The Rodin Museum and the French Ministry of Culture threaten freedom of information and public access to cultural heritage For the last seven years, I have been campaigning to establish and defend the public’s right to access all French national … Read more
A few days into making One Million Checkboxes I thought I’d been hacked. What was that doing in my database? A few hours later I was tearing up, proud of some brilliant teens. But let’s back up. Note – I’m … Read more
Yes, they throw snow. But the mechanical design of residential snowblowers is more interesting than it seems. In an earlier article on rural life, I talked about our adventures with snow. It’s not that we’re not used to the white … Read more
Abstract During the Renaissance period, hands were as important a focus of attention as the face was, because they were the only other visible area of the body. Hence, representation of the position of the hands became a decorative element … Read more
By Hannah Price and Tom Beal BBC News investigations A draft report uncovered by the BBC shows the Post Office spent £100m fighting sub-postmasters in court despite knowing its defence was untrue. The document reveals the Post Office was shown … Read more
The Secret Life of XY Monitors The Secret Life of XY Monitors By Jed Margolin During my time at Atari/Atari Games I worked on several XY games. This article represents what I know about XY Monitors. XY was … Read more
The result comes from the world of information theory, which provides a mathematical framework for understanding communication of all sorts. It’s an abstract and tidy field, in contrast to the complicated messiness of practical steganography. The worlds don’t often overlap, … Read more
Getting Started with networkQuality The networkQuality tool is a built-in tool released in macOS Monterey that can help diagnose network issues and measure network performance. In this post, we’ll go over how to use the networkQuality tool and some of … Read more
Several times I’ve heard opinions that many mass-market SSDs and HDDs don’t provide sufficient durability guarantees and Linux can do nothing with that. Namely, after an fsync() call recently modified data can still sit in the drive’s volatile write cache … Read more
In 1991 I was fourteen years old. It would be fair to say I was obsessed with computers. I proudly owned a brown ‘breadbox’ Commodore 64 with an exotic upgrade – an Oceanic 5.25” disk drive: In May that year, … Read more