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The US Air Force has tested a crewed F-16 in a dogfight against one flown by machine learning, offering a preview of future warfare. CC-licensed photo by Airwolfhound on Flickr. You can sign up to …

A case for abandoning web analytics

Victoria Song, the Verge: I became the family Chewbacca. Family would speak to me in Korean, I’d reply back in English — and vice versa. Later, I started learning Japanese because that’s what public school …

Lectures : Réseaux de domestication et complexification artificielle de la communication Réseaux sociaux Petit rappel pour toutes les personnes qui mettent en évidence un peu partout leurs profils X/Twitter et LinkedIn. Ces réseaux sont fermés. …

Today's links Greedflation, but for prisoners: The first-ever survey of national prison commissary prices is a fucking nightmare. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where …

We’ve been very lucky. A couple of weeks ago, a supply-chain attack against the Linux xz Utils package, which includes the liblzma compression library, was discovered just weeks before the compromised version of the library …

NEW RESOURCES Houses of the Oireachtas: Ceann Comhairle launches upgraded Irish legislation database website Achtanna.ie. “The Ceann Comhairle, Seán Ó Fearghaíl TD, today launched the updated Achtanna.ie website, a searchable database of enacted versions and …

Kiedyś, niemal na samym początku istnienia tej strony, podzieliłem się linkiem do projektu Pico8, “wyobrażonej konsoli do gier”, charakteryzującej się pikselowatą grafiką połączoną z nowoczesnymi... Read more

When I purchased my M2 Pro Mac mini, I didn’t want to reuse peripherals I had lying around for my new setup. I bought a new display, new keyboard, and a new mouse not because …

My annual, lengthy, round-up tradition continues into another year. 2023 brought a return to Japan, a return to work, a lot of fatigue and health challenges to navigate, but also a lot of lovely memories. …

A new bioadhesive makes it easier to attach trackers to squid. Note: the article does not discuss squid privacy rights. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories …

This post will be my attempt to package up my master’s thesis in a format that can be read comfortably. I’ve spent the last 15 months mostly on this topic, and if you’ve noticed that …

Anniversaries are strange: no one but those involved have any reason to even know they exist, which makes them easy to skip; for example, last year I mostly ignored the 10 year anniversary of starting …

I want to make one thing **very** clear. Despite my propensity for IoT gadgetry, I did not connect my toilet to the Internet! It's 2024. Why are you still scraping your arsehole with paper like …

Today, Downpour comes out! In case you don’t know, Downpour is the game creation tool I have been working on for the past few years. I started it after I left Niantic in October 2022, …

Note: This is cross-posted from my newsletter, to which you can subscribe here. x Here are some thoughts that have been kicking around my head for some time. They’re most definitively related, but I’m not …

Who says that only humans can enjoy art? How about other animals? Chickens, for example. Would they appreciate a theatre performance designed specifically for them? Anne Hofstra, KIP, 2023 Artist Anne Hofstra believes that anthropocentrism …

For the recent birthday party of one of our DrinkRobotics and musician friends, Kauzerei had the great idea to build a DIY drummachine as a present, to allow them to play the bass without having …

Update: I decided that after two years and unfortunately no positive results from BlackVue publishing this post was in the public interest, so, especially with the rise in car crime, while not directly related to …