Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker
Air Loom – 3D Flight Paths Initializing 3D Space… N S E W Fly Mode Controls W/A/S/D – Move forward/left/back/right Space – Move up Shift – Move down Mouse – Look around Click anywhere to start flying
Lobsters Interview
By Susam Pal on 12 Sep 2025 I recently had an engaging conversation with Alex (@veqq) from the Lobsters community about computing, mathematics and a range of related topics. Our conversation was later published on the community website as Lobsters Interview with Susam. I should mention the sections presented in that post are not in […]
True P2P Email on Top of Yggdrasil Network
English | Русский True P2P Email on top of Yggdrasil Network What is Tyr? We’re taught that email must go through servers. Why? Because the Internet was built around centralized infrastructure. Every email you send travels through multiple servers – your provider’s server, maybe a few relay servers, and finally your recipient’s provider’s server. Each […]
AI Adoption Rates Starting to Flatten Out
Meta hiding $27B in debt using advanced geometry
FSG LLC’s preliminary rating explains how a data center and selective eyesight create a perfectly legal accounting miracle. 28-Nov-2025 | 09:12 CST Beignet Investor LLC’s $27.3 Billion Senior Secured Debt Assigned Preliminary A+ Rating; Outlook Superficially Stable FSG LLC (Flexible Standards Group) Analyst: Tom BellwetherContact Information: None available**Because of the complex nature of financial alchemy, […]
Don’t tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to
Don’t tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to This is a story about a very interesting bug that I tracked down yesterday. It was causing a bad effect very far from where the bug actually was. emacsclient The emacs text editor comes with a separate utility, called emacsclient, which can […]
Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court suddenly couldn’t access his email. According to Microsoft, that’s because of US sanctions against the court’s employees. The Trump administration was not amused by the Court’s arrest warrant against the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. The main takeaway from this episode is that those looking to protect […]
Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany
Petition richtet sich an: Deutscher Bundestag Petitionsausschuss Open-Source-Software bildet heute das Fundament großer Teile der digitalen Infrastruktur – in Verwaltung, Wirtschaft, Forschung und im täglichen Leben. Selbst im aktuellen Koalitionsvertrag der Bundesregierung wird Open-Source-Software als elementarer Baustein zur Erreichung digitaler Souveränität genannt. Dennoch wird die Arbeit, die tausende Freiwillige dafür leisten, in Deutschland steuer- und […]
A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z
A friend made me aware of a reading list from A16Z containg recommendations for books, weighted towards science fiction since that’s mostly what people there read. Some of my books are listed. Since this is the season of Thanksgiving, I’ll start by saying that I genuinely appreciate the plug! However, I was taken aback by […]
The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation
Averesch says it’s still possible the apparent radioprotective benefits of fungi are due to components of biological life other than melanin. Water, for example, a molecule with a high number of protons in its structure (eight in oxygen and one in each hydrogen), is one of the best ways to protect against the protons that […]