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azubinski··on No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers
Because the web is getting more and more boring... If you embed this toy in any terminal browser so that every opened page is "decrypted", you get something very very funny :)
azubinski··on The past is not true
It is too convenient wisdom to be real wisdom.
azubinski··on No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers
:)

This is for the lonely boring nights...

azubinski··on Cool Retro Terminal
It's really made with love.
azubinski··on Asynchronous Rust on Cortex-M microcontrollers
It's different and very old story.

Protothreads are classic now: https://dunkels.com/adam/pt/index.html

Contiki OS is also a piece of embedded development classic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contiki

In general, it's more about syntax than semantics. Semantics is generally difficult and rarely changes.

azubinski··on Nobody cares about your blog
Yes, your blog is not interesting to anyone. Even the search engines are not interested in it, because they are not looking for something interesting. And HRs are not interested in it, because HRs generally do formal work and they are not interested in details. And the worst person in any crowd is the one who sticks to everyone "did you read my blog?".

It's true.

But people blog and will do it because...

azubinski··on Teddit Is Shutting Down
Maybe yes, maybe no, it doesn't matter.

The business model matters. The answer to the question: how does the platform earn to maintain its work?

If there is an answer and it is explicit (no matter what it is and how much someone likes or dislikes the business model), it is much better than if there is no answer or it is implicit.

Because everything implicit and muddy can be the basis of anything, for example, of hidden but paid propaganda. The injection of ideas is not so annoying at the initial stage, a good nurse gives painless injections. But then the substance will certainly begin to act. A harmless substance may cause a desire for spontaneous purchase and is therefore generally safe. But harmful substances are different ...

Intrusive ads are the lesser of evils. If we think about it well, of course.

azubinski··on The internet didn’t kill counterculture, it's just not on Instagram (2021)
In order for the syntax of the word "counterculture" to be semantic, it is necessary that there be semantics for the word "culture".

Therefore, the question arises - is there any semantics of the word "culture" in the syntax-semantics of the word "Instagram"?

And, it turns out that there is the possibility of searching for "the denial of what cannot be at all" :)

azubinski··on Commit Mono – Neutral programming typeface
The font and site both are very nice (nostalgic navigation made me smile). Thanks!
azubinski··on The 90s Developer Starter Pack
Topspeed Modula-2

Xtree

It was a little earlier, but it's still nice to remember. Yeah, today it's still cool and not like anything else :)

azubinski··on A Japanese factory that designs clothes on a 40-year-old computer [video]
They make kimonos.

I don't know the specific requirements for kimono fabrics, but I suspect there are. Accordingly, they use special weaving machines. These machines are clearly made to order in extremely limited quantities. Tape cassettes and punched tapes are attributes of the control subsystem of these machines.

For fabric design, they use Photoshop (is it like Photoshop?) and a completely modern PC.

That is, they do everything right and in the right way. There is no point in changing machines if the machines are doing their job, especially if they are doing their job according to unique requirements.

Upgrading this system just for the sake of upgrading will either bankrupt the company or lead to the creation of something completely different that is clearly not wanted by consumers.

But here's what's really interesting - what heads are in their tape recorders and what kind of tape do they use in cassettes, that all this can withstand the production cycle? This is really impressive.

azubinski··on Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya, a great Russian writer of the nineteenth century
Nothing pleases as much as the contemplation of hackers deeply fascinated by the old and interesting only to a handful of very specific literary critics literature.

But precisely because of these links to absolutely wonderful resources, any curious observer from this mournful world can cheer herself up for a couple of minutes.

For example, is it possible not to laugh at such a description: "lives and sometimes writes [geographical location, not publication]. Ostensibly, ... working on a novel about a woman who inexplicably births a sheepdog".

Who would be interested in ancient literature in a world where there are such characters? LOL

azubinski··on The Never Married, a New Normal
Well, extinction is also a form of evolution.
azubinski··on The Engineer’s Predicament
"Modern computing is inconceivable without U.S. imperialism"

"We pay $2,000 for essays"

No advertisement, no signs of any commercial activity.

Beautiful.

azubinski··on Who Would Choose Socialism?
"The kibbutzim are now a very comfortable alternative"...

