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I have to admit that it’s breaking my heart to watch a new generation of anxious parents think that they can address the struggles their kids are facing by eliminating technology from kids’ lives. I’ve …

By definition, there can only be one thing at the top of a list of priorities. Equally, you can only focus on one thing at a time – that’s what “focus” means. This should be …

This is part one of an ongoing series. Government involvement in content moderation raises serious human rights concerns in every context. Since October 7, social media platforms have been challenged for the unjustified takedowns of …

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I'm a big fan of Quisk, the SDR software I use for my Hermes Lite 2 SDR transceiver, but I am not the biggest fan of the available color schemes. The following screenshot shows the …

The past stalks you like a wolf. And then you have to face it. Berlin 🛫 Charlottesville 🚗 Fairfield, CT I’ve spent a lot of this year reckoning with the past. There’s a part of …

The latest video on the Global Nerdy YouTube channel is The CrowdStrike Outage Explained! How did the CrowdStrike Bug of July 19, 2024 take down 8.5 million Windows systems and cause the biggest global outage …

The Fulkerson prize is given to: outstanding papers in the area of discrete mathematics and is sponsored jointly by the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Up to three awards of …

This screenshot basically sums up “the internet as we know it”. For the past decade or so the social internet has consisted of a handful of websites that the vast majority of people frequented. The …

May 2021’s Gwern.net newsletter is now out; previous, April 2021 (archives). This is a collation of links and summary of major changes, overlapping with my Changelog; brought to you by my donors on Patreon.Note: I …

An object of desire back in the mid-1990s might have been Apple’s QuickTake camera. In a form factor not unlike a monocular it packed a 640×480 digital camera, the images from which could be downloaded …

I’m very excited to announce my first proper album: Melodic Guitar Music. It’s ten original guitar tunes, inspired by Django Reinhardt, The Beatles and Chet Atkins. I’d describe the style as “Django phrasing + Chet …

Blank screen on boot and external monitors not detectedI recently installed Kubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) on a laptop and all was well. I had been using flavours of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, but when I …

I’ve been following the press and social media coverage of Apple’s pricey new Vision Pro Augmented Reality headset, which now totals hundreds of stories and thousands of comments and I’ve noticed one idea missing from …

One of my local schools, just down the road, is the Creative Computing Institute, part of University of the Arts London. I was honoured to be a judge at the recent CCI Summer Festival. Students …

There's hardly a single piece of software available today that hasn't made a big deal out of adding AI functionality. On top of adding AI features to existing software, startups are born daily based on …

My family, on my dad’s side, were Jews from Poland and Ukraine. His parents came to America before the shit hit the fan, but I grew up knowing two people who weren’t so lucky. Seymour …

I wanted to add an internal USB port to my ThinkPad X1 Nano which should have been a fairly easy thing to do, but it wasn't. Of course, if I were still using my Framework …

I, for one, love Test Double’s newly-animated Chaos Ruby testdouble.com/services/upgrade-rails

In this How to install and use docker on Ubuntu 24.04 guide I will walk you through the process I use to get a fresh Ubuntu machine ready for docker workloads. These are my notes, …