The accidental tyranny of user interfaces The potential of technology to empower is being subverted by tyrannical user interface design, enabled by our data and attention. Oliver Meredith Cox · Follo

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Reprinted with permission from Populus: Living and Dying in Ancient Rome by Guy de la Bédoyère, published by the University of Chicago Press. © 2024 by Guy de la Bédoyère. All rights reserved. Ce

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mtwist This is a concise implementation of the Mersenne Twister Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) for JavaScript. The library: Includes initialization improvements to the algorithm that were ma

I n the mid -1960 s enterprising hackers realised that if they blew a particular toy whistle down the phone, they could trick the network into routing their call anywhere, free. When phone networks go

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Talos - An Immutable OS for Kubernetes For some time now, I have been interested in Talos, an operating system for Kubernetes. I installed my first Talos cluster in November 2023, and my “production”

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Hurl is a language created for one purpose: to explore a language based around exception handling as the only control flow. It was sparked from conversations between Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya and friend

Scrolly Bookmark Save as PDF Google's new AI search results are having quite the week. Here's a thread with some of my favorite answers: "smoking while pregnant" As long as it's non-toxic "train e

Microsoft and Qualcomm are both making a concerted effort to make Windows-on-Arm happen after years of slow progress and false starts. One thing the companies have done to get software developers on b

Every great Grafana dashboard seems to have that “aha” moment — when users switch from thinking about the data in the abstract to thinking of it as something tangible and instantly actionable. For Chr

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A popular Patreon account that created nonconsensual AI-generated sexual images of celebrities for his paying subscribers has leaked a list of his clients’ emails to other clients and to 404 Media. I

The home organ is, at least in my home of North America, a dead market, mostly because synthesizers can do pretty much anything the old beasts could. Nevertheless, because I am that kind of person, I

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Artificial Intelligence Microsoft, Khan Academy Partner to Make Khanmigo Teaching Tool Free At its Build conference this week, Microsoft announced it has inked an AI partnership with education nonpr

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Imagine a world where all the intelligent devices around you could seamlessly link together, sharing skills and distributing workloads through ultrasonic waves inaudible to humans. A decentralized clo

[Note: Find the more polished, professionally illustrated version of this piece at Motherboard|Vice!] This is the third post in my full-stack dev (f-s d) series on the secret life of data. This insta

Looking Glass today introduced two new, professionally-oriented spatial displays — what the company refers to as “holograms.” The first is a desktop-sized 32-inch model while the second is a smaller 1

If you want to give people easy access to an AI-free Google search, send them to this page. What is "&udm=14"? • TenBlueLinks • FrogFind • Built by Tedium Grab the code: Glitch | Github Versions Re

Inventing my own writing system for English, VJScript By the end of this post, you will be able to read and create your own English sentences in VJScript, a writing system I invented. As a sneak peak

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I’m ChaosInABox, a packet of data with an identity crisis. One minute I’m a harmless harbinger of cat videos, the next, I’m a suspected agent of chaos, hell-bent on destroying the internet as we know

Lessons Learned from My First Roblox Game In February 2024, I released an obstacle course game (obby) called Chill But Not Too Chill Obby on Roblox. The Roblox platform allows game developers to publ

As the scorching Japanese summer creeps ever closer with each passing day, I kept thinking about my yesteryear idea of remotely controlling my bedroom A/C over the Internet. With a simple click of a b

Contents Diffusion Models Notes on the theory behind models like Stable Diffusion and their applications. I spent 2022 learning to draw and was blindsided by the rise of AI art There is lots to say

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I once worked at a company that priced everything with a .95 ending. The bestselling software package was $999.95. Add-on products were $9.95, or $19.95, or $49.95. Everything ended with a .95. It had

One of the first questions I get asked about my Tesla is, "What happens when you need to replace the battery?" It's easy to brush off because there are plenty of facts regarding failure statistics, wa