20 random bookmarks

2025-06-16

46.

GitHub - ericjenott/Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with solar power, ultra low power consumption, and ultra long battery life.

github.com/ericjenott/Evertop

E-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

45.

The families hiring 'private bobbies' to police their homes

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gr103y3leo

Security 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

44.

Wikipedia seven-millionth topic pool

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Seven-millionth_topic_pool

What do you bet it'll be?

2025-05-23

43.

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-knees

Alex Chinneck reimagines a Georgian townhouse facade into a playful portal for Clerkenwell Design Week 2025.

Cool art

2025-05-06

39.

The Turkish İ Problem and Why You Should Care

haacked.com/archive/2012/07/05/turkish-i-problem-and-why-you-should-care.aspx

The Turkish capital I is dotted, İ. This can trip up seemingly simple code!

2025-05-02

34.

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-who

You wouldn't download an illegal font ... unless you wanted to use it to sell a modem for the Sega Genesis?

31.

UK could save billions by ending hunger – not slashing benefits

www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/end-hunger-save-public-money-poverty-trussell

Researchers at Trussell have found that the UK government could save billions if it increased universal credit to help tackle hunger.

Trussell article on their report

2025-05-01

30.

Linux in Excel? Sure, why not ruin both

www.theregister.com/2025/05/01/linux_in_microsoft_excel
29.

roons — show hn – whomtech

whomtech.com/show-hn

Welcome, weary traveller from the orange site! Let me tell you the tale of roons — a kit for building mechanical computers.

2025-04-30

28.

I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server

idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection

The 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

27.

Your smartphone is listening to you

www.independent.co.uk/tech/smartphone-apps-listening-privacy-alphonso-shazam-advertising-pool-3d-honey-quest-a8139451.html

Software 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

23.

About smolweb

smolweb.org

smolweb.org promotes simple unbloated web. It provides resources to actors who want to participate.

2025-04-16

19.

The Hangman

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hangman_(poem)

2025-04-14

17.

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-breach

The car rental giant attributed the breach to Cleo, whose customers had data stolen by a ransomware gang in 2024.

2025-04-13

15.

Contra Chrome

contrachrome.com

A comic about google's unending violations of privacy.

2025-04-10

12.

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-leyen
9.

Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute

www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont

Free but needs email to get. Apparently SIL Open Font licensed.

2025-04-09

8.

Magpie by sunil.

zunil.itch.io/magpie

Broughlike about a trinket-loving magpie

4.

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism

newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

1.

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-kill

Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’