Paris Marx
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For too long, we’ve focused on tech platforms and software but not nearly enough on hardware. Is it time to change that?
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with Chris Person for a wide-ranging chat about CES, AI driving up hardware prices, and more!
Listen to full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/312_bring_back_meddling_with_tech_hardware_w_chris_person
i'm looking at the green text in my terminal thinking, wow, I'm an idiot!
but if anyone non technical looked over my should they would think, wow you are a hacker genius
Tim Chambers
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🩹⏱️ Researchers have developed an aerosolized wound spray called SEAL that stops severe arterial bleeding nearly instantly.
The #Baltimore-based team uses a specialized chitosan mixture to create a physical seal, providing a potential lifesaver for soldiers and first responders in remote areas.
👉 https://newatlas.com/medical-tech/battlefield-wound-spray/
#medicine #health #innovation #science #biology #tech #technology #research #safety #emergency
Compiling Scheme to WebAssembly
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/compiling-scheme-to-webassembly/
#HackerNews #CompilingScheme #WebAssembly #Programming #Languages #Tech #News #HackerNews
Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?
https://eieio.games/blog/ssh-sends-100-packets-per-keystroke/
#HackerNews #SSH #Packets #Keystrokes #Networking #Tech #Insights
🩹⏱️ Researchers have developed an aerosolized wound spray called SEAL that stops severe arterial bleeding nearly instantly.
The #Baltimore-based team uses a specialized chitosan mixture to create a physical seal, providing a potential lifesaver for soldiers and first responders in remote areas.
👉 https://newatlas.com/medical-tech/battlefield-wound-spray/
#medicine #health #innovation #science #biology #tech #technology #research #safety #emergency
tools for commensality 🧿
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PROJECT REQUEST FOR @eff @ProPublica
i have been always opposed to #RealID. i don’t just see it as a tool for surveillance of undocumented people, i see it as a tool for surveillance; period.
#RealID is the brain-child of #MIC related #tech businesses; but it was Facebook and Google jumping on the bandwagon that got my #fascism alarms blaring. VENDORS are being paid billions to track you.
WE NEED TO KNOW HOW MANY OF THE PEOPLE #ICE HAS KIDNAPPED HAD REALIDs.
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PROJECT REQUEST FOR @eff @ProPublica
i have been always opposed to #RealID. i don’t just see it as a tool for surveillance of undocumented people, i see it as a tool for surveillance; period.
#RealID is the brain-child of #MIC related #tech businesses; but it was Facebook and Google jumping on the bandwagon that got my #fascism alarms blaring. VENDORS are being paid billions to track you.
WE NEED TO KNOW HOW MANY OF THE PEOPLE #ICE HAS KIDNAPPED HAD REALIDs.
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I wonder if there's a psychological price that a web developer has to overcome to make a non-trivial web page with no pop-ups of any kind. It seems like a compulsion.
At least in the way I use computers as a low vision person, pop-ups are extraordinarily anti-accessibility. Yes, even tooltips and alt-hovertext, depending on how they're done. Some websites are close to unusable because of these things.
#tech #dev #web #DarkPatterns #accessibility
For too long, we’ve focused on tech platforms and software but not nearly enough on hardware. Is it time to change that?
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with Chris Person for a wide-ranging chat about CES, AI driving up hardware prices, and more!
Listen to full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/312_bring_back_meddling_with_tech_hardware_w_chris_person
Miami, Your Waymo Ride Is Ready
https://waymo.com/blog/2026/01/miami-your-waymo-ride-is-ready
#HackerNews #Miami #Waymo #Ride #Autonomous #Vehicles #Future #Tech #Urban #Mobility
Em :official_verified:
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You wouldn't host your community in a casino.
Addictive algorithms, amplified hateful content, doomscrolling. It's time to call social media what it is: dangerous.
As a society, we need to work harder to detangle ourselves from these places and the behaviour they encourage.
How are you creating distance between yourself and harmful social media?
#SocialMedia #SocialWeb #Addictive #AntiBigTech #Algorithms #Tech #Fediverse #Mastodon
Is #Threads even still trying to federate?
✅ They changed their .net domain to .com: https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/115871208581092120
✅ They have not continued federating, it's still a one way road of
Fediverse traffic moving to Threads:
https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/112553443779869972
✅ There haven't been any changes since I can remember & it's always been in "Beta".
✅ The only "change" I have noticed is a spam notification before every! post "Continue sharing to the #Fediverse?"
Chewie
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The UK needs a #DigitalSovereignty strategy.
This means running our services and critical infrastructure on homegrown open source tech that's beyond the reach of foreign political interference, whether it's the US, China or Israel.
We urge you to support the Early Day Motion tabled by @sianberry.
Write to your MP ➡️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/protect-britain%E2%80%99s-digital-backbone-%E2%80%94-ask-your-mp-act
Chewie
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America sneezes. We catch a cold.
And the UK is overexposed.
As long as foreign tech runs our digital infrastructure, our systems can be used as leverage or disrupted on Trump's say so.
Tell your MP to support the motion for #DigitalSovereignty ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-government-devise-uk-digital-sovereignty-strategy
#trump #sovereignty #tech #nationalsecurity #uk #ukpolitics #ukpol
I put the text below on LinkedIn in response to a post there and figured I'd share it here too because it's a bit of a step from what I've been posting previously on this topic and might be of some use to someone.
In retrospect I might have written non-sense in place of nonsense.
If you're in tech the Han reference might be a bit out of your comfort zone, but Andrews is accessible and measured.
It's nonsense to say that coding will be replaced with "good judgment". There's a presupposition behind that, a worldview, that can't possibly fly. It's sometimes called the theory-free ideal: given enough data, we don't need theory to understand the world. It surfaces in AI/LLM/programming rhetoric in the form that we don't need to code anymore because LLM's can do most of it. Programming is a form of theory-building (and understanding), while LLMs are vast fuzzy data store and retrieval systems, so the theory-free ideal dictates the latter can/should replace the former. But it only takes a moment's reflection to see that nothing, let alone programming, can be theory-free; it's a kind of "view from nowhere" way of thinking, an attempt to resurrect Laplace's demon that ignores everything we've learned in the >200 years since Laplace forwarded that idea. In that respect it's a (neo)reactionary viewpoint, and it's maybe not a coincidence that people with neoreactionary politics tend to hold it. Anyone who needs a more formal argument can read Mel Andrews's The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning & the Theory-Free Ideal, or Byung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics (which argues, among other things, that this is a nihilistic).#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #coding #dev #tech #SoftwareDevelopment #programming #nihilism #LinkedIn