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- Reverse-engineering my speakers' API to get reasonable volume controljamesbvaughan.com Reverse-engineering my speakers' API to get reasonable volume control
I got some fancy new speakers last week. They’re powered speakers and they have streaming service integrations built in, unlike the 35-year-old passive speakers I’m upgrading from. Overall they’re great! But they’re so loud that it’s difficult to make small volume adjustments within the range of saf...
- Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Borderreason.com Courts close the loophole letting the feds search your phone at the border
Customs and Border Protection insists that it can search electronics without a warrant. A federal judge just said it can't.
- A simple procedural animation technique [video]
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- FTC launches probe into 'surveillance pricing'www.cnbc.com FTC launches probe into 'surveillance pricing' that it says links cost to customer data
The agency is seeking more information about how AI is used to change pricing rapidly based on data about customer behavior and characteristics.
- The New Internettailscale.com The New Internet
We don’t talk a lot in public about the big vision for Tailscale, why we’re really here. Usually I prefer to focus on what exists right now, and what we’re going to do in the next few months. But let’s look at the biggest of big pictures for a change.
- There is no fix for Intel's crashing 13th/14th Gen CPUs – damage is permanentwww.theverge.com There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent
We got some answers from Intel, and more are on the way.
- Zen 5's 2-ahead branch predictor: how a 30 year old idea allows for new trickschipsandcheese.com Zen 5’s 2-Ahead Branch Predictor Unit: How a 30 Year Old Idea Allows for New Tricks
When I recently interviewed Mike Clark, he told me, “…you’ll see the actual foundational lift play out in the future on Zen 6, even though it was really Zen 5 that set the table for tha…
- Why does the chromaticity diagram look like that?jlongster.com Why does the chromaticity diagram look like that?
I've always wanted to understand color theory, so I started reading about the XYZ color space which looked like it was the mother of all color spaces. I had no idea what that meant, but it was created in 1931 so studying 93-year old research seemed like a good place to start.
- Call the compiler, fax it your code [video]
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- Monumental proof settles geometric Langlands conjecturewww.quantamagazine.org Monumental Proof Settles Geometric Langlands Conjecture | Quanta Magazine
In work that has been 30 years in the making, mathematicians have proved a major part of a profound mathematical vision called the Langlands program.
- France high-speed rail traffic disrupted by 'malicious acts' on Olympic ceremonywww.lemonde.fr France's rail traffic disrupted by 'malicious acts' on morning of Olympic opening ceremony
The TGV high-speed network has been disrupted by acts including arson attacks, affecting some 800,000 passengers and causing delays ahead of the Paris 2024 opening ceremony. Eurostar trains between Paris and London were also affected.
- From Linux to NetBSD, with SSH Onlycloudbsd.xyz CloudBSD.xyz
Overcome most cloud providers' limitations and use the system of your choice (NetBSD)
- All the existential risk, none of the economic impactwww.theintrinsicperspective.com All the existential risk, none of the economic impact. That's a shitty trade
I offer "no economic boost," you receive "P(doom)"
- Versioned finite-state machines with Postgres (2019)raphael.medaer.me Versioned FSM (Finite-State Machine) with Postgresql
Inspired by Felix Geisendorfer blog post I implemented a database FSM (Finite-State Machine) with Postgresql. I brought some improvements to Felix’s implementation but before reading the following I recommend you to read carefully the original post.
- Show HN: I built a tool to expand your network (that introverts will love)www.moreoverlap.com Overlap: Effortless networking for your next great connection.
Discover Overlap, transforming networking with genuine connections. Get warm email introductions powered by AI and human review. Join now and find your next great connection.
- A Swiss Town Banned Billboards. Zurich, Bern May Soon Followwww.bloomberg.com A Swiss Town Banned Billboards. Zurich, Bern May Soon Follow
The nation’s Supreme Court ruled governments could act to limit “visual pollution” and citizens could “opt out of unwanted advertising.”
- Fossil hints that Jurassic mammals lived slow and died oldwww.nytimes.com Fossil Hints That Jurassic Mammals Lived Slow and Died Old
Scientists found an unexpected aging pattern in a mostly intact juvenile mammal skeleton from the paleontological period.
- Bcachefs, an Introduction/Explorationblog.asleson.org Bcachefs, an introduction/exploration - blog.asleson.org
Introduction & background information NOTE: This content is from an internal talk I gave, thus the reason it may read like a presentation So what is bcachefs? bcachefs is a next-generation copy-on-write (COW) filesystem (FS) that aims to provide features similar to Btrfs and ZFS, written by Kent Ove...
- Veles: Open-source tool for binary data analysiscodisec.com Veles - Binary Analysis Tool - CodiSec
Veles is a new open source tool for binary file analysis which combines hex editor and binary data visualization features. Veles is based on a flexible distributed architecture to allow the addition of new functionalities through plugins.
- NASA Graphics Standards Manualstandardsmanual.com NASA Graphics Standards Manual
A full-size reissue of the NASA Graphics Standards Manual. Designed by Danne & Blackburn in 1975 and rescinded by NASA in 1992.
- Every company should be owned by its employeeswww.elysian.press Every company should be owned by its employees
Central States Manufacturing as a model for employee-ownership.
- CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in Francethehftguy.com CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent
Hello, Today I am doing a quick post to cover the recent CrowdStrike incident that is estimated to have disabled 8.5M computers and caused more than $5.4B in damages since last week. Now a common q…
- Switzerland mandates government agencies use open-source softwarewww.tomshardware.com Switzerland mandates government agencies use open-source software
The new law requires the use of open-source software and the publishing of new government code under open-source licenses
- A Clone of Deluxe Paint II Written in Pythongithub.com GitHub - mriale/PyDPainter: A usable pixel art paint program written in Python
A usable pixel art paint program written in Python - mriale/PyDPainter