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llui85on Google's Project Nimbus is the future of evil

The Intercept seems to have a few more details:

https://theintercept.com/2022/07/24/google-israel-artificial...

llui85on Tell HN: Heroku alternatives with generous free tiers

Alwaysdata has a free plan:

https://www.alwaysdata.com/en/

llui85on Psychomorph – Facial morphing, texture prototyping, feature detection (2013)

A basic guide: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Clare-Sutherland/public...

llui85on “Stranger Things” creators admits editing past seasons without viewers noticing

https://archive.ph/nMAtr

llui85on Kindle, ePub, and Amazon’s love of reinventing wheels

Kobo's firmware is very open, although it's technical enough that your average (non-developer) end-user would have trouble modifying. You upload a `KoboRoot.tgz` file to a hidden folder when it's plugged into USB, which is extracted to the root directory of the device (which is linux + busybox, with a QT gui 'nickel'). Newer FW versions also have a development telnet server which can be enabled in settings.

The MobileRead forums are where most of the unofficial discussion/development happens: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=223

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=247

llui85on Ask HN: What hyper-focused industry newsletters do you enjoy?

Stefan Judis' newsletter about web development is pretty good: https://www.stefanjudis.com/

llui85on Articles from arXiv.org as responsive HTML5 web pages

So do I (on iOS), it seems to be caused by the math overflowing the page.

llui85on Serious flaws in the way Samsung phones encrypt key material in TrustZone

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1495935700545454084.html

llui85on Ask HN: Why don't more software projects use BitTorrent for downloads?

Musescore is planning to use P2P sharing to download sample libraries (>1gb) and updates in version 4 (coming in the next few months).

llui85on Ask HN: Can we ban Twitter links, please?

What about rewriting links to Nitter?

https://nitter.net/about

llui85on Safari now supports File System Access API with private origin

This is fantastic! How haven't I heard of this before?

Does anyone know if there's a list of small, little-known extensions just like this?

llui85on Why We Banned Legos (2006)

I'm on mobile, I think everyone else has an adblocker.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201206142006if_/https://rethin...

llui85on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2021)

Just letting you know that the Google Doc hasn't been shared properly, you need to set it to "Anyone with the link can view" (nobody can access it).