“Today #Russia firewalled off a lot of US service companies ( Twitter, etc ) and I am no longer able to VPN into a machine I generally can reach in Moscow. I get disconnected within 30 seconds. Something is Going On(TM) / Please link to more information here; was not able to substantiate claims that Russia has blocked Twitter.” #WWIII
The Buenos Aires Toy Lab.
Jonathan Haidt talking about how he felt intimidated by high schoolers who asked him “So you think rape is OK?” because they thought he was opposed to #social-justice I guess.
The Copiale Cipher: #paper and #ebook of the Copiale #cipher, published by Kevin Knight, Beáta Megyesi, and Christiane Schaefer, who were the cryptanalysts who cracked it. Includes high-res scans (though those are 2GB!)
CC-BY-SA lexical frequency lists for many different languages, based on subtitles.
Despite the name, OpenSubtitles doesn’t have bulk downloads; you’re limited to 200 subtitles per IP address per 24 hours. “Don’t try steal subtitles, your IP will be banned.” The “open” part is just XML.
“#free-software has lost, only amd64, aarch64” (64-bit #ARM), “and armv7 are really supported”, by Miod Vallat.
Ken #Shirriff dissects the #electronics #hardware of a MacBook #power-supply. He finds a 16MHz 4.6MIPS #MSP430 (MSP430F2003) inside! And a 1-wire chip inside the plug to tell the Mac the serial number of the charger!
Woz talks about the #Apple ][ #power-supply #hardware.
an overview site about #DSP.
Hmm, "freesound" is a login-to-download site? This nightingale recording is licensed CC-BY, and indeed all Freesound sounds are licensed under CC, and it’s a university project. Yet there seems to be no bulk download...
the DS2413 two-GPIO controller is the 1-wire-addressable switch used in the MacBook #power-supply plug #hardware. You can put as many as you want on a single I/O line and read and write them, up to 28V and 20mA per pin.
Ken M demonstrates #trolling.
Andrés’s art blog.