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by _kb 4d ago
I've spent a fair chunk of career designing/building installed audiovisual systems. Displays devices are what terrify me most from a security perspective (and it's a low bar in that world). They should never be network connec
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by _kb 4d ago
That depends entirely on where you are. This is explicitly not allowed within Australian Consumer Law, for example. Impeding resale is an entirely legal and effective dark pattern this provides though.
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by _kb 5d ago
See: philosophy ~> determinism.
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by _kb 7d ago
Math from Three to Seven by Alexander Zvonkin is a great read and example of this. It recounts experiences running a math circle for preschoolers and really highlights the value of play, curiosity, and open exploration. From personal experi
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Notey and Noisy: A Sound Science Mathemusical(malwebb.com)
2 points by _kb 11d ago|0 comments
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by _kb 11d ago
If this is the sort of thing that interests you, I highly recommend setting aside 90 minutes and strapping yourself in for a listen to https://malwebb.com/notnoi.html .
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by _kb 11d ago
That format is considered harmful.
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by _kb 11d ago
> Time, quiet mind, slow mornings, rest without guilt, calm and boring days. Ah, I remember pre-parent life too.
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by _kb 12d ago
Since the ANT+ protocol implementation seems to already be there, it seems a likely/sensible future path is to implement wheel sensor support. It provides much higher accuracy of speed/distance than GPS and lower power draw. On th
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by _kb 13d ago
AU$140 (~US$100) per 4mg, which is approx one month, here. AU$25 (~US$18), or AU$7.70 (~US$5.50) with a concession card if you qualify for subsidy. If you're in Australia it's worth a chat with your GP rather than less regulated c
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by _kb 15d ago
If you get a high frame rate video of a space, there's plenty of other objects that can act as visual transducers: https://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/VisualMic/ .
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by _kb 19d ago
Within built environment and industrial design that's termed universal design. The canonical example is ramps on footpaths providing equivalent benefit to people in wheelchairs, parents with strollers, and commuters on bikes, scooters
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by _kb 21d ago
Particularly here where the context is ephemeral. Any usage of short links can (and sometimes should) link to a canonical source with an immutable URI. This is just a foreign key for humans.
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by _kb 21d ago
Aka POSSE: https://indieweb.org/POSSE
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by _kb 21d ago
Open the rack bay doors, please, HAL.
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by _kb 23d ago
Syslog is still everywhere on a lot of hardware and appliance style devices. For those bringing that into modern telemetry stack I can't recommend Grafana Alloy enough ( https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest&#x
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by _kb 24d ago
In environments where the threat model requires it you can/must already buy hardware variants that are non-radio. It's not just disabled in software but is a different physical SKU. Likewise data diodes for USB, audio, or display
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by _kb 24d ago
The preceding sentence is equally prescient: > Operating systems aren’t really equipped to work with the user to ensure that a microphone stays a microphone, and doesn’t spontaneously turn into a keyboard that hits Win+R and drops a pay
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by _kb 29d ago
The secret is to have your children eat for you, then just do blood transfusions when they’re at peak nutrient level. You can do that while you work for optimal efficiency.
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by _kb 1mo ago
Yes - sector lights. When you are on a channel / in safe water they’re white, red in the port sector, or green when you are too far starboard. Some will combine this with an angle dependant flash to alert you how far into a port or sta
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by _kb 1mo ago
When the glut of GPU arrives I'm sure humanity will find a good use for all that excess compute, like finally getting back to signing monkey pictures and excreting endless hash based pyramid schemes.
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by _kb 1mo ago
https://specs.ipfs.tech/ipfs-uri/
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by _kb 1mo ago
Building anything is a good way to learn. It’s the industrial design / manufacturing equivalent of perusing or hacking on a good open source project.
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by _kb 1mo ago
With a USB-C cable tester tester, of course.
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by _kb 1mo ago
Is is a perfectly cromulent use of capital.
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by _kb 2mo ago
> Even if it's 50% worse, it's 90% cheaper, so the economics argue against producing any new physically made content. That is an unfortunate pattern I fear is become applicable to a lot of domains (film, software, food, clothin
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by _kb 2mo ago
The data is already there. This also gets more interesting when you expand the scope from just elevators to general building occupancy and movement. In the simplest sense, I've seen this tied into security gates so as people badge on w
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by _kb 2mo ago
Yes, but just imagine all the paperclips we’ll have.
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Spinning drone hides in plain sight(news.northwestern.edu)
2 points by _kb 2mo ago|1 comments
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by _kb 3mo ago
Those wax cylinders are a modern hack. The curved surface distorts the real artistic intent. The only way to appreciate the true beauty of sound is a the purity of soot etchings on a phonautogram.

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