Unidentified Halo, an anti-surveillance wearable project
Unidentified Halo Unidentified Halo (2016) was a collaboration with Shir David reflecting on a pervasive surveillance culture and the use of facial recognition in public spaces. The project is a wearable in the form of a hat that is intended to shield the wearer from facial detection on surveillance cameras by creating a halo of infrared […]
What Is Anglish?
What is Anglish? Anglish is a kind of English which prefers native words over those borrowed from foreign languages. Anglish is linguistic purism applied to English. For example: Dictionary > Wordbook Famous > Nameknown Native > Inborn Decide > Choose Computer > Reckoner This is achieved by simply choosing to use a native word over […]
Reverse-engineering the ModR/M addressing microcode in the Intel 8086 processor
One interesting aspect of a computer’s instruction set is its addressing modes, how the computer determines the address for a memory access. The Intel 8086 (1978) used the ModR/M byte, a special byte following the opcode, to select the addressing mode.1 The ModR/M byte has persisted into the modern x86 architecture, so it’s interesting to […]
Unit Testing PDF Generation
How would you test PDF generation? This turns out to be unexpectedly difficult because you need to check that the files are both syntactically and semantically valid. The former could be tested with existing PDF validators and converters but the latter is more difficult. If you, say, try to render a red square, the end […]
Diffusion with Offset Noise: Finetuning SD to generate very dark or light images
Fine-tuning against a modified noise, enables Stable Diffusion to generate very dark or light images easily. Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models are a relatively new form of generative neural network model – models which produce samples from a high-dimensional probability distribution learned from data. Other approaches to the same class of problem include Generative Adversarial Networks, […]
Show HN: Natural Language Git (Gitgpt)
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KDE Plasma development switches to Qt 6 tomorrow
Plasma master switches to Qt6 Nicolas Fella nicolas.fella at gmx.de Mon Feb 27 17:25:05 GMT 2023 Hi, The master branch for Plasma repos will be made Qt6-only tomorrow, 28.02.2023. There will be disruption because of this. While we aim for getting a basic workspace running as soon as possible non-essential functionality might be broken for […]
Minimum Viable Hugo
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The Camera-Shy Hoodie
The Camera-Shy Hoodie The Camera-Shy Hoodie is a DIY adversarial garment designed to give the user the option to anonymize themselves within the recording of a night vision security camera. The hoodie embeds a number of high-power IR LEDs, utilizing the same wavelength of infrared light commonly used by security cameras as flood lights for […]
Research: The Transformative Power of Sabbaticals
Burnout, meaningless work, and stalled careers continue to contribute to a historic number of workers quitting (or quiet quitting). How can these people craft work that is truly better? Our research suggests that one answer is to take a sabbatical — an extended break from your job lasting long enough for you to truly distance […]