No vibe coding needed. Many years ago, my friend, a new yet overly-confident web developer, pulled the entire list of usernames and passwords from the back-end when the login page opened. It was to “check if password is correct faster”.

(And yes, he stored passwords in plaintext)

Check out postmarketOS

Another Android fork like eOS or iodeOS, but this time, it’s different, we promise!

When I was taught that Philo Farnsworth, a “farmer” who “invented” television by using the idea of plowing a field in parallel lines to display an image, I was completely dumbfounded. A farmer figured out how to build a vacuum tube, fire an electron beam, deflect it at phosphor-coated surface, and do so in lines, varying the intensity, to display an image? This simplistic “history” skips about 50 years of progress in vacuum tube design and absolutely fascinating mechanical television.

On that note, The Upright Thinkers by Leonard Mlodinow is a good book about scientific progress, and really drives a point about incremental nature progress.

Are there plans to produce ARIA commercially? (All i saw in the article is about the prototype) Looks like a DIY Honda CR-Z, in a good way.

There was a cool Sono Sion project, a smallish boxy EV that comes with a repair manual, solar panels for topping off the battery, and power-sharing mechanic to power another EV or a home. But they either ran out of money or could not set up manufacturing.

Another fantastic short story is The Sleepover. Most of humanity is in hibernation and is being haunted by ethereal lovecraftian entities.

Turquoise Days was the first short story I read by him, and I think it could make a fun movie.

The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei. Main part of the story takes place on a generation ship that has been sabotaged, but there are multiple flashbacks to MC’s childhood, astronaut training, politics and climate of the time. Pretty interesting so far.

More of a self-directed way, but check out eBird for submitting bird observations and iNaturalist for almost everything else. The cool part about iNaturalist is that your observations also get identified by other people, so you know the submissions have been reviewed. And you could help identify others’ observations too.

These are great reviews. Some of the books are on my to-read list for this year, so I appreciate the lack of spoilers. Do you keep these on a blog or anywhere else? I’d be interested to follow.

I’ve been keeping a similar list: https://yaky.dev/reads/

Truly important. Read about it in Big Whoop magazine.

Just an anecdote, but recently, there have been many “crochet” 3D models posted to 3D printing sites. (Many of those are marked as AI-generated, too) Those look nothing like a crochet toy would look like. These models have a yarn-looking “V” pattern applied to every surface of 3D model, but this pattern comes not from crochet, but from hand-knit blankets (as far as I can tell).

IIRC the “migratorius” part is only partially true, they migrate, but relatively short distances, so their year-round range is still pretty much the entire continental US.

They do gather into flocks in fall-winter and then split back into pairs in spring-summer, which is interesting.

I have to perform a context switch between “v” and “w” sounds, so words and phrases that contain both (e.g: “very well”) sometimes end up with only “w” sounds. (My native language does not have a regular “W” sound)

But even after 20 years speaking it, English pronunciation is complete nonsense. Most of the time, you just need to memorize the words. Because trying to figure out how to say something, you also need to know if the word is borrowed from any other languages that use Latin alphabet, and then pronouce it pretending to speak that language. Simplest example: Mocha (moh-ka) and matcha (maht-cha). But there are countless borrowed words that don’t change spelling in English.

The most similar all-permeating changes I could think of would be the surveillance (“targeted”) advertising that slowly took over most of the web. Just like the AI craze, users did not get a choice of whether it is enabled, but unlike AI, it mostly happened behind the scenes.

Real ABS turns white/grey too, from both stress and acetone (in liquid form, vapor does not seem to discolor it).

IMO, some of the popular trends are fetishization of being poor. Open floor plans ≈ small apartments. Farmhouse / country style / industrial ≈ simplicity and scraping by.

People were also (allegedly) terrified of The Arrival of a Train, but soon realized it is all just pictures and there is no train.

For me, it was not monthly, but rather “when it bites you in the ass”.

• Delete all empty rooms and federated rooms without local users.
• Clean up state_groups_state table.
• Delete old media.

All of this is made worse by having more active users and made better by having a large hard drive (my VPS had 20GB, which I almost filled up with the db and media after a few years, with only few users)

Fake it! Make the phone think it has a charged battery: https://yaky.dev/2022-09-06-smartphone-without-battery/

Hey, just stumbled upon this too, Android4Lumia, and 520 is one of the supported devices: https://android4lumia.github.io/downloads.html