The 20 year old Apple iSight camera. This is my original Apple iSight camera (Rev C) that I purchased sometime around 2005. Its specs don't mean much today with a mere 640×480 resolution, but to me it stands out as a remarkably well-designed piece of hardware. The best detail was the rotating aperture

Pretty camera pretty

10x faster, 10x less RAM, and 100x better than Chrome headless.

Might be a good back-end for rich archive copies of web pages.

Arm yourself with knowledge

IP packets can be spoofed, sometimes.

cute pixtures

On communication on sea with flags

Одно из самых известных и любимых в России хайку рассказывает об улитке, которая медленно взбирается на гору Фудзи.

Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code - s-macke/VoxelSpace

via https://t.me/optorepost/55

Если кратко, то там вся карта хранится в виде двух текстур, а "воксели" рендерятся хитрым образом, просто проходя по этим текстурам в нужном порядке.

I’ve spent the last 6 years teaching Free Software and Open Source at École Polytechnique de Louvain, being forced to investigate the subject and the history more than I anticipated in order to answer students’ questions. I’ve read many historical books on the subject, including RMS’s biography and many older writings.

And something struck me.

RMS was right since the very beginning. Every warning, every prophecy realised. And, worst of all, he had the solution since the start. The problem is not RMS or FSF. The problem is us. The problem is that we didn’t listen.

A weird problem

P2P technology is doomed on mobile [because of small batteries]. For a democratic web, we need to work on federation.

The author thought so in 2016. 8 years later I'm developing for the federated web, cool. I like how they mention Diaspora, which is history now.

Collection of encrypted correspondence between the compiler and various correspondents, in approximately 150 alphabets, accompanied by transcriptions of the letters in Arabic. The compiler cites Shihāb al-Dīn al-Jindī al-ʻAlāʼī, Burhān al-Dīn al-Qudsī, and Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar al-Ḥusaynī as authorities for some of the alphabets. The manuscript is incomplete, lacking its beginning and end. Occasional marginal notes. Some worm damage in margins.

Via https://t.me/linguopunk/549

Арабская книга 14 века с собственным тайным алфавитом для тайных записей

Programming fonts are stuck in the past. Proportional typesetting is everywhere and
there is no reason why you can’t use it for code.

A story about Walls in MtG and Rosewater's character growth. I didn't know walls existed!! Looked them up. I want a Wall of Swords...

A space exploration game with spaceships programmable in Tal. I follow the development but don't play. Looks cool.

A fun read.

Open source avatar generator inspired by GitHub avatars. - rrivera/identicon: Open source avatar generator inspired by GitHub avatars.

Play solitaire online - a game of strategy and skill.

I've never played this variant of Solitaire before. One would need to know the rules before playing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculation_(card_game)

I had to consult the layout quite often. The interface is not what one might be used to. It is fun though.

It took me 6 attempts to win. I had fun.

If you don't visit this site for 5 years your score will reset.

Rclone is a command line program to manage files on cloud storage. It is a feature rich alternative to cloud vendors' web storage interfaces. Over 40 cloud storage products support rclone including S3 object stores, business & consumer file storage services, as well as standard transfer protocols.

Rclone has powerful cloud equivalents to the unix commands rsync, cp, mv, mount, ls, ncdu, tree, rm, and cat. Rclone's familiar syntax includes shell pipeline support, and --dry-run protection. It is used at the command line, in scripts or via its API.