Chinese students’ dream device defeats Japan’s most powerful supercomputer in world contest
DepGraph Supernode, started as a training project at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, was nearly twice as fast as nearest competitor. ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: Exhibition
A century of technology @Europeanaeu
https://www.europeana.eu/en/exhibitions/a-century-of-technology**
Exhibition
A century of technology @Europeanaeu
⌘ Read moreRelease Radar · April 2022 Edition
Each month, we highlight open source projects that have shipped major updates. These include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend projects. Here are our top staff picks on projects that shipped major version releases in April. Flyte 1.0 I was lucky enough to discover Flyte during Hacktoberfest last year. Now, Flyte has […] ⌘ Read more
Gemini capsule
Gemini is a lightweight Internet protocol. It’s heavier than Gopher
but lighter than HTTP(S), especially if combined with all other web
technologies. The name makes sense if Gopher is Project Mercury and
the web is the Apollo program.
One of its uses is to serve gemtext, which is a lightweight
Markdown-like markup language, instead of HTML. Gemini browsers don’t
have support for neither Javascript, nor CSS, nor any of the other new
web technologies. It can be beautiful anyway, s … ⌘ Read more
Gemini capsule
Gemini is a lightweight Internet
protocol. It’s heavier than Gopher but a bit lighter than HTTP(S).
It’s the Gemini programme if Gopher is Mercury and HTTP is Atlas.
One of its uses is to serve gemtext, which is a lightweight
Markdown-like markup language, instead of HTML. Gemini browsers don’t
have support for neither Javascript, nor CSS, nor any of the other new
web technologies. It can be beautiful anyway, see for instance
[Lagrange]( [http … ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: ½ 📢The Commission wants to do the impossible of detecting illegal content in end-to-end encrypted communications, but has no idea how to do this (because it IS impossible).
Solution: leave it to service providers under the guise of technological neutrality.**
½ 📢The Commission wants to do the impossible of detecting illegal content in end-to-end encrypted communications, but has no idea how to do this (because it IS impossible).
Solution: leave it to service providers under the guise of te … ⌘ Read more
Release Radar · March 2022 Edition
Each month, we highlight open source projects that have shipped major updates. These include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend projects. Here are our top staff picks on projects that shipped major version releases in March. Babylon.js 5.0 We featured Babylon.js in the November 2020 Release Radar. Since then, Babylon.js has come […] ⌘ Read more
The moral of this story is that secondary and tertiary effects matter. Technology not only affects what we can do with respect to technological issues, it also affects our social behavior. This social behavior can loop back and affect the original technological issues under consideration. The Lisp Curse
Erlang Solutions: 5 Key Tech Priorities for Fintech Leaders in 2022
Issues caused by sub-optimal tech choices are commonplace in the industry, leading to companies failing under unexpected stress or being unable to adapt in time when their business requirements change.
While no two projects are the same, we’ve observed some common themes for using scalable futureproof technologies to build diverse fintech systems. Taking advantage of these learnings sets financial service provi … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Is Elixir the Right Choice for Hypergrowth Startups
We always love to see and share stories that so perfectly capture the benefits of using Elixir. Today, we’ll be taking a look at an example that captures why Elixir is the perfect technology for startups that are anticipating fast growth, including how choosing Elixir allows your development team to focus on improving the product.
 of a mobile application where you are able to digitalize your closet and plan your outfits. The goal of the POC was to validate a simple and low-cost technology stack
Language: JavaScript
Star: 3
Watch: 3 ⌘ Read more
Black Innovators That Paved the Way
While diverse experiences and perspectives should be sought after and celebrated every day, Black History Month is a wonderful opportunity to reflect on and celebrate the many contributions of Black Americans. Recognizing the ingenuity of Black people in technology is incredibly important – especially when a large diversity gap of historically overrepresented groups is so […]
The post [Black Innovators That Paved the Way](https://www.docker.com/blog/black-innovators … ⌘ Read more
i hope that after i’ve aged, I will approach technology with the mindset of either “how can i use this to make cool shit” or “how can i make this technology safer”.
Erlang Solutions: How HCA Healthcare used the BEAM to fight COVID – Code BEAM V Talk review
We often talk about the suitability of the BEAM VM for the Healthcare industry. Afterall, when it comes to Healthcare, downtime can literally be deadly, and no technology is better equipped to deliver high availability and minimal downtime than the BEAM. At Code BEAM V 2020, Bryan Hunter, an Enterprise fellow at one of the biggest Healthcare providers in the world joi … ⌘ Read more
** Notes on 6502 Assembly **
The NES runs a very slightly modified 6502 processor. What follows are some very introductory, and not at all exhaustive notes on 6502 Assembly, or ASM.
