #anchors to save generator seeds ? this is cool insofar, as anchors are only processed by the browser and invisible to the server, so less load and tracking.
[SFW] [science & technology] [+2 laz0r]
[by Paracetamol@7:06pmGMT] [0 comments]



Monday, 27 October 2025

Locking it down: A new technique to prevent LLM jailbreaks

quote [ Following on from our preview, here?s the full rundown on LLM salting: a novel countermeasure against LLM jailbreaks, developed by AI researchers at Sophos X-Ops ]

On a side-note, was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions on a Revamp I am half way done with it assume.

[SFW] [science & technology] [+2 Informative]
[by R1Xhard@5:20pmGMT] [2 comments]

Thursday, 2 October 2025

Hair Mesh Rendering Demo

quote [ DEMO - Hair mesh rendering.

Check COMMENTS for link to YouTube summing up the demo. ]

Something something, Voodoo3DX

RESEARCHER

[SFW] [science & technology] [+2]
[by R1Xhard@6:01amGMT] [4 comments]

Sunday, 28 September 2025

Researchers Find Evidence of a Mysterious Giant Asteroid Impact, but They Don?t Know Where Its Crater Is

quote [ Special shards of glass, known as ?tektites,? were hiding in plain sight in a museum collection ]

Unpredictable asteroid impact
[SFW] [science & technology] [+2 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@1:41pmGMT] [0 comments]

Wednesday, 24 September 2025

Washington city officials are using ChatGPT for government work

quote [ ?How do I export my ChatGPT history??
[?]
Bellingham and Everett are the main focus of this story not because they?re outliers, but because they were the fastest and most comprehensive in their responses. ]

So you can obtain public records on AI usage. It turns out how you'd expect it.

Thumb via New Old Stock.
[SFW] [science & technology] [+1 Informative]
[by Paracetamol@9:49pmGMT] [0 comments]

Saturday, 20 September 2025

How To Build A Better World: The Knowledge Box by Ken Isaacs, 1962

quote [ Isaacs built the ?Knowledge Box?, a total space in which we learn as we live ]

Guess he is the boss of the knowledge box
[SFW] [science & technology] [+3 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@8:49amGMT] [2 comments]



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