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Category: Blog

80 years later, GCHQ releases new images of Nazi code-breaking computer Colossus

2024-01-192024-01-19 Danie
Giant computer about 2m high with a teletype console in front of it

On Thursday, UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) announced the release of previously unseen images and documents related to Colossus, one of the first digital computers. The release marks the 80th anniversary of the code-breaking machines […]

Blogtechnology, UK, vintage

No Surprise: Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies

2024-01-172024-01-17 Danie
Cartoon depiction of a smartphone with a user head protruding from it, with various eyeballs around it

By now most internet users know their online activity is constantly tracked. No one should be shocked to see ads for items they previously searched for, or to be asked if their data can be […]

Blogfacebook, privacy, technology, tracking

Google Maps can now navigate inside tunnels, like Waze does, using Bluetooth beacons

2024-01-162024-01-16 Danie
Part of an options screen showing a toggle switch to toggle Bluetooth tunnel beacons on or off. It also shows a All / Don't Allow prompt to allow Maps to find, connect to, and determine the relative position of nearby devices.

A new feature spotted by SmartDroid allows the Android version of the app to use Bluetooth beacons to track your location in areas where GPS signals typically can’t reach. These beacons transmit Bluetooth signals that […]

Blognavigation, technology, tunnels

PicPlanner: Open-Source Linux app for Calculating the position of the Sun, Moon, and Milky Way to plan the perfect time to take a Picture

2024-01-152024-01-15 Danie
Application screenshot showing inputs for date and time, and tick boxes for the location of the Sun, Moon and Milky Way. Below that a map is shown with the location, and some colour lines indicating the direction of the Sun, Moon and Mily Way radiating out from that location.

People who love to photograph know, that the biggest problem is being at the right spot at the right time. Therefore, landscape pictures should be planned before visiting the place of choice. To plan the […]

Bloggoldenhour, opensource, photography, technology

Guide to lossless audio: Everything you need to know from a smartphone user perspective

2024-01-142024-01-14 Danie
Sony Walkman cassette player on an orange background, with its headphones clipped around the player like a person's head

Lossless audio is essentially just audio that’s presented in its purest form, exactly as the artist intended it to be heard. Vinyl records are a great source of lossless audio, as the records themselves are […]

Blogaudio, music, technology

Casey Newton’s Platformer is leaving Substack for Non-Profit Open-Source Ghost Publishing Platform

2024-01-122024-01-12 Danie
A web dashboard showing total members count, paid members, free members, with a live graph showing the progression of paid memebrs. Other stats show engagement percentage over 30 days, newsletters subscribers total, etc.

Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions […]

Blogopensource, publishing, technology

US FTC bans data broker from selling Americans’ location data – Only Americans?

2024-01-112024-01-11 Danie
Top part of the curvature of the Earth, with a number of gold coloured location pins hovering above various places

“Geolocation data can reveal not just where a person lives and whom they spend time with but also, for example, which medical treatments they seek and where they worship,” said FTC Chair Lina M. Khan. […]

Blogdatabrokers, privacy, technology

Atuin is an open-source shell command history app for Linux with syncing, unlimited history, and with contextual search

2024-01-092024-01-09 Danie
Linux shell showing the atuin stats command run with an output summarising the most commonly used commands from history.

Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, and records additional context for your commands. With this context, Atuin gives you faster and better search of your shell history! Additionally, it provides optional […]

Bloglinux, opensource, technology

Mbin is a fork of kbin: a decentralized content aggregator running on the Fediverse network

2024-01-092024-01-09 Danie
Mbin main page showing list of links with descriptions below them, much like the Reddit or Lemmy sites.

Mbin is a decentralized content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform running on the fediverse network. It can communicate with many other ActivityPub services, including Kbin, Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma, Peertube. It is an open source […]

Blogdecentralised, fediverse, linkaggregator, opensource, technology

Dutch startup Nuwa claims to have invented the world’s most advanced smart pen that writes on plain paper

2024-01-082024-01-08 Danie
A hand that is writing with a ballpoint pen on a journal page.

Nuwa plans to launch the device this March. The Groningen-based company today announced a fresh cash injection of €1.5mn to boost the development of the product, which uses an inbuilt camera system, motion sensors, and […]

Bloggadget, technology, writing

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