severak
29.8.2024 13:24:31
Two Dots Too Many
The Turkish newspaper Hürriyet reports a tragic consequence of the failure to localize cell phones.
severak
26.8.2024 10:05:28
Pavel Durov and the BlackBerry Ratchet
from https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2024/08/25/pavel-durov-and-the-blackberry-ratchet/
severak
26.8.2024 01:39:29
katjaashome
These pages reflect my visual fantasies on dsp mathematics and applications. Visualisation helped me through complicated topics, like how to write an FFT program. Academic rigour not pretended, enjoy at your own risk....
severak
20.8.2024 09:37:04
Why People Hate Tech: A Response to Tech Entrepreneurship and Shifting Sentiment
I’ve been watching the shifting sentiments towards the tech industry for some while now, and it’s funny - they’ve shifted so much, and so quickly, that even people in the startup ends of the tech industry seem to have worked out that, you know, not everyone likes them anymore! What’s funny, though, is watching them try to figure out why. A recent article doing the rounds attempts to sort this out in typical “Wow, you’re high on your own supply…” fashion, so I thought I’d be helpful and offer a bit more of an outside opinion on why, exactly, nobody likes the tech industry anymore.
severak
16.8.2024 17:33:56
The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine - First Draft | Books in Progress
Books in Progress is what we call a “public drafting tool”: Drafts will be made available for comment from the public, allowing for direct collaboration between author and reader.
severak
12.8.2024 16:43:47
Poetry Was an Official Olympic Event for Nearly 40 Years. What Happened?
Pierre de Coubertin hoped the modern Games would encourage the ancient Greek notion of harmony between "muscle and mind"
severak
9.8.2024 22:03:58
What are the Olympics Shooting Competitors Wearing On Their Faces? - Core77
If you happened across the Olympic Air Pistol event for the first time, you might've been puzzled by the competitors' wearables: So those are mechanical irises. Shooting competitors fine-tune them to bring their gunsights into sharp focus. Here's an example of one by manufacturer Gehmann:
severak
29.7.2024 02:26:36
Italy’s “Sun Motorway”: the story of an exceptional infrastructure
May 19 1956 marked the laying of the first stone of the A1 Milan-Naples: check the gallery Domus and discover the story of the Sun Motorway in Italy.
severak
27.7.2024 15:17:45
A Forgotten Athlete, a Nazi Official, and the Origins of Sex Testing at the Olympics
In 1936, the Czech track star Zdeněk Koubek became world-famous after undergoing surgery so that he could live openly as a man.
severak
25.7.2024 09:44:12
Every company should be owned by its employees
Central States Manufacturing as a model for employee-ownership.
severak
22.7.2024 23:48:43
#120 INVCEL | Reply All
How a shy, queer Canadian woman accidentally invented one of the internet’s most toxic male communities.
severak
22.7.2024 18:39:05
compudanzas — permacomputing
permacomputing is a holistic approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture.
severak
22.7.2024 18:38:00
What might degrowth computing look like?
from https://criticaledtech.com/2022/04/08/what-might-degrowth-computing-look-like/
severak
22.7.2024 18:07:12
The computer built to last 50 years
The computer built to last 50 years par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
severak
22.7.2024 13:07:54
Was BASIC that horrible or… better?
from https://retrofun.pl/2023/12/18/was-basic-that-horrible-or-better/
severak
19.7.2024 15:42:40
Deepfakes Can Be Detected by Borrowing a Method From Astronomy
It's all in the eyes.
severak
19.7.2024 15:20:31
PowerKit | Повербанки, ліхтарі та зарядні станції для військових
official site of NGO 'PowerKit volunteer', that was created with the purpose of providing information about the activity of organization.
severak
19.7.2024 15:08:59
Here’s how a bridal photo captured a single person in three poses at once
What is a photo? In this case, it’s a stitched panoramic shot.
severak
18.7.2024 17:31:28
Data Formats: 3D, Audio, Image
Paul Bourke - Data Formats: 3D, Audio, Image
severak
18.7.2024 14:03:58
Personal Data Warehouses: Reclaiming Your Data
I gave a talk yesterday about personal data warehouses for GitHub’s OCTO Speaker Series, focusing on my Datasette and Dogsheep projects. The video of the talk is now available, and …
severak
18.7.2024 14:00:52
Datasette—an ecosystem of tools for working with small data
This is the transcript and video from a talk I gave at PyGotham 2020 about using SQLite, Datasette and Dogsheep to work with small data. I really like the term …
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