I would never betray the trust of customers, says man perhaps doing exactly that Comment Some would argue he has broken every ethical and moral rule of his in his profession, but genealogist Bennett Greenspan prefers to see himself as a crime-fighter.…
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The Living Computers museum in Seattle has a Xerox Alto, the machine famous for being the first to sport a mouse-based windowing graphical user interface. They received it in working condition and put it in their exhibit, but were dismayed when a year later it ceased to operate. Some detective work revealed that the power supply was failing to reach parts of the machine, and further investigation revealed an unlikely culprit. Electromigration had degraded the…
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NBC News published a predictably viral story Friday, claiming that “experts who track websites and social media linked to Russia have seen stirrings of a possible campaign of support for Hawaii Democrat Tulsi Gabbard.” But the whole story was a sham: the only “experts” cited by NBC in support of its key claim was the firm, New Knowledge, that just got caught by the New York Times fabricating Russian troll accounts on behalf of the Democratic…
Release YouTube, you beast! (credit: 123pendejos) The latest beleaguered Google product to get a death date is Google+. Google’s controversial Facebook clone is shutting down on April 2. Google has been backing away from the service for years, but it gave the site a death sentence in October, after revelations of a data leak were made public. Now we have a concrete shutdown date for the service. Google’s support page details exactly how the G+…
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One of the most influential ideas in urbanism today is that the key to addressing the housing crisis is reforming zoning and building codes to allow for taller buildings and higher population densities.A growing chorus of market urbanists and YIMBYs make the case: Restrict supply, and demand and therefore prices go up. So, it follows, liberalizing codes to make it easier to build—and to permit taller, denser structures—will increase supply and cause prices to fall,…
One of the most common questions we get asked is why I started Purism. And given the growing importance of Purism’s mission amid the barrage of news about how large tech companies are surveilling and exposing their users, it seemed like an opportune time to share our origin story, and why I felt it was important to create this alternative to the status quo. When my first daughter was born, in 2007, her birth had…
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When Trump FCC Chairman (and former telcoms executive) Ajit Pai murdered Net Neutrality, he told us the slaughter was necessary, otherwise the ISPs wouldn’t invest in their networks. A year later, Charter has joined Comcast in announcing major cuts to its capital expenditures budget, slashing spending from $8.9 billion under Net Neutrality to $7 billion under Net Discrimination, which allows the company to extort funds from online services on pain of having their data slowed…
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The E3D #ToolChangerHello everyone, and welcome to a new year and an exciting step forward in the world of 3D Printing and in this case > ‘desktop manufacturing’ <I’m delighted to be diving in to building and using (hopefully not ‘destruction-testing’) the E3D ToolChanger.Quick Jump Index I’ll update this list as I post more blogs and video’s about the ToolChanger adventures.Part 1 – First ToolChanger Post – Introduction and un-boxing.Next post – Motion System Assembly -…
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The power of fuckbonnet, shitsquib, fuckstumbling, douchenozzle, Fuckface von Clownstick, shitwhistle, cockbucket, can be captured through a simple formula: the “pyrrhic foot” of a “familiar profanity compounded with a non-profane word of two unaccented syllables.” The formula is especially good for coming up with nongendered swears that are not slurs, which is useful if you’re trying to insult an individual, rather than give offense to a whole demographic category, gender, or nationality. The best of…
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The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida has reanimated Salvador Dalí as a deepfake video experience. The “Dalí Lives” video installation opens in April on screens throughout the galleries. As Dali once said, “[I] believe in general death but in the death of Dalí absolutely not. [I] believe in my death becoming almost impossible.” From a press release: The Museum began this immersive project by collecting and sharing hundreds of interviews, quotes, and existing archival…
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GNU Guile will be present this year again at FOSDEM, which is just a few days away. The Guiler’s lair this time (in addition to the Guix Days right before FOSDEM for some of us!) will be the minimalist languages track. Among the great talks this Saturday, don’t miss:Andy Wingo on the upcoming Guile 3, featuring just-in-time compilation—we had a sneak preview with the release of 2.9.1 a couple of months ago!Christopher Lemmer Webber, who is well…
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GNU Guile will be present this year again at FOSDEM, which is just a few days away. The Guiler’s lair this time (in addition to the Guix Days right before FOSDEM for some of us!) will be the minimalist languages track. Among the great talks this Saturday, don’t miss:Andy Wingo on the upcoming Guile 3, featuring just-in-time compilation—we had a sneak preview with the release of 2.9.1 a couple of months ago!Christopher Lemmer Webber, who is well…
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Voter fraud is extremely rare. States using unreliable data to justify purges of eligible voters, unfortunately, is not. The president of the United States is once again spreading unsubstantiated claims about rampant voter fraud and undermining faith in the integrity of our democracy. This time, he’s claiming that 95,000 noncitizens were registered to vote in Texas and more than half have actually voted. These numbers, he concluded, are “just the tip of the iceberg.” Unsurprisingly,…
American Bridge and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee recently declared publicly that they will do everything they can to injure Howard Schultz if he runs for president in 2020 as an independent. See this story. Also, on January 28, Andrew Tanenbaum, who founded the web page electoral-vote.com, wrote “Democrats are not powerless to stop Schultz if they really want to. They have a trifecta in 14 states, including Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Colorado, Illinois, New…
Since even before he took office, President Trump has called for a physical wall along the southern border of the United States. Many different organizations have argued this isn’t a great idea. In response, some Congressional Democrats have suggested turning to surveillance technology to monitor the border instead of a physical barrier. Without specific legislative proposals, it’s hard to know what these suggestions actually mean. However, any bill Congress considers related to border security should avoid–at minimum–invasive surveillance…
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By Wade Allison Emeritus Professor of Physics at Keble College, Oxford A canary, alive and singing in the coal mine, gave miners confidence that the air was safe to breathe. But today our problem is not carbon monoxide in a mine but carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and oceans. The Industrial Revolution was built on fossil fuel, its high energy density and reliability. Now, faced with climate change, we should give it up! But what…
Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext:To the best of my knowledge, the only thing philosophy has ever proven is that Descartes could think.Today’s News:
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Here at Hackaday, we love knobs and buttons. So what could be better than one button? How about 16! No deep philosophy about the true nature of Making here; [infovore], [tehn], and [shellfritsch] put together a very slick, very adaptable bank of 16 analog faders for controlling music synthesis. If you don’t recognize those names it might help to mention that [tehn] is one of the folks behind monome, a company built on their iconic grid…
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