Terrence Malick’s Disciples
Why the auteur is the most influential director in Hollywood Paul Mescal in Hamnet, directed by Chloé Zhao, 2025. Photo by Bruno Engler, courtesy Paramount Pictures In the winter of 2024, the photographer and filmmaker RaMell Ross released Nickel Boys, a masterful adaptation of a novel by Colson Whitehead. In a fragmentary, impressionistic style, the […]
Un-Redactor
A PDF editing tool that lets you put your own information over a redaction box. This tool is for forensics purposes. It does not ”recover” data truly destroyed by redaction tools. What it does do is allow you to write over a redaction box. Like white-out. You can select a redaction box, and select all […]
Help My c64 caught on fire
I flew back to Italy for the Christmas holidays, as I usually do. Here I have my childhood c64, on which I learend how to program, and which in the last few years I took to refurbishing.In general, everytime I’m back to my parent’s place I spend some time fixing and sorting out things, and […]
2025 was the year Xbox died
Want to see a dead body? I present to you the Xbox. After a subdued launch at the height of the COVID pandemic in 2020, the Xbox Series X quickly lost the fight against the PlayStation 5. Microsoft simply couldn’t deliver enough compelling games, despite some huge acquisitions, while Sony leaned on its goodwill from […]
Clock Synchronization Is a Nightmare
Time seems simple. But we engineers lose sleep over something as basic as keeping clocks in sync. Here’s why… The answer lies in this one simple statement – there is no global clock. When you have thousands of machines spread across data centers, continents, and time zones, each operating independently, the simple question of “what […]
Volvo Centum is Dalton Maag’s new typeface for Volvo
Volvo will celebrate its centennial in 2027 and the company is already starting to ramp up the celebrations. Last year saw the opening of the World of Volvo in Gothenburg, a vast circular timber structure designed by Scandinavian design specialists Henning Larsen. Volvo Centum typeface by Dalton Maag (Image credit: Volvo) 2026 will see another […]
We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)
Part 2 of our video streaming saga. Read Part 1: How we replaced WebRTC with WebSockets → Let me tell you about the time we spent three months building a gorgeous, hardware-accelerated, WebCodecs-powered, 60fps H.264 streaming pipeline over WebSockets… …and then replaced it with grim | curl when the WiFi got a bit sketchy. I […]
Towards a secure peer-to-peer app platform for Clan
While most of the existing Clan framework is dedicated to machine and service management, there’s more on the horizon. Our mission is to make sure peer-to-peer, user-controlled, community software can beat Big Tech solutions. That’s why we’re working on platform fundamentals that would open the way for our FOSS stack to match the usability and […]
Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS
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Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve’s Steam Deck on its servers
An interesting anecdote from this month’s Linux Plumbers Conference in Tokyo is that Meta (Facebook) is using the Linux scheduler originally designed for the needs of Valve’s Steam Deck… On Meta Servers. Meta has found that the scheduler can actually adapt and work very well on the hyperscaler’s large servers. SCX-LAVD as the Latency-criticality Aware […]