DIY 40FPS 16bpp Platformer on a Cortex M0+ Hackaday

Sep 032019
 

Sure, you can play a bunch of retro games on a Raspberry Pi, but if you’re really hardcore, you build your own retro console and write your own games for it. [Nicola Wrachien]’s entry into this year’s Hackaday prize is his DIY Cortex M0+ game console and the platform game he wrote to test the hardware. The board that [Nicola] is using is the uChip, a small DIP board based around a ATSAMD21 (the same…

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It’s a Good Sign That the Financial Times Is Worried About Jeremy Corbyn Jacobin

Sep 022019
 

Under Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party plans to distribute not just wealth, but power, to working people. No wonder the bosses’ press is concerned. Jeremy Corbyn on May 20, 2017. Andy Miah / Flickr The Financial Times’ front-page headline today presumably wasn’t meant to fire up Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour support base, but there’s no doubt it’s done that. By putting an astonishing £300bn value on Labour’s worker ownership proposals, the paper has put rocket boosters…

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Evidence Presented to US House Committee on Likelihood of Flawed Georgia Vote-Counting Process in 2018 Ballot Access News

Sep 012019
 

The U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee is investigating Georgia’s vote-counting machines’ performance in the November 2018 election. According to this story by Salon’s Executive Editor, Andrew O’Hehir, new evidence shows especially suspicious evidence about how the machines performed in … Continue reading →

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US Sanctions Are Designed to Kill Jacobin

Sep 012019
 

US sanctions are killing ordinary Iranians by the thousands. Through its control over the world banking system, America’s sanctioning power flouts international human rights law and poses a threat to the world. Donald Trump signs an executive order imposing sanctions on Iran in the Oval Office at the White House on June 24, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson / Getty Images) Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif recently visited the Group of Seven (G7)…

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Uber, Lyft and DoorDash put $30m apiece into ballot battle fund to kill gig-economy employee benefits The Register

Aug 312019
 

We love our employees, sorry, contractors, so much we’ll spend a small fortune stopping them from getting overtime, workers’ comp etc Gig-economy giants Uber, Lyft and Doordash have put $30m apiece into a new fund to push a new California ballot measure that would prevent their workers get ordinary benefits like a minimum wage, overtime, workers’ compensation and so on.…

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North Carolina Lawsuit Filed to Challenge Petition Requirements for Independent Candidates Ballot Access News

Aug 312019
 

On August 30, a federal lawsuit was filed against certain North Carolina ballot access laws that affect independent candidates. The plaintiffs are Kyle Kopitke, an independent running for president; and Greg Buscemi, an independent candidate for U.S. House. Kopitke v Bell, e.d., 7:19cv-164-D. The lawsuit challenges the February petition deadlines for independent candidates, which has existed since early 2017. It also challenges the number of signatures, both for statewide independent candidates and candidates for U.S.…

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Ring has more than 400 police “partnerships,” company finally says Ars Technica

Aug 292019
 

Enlarge / Ring video doorbell. (credit: Ring) Amazon’s Ring business has been drawing headlines for its partnerships with police departments nationwide. These arrangements are mutually beneficial: law enforcement gets access to a sprawling, growing surveillance network it doesn’t have to maintain, and Ring gets a marketing boost to sell its products. Reporters and security researchers have been trying for months to figure out exactly how many of these partnerships Ring has, but the company has…

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Maine Legislature Passes Ranked Choice for Presidential Primaries and President in General Election Ballot Access News

Aug 272019
 

Late on August 26, the Maine Senate passed LD 1083, which says the state will use ranked choice voting for president, both in presidential primaries and in the general election. The bill now goes to the Governor. Thanks to Rob … Continue reading →

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A Major Labor Union Just Endorsed Bernie Sanders Motherboard

Aug 272019
 

Despite a crowded Democratic primary field and a flurry of high stakes primary races scheduled for February, major labor unions have have been unusually cautious to endorse any candidates, taking their time to vet over 20 contenders. But on Monday, United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE), a 35,000-worker industrial union, announced it is throwing its support behind Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. The endorsement arrives just one day after Sanders rallied with striking…