If you find this at all interesting, Easy 6502 is a really great introductory primer on 6502 Assembly that lets you get your hands dirty right from a web browser.
NumbersNumbers pre … ⌘ Read more
NFTs: The Good, The Bad, & The Goofy
There are valid criticisms of NFTs… but there are some solidly good (and fun) uses of the technology. ⌘ Read more
NFTs, Net Neutrality, & Emotional Reactions to Technology
A few years back I came under fire for expressing a viewpoint so controversial, so repugnant, so… so… evil that I received, quite literally, thousands of angry messages. That viewpoint: “Net Neutrality: Not that big of a deal” I didn’t advocate for, ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Dynamic XMPP domains in MongooseIM
IntroductionMongooseIM is a robust instant messaging server focused on scalability and performance. It makes use of XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol), an open technology used mainly to develop instant messaging solutions. The protocol is highly extensible and has a very active community supporting it, which results in a variety of possible use cases, be it one-to-one text messaging, mobile group chat or collecti … ⌘ Read more
Isode: Successfully Managing HF Radio Networks
With the potential for new technologies to cause interference to traditional communications networks and even space itself at the risk of becoming weaponised, it is important to make sure that you always have a backup plan for your communications ready and waiting.
Should the worst happen and your primary network, typically SatCom, go down you need to ensure that you can still communicate with your forces wherever they are, and that c … ⌘ Read more
Some of our most popular technologies are becoming a means of mass coercion that open societies cannot survive. ⌘ Read more
Improving GitHub code search
Today, we are rolling out a technology preview for GitHub code search, the next iteration for search, discovery, and navigation on GitHub. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Amateur Stenography https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/11/28/steno.html #education #technology #opensource #typing
Erlang Solutions: Blockchain Tech Deep Dive ¼
INTRODUCTIONBlockchain technology is transforming nearly every industry, whether it be banking, government, fashion or logistics. The benefits of using blockchain are substantial – businesses can lower transaction costs, free up capital, speed up processes, and enhance security and trust. So it’s no surprise that more and more companies and developers are interested in working with the technology and leveraging its potential than ev … ⌘ Read more
The Metaverse Was Lame Even Before Facebook - The Atlantic ⌘ Read more
Bookmarked : Fix Facebook by Making It More Like Google+ - The Atlantic
My colleague Adrienne LaFrance has named the fundamental assumption, and danger, of social media megascale: “not just a very large user base, but a tremendous one, unprecedented in size.” Technology platforms such as Facebook assume that they deserve a user base measured in the billions of people—and then excuse their misdeeds by noting that effectively controlling such an unthinkably la … ⌘ Read more
“I’m worried about humanity’s future.”
Via Nicholas Danes I came across the video of Arun Maini (Mrwhosetheboss): “I’m worried about humanity’s future”. In this he addresses some good aspects. It’s about the impact of technology on our lives, society and behaviour. For example, he talks about the fact that algorithms are increasingly trying to keep us in front of the screen for as long as possible, that echo chambers are creating more and more negativity, and that we may soon no longer be able to d … ⌘ Read more
Sociopathic innovation: how we are investing most in the most evil technologies (LONG) - Internet of Humans - Edgeryders ⌘ Read more…
Only Use Old Computers!
If there is a single point of advice I can offer novice computer users, it is stop using modern computers.
If you look at “technology YouTube,” part of my neighborhood, but I more mean the massive multi-million subscriber channels, nearly all of it is devoted to constantly reviewing and comparing every new computer, processor, graphics card and product. There’s big money in it be … ⌘ Read more
Sam Whited: Cooperative Technology ⌘ Read more…
Dr. Bernice King on how technology can transform the Black economy ⌘ Read more…
Intelligence is the technology creating technology.
