VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont
17 Nov 2025 5 min read Novid Parsi is a freelance writer covering technology. A Vermont engineer has brought back pay phone service to a few remote Vermont locations, using VoIP internet-to-phone connections and some reverse-engineering prowess. Source images: Patrick Schlott Remember pay phones? Those relics of telecom’s distant past were once everywhere—on many busy […]
EU weighs restricting use of US cloud platforms to process sensitive gov data
The European Union is considering rules that would restrict its member governments’ use of U.S. cloud providers to handle sensitive data, sources familiar with the talks told CNBC. ↫ Kai Nicol-Schwarz at CNBC The fact that this has only just become a possible reality now, and not decades ago, is beyond me, but better late […]
The occasional ECONNRESET
blog – git – desktop – contact 2026-05-05 Two services running on the same machine. One of them opens a listening TCP socket bound to localhost, the other one connects to that. They exchange data. Every now and then, the service that initiated the connection gets an ECONNRESET while reading data from the socket — […]
Age Assurance on the Internet: Identity, Privacy, and the Limits of Verification
“In the field of digital identity, we tend to talk about technology through the lens of specific use cases. Payments. Authentication.” Fraud prevention. Account recovery. Which makes sense; you can’t solve a problem if you can’t map to something real. Which takes me to one use case that keeps appearing in policy discussions around the […]
Dontsurveil.me
Plain Tucked into Part 2, a clause authorizes the government to require providers to retain broad categories of metadata — including transmission data — for up to one year. On everyone, regardless of suspicion. Even data providers don’t currently collect for their own business purposes. New in C-22. This retention provision was added in C-22 […]
Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep
Fast and Accurate Code Search for AgentsUses ~98% fewer tokens than grep+read Semble is a code search library built for agents. It returns the exact code snippets they need instantly, using ~98% fewer tokens than grep+read and cutting latency on every step. Indexing and searching a full codebase end-to-end takes under a second, with ~200x […]
I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation
Download Pre-release Image Current public build (pre-release, May 14, 2026): Run full Debian 12 Bookworm on your Doogee U10 tablet — no bootloader unlock required. Boot from SD card, remove it to return to stock Android. No changes to internal storage. Reverse engineered from scratch — no BSP, no vendor documentation, no official support. Built […]
AI is a technology not a product
Steven Levy, writing for Wired last month after Apple’s CEO transition was announced, under the provocative headline “Apple’s Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product” (News+ link to get around Wired’s miserly paywall): Much more recently, I quizzed Ternus and global marketing head Greg Joswiak about Apple’s future, specifically its plans to get […]
CUDA Books
A curated list of every major book on CUDA programming — beginner to advanced, C++/Python, architecture, optimization, and the latest 2024–2026 releases.Focused on practical, high-quality resources for NVIDIA GPU parallel computing. Last updated: May 2026Contributions welcome! See Contributing. Beginner / Getting Started Core Architecture & Parallel Programming Practical & Hands-on Guides Programming in Parallel with […]
I don’t think AI will make your processes go faster
I have the feeling that every organization out there is, at least partially, focusing on process optimization, something that often happens when the market is down. These days there is also the AI angle to the entire thing, and the unrealistic expectations that follow it. To come fully prepared for this, I’ve decided to re-read […]