Police Chief Says Cops Have a 5th Amendment Right to Leave Body Cameras Off
Albuquerque, New Mexico, Police Chief Harold Medina operated his department-issued pickup truck “in an unsafe manner” on February 17, when he ran a red light and broadsided a car, severely injuring the driver. So concludes a recent report from internal investigators who looked into that shocking incident. Duh, you might say if you have seen […]
Rollstack (YC W23) Is Hiring TypeScript Engineers – US/Canada (East Coast Only)
The company At Rollstack, we’re revolutionizing how businesses share and communicate their data. Data-driven slide decks and documents are pivotal in sharing data and insights within organizations and outside. Our platform integrates leading BI tools with popular presentation and document platforms, automating and streamlining the reporting process for efficiency and impact. We’re a dynamic, talented, […]
Why am I writing a Rust compiler in C?
To bootstrap Rust, no cost is too great. Perceptive Rustaceans may have noticed my activity has gone down as of late. There are a handful of different reasons for this. I’ve been the subject of a truly apocalyptic series of life events, including the death of a relative that rattled me to my core. I’ve […]
Pi Pico 2 Extreme Teardown
Raspberry Pi released a new bit of silicon, the RP2350, and associated Pico 2 assembly. Let’s take a look! The pico2 assembly is very similar to the pico with three bits of silicon: A RP2350 which contains the newest silicon design from Raspberry PI A Richtek RT6150 buck-boost power supply (interesting: the power supply on […]
The Power of Attraction: How Beauty Influences Startup Investments
Female entrepreneurs face greater challenges in raising venture capital compared to their male counterparts. Various studies have shown that they encounter conscious or unconscious biases from predominantly male investors. Additionally, less than 20 percent of early-stage investors are women. One of the consequences of this imbalance is that male-led start-ups receive almost 50 times more […]
Olivetti Programma 101: At the Origins of the Personal Computer
An Olivetti Programma 101, photo courtesy of Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia “Leonardo da Vinci”, Milan (CC BY-SA 4.0). At the origins of the Personal Computer: the Olivetti Programma 101 (1965) These days, Italy is not particularly renowned for its consumer electronics products; yet, there was a time, in the ’60s, when an Italian […]
MacOS X Malware Development
In today’s post, We’ll explore the process of designing and developing malware for macOS, which is a Unix-based operating system. We’ll use a classic approach to understanding Apple’s internals. To follow along, you should have a basic understanding of exploitation, as well as knowledge of C and Python programming, and some familiarity with low-level assembly […]
Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?
This blog is reserved for more serious things, and ordinarily I wouldn’t spend time on questions like the above. But much as I’d like to spend my time writing about exciting topics, sometimes the world requires a bit of what Brad Delong calls “Intellectual Garbage Pickup,” namely: correcting wrong, or mostly-wrong ideas that spread unchecked […]
Why is a Guillotine blade diagonal?
[this is a public draft] This is a theoretical counterpart to an experimental collaboration between KnowArt and Proper Printing to see if a diagonal guillotine blade cuts better than a horizontal one. [insert video’s here] A raised guillotine blade has a certain potential energy which is transferred to the contact point between the blade and […]
Los Angeles is in a 4-year sprint to deliver a car-free 2028 Olympics
With the Olympic torch extinguished in Paris, all eyes are turning to Los Angeles for the 2028 Olympics. The host city has promised that the next Summer Games will be “car-free.” For people who know Los Angeles, this seems overly optimistic. The car remains king in LA, despite growing public transit options. When LA hosted […]