GitHub reduces Marketplace transaction fees, revamps Technology Partner Program ⌘ Read more…
Good/quick life extension technology would, for the first 2/3 decades, decrease the average age of death, since more people would die young in accidents etc. than of old age.
the Primitive Technology video blog, but by mars colonists and about how they use local materials to bootstrap their tech tree
Ghacks Technology News: ScreenTranslator is an open source tool that can translate text from images using OCR ⌘ https://www.ghacks.net/2020/10/24/screentranslator-is-an-open-source-tool-that-can-translate-text-from-images/
On the blog: Politics in Art and Technology https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/10/18/stories.html #politics #art #software #rant
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Where Are the Joneses? Part 4 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/10/17/joneses4.html Politics in Art and Technology https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/10/18/stories.html #
The internet of protest is being built on single-page websites | MIT Technology Review ⌘ https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/27/1007714/carrd-internet-of-protest-is-being-built-on-one-shot-websites/
When I read this I see a a niche, super premium hardware company that managed to acquire tens of thousands of customers by word of mouth. Not only that, their customers are all in-effect self employed or small businesses with huge average revenue per employee. They manage global supply chains, intense competition, all while taking on and managing huge legal/compliance risk. How is is that supposedly “dumb,” criminals can do this, and yet many of us are stretching our intellectual capacities to learn new technologies and maths, developing our nth stupid app, trying to achieve a fraction of the customer traction and revenue that street thugs manage to do every day. Are these people much smarter than average, or does it mean that if you sell something people actually want, literally nothing else matters about your intelligence, education, character, background, or anything at all. When I read these drug stories, it just reinforces for me that growth solves everything. You can succeed with a crew of violent, drug addicted idiots whose only reliable characteristic is short term thinking, and who spend half their time in prison if you have product market fit. What I’m beginning to think is that the “smarter,” people are in a company, the less anyone will want their product. It’s like the success of a venture is inversely proportional to the number of ostensible geniuses it employs. reply How Police Secretly Took over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime | Hacker News
Technology meme review stream ⌘
JohnnyLove and the Nano Technology ⌘ https://hack.org/mc/blog/johnny-love-coat.html
GitHub Supports the Open Technology Fund ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-07-02-github-supports-the-open-technology-fund/
Retro-fitting my music collection and music players with early 20s digital stereo MiniDisc technology.
While not disagreeing with your point, it is also worth noting that in some contexts developers are regarded as unemployable if they don’t have experience with whatever the latest technology is so it is hardly surprising that people use every opportunity they can to get exposure to the latest tools. Overthinking it and the value of simple solutions (2019) | Hacker News
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Civilization collapses and a hundred years later someone gets their hands on old AI research and makes a breakthrough, but the technological base is no longer there, so the first real machine spirit becomes a temple-bound djinn/oracle instead of the singularity
This then does happen, many times, but the simulators (or rather, the watchers they put in place when they created the universe, meant to be scientists and not soldiers) wipe out species that use certain ‘noisy’ technologies, and this is why the universe is so quiet.
Turns out that color-scheme support only works in the Safari Technology Preview beta.
Disability, Humanity, and Assistive Technology in the “Cybernauts” Cycle | Feather Dusters at 400 Yards https://therealavengers.wordpress.com/2019/04/08/disability-humanity-and-assistive-technology-in-the-cybernauts-cycle/
Foxconn is confusing the hell out of Wisconsin - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/10/18296793/foxconn-wisconsin-location-factory-innovation-centers-technology-hub-no-news
Russia wants to cut itself off from the global internet. Here’s what that really means. - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613138/russia-wants-to-cut-itself-off-from-the-global-internet-heres-what-that-really-means/
Casino Screwup Royale: A tale of “ethical hacking” gone awry | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/03/50-shades-of-greyhat-a-study-in-how-not-to-handle-security-disclosures/
Somebody call Tim Leary; I think he’s needed again: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/26/acid-test-how-psychedelic-virtual-reality-can-end-societys-mass-bad-trip
Weekend Poem: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/09/weekend-poem-all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace/245251/
Titanic Conspiracy Theory | Did the Titanic Really Sink? https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a26533526/olympic-titanic-conspiracy-theory/
Why Conspiracy Videos Go Viral on YouTube - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/reason-conspiracy-videos-work-so-well-youtube/583282/
It looks like OpenAI has announced their marginal progress on the coherence problem in narrative prose generation in the most clickbaity possible way again: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47249163 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/14/elon-musk-backed-ai-writes-convincing-news-fiction
An AI is playing Pictionary to figure out how the world works - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612882/an-ai-is-playing-pictionary-to-figure-out-how-the-world-works/
