Armor is an interesting technology from Manchester University for stopping rowhammer attacks on DRAM [1]. Unfortunately “armor” is a term used for DRAM that looks fancy for ricers so finding out whether it’s used in production is difficult.
Framework is a company that makes laptop kits you can assemble and upgrade, interesting concept [3]. I’ll keep buying second hand laptops for less than $400 but if I wanted to spend $1000 then I’d consider one of these.
How a child killer inspired Ayn Rand and indirectly conservatives all around the world [5]. Ayn Rand’s love of a notoriously sadistic child killer is well known, but this article has a better discussion of it than most.
60 Minutes had an interesting article on “Foreign Accent Syndrome” where people suddenly sound like they are from another country [6]. 18 minute video but worth watching. Most Autistic people have experience of people claiming that they must be from another country because of the way they speak. Having differences in brain function lead to differences in perceived accent is nothing new.
Here’s a choose your own adventure game in Twitter [9], can you get your pawn elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire?
- [1] https://tinyurl.com/2lk9xr7q
- [2] https://tinyurl.com/2njkc22w
- [3] https://frame.work/
- [4] https://fs.blog/job-interviews
- [5] https://tinyurl.com/2co3l83n
- [6] https://tinyurl.com/yzpsvfof
- [7] https://spectrum.ieee.org/intel-i860
- [8] https://ncase.me/trust/
- [9] https://x.com/Thinkwert/status/1528485521839759361