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Monday November 18, 2024. 02:20 PM
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Tinkerer and skill-collector polymatt rescued and restored a shattered 1993 Thinkpad 730T tablet. The device's journey from ruin to revival is wonderful indeed. After picking this thing up at VCF Southwest this...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Is lip balm actually drying our lips out and causing us to become reliant on it? This is something I've heard many people say over the years. As a chapstick addict, I can't be persuaded to stop, but I am curious if...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! If the president-elect defunds government-endowed liberal media outlets like PBS and NPR, as he's threatening to do, where else will listeners go to find their unusual and alternative viewpoints? — Read the rest ...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The Köppen climate system has its limitations—any climate map with Bergen, Norway and Bilbao, Spain in the same category is surely a blunt tool—and the interactive Köppen-Geiger explorer is a fascinating way...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Viewing these household objects under a macro lens makes them totally unrecognizable. In this fascinating video, a lighter, penny, toothbrush, pencil, and many more objects are shown at a close up scale that is...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Beloved carrier Spirit Airlines declared bankruptcy in the early hours of monday morning, reports CNN. Flights will not be affected, though liabilities will be: don't bring anything you can't afford to lose,...
The 2023 documentary 'Modernism, Inc. The Eliot Noyes Design Story' is a fascinating look at one of the masters of midcentury design. Noyes' work for IBM was pioneering in its all-encompassing approach to include corporate identity, advertising, packaging, computer and...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! This roller slide in Tabayama, Japan, looks like a great, terrifying time. This is the oldest roller slide in Japan and takes riders through a beautiful, rustic mountainside. The slide opened in the late 90s and...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! A three-week-old saber-toothed tiger kitten died in the permafrost of Siberia 35,000 years ago, and its preserved remains are the subject of a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports. — Read the rest The p...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The Internet Archive hosts images of Unreal and Unreal Tournament, two key classics on which Epic Games' empire was built. Epic's overall relationship with Unreal is…complicated. Officially, the series...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Stephen Totilo reports that Nintendo hired a law firm to track down a prolific pirate sellings copies of its games online, and is now suing the alleged bootlegger, who goes by the name Archbox on the...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! This vintage, tattered cat automata perfectly describes how I feel before I've had my morning coffee. The cat automata looks like it's on its last legs with its gaping mouth and tortured looking eyeballs. — Read...
OpenAI launched its new AI-powered online search engine — SearchGPT — with the aim of supplanting “for specific search tasks” Google, Microsoft Bing and start-up Perplexity. But the move is also raising concerns that it could open the door to plagiarism; AI-powered...
Another excellent guide from friend of the website Stefano Marinelli. A client of mine has several Windows Server VMs, which I had not migrated to FreeBSD/bhyve until a few weeks ago. These VMs were originally installed with the traditional BIOS boot mode, not UEFI, on...
Version 6.12 of the Linux kernel has been released. The main feature consists of the merger of the real-time PREEMPT_RT scheduler, most likely one of the longest-running merger sagas in Linux’ history. This means that Linux now fully supports both soft and hard real-time...
The facilities management sector is in the midst of a digital evolution, driven by trends such as sustainability and smart buildings, and there are also increased regulatory demands in the mix. We spoke to Phil Meyers, CEO of mpro5, to discuss what this means for facilities...
“Nobody cares if you contribute.” That’s what a Postgres friend said to me during lunch at KubeCon when I suggested that hiring Postgres contributors could be a selling point for customers. His comment surprised me because for years I’ve believed the open source...
As much as we love them, programming languages can often feel like straitjackets. They’re a complex bundle of syntactic rules, and if we break them—even once—the compiler starts screaming out error messages. There are conventions to define every little thing, such as...
In the last decade, every web application developer has become an API designer. But most organizations do not think of developers as API designers, nor do they think about APIs as a product of design — to the detriment of their developers’ productivity. With the rise of...
Fermyon has released Spin 3.0, a major update to its open source developer tool for building serverless WebAssembly applications. The new release introduces polyglot programming to ease development. The update to Fermyon’s Spin framework was introduced November 11....
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