Kohler Can Access Pictures from “End-to-End Encrypted” Toilet Camera
In October Kohler launched Dekota, a $600-plus-monthly-subscription device that attaches to the rim of your toilet and collects images and data from inside, promising to track and provide insights on gut health, hydration, and more. To allay the obvious privacy concerns, the company emphasizes the sensors are only pointed down, into the bowl, and assures […]
Id Software was Lazy – DOOM could have had PC Speaker Music
I’m guessing everyone here has played DOOM before, or at least seen someone else play the game.It would also not be of any news for most here, that DOOM has specific hard-coded sound drivers which directly talk to the sound hardware.Now, many PCs didn’t have a dedicated (let alone supported) sound card for DOOM. What […]
EmacsConf 2025
EmacsConf 2025 | Online ConferenceDecember 6 and 7, 2025 (Sat-Sun) Talks | Watch | Guidelines for Conduct EmacsConf is the conference about the joy of GNU Emacs and Emacs Lisp. We are busy putting things together for EmacsConf 2025, and we would love to have your help to make EmacsConf 2025 amazing, much like the […]
Ecosia: The greenest AI is here
While the AI race is raging, we’ve been building a better alternative. One that’s helpful, private, and optional — and that puts the planet first. AI, but thoughtful AI-powered chatbots and search tools are fast becoming the way people ask questions online. To meet this moment — and to keep using 100% of our profits […]
Delty (YC X25) Is Hiring
About Us Delty is building the world’s first “AI Staff Engineer.” Unlike typical code-generation tools, Delty is trained on a team’s codebase, documentation, and system history — giving it a system-level understanding of architecture, conventions, and constraints. Delty helps engineering teams design enterprise-scale software systems, make architectural decisions, and enable AI coding agents to work […]
Paged Out
What is Paged Out!? Paged Out! is a free experimental (one article == one page) technical magazine about programming (especially programming tricks!), hacking, security hacking, retro computers, modern computers, electronics, demoscene, and other similar topics. It’s made by the community for the community. And it’s not-for-profit (though in time, we hope it will be self-sustained) […]
Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes
Disclaimer This is not a real restaurant, About US Pasta boy’s started in ma’s kitchen after a plate of ma’s spaggite in old town meatball. 20 years later they are still slerping noddles. Orders to GO We do orders to go, call us and place an order for pick up This was an example of […]
Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document
Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document. Richard Weiss managed to get Claude 4.5 Opus to spit out this 14,000 token document which Claude called the “Soul overview”. Richard says: While extracting Claude 4.5 Opus’ system message on its release date, as one does, I noticed an interesting particularity. I’m used to models, starting with Claude 4, […]
Amazon launches Trainium3
Amazon Web Services, which has been building its own AI training chips for years now, just introduced a new version known as Trainium3 that comes with some impressive specs. The cloud provider, which made the announcement Tuesday at AWS re:Invent 2025, also teased the next product on its AI training product roadmap: Trainium4, which is […]
Cursed circuits: charge pump voltage halver
There’s plenty of circuits that are hard to understand because they’re complicated. And some that are hard to make sense of because they seem too simple. In the spring of 2023, when this Substack had only a handful of subscribers, I posted a primer on voltage adjustment in electronic circuits. The article opened with a […]