Nearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Contain Residential Proxy SDKs
Everyone worries about the apps on their phone. Almost no one looks at the ones on their TV. We scanned 6,038 of them across LG and Samsung; 2,058 were selling your IP address. On screen, it’s a relaxing fish tank. Or a clock. Or solitaire. Or puppies. Under the hood, it is a residential proxy: […]
Jobs and Software Is Fucked
Jobs and Software is Fucked – On Games And Design Home Blog 19 Jun, 2026 Or how I decided to scream into the void about how awful the job market is. I’m still in a very sour mood after the latest rounds of interviews but ultimately this is my blog and a way to let […]
Japanese symbols that speak without words
In modern life, we are surrounded by symbols that guide our everyday movements. When I’m driving, the red octagonal sign on the street reminds me to stop even before I read the word on the sign. And similarly, other street signs signal their meaning through their shape and their color far more than the exact […]
British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres
On March 8, 2026, British Columbia moved their clocks to a year-round Pacific Daylight Savings Time. In March, they did the spring forward one hour with their clocks to UTC-7, but they won’t fall back to UTC-8 in November. Going forward, the UTC offset for America/Vancouver timezone is permanently UTC-7. Let’s use this as an […]
Optocam Zero: a Pi Zero based digital camera made using off the shelf components
Optocam Zero is a Raspberry Pi Zero based compact digital camera made using off the shelf components. I designed Optocam Zero to have a very compact, carry everywhere and have fun sort of camera. As I was inspired by Kodak charmera and similar toy cameras, I wanted it to be feel playful, enjoyable and be […]
Canada is looking to build up to 10 new nuclear reactors over the next 15 years
Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Canada is looking to build up to 10 new nuclear reactors over the next 15 years, sell Canadian-made reactors to more […]
Five monitors on a Commodore 128 [video]
Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration (2025)
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Hellishly Slow Level 13 Deflate Compression
Abstract DEFLATE level 13 is a deliberately impractical libdeflate compression level: the output remains standard DEFLATE, while the encoder spends far more time searching parse, Huffman, and block split choices. On Silesia it saves 86’990 bytes, 0.134%, over level 12 and runs 56.4x slower; this cost is acceptable only when data is compressed once and […]
A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. If you’re any kind of car geek, you have a wild gift car fantasy. You meet a bitter divorcee who gives away an ex’s prized machine out of pure spite; or maybe […]