CNN News #video saying #Ukraine blew up an oil refinery near Moscow with #drones last weekend (shown in cellphone video), Russia having shot down 160 of the drones of the attack wave. Another cellphone video shows some kind of industrial facility on fire in Konakovo in Tver, reportedly an energy facility, about 500–600 km away from the line of battle. Ukraine hadn’t done this before because its long-range missiles had been supplied by Western allies who forbade it. Also discusses #Durov’s arrest in #France and Russia’s concerns about Telegram opsec — the Russian military has been “instructed to stop using Telegram”. #weaponry #politics
#PDF #paper on #Flavors, the LispM #Lisp object system that predated CLOS (AIM-602), bad-quality scan
#paper of AIM-602 on #Lisp #Flavors, same bad-quality scan. “220 This is a legacy FTP server and is no longer updated 230-Please note, this server is no longer updated, and any information it 230-serves should be considered historical. The up to date collection of 230-Lab publications can be found at http://publications.csail.mit.edu/” (which doesn't work)
#Padauk #microcontrollers #hardware overclocked to drive WS2812s #electronics
#Padauk and other super cheap #microcontrollers (Holtek, etc.) #electronics
#EEVBlog forum thread about #Padauk #microcontrollers #hardware #electronics
Trygve Reenskaug, at 90 years old, decided to quit #Smalltalk in #Squeak 5.3 in 02020 because “The Squeak programs I have written over the past 20 years are effectively lost because I can’t port them to a current version of Squeak.” Vanessa Freudenberg agrees, “Having worked with a beautifully tiny system like Smalltalk-78, or even early versions of Squeak, the complexity in modern Squeak is staggering. / Smalltalk used to be a system that can be fully understood by a single person - truly a personal computing system. That is no longer the case. / All the functionality we added over the years comes at the price of complexity (not to mention speed). It makes the system hard to understand. It makes it hard to see the design principles. We have not found a way to eliminate, or at least hide, any of the complexity we introduced. / I don't think there is a “solution” for this within the current system. We have accepted the complexity, and now we have to live with it. And we have to accept that that alienates people who are looking for simplicity and elegance.” #small-is-beautiful
#USA #China #politics: “The most important chokepoints in the context of this discussion are AI chip designs, electronic design automation software, semiconductor #manufacturing equipment, and equipment components. The Biden administration’s latest actions simultaneously exploit U.S. dominance across all four of these chokepoints. In doing so, these actions demonstrate an unprecedented degree of U.S. government intervention to not only preserve chokepoint control but also begin a new U.S. policy of actively strangling large segments of the Chinese technology industry—strangling with an intent to kill. (...) By invoking the foreign direct product rule, the United States is prohibiting any semiconductor manufacturing company worldwide from providing services to any Chinese chip design company that is seeking to make high-end chips for AI or supercomputing. (...) To state it bluntly, these recent actions are designed to put the roughly 28 Chinese chip design and supercomputing firms on the parties of concern lists out of business. (...) the Biden administration is going beyond the traditional U.S. policy of seeking to keep the United States’ two semiconductor technology nodes ahead of China and is now trying to actively degrade China’s technological maturity below its current level. (...) It is as though the United States is saying to China “AI technology is the future. We and our allies are going there. You can’t come.””
Cox Media Group #spyware called "Active Listening" using #voice-recognition on #cellphones invades users’ #security by sending keywords from their conversations to Fecebutt and Google
10 years of Hacker News “who is hiring” data says the job market got really tight a year ago and remains that way