a teardown of the Western Digital 2TB “My Book Live” “desktop NAS”, which it turns out runs Debian Lenny on PowerPC APM82181 #hardware with 256GB RAM
I don’t understand what the advantage of this #Minoca operating system over other operating systems is. They did open-source it at some point.
The #Minoca operating system #source-code repo.
Discussion thread about #Minoca.
#Neural-networks style transfer from paintings to photos on #GPGPU. Super interesting #art. Built on TensorFlow. Includes #source-code, but not open-source: “Free for research/noncommercial use”.
#Trump advisor Steve Bannon wants to “destroy the state” for Tea Party goals. #politics
Greg Gopman, the world-famous asshole who wanted to kick the homeless out of San Francisco so he wouldn’t have to look at them, tried to rehabilitate his image by employing them. #politics
book “Unpleasant Design” describes #architecture designed to restrict its use (e.g. park benches with intrusive armrests). Lots of photos, some videos in this review.
"SexyCyborg" “is a web developer who lives and works in Shenzhen…a 3D printing enthusiast whose projects include a wrist mount for her tiny drones and a hot-pink replica of her own body” and some body mods (breast implants, apparently). Other sources give her name as Naomi Wu.
an #ebook with #source-code on #Kalman-filters. With exercises, in IPython/Jupyter. #DSP
#SexyCyborg’s photo essay on pentesting using 3D-printed high heels concealing various #security tools, like an OpenWRT dropbox. #3D-printing
#SexyCyborg’s #3D-printing plans for her “pentesting platform shoes” with secret compartments, cc-by-sa. Only in STL, no source code.
I think this is an implementation of the X11 protocol (X-Windows) in Ruby from 2002.
Some versions of #Excel can’t handle #CSV files that begin with “ID” because they misinterpret them as SYLK files (and then the SYLK parser says, “SYLK: File format is not valid”)
My comment about various kinds of ASCII delimited files, such as CSV, talking about the history of ASCII separator characters (like FS and GS) and the Pick operating system.
George Lakey on Wagingnonviolence is kind of in favor of #Britain’s #Brexit #politics. He wrote a book about Scandinavian #economics and #Norway’s decision not to enter the #EU.
Possibly the most future-shocky story of 2016: “US government plans to use drones to fire vaccine-laced M&Ms near endangered ferrets”. Although I guess Trump and Brexit may have trumped it.
The original #KANREN homepage: “KANREN is a declarative logic programming system with first-class relations, embedded in a pure functional subset of Scheme. The system has a set-theoretical semantics, true unions, fair scheduling, first-class relations, lexically-scoped logical variables, depth-first and iterative deepening strategies. The system achieves high performance and expressivity without cuts.” #logic-programming #formal-methods
How to store data on a server in an #unhosted web app.
Snapshot of the #Turkey internet cut during the #Turkish-coup. #human-rights
Juan Cole commented in 2015 on #Turkey president Erdoǧan and how he came to power.
The previously secret #911 report pages fingering Bush friend #Saudi prince Bandar bin Sultan were released in 2016. #USA #history #politics
An article on visiting #Alaa Abd El-Fattah in a newly built maximum-security prison in #Sisi’s #Egypt prison complex by his cousin Omar Robert Hamilton; he has arrested some 60,000 political dissidents in addition to the previously-imprisoned 62,000 total prisoners. Prisoners’ families are responsible for feeding them. #human-rights
“500 lines or less” #smallisbeautiful #ebook released.
#USA sent a bunch of troops to Northern Europe in late 2016 to defend against #Russia. #WWIII #politics
2000 #Ukraine casualties in #Russia’s forces released by “Cargo-200”
#Facebook #advertising targeting controversially helps #racism to manipulate #USA #politics and discriminate in housing ads.
#Geohot cancels his comma.ai #self-driving-cars project due to NHTSA letter
#China’s “great firewall” or “Golden Shield” uses active probing to discover servers of #censorship circumvention systems like #Tor. (#PDF #paper by Ensafi, ..., and Vern Paxson on annotation site Fermat’s Library.)
Discussion of #India’s #demonetisation
Al Jazeera editorial by #USA law professor Khaled A. Beydoun against #Trump. #politics
Martin #Shkreli “leaks” exclusive Wu-Tang Clan album ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ which he bought for US$2M, to bribe #USA for #Trump winning. #politics
Glenn Greenwald comments on #USA #politics right after the #Trump election (and how it relates to Brexit)
Discussion thread on an article on #concrete as #weaponry or rather its opposite (in #Iraq)
Gabions for fortification against #weaponry (in e.g. #Afghanistan and #Iraq): a collapsible wire mesh container and a heavy-duty fabric inner liner, filled with dirt and rocks.
#Google puts #neural-networks online for machine translation on translate.google.com.
Forbes is suspicious that #Bioviva CEO Liz Parrish may not have actually lengthened her lifespan by lengthening her telomeres and preventing muscle wasting. #posthuman
#USA’s IRS is demanding #Coinbase turn over records of all of its #Bitcoin users in 2013–2015 so it can investigate them for tax evasion.
Ken Perlin won an Oscar for the Perlin noise, which he invented for Tron and later improved with “simplex noise”, which I think goes off-patent in 2022. #graphics #algorithms
Ken Perlin’s simplex-noise software patent. :( #graphics #algorithms #patents
Brad Templeton on how #Bitcoin is likely to end: perhaps suddenly when another digital currency replaces it using intercurrency exchange.
Some #Android phones (from a US company called BLU) run an app from a Shanghai company called ADUPS that sends all their text messages to a company in Shanghai every 72 hours. They claim it’s a feature (for spam filtering), despite the #security breach. #phone
#Argentina research funding already sucked but now under Macri it sucks more, as predicted; CONICET’s budget is $655 million (no idea if this is US$ or AR$).