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In this article, the author unexpectedly comes across the world’s first app store while researching Brother printers. It was established by Brother Industries in 1986 during Japan’s economic miracle and the boom in the technology industry. Brother’s engineers collaborated with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone to build a videotex network, giving them technical expertise in data […]
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Gogosseract is a reimplementation of the gosseract library, which eliminates the use of CGo and instead utilizes Tesseract compiled to WebAssembly (WASM) using Emscripten via Wazero. Tesseract is a powerful Optical Character Recognition (OCR) library written in C++. The WASM is generated from a personal fork of robertknight’s tesseract-wasm project. It’s important to note that […]
The human occupation of the Blue Ridge Mountains has had a significant impact on the landscape. Throughout history, land was cleared for settlements, crops, and livestock, trees were cut down for various purposes, rocks were gathered for construction, and mining operations were established. These activities have led to the loss or alteration of natural resources […]
The 90th Cyberspace Operations Squadron is an esteemed organization within the US Air Force, specializing in the development of cyberspace capabilities. With its headquarters in downtown San Antonio, the squadron is dedicated to creating software that supports offensive and defensive cyberspace operations for combatant commands and military services. Using an agile approach and collaborative teams […]
This web content explores the possibilities for shapes that a two-dimensional material can adopt in three-dimensional space, depending on its geometry. The author investigates the cases of Euclidean, spherical, and hyperbolic geometries. The content explains the assumptions made about the material, such as being infinitesimally thin and perfectly flexible. It then discusses Gaussian curvature and […]
The mainline Linux kernel has officially ended support for Intel Itanium processors. Over the years, the Itanium support in the Linux kernel has dwindled, with few users testing new kernels on aging Itanium servers. Additionally, there has been a lack of active contributors to the Itanium code, resulting in minimal maintenance and improvements. The proposal […]
In the aftermath of World War I, a League of Nations conference in Geneva sought to create a universal calendar to unite the world. However, my great-great-grandfather’s mission was to stop them. Calendrical disputes have existed since the beginning of time, and our modern calendar took centuries to establish. In 1923, the League of Nations […]
NewPipe is an app that offers support for various video and live streaming platforms such as YouTube and PeerTube. It also includes features like searching for playlists and channels, displaying subscriber count, and copying hashtags or URLs in video descriptions. The app is available for Android 5+ and can be downloaded from the F-Droid app […]
The Bibi-binary system is a unique hexadecimal numeral system that was first described by singer/mathematician Robert “Boby” Lapointe in 1968. It uses newly devised symbols to represent the digits in a base sixteen numeral, avoiding any confusion with the decimal system. The symbols are designed to make the language easy to use and understand. The […]
In this web content, the author discusses their creation of an LCD de-make of the game Papers, Please. They explain their fascination with LCD games from the 80s and 90s, and their desire to recreate the charm of those games within the format of Papers, Please. The author outlines their process of creating the pixel […]