Sounds like you’re after hackaday and similar specialist blogs

General tech sites will mostly cater to the tech the general public care about, enthusiasts don’t bring in the ad money comparatively

Reddit died June 2023

I don’t know why people are still playing with the corpse

There’s a baseline 20-30% of all polls taken over the world that is made up of hateful nutjobs and conspiracy theorists

There could be someone running for office who has figured out how to solve all the world’s problems for free, and that 20-30% will vehemently oppose them.

The main thing to remember about authoritarians is that none have ever been documented to be impervious to small pieces of metal moving at high speed.

Ticketmaster only exists to reduce the income of musicians.

The musicians would exist without Ticketmaster

The venues would exist without Ticketmaster

The crowd would exist without Ticketmaster

They only extract value

Fair play!

If you need to convert audio or video, ffmpeg is your man

If you need to convert a document pandoc is what you need

If you need to convert an image, imagemagick

If you need to “convert” some online media into local media, yt-dlp

Can’t think of another use case that people would regularly be converting off the top of my head, but happy to fill in any gaps if there are any

What are you trying to convert? Generally shoving “open source software” on the end of the search query will get you something legit

I was about to remark how this data backs up the events we’ve been watching unfold in America recently

Was just thinking this

A single LiDAR sensor prevents this kind of issue

Of course it was

You know that thing scammers do where they set up a situation they’ll use for blackmail later on?

Don’t know why that just came to mind

Big thanks for providing this extra context, that made it a lot clearer for me

I’ve not really touched radio stuff in a long while now but here’s my attempt.

Single sideband (SSB) is a radio transmission technique for sending audio (often voice, but many data modes use SSB too) whilst being pretty efficient with the use of radio spectrum. Think like FM and AM modes on a consumer radio, except those approaches take up a bit more bandwidth compared to SSB, so you can’t pack as many stations into a radio band without interference.

And this is where I might be completely off the mark, but this novel approach is interesting compared to the more conventional approaches due to the reduction in the complexity of the components needed to do this and a reduction of waste power. As the other approaches involved essentially generating a double sideband signal (I can’t remember what the technical term is, but part of me thinks this might be standard AM) and filtering out the (typically) lower mirror band.

Not really in a situation where I can watch a video without potentially annoying someone right now, but

A municipal mesh network isn’t a bad idea, but I worry about what security measures are in place, effectively securing a wireless network with hundreds of independent stations feels like it wouldn’t be trivial.

And surely this will need a WAN gateway to the internet somewhere, so it’ll only be as reliable as the route to that uplink.

This might have all been addressed in the video though, I’ll see if I can find an article about it.

You don’t lay off engineers to become more agile, all it does is make the company more fragile

The linked article is a jargon festival, but that’s to be expected given the topic. I still found it pretty interesting despite not fully understanding it

Is it actually missing the engine? That looked like it was there when I skimmed a couple of the repos

Missing assets is pretty common when they open source commercial games, the rights of the art is often more complicated than just doing the game code.

Why? If they’ve not done anything wrong, they’ve got nothing to hide

It’s gone. The USA is a superpower only because of its allegiances. In the past week it’s been demonstrated that the US no longer wishes to be a part of that arrangement.

Well I’m very excited to see the injection of life this hopefully gives c&c modding

I wonder how many of the old guard are still around, I’m glad the cncnet project is still going strong