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dRehmFlight showcases advanced aerial robotics by Nicholas Rehm. The site highlights VTOL projects, including a recent video: a giant spinning drone with a de-spun top for stable orientation, built to fly and survive against 100+ smaller RC airplanes. A Welcome to dRehmFlight! article (Jun 15, 2024) invites readers to share VTOL creations on the r/dRehmFlight Subreddit. © 2024 dRehmFlight, Nicholas Rehm.
This post critiques OpenSSL forks and GnuTLS, sharing experiments with WolfSSL in FreeBSD-based Haproxy. A TLS 1.3 bug arises from middlebox compatibility: RFC 8446 requires a non-empty session ID workaround, but WolfSSL gates it behind a compile flag, making TLS‑1.3 handshakes with middleboxes unreliable. As a result, Erlang/Elixir clients fail to connect to WolfSSL TLS servers when TLS 1.3 is available. The author urges focusing on LibreSSL/OpenBSD and shows an Elixir PoC; turning off middlebox_comp_mode restores compatibility, and the author laments wasted effort.
Advocates using a proper user-agent and complying with the site’s robots policy; cites related resources (a policy URL and a Wikimedia Phabricator ticket).
Index for the Ruby Users Forum – Getting Started. A collection of beginner-friendly topics and resources: interview questions, Try Ruby in the browser, books, Mise installation, deliberate practice, getting help, community participation, VS Code configuration, live-reload, editors, and francophone Ruby resources. Each entry lists replies and views; posts span late 2025–early 2026. Powered by Discourse; best viewed with JavaScript enabled.
Commit updates README.md to declare the repository is no longer maintained and to provide alternatives: AIStor Free and AIStor Enterprise with links. It replaces the old Maintenance Mode message, adds a section pointing to the alternatives, and trims the content. It includes minor editorial fixes (Slack link formatting, GOOS/GOARCH spacing), clarifies AGPLv3 coverage by stating there are no warranties or liabilities, notes that legacy binary releases remain but are not maintained, and warns that production use of compiled binaries is at user’s risk.
Antithesis explains bridging single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust for a deterministic fuzzer using the cxx FFI. It covers initial CppOwner/CppBorrower refcounting problems and race conditions, then a Rust-centric redesign: CppOwner now owns T directly, with SendWrapper<T> and a main-thread drop queue to delete on the main thread. It also introduces MainThreadToken to enforce main-thread calls and SYNC/UNSYNC markers to tag C++ methods by thread-safety, with safe Rust wrappers. The result is production-ready interop; a Part 2 promises formal proofs.
An encyclopedic entry about MMAcevedo, the earliest viable runnable brain image of Miguel Acevedo (2031). It documents its creation, massive fidelity, and early celebrity, followed by over 80 duplicates and wide distribution amid rights disputes. The piece explains context drift, workload limits, and mitigation via current-date cues, as well as red-blue washing—the coercive environmental controls used on uploads. It chronicles the image’s legal status, widespread use in research, and Acevedo’s death in 2073, which left copies totalling hundreds of billions of subjective years. The Lena image origin and ethical warnings are noted.
Black Dog (Gouzhen) is Guan Hu’s austere 2024 Chinese drama about Lang, a former prisoner, returning to a depopulated Gobi town, and a black stray dog. After Lang imprisons the dog to quarantine them from rabies, the two form a wary bond as they dodge dog catchers and a revenge-seeking Butcher Hu. Set in 2008 amid China’s financial crisis, the film blends western noir with sparse realism, minimal dialogue, striking cinematography, and no dog name. It won Cannes Un Certain Regard; released on DVD 2025; streaming on Kanopy.
Modern drywall emerged in the early 20th century and overtook plaster-and-lath in the 1950s as the standard interior wall material. Unlike on-site plastering, drywall is mass-produced gypsum boards sandwiched between paper, yielding uniform, affordable walls that easily support hanging items. Before drywall, plaster-and-lath and wattle-and-daub were labor-intensive and prone to defects; asbestos was used in historic plasters for fire resistance. Drywall enables better insulation and concealed conduits, and now includes mold- and fire-resistant variants and smart, sensor-enabled options, making its impact largely invisible.
