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Not to take away from the poster's work, but I believe this exists already (please correct me if I'm wrong): https://puzzlemadness.co.uk/minesweeper/hard I've been doing these for …

The good ol' Ohnosecond: > An "ohnosecond" is the second after one makes a terrible mistake, such as deleting the wrong file or sending a text message to the wrong person, where th…

Also interesting is this interactive viewer of cloud seeding live in the US: https://chemtrail.app/ , although this website seems to be vibe-coded and heavily against cloud seeding…

This is actually very, very interesting... and some what genius. In the past, I've felt the urge to buy _something_ for that dopamine hit, even if I didn't really need anything. I'…

Also covered by Tech Radar (2025) -- You need to be careful when buying new vinyl – the digital music loudness war can mean they sound worse than second-hand records: https://www.t…

Here's how it works in our group. The professor gives papers to the PhD students or PostDocs, who read the paper completely. I regularly 'sub-review', as it is called, meticulously…

Which is why, I believe, their logo is a duck :D

Uhhh, I don't think Ente is Norwegian? Yeah, they have an office in Norway, but I remember them starting from India --- Ente means 'mine' in Malayalam, a language spoken in Kerala,…

At a talk right now (NDSS'26), the speaker says it's been made live yesterday: https://www.ll.mit.edu/r-d/projects/translating-all-c-rust-t...

And that's what exactly confused me :) With my mnemonic, I say low *number = blur I should have been more specific

I recently bought a film camera (Minolta X-700) and I wasted a whole roll because I inverted the aperture (i.e, 2 = sharp, 32 = blur)... I'm interested to see how the roll turns ou…

> For just over five weeks, from February 7 to March 14, visitors will be allowed to climb the towering 20-foot scaffold inside the castle’s Sala delle Asse to view conservators at…

> If you want to look at the code, it's available on github. Why not tvc-hub :P Jokes aside, great write up!

But also > violating the 24h promise on their own page Their page reports: Vulnerability reports will always be responded to as fast as possible - usually within 24 hours. That's n…

Authors article: How to Know if Someone is Invisible on Discord (WebSocket API Leak) https://xmrcat.org/discord-invisibility-bypass

Ah, it initially appeared that the capital I and the lowercase L have identical-looking glyphs. But scrolling down, I see the ss02 and tnum features add noticeable glyphs. Looks li…

As much as I appreciate the tiny serif for lowercase L and numeral 1 to differentiate l I and 1, I am not the biggest fan of the capital I glyph without the horizontal serifs. It's…

I agree with other comments that this research treads a fine, unethical line. Did the authors responsibly disclose this, as is often done in the security research community? I cann…