1+ hour, 42+ min ago   (243+ words) Over on YouTube [Nic Barker] gives us: UTF-8, Explained Simply. If you're gonna be a hacker eventually you're gonna have to write software to process and generate text data. And when you deal with te... Over on YouTube [Nic Barker]…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (893+ words) There was a time when wise older people warned you to check your tire pressure regularly. We never did, and would eventually wind up with a flat or, worse, a blowout. These days, your car will probably warn you when…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (225+ words) There's been a lot of virtual ink spilled about LLMs and their coding ability. Some people swear by the vibes, while others, like the" FreeBSD devs have sworn them off completely. What we don't often... There's been a lot of…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (286+ words) Your new project really could use a block device for Linux. File systems are easy to do with FUSE, but that's sometimes too high-level. But a block driver can be tough to write and debug, especially since bugs in the…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (277+ words) Whenever you buy used computers there is a risk that they come with unpleasant surprises that are not of the insect variant. From Apple hardware that is iCloud-locked with the original owner MIA to PC... Whenever you buy used computers…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (222+ words) We've been aware of projects like Cosmopolitan that allow you to crank out a single executable that will run on different operating systems. [Kamila] noticed that the idea was sound, but that the executables were large and there were some…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (440+ words) The bot sits on the Eurostar website, and is a simple HTML and JavaScript client that talks to the LLM back-end itself through an API. The API queries contain the whole conversation, because as AI toy manufacturers whose products have…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (268+ words) Recently GitHub disabled the Rockchip Linux MPP repository, following a DMCA takedown request from the FFmpeg team. As of writing the affected repository remains unavailable. At the core of this "read more Recently GitHub disabled the Rockchip Linux MPP repository,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (215+ words) The first widely available mice in the 1980s used a quadrature interface, in which the output from mechanical encoders coupled to the mouse ball is fed directly to the computer interface which contains some form of hardware or microcontroller decoder. These…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (235+ words) Moving Mousepad Is An Elegant Aimbot'Hackaday These days, it can be hard to remain competitive in online shooters without spending your entire life dedicated to the sport This leads some to explore the world of competitive aids (AKA: cheating.) A…...