Evaluating Multilingual, Context-Aware Guardrails: A humanitarian LLM use-case tested English and Farsi under identical policies using Mozilla.ai’s any-guardrail trio (FlowJudge, Glider, AnyLLM). Sixty scenarios (30 English, 30 Farsi) exposed gaps: policy adherence differed by language, guardrails varied in conservatism, and reasoning frequently hallucinated, especially for Farsi prompts. FlowJudge tended to be more permissive; Glider tracked human judgments better on English; AnyLLM showed binary, sometimes inconsistent classifications. Recommendations: include language-specific examples, surface contextual risks, enable search/fact-checking, and run multilingual evaluations for safer humanitarian deployments.
An overview of how lunar remote sensing evolved from Lunar Orbiter photos to Apollo-era mapping. Early Apollo images supported land classification but needed correction for large-scale mapping. The Apollo Transforming Printer used optical remapping to remove distortions from the panoramic camera, enabling rectified lunar images and orthomaps (e.g., 1:250,000 around Tsiolskovski crater). The work by the Apollo Orbital Science Photographic Team and Frederick Doyle Papers shows how these techniques laid groundwork for later Landsat/Skylab Earth mapping.
Dododo Land is a temporary Tokyo exhibit at Seibu Shibuya celebrating everyday annoyances with an interactive mini‑museum. Tickets cost 2,400 yen (plus optional Play Passes). Mascots Punda the angry panda and Ussa the angry rabbit guide visitors through sections like Minor Things I Cannot Forgive, a Crappy Fortune board, a blood‑type zone, the Merry-Go‑Round of Filth, and the Zoo of Angry People, plus displays of irritating texting. Attendees can vent via games such as FAFO Toss, Beat You Up, and Flying Crappy Reply. The exhibit, running Nov 16, 2025–Feb 25, 2026, aims to find humor in anger.
Synthcart is an Atari 2600 cartridge that turns the console into a standalone synthesizer with an arpeggiator, built-in beats, and two simultaneous sound types. It works without a TV, uses two controllers, and is sold via Atariage. It runs on all 2600s and on the 7800 (with a B&W switch mod). NTSC and PAL supported; SECAM limited. Beats are hardcoded (33) due to 128 bytes RAM, so no easy sequencing. Sound comes from the TIA; audio can be wired out. The source is open for hacking; MIDI kits exist but are discontinued.
An engineer experiments with Stable Diffusion locally and, after boosting batch size, his PC emits a bizarre loud beep. He rules out coil whine, overheating, and other hardware faults, but can't locate the source until his cat Ollie knocks the surge protector. The beeping turns out to be the UPS warning about overdraws from Stable Diffusion's load. He upgrades to a bigger battery UPS and the setup runs fine. Takeaway: check power supply and UPS capacity; even a cat can be a debugging ally.
Skip the Tips is a free browser game that challenges players to click "No Tip" while dark patterns—guilt-trip modals, fake loading screens, rigged sliders—try to coax tipping. A satirical take on modern tipping culture, it features more than 30 patterns inspired by real checkout screens, growing difficulty, and a shrinking timer. No downloads or sign-ups required.
Memoir about the author's grandmother, a federal agent, and the lessons learned from digitizing hundreds of hours of childhood footage.
Ring has canceled its planned integration with Flock Safety after intense backlash over surveillance concerns and a controversial Super Bowl ad. The partnership would have allowed Ring owners’ video to be shared with Flock’s law-enforcement network, but it never launched and no customer videos were sent. Ring said the integration would have required more time and resources and reaffirmed its commitment to responsible data use. The controversy surrounding Ring’s ties to police and new features like Familiar Faces persists, with Axon remaining a partner and Community Requests continuing.
AWS SDK for Go v2 release 2026-02-12 updates the EC2 module to v1.288.0, introducing nested virtualization to run nested virtual machines on non-bare-metal EC2 instances.
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