U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth
One year ago, on 28 February 2025, Wikipedia user Moyogo updated the page for Angzarr with a citation to the type foundry H. Berthold AG’s 1950 symbol catalogue listing ⍼ as Azimut, Richtungswinkel, or “azimuth”, “direction angle”. Mystery solved!
Cloudflare Crawl Endpoint
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RISC-V Is Sloooow
About 3 months ago I started working with RISC-V port of Fedora Linux. Many things happened during that time. Triaging I went through the Fedora RISC-V tracker entries, triaged most of them (at the moment 17 entries left in NEW) and tried to handle whatever possible. Fedora packaging My usual way of working involves fetching sources of a […]
HyperCard discovery: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive (2022)
This page is a wiki. Please login or create an account to begin editing. Voyager Expanded Book (EB15)Neuromancer/Count Zero/Mona Lisa Overdriveby William Gibson This Voyager Expanded Books edition contains William Gibson’s Sprawl Trilogy–Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988). Also, it contains an afterword by the author that hasn’t been republished elsewhere […]
Widevine retiring its Cloud License Service (CLS)
What’s the Widevine CLS? Widevine’s CLS is a free Google-hosted option available to Widevine licensees to generate DRM licenses. This service endpoint allows content distributors to use Google’s infrastructure rather than fully operating their own Widevine licensing server or working with a third-party DRM vendor. For some, this has been a convenient entry point – […]
Agents that run while I sleep
I’ve been building agents that write code while I sleep. Tools like Gastown run for hours without me watching. Changes land in branches I haven’t read. A few weeks ago I realized I had no reliable way to know if any of it was correct: whether it actually does what I said it should do. […]
Mesh over Bluetooth LE, TCP, or Reticulum
Columba is a simple messaging and voice app for the Reticulum network on Android. Send LXMF messages and make LXST voice calls without relying on the internet, cell towers, or any central servers. Built with a native Android interface and Material Design 3, Columba brings mesh networking to your pocket in a familiar, easy-to-use package. […]
Billion-Parameter Theories
For most of human history, the things we couldn’t explain, we called mystical. The movement of stars, the trajectories of projectiles, the behavior of gases. Then, over the course of a few centuries, we pulled these phenomena into the domain of human inquiry. We called it science. What’s remarkable, in retrospect, is how terse those […]
Show HN: RunAnwhere – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon
Talk to your Mac, query your docs, no cloud required. RCLI is an on-device voice AI for macOS. A complete STT + LLM + TTS pipeline running natively on Apple Silicon — 43 macOS actions via voice, local RAG over your documents, sub-200ms end-to-end latency. No cloud, no API keys. Powered by MetalRT, a proprietary […]
From Braun T3 to Apple’s iPod
In the annals of design history, certain products stand out not just for their functionality but for the profound impact they have on shaping our relationship with technology. One such product is the Braun T3 pocket radio, a minimalist marvel that not only revolutionised portable audio but also served as a key inspiration for one […]