You can’t use your $6,299.00 Camera as a Webcam. That will be $5
Companies squeezing every last penny out out their customers is no news. And Canon is no stranger. Last year, I’ve bought a Canon G5 X II camera which I wanted to use mainly for taking pictures at concerts. For me, it was the perfect match of focal range (zoom) and sensor size (more light) for […]
Trusting clients is probably a security flaw
I looked at a discussion on blink-dev Google Group and saw the message: Perhaps it is a good thing for user choice to have a browser that is fully open to any use and allows anonymous user actions. The result of such open-ness is that an entire series of services that need to trust the […]
Issues with Color Spaces and Perceptual Brightness
There is some recent research I found that models this effect and applies an additional transform to account for it, building off of work from Fairchild MD, Pirrotta E in the 90’s. The end result is labeled as the “Predicted Equivalent Achromatic Lightness”, or in other words “The lightness of the gray that most closely […]
Thoughts on a Month with Devin
In March 2024, a new AI company burst onto the scene with impressive backing: a $21 million Series A led by Founders Fund, with support from industry leaders including the Collison brothers, Elad Gil, and other tech luminaries. The team behind it? IOI gold medalists – the kind of people that solve programming problems most […]
Let’s talk about AI and end-to-end encryption
Recently I came across a fantastic new paper by a group of NYU and Cornell researchers entitled “How to think about end-to-end encryption and AI.” I’m extremely grateful to see this paper, because while I don’t agree with every one of its conclusions, it’s a good first stab at an incredibly important set of questions. […]
Kokoro TTS – A lightweight (82M params) text-to-speech model
What is Kokoro TTS? Kokoro TTS is a cutting-edge text to speech platform powered by the revolutionary Kokoro 82M model. Our best TTS technology transforms text into incredibly natural-sounding speech while maintaining perfect emotional expression. Whether you need content creation, accessibility solutions, or professional voiceovers, Kokoro TTS delivers superior quality results in seconds. Who is […]
Bypassing disk encryption on systems with automatic TPM2 unlock
Have you setup automatic disk unlocking with TPM2 and systemd-cryptenroll or clevis? Then chances are high that your disk can be decrypted by an attacker who just has brief physical access to your machine – with some preparation, 10 minutes will suffice. In this article we will explore how TPM2 based disk decryption works, and […]
Is the World Becoming Uninsurable?
You are receiving this email because you are a subscriber to Charles Hugh Smith / Of Two Minds. I ask the question, “is the world becoming uninsurable?” not as an expert on the insurance industry but as a homeowner who can no longer obtain hurricane insurance, and as an observer of long-term trends keenly interested […]
Some Things to Expect in 2025
LWN.net needs you! Without subscribers, LWN would simply not exist. Please consider signing up for a subscription and helping to keep LWN publishing. We are reliably informed by the calendar that yet another year has begun. That can only mean one thing: the time has come to go out on a limb with a series […]
Learn Yjs Interactively
Welcome to Learn Yjs — an interactive tutorial series on building realtime collaborative applications using the Yjs CRDT library. This very page is an example of a realtime collaborative application. Every other cursor in the garden above is a real live person reading the page right now. Click one of the plants to change it […]