The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 49,236 posts.
The Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery has just published my editorial, "Competitive Compatibility: Let's Fix the Internet, Not the Tech Giants," explaining how interoperability was once an engine for competition and user empowerment – and how that ended.
The last time I wrote about the timezone database on this blog, the database was under threat from a lawsuit. Fortunately that lawsuit w...
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This isn’t the first time I’ve received an e-mail like this: Hey! I’ve done my research and looked at a lot of facts and old forgotten archives. I know that you are Satoshi, I do not want to tell anyone about this. I just wanted to say that you created weapons of mass destruction where niches remained poor and the…
This is what "democratization" looks like
Guest post by Niya Dragova, co-founder of Candor
New tool: an nginx playground
The iPhone 13 Pro camera across southern Tanzania — macro, the longer telephoto, and Cinematic mode, from ants to helicopters.
An abridged version of this article appeared in Whole Earth 106, Winter 2001, pages 74-77.
Imagine a Silicon Valley strategy implemented with the United States phone system 100 years ago. It's not a pretty picture.
Communications in distributed teams: a write-up of my talk from FrOSCon 2020, Cloud Edition.
Link to: https://popular.info/p/apples-texas-problem
The text of Dwarf Fortress and procedural tales so expansive no human could ever explore them all.
The previous pages have explained three very different methods for defining a color: (1) the measurement of the color stimulus as a spectral emittance or reflectance curve in colorimetry ; (2) the proportional responses to the stimulus by the L , M and S cones, represented as a chromaticity diagram ; and (3) the…
Posts and writings by Lennart Poettering
Lazy programmers often prefer to substitute computing effort for programming effort.
Accounts that have never been disabled include the accounts for Rocket League (a game whose Mac support [Epic discontinued in January 2020][rl]), and separately, Unreal Engine. My understanding is that none of those accounts are affected by Apple’s decision not to reinstate the Fortnite developer account.
Part of what makes IKEA unique is their product names. Each name means something, often in a funny or ambigious way. When IKEA went international, they decided to use the same Swedish names everywhere. This makes sense from an organizational sanity standpoint, but it deprives most of the world of this particular joy.
Quitting is never easy. Building things can be. I'm leaving TTFM Labs to start a company.
There now is a Winboard version that can handle bigger boards, and a Fairy-Max engine that can run under it ( download )
In a strange coincidence, the authors of TinyPilot and Pi-KVM both emailed me within a week of each other and asked if I'd be interested in one of their KVM devices. Michael Lynch, founder of Tiny Pilot, said he'd used some of my Ansible work in building the TinyPilot update system, and Maxim Devaev, of Pi-KVM, liked…
Azure has never been the #1 cloud provider - that spot continues to belong to AWS, which is the category leader. However, in most people’s minds, it has been a pretty reasonable #2, and while not necessarily vastly differentiated from AWS there are enough things to write home about. However, even as a user and…
An axis of the CIA, Big Tech and the DNC-allied wing of the corporate media spread an absolute lie in the weeks before the 2020 election. We now have definitive proof.
