Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario and Zelda, shares a few words about AI technology.
GOAT
I was struggling to find a job and my friend looked at my resume and was like, dude you need to put more bullshit there, add a bunch of stuff, even if it's fake, no one cares, everyone does it. After so much rejection I was willing to try anything, fortunately a company hired me just around those days. But next time I'll probably have to take his advice...
Been a thing for ages in Finland, never thought it would actually expand haha
Football is being killed by FIFA, if anything
I'm still hurt about Copa América final :(
Still not over the fact that we're having 48 (!!) teams in the next world cup. It removes a lot of thrill from this qualifier. Now they're just handing spots away, I'm pretty skeptic how good that world cup is going to be
You can look into the Unihertz Titan series (I haven't tried them myself tho)
Even worse when they make you create an account in their career portal just to apply
Kinda skeptic about this new format, let's see how it plays out...
Yes indeed it's pretty technical and content-heavy. It helped me that I took a class in university that covered many of the topics, still a few things went over my head. Maybe it's time I do a re-read of selected chapters
If you're asking for real, Designing Data-Intensive Applications is probably the best I've ever read (if you're into that kind of thing)
I remember when I got here it was a nightmare for the first few months when I didn't have strong auth. It took several months to open a bank account and you basically can't do anything without that stuff
Oh yes this QR code bullshit drives me nuts back home too
Been thinking of trying this. Thing is nobody uses cash anymore around here (Nordics). In supermarkets I know for sure I can use cash, but restaurants, bars or small business it's going to be hit and miss. I guess I'd have to endure the awkwardness of asking in every single place if they take cash or not
Academic paper on dumbphone adoption
Came across this paper the other day. I'm yet to read it fully, but its existence is interesting already. Dumbphones have now gathered attention from the media and the academic world too.
Your .env with production credentials is now up on a public repo
Hell yeah, this was our jam with my friends back in the day
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
One hundred years of solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
Nice goal by Eriksen, but Slovenia did well, I think the tie is well deserved
Bochum avoids relegation in epic playoff comeback against Düsseldorf
They turned around a 3-0, and won in penalties (6-5, went to sudden death)
I think more leagues should have relegation playoffs. One last chance of salvation for the upper team, one last chance of promotion for the lower team, and a thrilling game for the neutral fans.
Got annoyed by my gym
So I joined a new gym last year and was pleasantly surprised. They gave me a smart card to get in and out, that's it, no app, no accounts, no nothing. Well, today I got to the gym and saw the announcement that they are phasing out the access with the smart card and starting to use, you guessed it, an app.
Now, I know this is not such a big deal in the grand scheme of things. But I'm just tired of this trend of replacing perfectly functioning systems with apps (public transport tickets come to mind). Just more ways to harvest people's data, I guess...
Ah and by the way, in my previous gym they not only required an app for accessing the place, they also incentivized people to track their workouts, meals and bodyweight using the gym's app (of course I never used any of these features).
A burgeoning cottage industry caters to beleaguered smartphone users desperate to escape their screens.
Stumbled upon this article about the rising popularity of dumbphones.
Hope this community starts getting more traction :)
As for my journey, I am still on a "dumb smartphone" phase, an old phone with only Whatsapp and Spotify. I've been considering making the switch to a dumb phone or at least a candybar smartphone like the Qin F21.
Windows95Man to represent Finland in Eurovision. Linus Torvalds must be so disappointed
Context: the creator of Linux is from Finland
Actually had to use this old friend at work the other day
They keep this 20+ year old laptop around because it has a serial port and every now and then that comes in handy.
You can't really see it in the picture but the laptop is pretty thick and heavy.
The AirDrop flaw exploited by China, explained
It’s been a while since I wrote an “attack of the week” post, and the fault for this is entirely mine. I’ve been much too busy writing boring posts about Schnorr signatures!…
The news was already posted here last week, but I found this great technical explanation of the flaw. Long story short: Apple is using bad cryptography. They got alerted by researchers back in 2019 but didn't fix it.
PhD thesis on mass surveillance (and strategies to counter it)
Recently stumbled upon the PhD thesis of a researcher at the Eindhoven University of Technology from ~2 years ago. I haven't read the whole thing, but I thought it might be of interest for someone here. It's freely available for download on the link.
Excerpts from the preface:
> The sheer number of the surveillance systems that we document in subsequent chapters reflects the industrial scale of data collection in the twenty-first century. We hope that future researchers will take up the challenge of addressing each covert program as a research subject to fully and completely explore, and to freely share their findings with the wider world in the spirit of open academic discussion. This kind of basic research is crucial to anti-surveillance software and hardware development.
> The machinery of mass surveillance is simply too dangerous to be allowed to exist. We must work to ensure that no one will be able to say that they did not know, or that they were not warned. We must use all of the tools in our toolbox – economic, social, cultural, political, and of course, cryptographic – to blind targeted and mass surveillance adversaries.
Games with graphics resembling PS1 or PS2?
So recently I was thinking how games with pixel art graphics are popular nowadays, and I was wondering if there are new games being made with other kinds of "retro" graphics, for example, games that look like the PS1 or PS2 eras.
Any recommendations?
Totally logical and expected functionality
Context: this is a legit screenshot I took on my workplace around 1.5 years ago. Hopefully it's been patched by now? Completely ridiculous behavior
Fighting against evil
Had it saved on my hard drive for years and recently re-discovered it. Seems to be from 2011 (!!)
Google is getting worse by the year, but it seems even back then some people were already seeing where things were going.
(Credits to the original author whoever it might be)
Retro Tech Dreams has a blog now
I've been following this account for a few years on Twitter and it's awesome. I was out of the loop since I stopped using Twitter, but now I found that they launched a blog and also started to be active in other social media. Thought you might appreciate it like I do!
Android app to convert HEIC to JPG?
Hello. I sometimes receive images in HEIC format and I use an app to convert them to JPG. However I realized that this app uploads the images and makes the conversion in the cloud, so I stopped using it.
Does anyone know of an app that does this conversion offline?