societies that discover this technology before writing and become literate along a completely different path, hold hands to communicate abstract concepts and use spoken language only to talk to children or crowds, encode philosophies as puzzle boxes
a technology like writing but for body movements: little stick-and-thread figures that show you how to dance, rope-and-pulley gloves you can wear and that guide your movements to teach knitting by example
Schneier on security: “There’s no good reason to trust blockchain technology” https://www.wired.com/story/theres-no-good-reason-to-trust-blockchain-technology/
Trapped in a hoax: survivors of conspiracy theories speak out | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/23/conspiracy-theories-internet-survivors-truth
Viral Clash of Students and American Indians Explained - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/viral-clash-students-and-native-americans-explained/580906/
Technology and The Worker // Notes From Below https://notesfrombelow.org/article/technology-and-the-worker
The internet, but not as we know it: life online in China, Russia, Cuba and India | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2019/jan/11/the-internet-but-not-as-we-know-it-life-online-in-china-russia-cuba-and-india
Hopepunk can’t fix our broken science fiction. https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/hopepunk-cyberpunk-solarpunk-science-fiction-broken.html
The real story behind Margot Robbie’s wild Queen Elizabeth I makeup. https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/queen-elizabeth-makeup-margot-robbie-mary-queen-of-scots-real-story.html
The Men Peddling the ‘Secrets’ to Getting Rich on Amazon - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/men-peddling-secrets-getting-rich-amazon/578443/
A Christmas Story: A Tale of Technological Nostalgia - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4PM1MFT5mk
We tried teaching an AI to write Christmas movie plots. Hilarity ensued. Eventually. - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612644/we-tried-teaching-an-ai-to-write-christmas-movie-plots-hilarity-ensued-eventually/
Facebook workers are the only people who can hold the company accountable. https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/facebook-workers-privacy-violation.html
Why Your iPhone Selfies Don’t Look Like Your Face - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/your-iphone-selfies-dont-look-like-your-face/578353/
Star Wars is Really a Cautionary Tale About Devoting All Technological Advancements to Death | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/12/17/star-wars-is-really-a-cautionary-tale-about-devoting-all-technological-advancements-to-death/
A Professional Safecracker Reveals His Craft - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/professional-safecracker-reveals-his-craft/577897/
It’s time for a Bill of Data Rights - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612588/its-time-for-a-bill-of-data-rights/
Building Technology https://communitytechnology.github.io/
Tumblr’s adult-content ban could doom it with fandom communities. https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/tumblr-fandom-adult-content-ban-livejournal.html
William Gibson: Technology, Science Fiction & the Apocalypse - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dlvle5YBv4
The Little Regulation That Will Make a Big Change in How You Do Business: Department of Commerce to Establish New Export Controls on Emerging Technologies - Lexology https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=205f4c5f-17c7-4d18-9967-a01983883706
Heads up, apparently there are gonna be export restrictions on neural net, reinforcement learning, computer vision, NLP, & similar research done in the US: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/19/2018-25221/review-of-controls-for-certain-emerging-technologies
Martin Heidegger and Günther Anders on Technology: On Ray Kurzweil, Fritz Lang, and Transhumanism https://medium.com/amor-mundi/martin-heidegger-and-g%C3%BCnther-anders-on-technology-on-ray-kurzweil-fritz-lang-and-transhumanism-a48a4c123c09
It is not that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, but that anything is indistinguishable from magic from the perspective of the sufficiently ignorant. Clarke assumes we will lose the red queen’s race with polymathy.
Band name of the day: human flesh technology
Constructive Technology Criticism Annotated Syllabus https://medium.com/tow-center/constructive-technology-criticism-annotated-syllabus-b7b46862cd20
What’s Wrong With ‘X Is Dead’ - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/08/whats-wrong-with-x-is-dead/61663/
Toward a Constructive Technology Criticism - Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/constructive_technology_criticism.php/
Thought as a Technology http://cognitivemedium.com/tat/
Canon Cat Leap Technology : Information Appliance Inc. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/CanonCatLeapTechnology
Trust and Complex Technology: The Cyborg’s Modern Bargain - Cyborgology https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2011/11/23/trust-in-complex-technology-the-cyborgs-modern-bargain/
How YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm Really Works - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/how-youtubes-algorithm-really-works/575212/
Cesar Sayoc and others on Twitter are behaving like bots. https://slate.com/technology/2018/11/cesar-sayoc-twitter-humans-behaving-bots.html
Amy Winehouse’s 2019 tour: why dead celebrity holograms keep happening - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/23/18010274/amy-winehouse-hologram-tour-controversy-technology
Language is a technology & we ought to start acting like it
“Rosie Pattern Language: Improving on 50-Year Old Regular Expression Technology” by Jamie Jennings - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkTiYDrb0zg
Supermicro boards were so bug ridden, why would hackers ever need implants? | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/10/supermicro-boards-were-so-bug-ridden-why-would-hackers-ever-need-implants/