Tag: technology
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Logitech MX Master 2S
Dan gets a new mouse, finally supplanting the "best mouse in the world" he declared over eight years ago.
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Debugging WorldWideWeb
His Geek Flag held high, Dan proposes a minor bugfix to some software that almost nobody cares about.
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WorldWideWeb, 30 years on
To celebrate the Web's 30th birthday, some of Dan's favourite geeks reimplemented the very first browser.
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The Route of a Text Message
With each tap, a small electrical current passes from the screen to her hand. Because electricity flows easily through human bodies, sensors on the phone register a change in voltage wherever her thumb presses against the screen. But the world is messy, and the phone senses random fluctuations in voltage across the rest of the …
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Additional Processors
Computerphile
Computerphile at its best, here tackling the topic of additional (supplementary) processors, like FPUs, GPUs, sound processors, etc., to which CPUs outsource some of their work under specific circumstances. Even speaking as somebody who's upgraded a 386/SX to a 386/DX through the addition of a "math co-processor" (an FPU) and seeing the benefit … -
Edge may be becoming Chromium-powered, and that's terrible
It's rumoured that Edge might switch to Chrome's rendering engine. This would be really, really bad for the web, and it takes a 90s/00s web developer to remind you why.
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SHE BON : Sensing the Sensual
ROBOHEMIAN! [YouTube]
I don't know if this is genius or insanity, but either way it's pretty remarkable. Lost my shit at "pop girl". Lost it again at "I can poke the nipple".
It takes a true engineer to think to themselves, "Hey, I wonder if I could use technology to tell me when I'm feeling … -
Notes from #musetech18 presentations (with a strong "collaboration" theme). Note that these are "live notes" first-and-foremost for my own use and so are probably full of typos. Sorry.
Matt Locke (StoryThings, @matlocke):
Over the last 100 years, proportional total advertising revenue has been stolen from newspapers by radio, then television: scheduled media that is experienced simultaneously. … -
Reply to Hardware Issue - when did hard drive space get like this?
Hardware Issue (Aquarionics) So, I am a professional system administrator. It says it on my business cards and everything. Every couple of months, when I have to explain to the receptionist at the London office that yes, I do work here, and so Nicholas Avenell (Aquarionics) wrote:
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The Mystery Button-Box
Dan finds another bit of mystery hardware, and scares some head-scratcher photos.
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AI Nationalism
AI Nationalism by Ian Hogarth (Ian Hogarth) For the past 9 months I have been presenting versions of this talk to AI researchers, investors, politicians and policy makers. I felt it was time to share these ideas with a wider audience. Thanks to the Ditchley conference on Machine Learning in 2017 for giving me a …
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The Web That Never Was
YouTube (youtube.com)
Dylan Beattie (YouTube)
Underappreciated video presentation on how only a few small changes to the timeline of the Internet and early Web results in a completely different set of technologies and companies becoming dominant today. Thought-provoking. -
The Bullshit Web
The Bullshit Web (pxlnv.com) My home computer in 1998 had a 56K modem connected to our telephone line; we were allowed a maximum of thirty minutes of computer usage a day, because my parents — quite reasonably — did not want to have their telephone shut off for an evening at a time. I remember …
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Leak in Comic Chameleon (app API hacking)
Not for the first time, Dan becomes an "accidental hacker" when he finds a bug in a comic-reader app that lets him read not-yet-published episodes of a webcomic he follows.
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How analog TV worked
How analog TV worked (datagenetics.com)
Today, just about all monitors and screens are digital (typically using an LCD or Plasma technology), but a decade or two ago, computer displays were based on the analog technology inherited from TV sets.
These analog displays were constructed around Cathode Rays Tubes (commonly referred to as CRTs). …