“Manufacturer Issues Remote Kill Command to Disable Smart Vacuum after Engineer Blocks It from Collecting Data — User Revives It with Custom Hardware and Python Scripts to Run Offline,” n.d. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/manufacturer-issues-remote-kill-command-to-nuke-smart-vacuum-after-engineer-blocks-it-from-collecting-data-user-revives-it-with-custom-hardware-and-python-scripts-to-run-offline
Some person made their vacum cleaner FOSS due to vendor kill switch.
“Your URL Is Your State,” n.d. https://alfy.blog/2025/10/31/your-url-is-your-state.html
Detailed blog post on how to use URLs as state. #url
“Phone Location Data of Top EU Officials for Sale, Report Finds,” n.d. https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/phone-location-data-of-top-eu-officials-for-sale-report-finds/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
That’s why we should ban third party cookies and prevent JS from being default option for web development.
I wonder how much similar data is available for Russian inteligence. Seriously Europe wake the fuck up. Trackers online cause nothing but harm.
“You Don’t Need Kafka: Building a Message Queue with Only Two UNIX Signals,” n.d. https://leandronsp.com/articles/you-dont-need-kafka-building-a-message-queue-with-only-two-unix-signals
Author decided to created message broker based on UNIX signals. The implementation is straightforward, and it gradually goes from what UNIX signals to implementation of bitwise operations.I love such projects. They will never be used in production grade systems, but it shows passion for programming.
“Game of Life on a Flipdot Display,” n.d. https://mastodon.social/@andabata/115413098600656598
As in the title. What an amazing piece of work!
“Mastodon 4.5 Featuring Quote Posts, a Solution to Missing Replies, and More,” n.d. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/mastodon-4.5/
New Mastodon version was released, and now it supports quoting posts.I remember there was a lot of discussion about this topic in Fediverse. One group claimed that it’s really needed to finally give people ability to quote other users instead of literally copying their posts. Other group mentioned that this will bring harm and create toxic community.I think the current implementation is versatile enough for both of those groups. If you can disable quoting for your posts or even accounts. It seems to be flexible enough.
“By the Power of Grayscale!,” n.d. https://zserge.com/posts/grayskull/
Extremely detailed blog post about image processing in C.If you want to know how science behind algorithms used to filter, scale, resize, detect objects features, face detection and track objects on images this blog post is just next level.I love how gradually author goes from:"Here is 2 dimensional image arranged in simple 1 dimensional memory layout"to"here are algorithms to detect object"It’s so well written!
#image #opencv #computervision
