2025-06-16
GitHub - ericjenott/Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with solar power, ultra low power consumption, and ultra long battery life.
github.com/ericjenott/EvertopE-ink IBM XT clone with solar power, ultra low power consumption, and ultra long battery life. - GitHub - ericjenott/Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with solar power, ultra low power consumption, and ...
2025-06-15
The families hiring 'private bobbies' to police their homes
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gr103y3leoSecurity officers from private firms are being paid to patrol some UK neighbourhoods in an effort to deter burglars - but how much can they really do?
2025-05-27
Wikipedia seven-millionth topic pool
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Seven-millionth_topic_poolWhat do you bet it'll be?
2025-05-23
A Rippling Townhouse Facade by Alex Chinneck Takes a Seat in a London Square
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/05/alex-chinneck-a-week-at-the-kneesAlex Chinneck reimagines a Georgian townhouse facade into a playful portal for Clerkenwell Design Week 2025.
Cool art
2025-05-06
The Turkish İ Problem and Why You Should Care
haacked.com/archive/2012/07/05/turkish-i-problem-and-why-you-should-care.aspxThe Turkish capital I is dotted, İ. This can trip up seemingly simple code!
2025-05-02
The Infamous ‘You Wouldn’t Steal a Car’ Anti-Piracy Font Was Pirated. But By Who?
www.404media.co/the-infamous-you-wouldnt-steal-a-car-anti-piracy-font-was-pirated-but-by-whoYou wouldn't download an illegal font ... unless you wanted to use it to sell a modem for the Sega Genesis?
UK could save billions by ending hunger – not slashing benefits
www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/end-hunger-save-public-money-poverty-trussellResearchers at Trussell have found that the UK government could save billions if it increased universal credit to help tackle hunger.
2025-05-01
Linux in Excel? Sure, why not ruin both
www.theregister.com/2025/05/01/linux_in_microsoft_excel: The spreadsheet from Hell
roons — show hn – whomtech
whomtech.com/show-hnWelcome, weary traveller from the orange site! Let me tell you the tale of roons — a kit for building mechanical computers.
2025-04-30
I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server
idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protectionThe majority of the traffic on the web is from bots. For the most part, these bots are used to discover new content. These are RSS Feed readers, search engines crawling your content, or nowadays AI bo
2025-04-27
Your smartphone is listening to you
www.independent.co.uk/tech/smartphone-apps-listening-privacy-alphonso-shazam-advertising-pool-3d-honey-quest-a8139451.htmlSoftware from a company called Alphonso can be used to listen in to the environment around a user, to work out what they’re watching
2025-04-17
About smolweb
smolweb.orgsmolweb.org promotes simple unbloated web. It provides resources to actors who want to participate.
2025-04-16
The Hangman
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hangman_(poem)2025-04-14
Hertz says customers' personal data and driver's licenses stolen in data breach | TechCrunch
techcrunch.com/2025/04/14/hertz-says-customers-personal-data-and-drivers-licenses-stolen-in-data-breachThe car rental giant attributed the breach to Cleo, whose customers had data stolen by a ransomware gang in 2024.
2025-04-13
Contra Chrome
contrachrome.comA comic about google's unending violations of privacy.
2025-04-10
Europe’s GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within ‘weeks’
www.politico.eu/article/eu-gdpr-privacy-law-europe-president-ursula-von-der-leyenLong seen as untouchable in Brussels, the GDPR is next on the list of the EU’s crusade against overregulation.
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute
www.brailleinstitute.org/freefontFree but needs email to get. Apparently SIL Open Font licensed.
2025-04-09
Magpie by sunil.
zunil.itch.io/magpieBroughlike about a trinket-loving magpie
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascismIt's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-killExclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’