one plant | picture | species With the Pl@ntNet app, identify one plant from a picture, and be part of a citizen science project on plant biodiversity more support us participate Pl@ntNet is a citizen science project available as an app that helps you identify plants thanks to your pictures. How ? Why ? How…
Since late March, I have publicly warned our clients and the broader Bitcoin community about the impending collapse of the cryptocurrency Luna and its native stablecoin, TerraUSD (UST). Barely more than a month after I raised the alarm, Luna/UST went from a collective market capitalization of ~$50 billion to now down 99%. The collapse of the Luna/UST Ponzi scheme occurred even faster than I expected,…
The multi-cloud fully managed Postgres with a generous free tier. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage. Get early access Made for DevelopersLaunch Serverless Postgres with a single command: Same Postgres command as you used to will get you a smooth database creation experience. ScalableCompute scales dynamically to ensure that…
WILMINGTON, Del.— May 25, 2022 — External coordination and collaboration must be more agile and provide more privacy and freedom. To that end, Rocket.Chat, the leading open-source communication platform, has announced it is building its new federation capabilities on the Matrix protocol to allow its users to communicate with users on other platforms. Federation is…
To read this post you will need to use a bit of your imagination. Suppose you are checking a component called DatePicker that is built on top of a 3rd party date picker component. You are tasked to find if the component is causing problems now that you have updated another project dependency. It is…
During the past several years at Re Analytics we’ve spent a lot of time finding the best practices for web scraping, to make it scalable and efficient to maintain. It’s like the cat and mouse Game, you need to be always updated on the latest developments but, at the same time, the information needed is…
I am very happy to introduce our first Arc Note with Simon Willison who is going to be talking about Datasette, SQLite and the challenges of building a server-side web application that also works in both Electron and WebAssembly. Its a great read — I hope you enjoy and hopefully learn a little something. 💡…
Motivation Lately, I’ve been working with a client where my development computer is not connected to the Internet. This is a huge inconvenience, as the unavailability of Google and Stack Overflow vastly impact my productivity. Only recently have I begun to grasp how much of my time is actually spent copy/pasting between Visual Studio and…
14 min readSVG, Resources, Round-UpsQuick summary ↬ Smart SVG techniques, from generative SVG grids to SVG paths with masks, grainy SVG gradients, cut-out effects and fractional SVG stars. Let’s look at some magical SVG techniques that you can use right away. SVGs have become more and more popular in the past few years. For good reasons.…
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GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor and provides financial assistance to patients in need Posted on May 24, 2022 4:40 pm Categories: Ransomware Goodwill ransomware group propagates very unusual demands in exchange for the decryption key. The Robin Hood-like group is forcing its Victims to donate to the poor and provides financial…
Today I tried to help a friend who is a great computer scientist, but not a JS person use a JS module he found on Github. Since for the past 6 years my day job is doing usability research & teaching at MIT, I couldn’t help but cringe at the slog that this was. Lo…
Technology|Internet Drama in Canada. (Really.) https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/26/technology/canada-internet-service.html Let’s talk about internet policy! In Canada! Wheee! I’m serious that there are useful lessons from a saga over home internet service in Canada. What has been a promising, albeit imperfect, system that increased choices and improved internet service for Canadians is poised to fall apart. Barring a last-minute…
A rash of thefts of semiconductor-loaded powertrain control modules from parked Freightliner and Western Star trucks is turning the tractors into oversize paperweights. Daimler Truck North America is going after the bad guys but has few leads. The rip-offs of common powertrain control module 4 units relate to the ongoing shortage of microchips. Harvesting and…
As part of my job I spend quite a lot of time scanning through files and disk contents, often in hex or filtered text view, searching for specific keywords or pieces of information. This workflow means that I often have little context to what I’m viewing and that I can occasionally come across some pretty…
If you follow Gamefromscratch on Twitter, you may have already seen this tweet I put out last night about a blackmail demand that was made against our YouTube channel: First off, I really want to give a gigantic shout out to all of the people that helped get the message out, the tweets, retweets and…
Billionaire brothers John and Patrick Collison built Stripe into one of the world’s most-hyped, highest valued — and profitable! — startups, worth some $95 billion. Now they must stave off going from disruptor to disrupted. It’s just before five o’clock, and Stripe cofounder John Collison is preparing to address his hundreds of Ireland-based employees on…
Left: Original image. Center: Blurred through convolution. Right: Deconvolution of the blurred image. In this post, we’ll have a look at the idea of removing blur from images, videos, or games through a process called “deconvolution”. We will analyze what makes the process of deblurring an image (blurred with a known blur kernel) – deconvolution…
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More than a third of the world’s population lives in drylands, areas that experience significant water shortages. Scientists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a solution that could help people in these areas access clean drinking water. The team developed a low-cost gel film made of abundant materials that can…
