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svag··on A software thing I built: GPS on a 25MHz 486-SX
I believe the library mentioned in the article should be this one https://geodyssey.github.io/overview/overview.html and here https://www.lukatela.com/geodyssey/
svag··on Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor
It remains to produce the flux capacitor for time travel now :P
svag··on Debug Project
"Life, uh, finds a way."

Dr. Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park

svag··on Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction
There are 2 Tutle WoW forum posts worth sharing

* Open Letter to Blizzard Entertainment - https://forum.turtlecraft.gg/viewtopic.php?t=22444&sid=72e3e...

* A Journey's End - https://forum.turtlecraft.gg/viewtopic.php?t=24891&sid=72e3e...

svag··on OpenRocket
[Ardupilot|https://ardupilot.org/] maybe? It's for controlling the drones, but I think it has simulators as well.
svag··on What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)
Not related to this story, but this one https://milk.com/true-stories/stupid_computer_users.txt was hilarious :)
svag··on Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)
I recently saw it as a play in a theater, and although I had my reservations regarding this, the result was an interesting experience. The minimalist staging shifted the focus to the performances and the emotional weight of the story, highlighting the quiet persistence of hope.

The title of the play also differed from the movie, Rita Hayworth: Last Exit, which feels somewhat like a spoiler. I believe this was the title used by the Greek distributor.

svag··on Earth from Space: The Fate of a Giant
FYI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A23a
svag··on Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction
So is this like https://comma.ai/ but for bigger vehicles?
svag··on Eleven v3
This is kind offtopic (although it's a text to speed model so it might not be so offtopic :)), but the eleven word reminds me of the comedy sketch with the voice recognition technology on an elevator in Scotland, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbDnxzrbxn4.
svag··on I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs
There is a nice standup sketch from an Australian comedy group, the Axis of Evil, that most of the pop songs are using only four chords, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I
svag··on A Raycaster in Bash
There are https://lodev.org/cgtutor/raycasting2.html and https://lodev.org/cgtutor/raycasting3.html just FYI
svag··on Man ran 700 miles to make 'insanely impressive' art on GPS fitness app
All those GPS art pieces reminded me of Nazca lines in Peru, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_lines. Are the GPS art pieces a modern version of Nazca lines?
svag··on No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains
This is a very interesting article. I suppose something similar can be made for vehicles entering a tunnel, where eventually will lose the GNSS signal.

I have noticed that a year ago or so, Google Maps app would lose the GNSS signal and stop updating the position while there was no signal. But now I have noticed that the position is updated, although is not accurate. I wonder if something similar has been implemented...

svag··on One Square Minesweeper
On the right bottom corner says that it's part of Useless Web Project, https://theuselessweb.com/, which has more interesting "useless" games...
svag··on Throwable tactical camera transmits 360° panoramic thermal images
The footage of the camera looks like an IR cut filter of a daylight camera rather than a thermal camera...
svag··on Reverse Engineering for Everyone
This brought back memories when I was reading reversing tutorials from searchlores.org and fravia.com...

It's in web archive now, https://web.archive.org/web/20191201105759/http://search.lor...

svag··on An animated introduction to Fourier series
Some explanation about Fourier transform can be found in the Feynman lectures here, https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_50.html
svag··on WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics
For anyone who wants to find more information regarding treemaps, which are used in this application, this link https://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap-history/ has some history about treemaps and here https://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap/demos/ you can find a Java implementation where you can play
svag··on Veo
An interesting thing that Google does is to watermark the AI generated videos using the [SynthID technology](https://deepmind.google/technologies/synthid/).

It seems that the SynthID is not only for AI generated video but for image, text and audio.

svag··on Object oriented design patterns in the Linux kernel (2011)
This is the second part https://lwn.net/Articles/446317/
svag··on ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format
The tool that it's being used for this offering is this one, https://github.com/arXiv/arxiv-readability, just to save a few clicks :)
svag··on Rainbow Net Wi-Fi protocol for connecting old consoles to the Internet
There is a Rainbow Toolbox, https://github.com/BrokeStudio/RainbowToolBox, which might be useful.

See more info here, https://github.com/BrokeStudio/RainbowToolBox#rainbow-tool-b...

svag··on Open source app to watch videos from any platform
Checking at the https://futo.org/, there is a number of other projects worth checking

* [Circles](https://circu.li/): A private photo sharing feed for families.

* [FUTO Voice](https://github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions): A voice input app for Android that respects your privacy.

* [Polycentric](https://docs.polycentric.io/): A distributed text-based social network centered around communities.

* [Live Captions](https://github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions): Accessible live captions that are completely private. It seems that Live Captions are the same with FUTO Voice.

svag··on Open source app to watch videos from any platform
Here is another link to the actual product and not source code, https://grayjay.app/
svag··on WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight
When I am on a flight and the flight does not provide the flight information, I am using the OsmAnd, https://osmand.net/, to monitor the flight altitude, speed and direction.
svag··on Helicopter Footage Reveals State Trooper Surveillance Capabilities
It seems that this, https://esg.de/en/blog/a/156/2019-02-14-esg-bietet-small-mis... might be the software that is being used there.
svag··on Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Thanks to Microsoft
There is also this site, https://x.company, which is a division of Google / Alphabet... It will be very confusing...
svag··on Brain images just got 64 million times sharper
So, if the normal MRI machines are the Hubble of medical imaging, this new MRI machine is the James Webb of medical imaging?
svag··on For police PR flacks, quack lives matter
For a split second I thought that this article was AI generated... :)
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