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A secure, off-grid communication terminal for when the rest of the world goes dark. Powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico, it encrypts text and GPS messages using AES-256 with rotating keys stored on SD. LORA provides long-range transmission. GPS or RTC time sync ensures one-time key usage. No network. No trace. Just resilience !

There’s a section of our community who concern themselves with the technological aspects of preparing for an uncertain future, and for them a significant proportion of effort goes in to commu…

At work, we’ve been building agentic workflows to support our internal Delivery team on various accounting, cash reconciliation, and operational tasks. To better guide that project, I wrote my own simple workflow tool as a learning project in January. Since then, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become a prominent solution for writing tools for agents, and I decided to spend some time writing an MCP server over the weekend to build a better intuition.

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Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.

Often in Star Trek (almost all variations of it) they talk about "level N" diagnostics. Is there an actual description of what the diagnostic levels mean?

How do the frontier labs consistently train great models? How can they fail?

Time Expander shared this video on Youtube! For this cyberdeck build I am using a NOS (New Old Stock) enclosure from 1953 (Suckle Electronics. made for the U.S. Army Signal Corp to hold spare par…

Your computer keyboard probably has between 61 and 109 keys, and you have to type words out one letter at a time. Tech artist Attoparsec thought it might

Trail RFID is a battery-powered high-speed RFID reader controlled by a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W for off-grid use. It provides a low-cost RFID-based system for better tracking of participants to cross-c…

Post-training in industry is very different than the academic papers and open-source models demonstrate. Let's dive into one of my favorite topics in language modeling development today.

In today’s “futuristic tech you can get for $5”, [RealCorebb] shows us a gesture sensor, one of the sci-fi kind. He was doing a desktop clock build, and wanted to add gesture cont…

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I can't quite believe it either. Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Command & Conquer Renegade and Command & Conquer Generals (inc. Zero Hour) have their code officially open sourced.

Like so many of us, [aforsberg] found themselves fascinated with the WOPR computer from WarGames — something about all those blinking LEDs must speak to nerds on some subconscious level. But …

LoRa gear can be great for doing radio communications in a light-weight and low-power way. However, it can also work over great distances if you have the right hardware—and the right antennas in pa…

Receive signals from aircraft transponders and track flights with a Raspberry Pi 3 A+ and a low-cost USB Software Defined Radio.

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This article originally appeared on February 17 at Defector, a worker-owned sports and culture website you should totally support. HBO had a series of legendary stand-up specials in the 1990s, and one of the best of those came from a performer who was not a comedian. Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants was incredibly funny, but Jay […]

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Fantastical, the calendar app you won't be able to live without. Quickly create new events and reminders with natural language input and more.

Presenting Cardhop, the contacts app you'll actually want to use. Search, add, edit, and interact with your contacts while still having fun.