"Robert Nozick ... teaches philosophy at Harvard. He recently spent a year in Jerusalem".

Why is this so funny?

azubinski··on Beware of AI pseudoscience and snake oil
"To forestall having a “dasvidaniya comrade” moment where a self-aware GPT-5 shoves an icepick into their ear, Trotsky-style, they put together a ‘red team’ that tested whether GPT-4 was capable of ‘escaping’ or turning on its masters in some way"

You can agree with the author, you can disagree with the author, but he has a Style.

azubinski··on The Windscale Fire: Britain's 'Chernobyl' (2019)
"...resulted in a tragedy worse than Chernobyl"

Tragedies are tragedies, and only scoundrels compete on the scale of tragedies.

But in fairness, this accident was small compared to Chernobyl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire

azubinski··on The King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
Swans were lucky, for several centuries they were protected by the Crown from indiscriminate and barbaric extermination.

But progressive communist China, for example, declared sparrows to be enemies of the people, and with the full support of the people, the sparrows were exterminated in an orderly and barbaric manner.

This world is far from linearity.

azubinski··on Why are lithium prices collapsing?
Quite possibly, it's all about simple arithmetic which has always been a bit of a challenge for the brave marketing.

Let's assume the data is correct and only three countries produce 119 thousand tons of lithium per year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_lithium_p...

Let's assume "from the internet" estimate is at least somewhat correct, and the average EV battery contains 10kg of lithium (this is rounding up the more common 8kg estimate to make it easier to count).

The collapse in lithium prices could mean that the electric car market has been overvalued and that the actual production of electric cars is much lower than 12 million, because lithium batteries are not only used in cars.

Nothing, over time, prices will still begin to rise. Even though the technology and business of recycling lithium from used batteries will somehow develop.

And for sure, this decline will not affect the price of batteries in any way.

azubinski··on Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect/

It works as it should. I use two machines, one with KDE Neon, one with Gnome Fedora, and all my Android devices works great with both.

azubinski··on Study: ChatGPT outperforms physicians in quality, empathetic answers to patients
Let patients recover, because their blockchain certificates have not yet been completed, and now this ChatGPT begins...

https://www.lipscomb.edu/news/lipscomb-co-creates-blockchain...

azubinski··on LattePanda Announces Sigma, a 'Hackable Single Board Server'
But it's not as "hackable" as "hipsterable" if you can say so (and you can, of course).
azubinski··on Show HN: ScrapScript – A tiny functional language for sharable software
This is perhaps too bright for the gloom of recent months here.

Thanks to the author, this is a very exciting thing.

Of course, ligatures without the "disable ligature under a cursor" extension are slightly weird, but it even adds charm, we're on a site "for hackers" (laughing).

So, well, what kind of a ChatGPT can come up with something like that? :)

azubinski··on I wrote a tool in Go to write Sequence Diagrams in Go
My respect to the author for the principled position.
azubinski··on Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (2011)
Most likely this is not one person and most likely they do not smoke anything.

This is very similar to one of Dugin's "long-running" and proactive projects.

azubinski··on FlipperZero: 1 Month Battery Life with Firmware Update
It's a very basic task in any kind of professional embedded development.
azubinski··on Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens
Has this really happened? But any BMW or Mazda driver who has both a touchscreen and a normal control field with physical buttons and knobs under his right hand knows perfectly well that a touchscreen is completely perfectly useless.
azubinski··on A.I. imagery may destroy history as we know it
Who manipulates the past in the eyes of the masses controls the future of these masses. So it has always been and so it will be. Only now it's much easier.

And nothing else happened for the most part. Just another new technique for "hyper retouching" and fake reality generating.

Authentication and stuff won't help because it's a mass "unique product" for mass consumption, no matter how strange it sounds.

azubinski··on People who use Notion to plan their whole lives
"Joshua Bergen is a very productive person. His secret is the workspace app Notion..."

sancta simplicitas

azubinski··on Second IC – Homemade 1000 transistor array chip (2021)
This kind of real passion deserves much more representation in the news.

May Atomic Semi be fine. May the God of Engineering bless them.

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