Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into manholes
A county environmental regulator has fined Boring Company, Elon Musk’s tunneling venture, nearly $500,000 after the company dumped “drilling fluids” into manholes around Las Vegas, which led to “substantial damage” to the broader county’s infrastructure, according to a notice of violation sent to the company last week. Clark County Water Reclamation District (CCWRD) claims that, […]
Comparing the Latitude of Europe and America
Have you ever wondered which cities or countries share the same latitude as your location? The atlas of the maps below will provide the answers to your question. The first map shows the territory of the United States compared to Europe at the same latitudes. On the map, you can observe that Miami shares the […]
Ironclad – formally verified, real-time capable, Unix-like OS kernel
Ironclad Ironclad is a formally verified, real-time capable, UNIX-like operating system kernel for general-purpose and embedded uses. It is written in SPARK and Ada, and is comprised of 100% free software. Ironclad features a familiar POSIX-compatible interface, true simultaneous preemptive multitasking, Mandatory Access Control (MAC), and support for hard real-time scheduling. Download a distribution Download […]
IP Blocking the UK Is Not Enough to Comply with the Online Safety Act
A follow up to The Ofcom Files. Some notes on Ofcom’s strategy to date. As many of you know, I represent the U.S. website 4chan, pro bono, in its U.S. federal lawsuit against the UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, together with my co-counsel Ron Coleman. The suit seeks to defend 4chan from the UK’s attempts to censor that […]
Debugging BeagleBoard USB boot with a sniffer: fixing omap_loader on modern PCs
This post is about the original OMAP3530 BeagleBoard from 2008. Yes, the one so old that it doesn’t even show up in the board list on BeagleBoard.org anymore. The BeagleBoard, not the BeagleBone. During my Chumby 8 kernel escapades, at one point I ran into a UART bug that affected multiple drivers, including the omap-serial […]
Largest Cargo Sailboat Completes Historic First Atlantic Crossing
Image Credits: NEOLINE/LinkedIn The world’s largest cargo sailboat, Neoliner Origin, completed its first transatlantic voyage on 30 October despite damage to one of its sails during the journey. The 136-metre-long vessel had to rely partly on its auxiliary motor and its remaining sail after the aft sail was damaged in a storm shortly after departure. […]
Avería: The Average Font (2011)
am not a type designer. This is the story of the creation of a new font, Avería: the average of all the fonts on my computer. The field of typography has long fascinated me, and I love playing with creative programming ideas, so it was perhaps inevitable that the idea came to me one day […]
Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads, European human rights rules
Transparent computer monitor designed to protect your vision
Work like Tony Stark Phantom is the first transparent computer monitor. It projects your content into real space, merging the digital and physical worlds. Phantom’s transparency is adjustable, meaning it converts into a regular monitor whenever your want. Phantom works out of the box with any computer, gaming console, or mobile device vis USB-C or […]
WriterdeckOS
Install DISCLAIMER: writerdeckOS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law.WARNING: You are engaging in a DIY endeavor. You may break your machine. The installation may not work. You may erase the old operating system and not be able to start your device up ever again. This OS has only been […]