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The iOS 18.1 update brought exciting new features to Apple’s Airpods Pro 2, which include impressive hearing aid capabilities. Unfortunately, these features were region-locked, causing frustrations for users outside the US and certain countries. However, a determined individual and his team embarked on a clever journey to unlock these features, involving creating a Faraday cage […]
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Summary: Logic for Programmers is now in Beta with version 0.5 marking the end of alpha. The book contains various unique features of the programming language Raku, which has unconventional experimentations, including junctions, whatevers, regular expressions, hyperoperators, pair syntax, and more. Raku serves as a laboratory for language features, offering different models of concurrency and […]
The ATX form AT mainboard project using an 80286 CPU operating at 20MHz is fully functional, designed for historical and educational purposes. It requires expertise in building and troubleshooting hardware. Users are cautioned about the lack of guarantees for functionality or fitness for specific purposes. The project entails complex CPU timing and data translation mechanisms, […]
Docker-compose simplifies deploying complex applications with containers, but falls short by not providing high-level abstraction for concepts like SQL databases, service discovery, and resource management. The tool allows for specifying groups of containers working together, but it breaks the standardization that containers aim to achieve. This results in complex docker-compose files, like the one required […]
Human history is now believed to be influenced by natural forces and non-human factors. Tim Marshall explains how geography shapes the fate of nations in “Prisoners of Geography” (2015), while Peter Frankopan adds climate to the mix in “The Earth Transformed” (2023). Jonathan Kennedy’s “Pathogenesis” (2023) explores how plagues altered history, with a focus on […]
Dedicated to preserving early recorded sounds, the website features information on wax cylinders, antique phonographs, and rare vintage photos. Visitors can listen to complete two-minute wax cylinder recordings each month, with past selections ranging from a Chopin piano solo to a vaudeville sketch. The site even offers a primitive recording from 1878, the earliest playable […]
President-elect Donald Trump has outlined plans to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, jail political foes and journalists, and limit abortion and transgender rights. The incoming administration and Republicans in Congress are likely to expand government surveillance. Security experts advise vulnerable groups and privacy advocates to enhance data security, starting with end-to-end encrypted messaging apps like […]
The US Senate is set to vote on the PERA Bill on November 14, 2024, which aims to revive Software Patents. The bill would potentially allow for software patents on mundane activities like mobile food ordering and online financial transactions, opening the floodgates for patent trolls to target small businesses and individuals. The Electronic Frontier […]
Bufstream, a Kafka-compatible streaming system, faced safety and liveness issues including stuck consumers and producers, spurious zero offsets, and loss of acknowledged writes. These issues were addressed in version 0.1.3. The comparison of Kafka and Bufstream revealed concerns like lack of documentation on transaction semantics leading to potential write loss and read issues. Bufstream integrates […]
The content consists of a repetitive phrase, “Leaving and waving,” followed by a month and year from 1991 to 2017. This simple yet consistent pattern showcases a sense of departure and farewell that occurred over many years. The author’s voice is melancholic and somewhat whimsical, as the reader is taken on a journey through various […]