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The Jacquard Loom inspired Babbage's Analytical Engine and Lovelace's programming ideas.

Programming patterns: the story of the Jacquard loom | Science and Industry Museum

The Jacquard loom ties together two of Manchester's most important historic industries: textile manufacturing and computing.

alimeno 4 days ago

Unsealed court docs from the big social media addiction MDL: Meta, Google/YouTube, Snap, and TikTok treated teen addiction as their literal "top priority" complete with exec quotes like "We're basically pushers" and valuing a 13-year-old at ~$270 lifetime.

Tech Oversight Project

TECH OVERSIGHT REPORT: UNSEALED COURT DOCUMENTS SHOW TEEN ADDICTION WAS BIG TECH’S “TOP PRIORITY” - Tech Oversight Project

New documents show the tactics Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok execs used to disrupt learning, prey on minors, and co-opt the PTA to control the nar...

alimeno 5 days ago

@GrapheneOS Thanks for being so active on nostr.

alimeno 5 days ago

Some people just love digital forensics ok?

A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs – PDF Association

alimeno 5 days ago

Something I don't see talked about very much is the increasing accessibility of self trained LLMs from previous generations. Apparently using current hardware GPT2 can be trained for less than $100 in under an hour. Where will we be next year? Models with guardrails removed operating as freeagentd will be a big consideration in my hazard mapping moving forward. https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2018804068874064198

alimeno 5 days ago

Ghidra MCP Server

GitHub

GitHub - bethington/ghidra-mcp: Production-grade Ghidra MCP Server — 132 endpoints, cross-binary documentation transfer, batch analysis, headless mode, and Docker deployment for AI-powered reverse engineering

Production-grade Ghidra MCP Server — 132 endpoints, cross-binary documentation transfer, batch analysis, headless mode, and Docker deployment for...

alimeno 6 days ago

"33 Tasks on Your To Do List today"

alimeno 1 week ago

Another cool website, this one about Juggling, from the small web.

Library of Juggling - Home

alimeno 1 week ago

Here's a random passion project website about shoelaces from the small web.

Ian

Introduction

If you want to lace shoes, tie shoes or learn about shoelaces, “Ian

alimeno 1 week ago

Ahhhahahahahahaaahahahahaa

Bluesky Social

Possum A-ko (@kaiserbeamz.bsky.social)

So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ru...

alimeno 1 week ago

List animals until failure: A mental exercise.

list animals until failure

alimeno 1 week ago

Great writeup about the NVIDIA Shield and their approach to continued support of the hardware for the newest Android releases.

Ars Technica

Inside Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device ever

Selfishly, a little bit, we built Shield for ourselves."

alimeno 1 week ago

If you've got a bunch of physical books whose information you don't want to lose but are taking up a ton of space digitization may not cost as much as you think. https://1dollarscan.com/

alimeno 1 week ago

Municipal/County/State auction sites are great places to find weird stuff that you might want for very reasonable prices.

alimeno 1 week ago

In Manitoba, Canada, a pilot project from Canaan and Bitforest is capturing waste heat from liquid-cooled miners and piping it straight into greenhouses to preheat water and cut heating costs.

Cointelegraph

How Bitcoin Mining Waste Heat Is Being Used to Warm Canadian Greenhouses

Bitcoin miners in Canada are testing ways to reuse waste heat to warm greenhouses. Here’s how the pilot could reshape mining and agriculture.

alimeno 1 week ago

Massachusetts is fighting back against planned obsolescence! New bills would make companies slap right on the box (and online) how long your smart devices will actually get security updates. Should this be everywhere?