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A translucent billboard with some white text would drive home the point.

I recently needed to create some heavily customized pi images for a fleet of Iot devices. I came across this tool that did the job nicely. Only downside is that it only works on Li…

Some of the Drop branded keyboards like the Alt have a USB passthrough. I used to own one and I used it to plug in my headset dongle.

A lot of the attribution links on this site lead to shady domain squatting sites, or sites that appear to be hosting malware.

I do dev work on mostly node/web projects that use npm. Pretty much everything I do involves docker. I typically write a docker file that copies package.json/package-lock.json into…

I'm surprised that health insurance companies haven't started offering "good brusher" discounts the way car insurance companies offer a "good driver" discount when you use their ca…

My new frequency illusion is the phrase "ride or die". I'm 32 and I had never heard that in my life until I watched that show Cruel Summer and now it seems like I hear it everywher…

I'm fascinated by the mechanical fire control computers of WW2 battleships. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/05/gears...

According to the cube rule, a hot dog is actually a kind of taco. The "hot dog is a taco" ruling is probably one of the least confounding rulings when classifying food by the cube …

Toaster was a pejorative term used to refer to the Cylons, the race of robots at war with humanity in Battlestar Galactica.

I know we're talking about LLMs deobfuscating stuff here, but it turns out that JSFuck is trivially decodable. https://enkhee-osiris.github.io/Decoder-JSFuck/

Not the first time that Nvidia has released completely different GPUs under the same name. Around 2006, they had 2 existing variants of the 8800GTS(320mb and 640Mb VRAM). A year la…

My brother used to cast resin pen blanks in the garage. It's a pretty simple process that just needs a few silicone molds, a pressure vessel, and a vacuum pump. He sold them wholes…

When I first got a mac in 2012, the lack of window snapping annoyed me and I always felt like my windows were getting lost when I minimized them. The dock doesn't do a very good jo…

This story reminds me of the central WA state where I grew up. They had a similar network of canals. It's the largest irrigation network in the US (according to the internet). Unli…

This concept sounded familiar, and it turns out that somebody else researched a similar technique a few years ago. https://cris.bgu.ac.il/en/publications/xled-covert-data-exfi...

> https://www.costablancaworld.com/robots.txt Somebody screwed up and made their robots.txt in a rich-text editor like wordpad.

Reply All also did an episode about this a few years back. https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/v4he6k tl;dr There's underground marketplaces where shady people buy and sell OG …

I wrote this several years ago as a joke, but it seems more relevant now. Here's a preview of the upcoming iCar FAQ page. iCar2 FAQs In what colors are the iCar available? Space gr…

I can totally understand people’s reluctance to government run internet. The biggest argument I see is that the government can compete unfairly against private companies because th…

Most cars have the ability to disable the beep/honk when locking. I was really stoked when I found this feature in my manual. Too bad it's not the default and most people probably …