Protecting Children’s Safety Requires End-to-End Encryption
As lawmakers grapple with the serious issue of child exploitation online, some proposed solutions would fuel the very problem they aim to solve. Despite expert warnings, the Belgian Presidency persists in pushing for the implementation of client-side scanning on encrypted messaging services, rebranding the effort as “upload moderation”. Their latest proposal mandates that providers of […]
What Is a Personal User Manual?
Reading time 5 min “What happens to our culture if everyone is working from home?” “But we’ll lose all of our culture if we don’t come back to the office.” When we talk with executives about how they’re adapting to flexible work, “culture” often comes up as a top-of-mind concern. The perception seems to be […]
U.S. home prices have far outpaced paychecks. See what it looks like
Loading… Millions of Americans are already shut out of buying a home, and the cost of buying one continues to rise. In past decades, it was common to find a house that cost roughly three times a buyer’s annual income. But that ratio has skewed sharply since the COVID-19 pandemic, with home prices up a whopping 47% […]
Bog Gravel Filtration: Water Cleaned by Mother Nature (2015)
I have always been intrigued by the idea of turning waste into a resource, and that is exactly what a bog gravel filter does for you. It turns fish and plant waste into fertilizer (plant food). This plant food is then consumed by the plants growing in the filter. The happy byproducts of this process […]
Rosser’s Theorem via Turing Machines (2011)
(Thanks to Amit Sahai for spurring me to write this post!) The Background We all remember Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem from kindergarten. This is the thing that, given a formal system F, constructs a sentence G(F) that’s a mathematical encoding of “This sentence is not provable in F.” If F proves G(F), then F proves […]
A 30-meter pass in the Pyrenees through which insects migrate
Scientists from the University of Exeter have confirmed the massive migration of millions of insects through a pass measuring just 30 meters in the Pyrenees mountains, on the border between Spain and France. According to a study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, more than 17 million arthropods cross every year through Bujaruelo, […]
Swapping GNU coreutils for uutils coreutils on Gentoo Linux
2024-06-19 uutils coreutils is a core utilities project (providing commands like ls/cp/etc) written in Rust and targetting compability with the GNU core utilities. They have made impressive progress on their goal of passing all the tests in the GNU test suite, so I wondered what it would look like to run them as the primary […]
Nobody Knows What’s Going On
A major online publication once reported in a profile on me that I had retired at 33. A few old friends and acquaintances reached out to congratulate me on my financial independence. I think it was an honest mistake on the part of the reporter. I told her I had quit my job to write […]
The other side of Formula 1: Barcelona residents protest for race-car exhibition
Read in Catalan A roaring, wheel-spinning and smoking exhibition of Formula 1 cars filled Passeig de Gràcia in central Barcelona this Wednesday with fans – 38,000, according to city police – who wanted to see the drama of these race cars ripping through the heart of their city. But very close by, you could also […]
Unique3D: Image-to-3D Generation from a Single Image in 30 seconds
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