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ICE Just Renewed Its Contract With Palantir Motherboard

Aug 212019
 

Immigration and Customs Enforcement just renewed its contract with Palantir, a data aggregation company, despite protests from organizers demanding that the agency ends its relationship with the company, according to a document published to a government contract database Monday. Since 2014, Palantir has provided the software that powers ICE’s Investigative Case Management System, which has been used to organize raids and deportations against undocumented people and build cases against them that can be used in…

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Hubert ‘depesz’ Lubaczewski: Waiting for PostgreSQL 13 – Add support for –jobs in reindexdb Planet PostgreSQL

Jul 312019
 

On 27th of July 2019, Michael Paquier committed patch: Add support for –jobs in reindexdb   When doing a schema-level or a database-level operation, a list of relations to build is created which gets processed in parallel using multiple connections, based on the recent refactoring for parallel slots in src/bin/scripts/. System catalogs are processed first … Continue reading “Waiting for PostgreSQL 13 – Add support for –jobs in reindexdb”

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Capital One gets Capital Done: Hacker swipes personal info on 106 million US, Canadian credit card applicants The Register

Jul 302019
 

More than 1 million social numbers nicked among other details – FBI collars, charges software engineer A hacker raided Capital One’s cloud storage buckets and stole personal information on 106 million credit card applicants in America and Canada.…

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2600’s Hackers on Planet Earth con needs your help because the Hotel Pennsylvania has tripled its fees Boing Boing

Jul 302019
 

Aestetix sez, “2600 Magazine has hosted the biennial Hackers On Planet Earth conference since 1994. However, for 2020 the host hotel, the Hotel Pennsylvania, has tripled the fee charged to the conference. Rather than raising ticket prices and making the event inaccessible to all but the rich, HOPE is reaching out to the community to help solve the crisis.” HOPE is the most politically engaged, progressive hacker con, a true gem. I really hope they…

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Meet Shahid Buttar, Pelosi’s Left-Wing Challenger Jacobin

Jul 282019
 

Nancy Pelosi is facing a primary challenge from a civil rights lawyer who supports the Green New Deal and Medicare for All. Knocking her off would be a resounding win for the Left. Shahid Buttar is launching a primary challenge to Nancy Pelosi. Republished from Jewish Currents. Last week, Shahid Buttar, a 45-year-old San Francisco attorney, visited San Diego to investigate human rights violations at the Mexican border — abuses in which, he says, House Speaker…

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Add An Ant To Your Desk For Some Compact PCB Manufacturing Hackaday

Jul 272019
 

Usually when one thinks of using a CNC machine for producing PCBs, one thinks of those big, bulky CNC machines that pretty much fill an entire desk. But what if a CNC machine could be small enough to fit on a desk without getting in the way, yet still be useful enough to make single- and double-sided PCBs? This was the idea behind The Ant, the compact PCB manufacturing machine which [Mattia] and [Angelo] designed…

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Improved rendering of mathematical expressions in Cantor Planet KDE

Jul 242019
 

Hello everyone!In the previous post I mentioned that the render of mathematical expressions in Cantor has bad performance. This heavily and negatively influences user experience. With my recent code changes I addressed this problem and it should be solved now. In this blog post I wand to provide some details on what was done.First, I want to show some numbers proving the performance improvements. For example, loading of the notebook “Rigid-body transformations in a plane…

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Climate Activists from Extinction Rebellion Glued Themselves to the Capitol to Disrupt House Votes The Intercept

Jul 242019
 

On Tuesday evening, members of the Washington, D.C., chapter of Extinction Rebellion superglued themselves to each other and to the passages connecting the Capitol to the Rayburn and Cannon office buildings, where House members have their offices. The protesters, who are part of an international group that uses nonviolent civil disobedience tactics to advocate for action on climate change, aimed to confront House members on their way to floor votes. Many of the protesters, who…

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