TimGremalm

"When an unregistered user edits Wikipedia, he or she is identified by his or her IP address. These IP addresses are translated to users' approximate geographic location. Unregistered users only make a fraction of total edits -- only 15% of the contributions to English Wikipedia are from unregistered users. Edits by registered users do not have associated IP information, so the map actually represents only a small portion of the total edit activity on Wikipedia."

Spacedashboard have a nice summary of the streams and the position over earth. https://spacedashboard.com/

The article on Virtual Boy was super interesting!

It's more like a roast by a comedian. Bryan Lunduke have made this talk many times before at Linux conferences.

I've read about this neat process for extracting CO2 from the atmosphere. You place a ultra compact box in the ground containing it's own building instructions and tooling for separating CO2 in to oxygen and building giant structures of the carbon. It's apparently called photosynthesis.

Magnetic Pole https://xkcd.com/2098/

Noclip did an interesting documentary about GOG. "GOG: Preserving Gaming's Past & Future" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffngZOB1U2A

I like this narrated version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MticYPfFRp8

"two principles in mind when building my own systems.

Rule #1: No external dependencies.

Rule #2: Mechanical overrides."

Rick & Morty: real fake doors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxbsV8QWGic

"As far as any new information regarding the ESP32 is concerned, don’t expect much. It’s released, though, and in a month or so the work of documenting this supposed wonderchip will begin."

"What they found may have implications for the origin of complex life.

The air, which has been preserved, undisturbed, in tiny pockets in the crystals for about 815 million years, appears to contain 10.9 per cent oxygen — just half the amount in the atmosphere today.

But it's about five times more than scientists expected for that time period, which is about 200 million years before the first known multicellular fossils."

"If you see them, send them this information as text (screenshots frighten them)" Love this!

"So our final estimate for the total size of the Google Earth database is 3,017 TB or approximately 3 Petabytes!"

TL;DR: * Talks is a waste of time * Marketing VR-people sucks * Crazy people * Notch make bad drinks * Don't waste your time on GDC

The ASCII art is very beautiful. So much culture! How is the printing quality from lulu.com?

An RSS-reader keeps the typography consistent and feeds often contain the whole article including pictures. The downside is that is hard to add new feeds to the RSS-reeder because the RSS-links is quite hard to find.

Estimated 8.6h with idle CPU, based on my calculations. Raspberry Pi A+ 0.52W usage at 100ma 5.2V on CPU idle (http://raspi.tv/2014/raspberry-pi-a-how-much-power-does-it-n...)

Adafruit PiTFT - 2.8" Raspberry Pi Touchscreen with full-on backlight the current draw is ~100mA. (http://www.adafruit.com/product/1601) 0.15=0.5W

Powerconsumption of Rpi and TFT should be 1.02W at idle.

PowerBoost 500 Charger - Rechargeable 5V Lipo USB Boost @ 500mA+ (http://www.adafruit.com/product/1944) 2.500Ah 3.7V LiPo 3.7V2.5Ah=9.25Wh Boosted to 5V at 95% efficiency 8.79Wh

8.79Wh/1.02W = 8.6h

*Edit: I did a mistake when I calculated the Watt-hour. The Watt-hours of the battery can't increase just because the voltage increases, changed it.

"Misfortune Cookie is a critical vulnerability that allows an intruder to remotely take over an Internet router and use it to attack home and business networks."

"The Misfortune Cookie vulnerability is due to an error within the HTTP cookie management mechanism present in the affected software, allowing an attacker to determine the ‘fortune’ of a request by manipulating cookies. Attackers can send specially crafted HTTP cookies that exploit the vulnerability to corrupt memory and alter the application and system state. This, in effect, can trick the attacked device to treat the current session with administrative privileges - to the misfortune of the device owner."

This is nice, and could really be useful. But it's raising a lot of privacy concerns. A lot of sensitive information is placed in the clipboard like private URLs and even passwords sometimes.

I think a whitelisting of sites is needed in the web browser to use this API.

How about those poor Roombas out there forced to suffer a life as a Doomba? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSOkNr0X4ZU

I agree, please post some screenshots.

Maybe a tablet/laptop with a Pixel Qi-screen?

"The advantage of Pixel Qi displays over conventional LCDs is mainly that they can be set to operate under transflective mode and reflective mode, improving eye-comfort, power usage, and visibility under bright ambient light." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_Qi

http://www.pixelqi.com/devices

Basic education is needed to give every child the opportunity to a good life. Parents are thinking in short terms compared to a government who is thinking of the future. Parents will rather make sure their family got good money by making their children work than by having them educated. Education makes children more aware of the world around them and they have the chance to choose which profession they want.

A government controlled and founded school is needed to give everybody the chance of a good education, rich as well as poor.

To the contrary I think that a school is very economical, a single teacher can educate many children compared to homeschooling. In homeschooling parents only educate a few, and have to repeat the same education as they get more children. A parent have to spend a lot more time as a teacher, time that could be spend more productively on work and by having some one else acting as a teacher.

"Nya tider is a far-right [3] The newspaper is published once a week by AlternaMedia. Editor's Vávra Suk.

Nya tider was founded in November 2012 [3] [4] after several writers did the right-wing magazine National Today to create a new magazine. [5] The magazine is not affiliated with any organization." http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nya_Tider_%28tidning%29

Please don't take this newspaper seriously.

*It doesn't produce word-format, it produces RTF-format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format

Impressive! It converted a 500 page long book in under a minute, and the layout looks good. Even the small borders around the informational fact-boxes look good.

After a while i noticed the mobile version pane on the left. I thought it was an ad first :P

Are all the models signed by Slartibartfast? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slartibartfast

I developed a web based door-locking-system for Minecraft using Computercraft. Players could enter their personal floppy disc into the drive and a HTTP-GET command was transfered to my LAMP-server where i stored the User-rights. Different doors could have different security-levels that only some players had access to. The response from the HTTP-GET would tell if the user had right to open the door or not.

It's a cool system, but pretty clumsy. It's annoying to carrying around a floppy-disc all the time.