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kanapala | 10 days ago | on: Conway's Game of Life, in real life

Technology Will Save Us, from a brighter past, produced the Arcade Coder as their swan song. It had 12×12 tactile buttons with color leds inside, a companion app to program it with scratch like code blocks, and interactive tutorials. It's ESP32 based. There's an effort to continue it's life, ast the app was on the app store for a brief time. https://github.com/padraigfl/twsu-arcade-coder-esp32

kanapala | 18 days ago | on: Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure

There's a goverment issued public & private key right here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_identity_card

kanapala | 7 months ago | on: Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded, now they want to silence him

This article maybe? https://www.witpress.com/Secure/elibrary/papers/ESUS07/ESUS0... * (net embedded energy is offset in 12 monthes)

kanapala | 1 year ago | on: MIT abandons requirement of DEI statements for hiring and promotions

Other thought “And clean our cities of the crooked nose vermin” so it’s all good?

kanapala | 2 years ago | on: The history of lead pencils and their lack of any lead (2021)

Conte was French anyway, there’s no h-word for hard in french..

kanapala | 2 years ago | on: Doom Captcha (2021)

Haha, the Windows screensaver Easter egg level is a nice touch ;)

kanapala | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: I made Vinlo – Spinning artwork video for your music

Can’t upload mp3 from iOS for some reason. Stays gray in file upload modal. Name is 1.mp3

kanapala | 2 years ago | on: European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls

A physical control changes position and stays in that position so you can feel it to know if your turn signal is on for example.

Real button changes position when you press it. Haptic button is flat surface with vibrating motor inside that buzzes so it "feels" like a click. Like in a smartphone.

The ones I have seen have a lag, so you don't immediately know if your button press was registered or not.

kanapala | 2 years ago | on: An Apple district manager's Macintosh Portable in 1989-91

It’s GE ad

kanapala | 2 years ago | on: The KGB, the Computer and Me – The Cuckoo's Egg Story (1990) [video]

You’ll need Vinegar extension for safari for that. It forces standard video player on youtube.com, and you’ll have to uninstall YT app.

kanapala | 2 years ago | on: Resetting the timer in my toothbrush

Nice, thanks.

kanapala | 2 years ago | on: Resetting the timer in my toothbrush

It doesn’t work for me :( 04:1C:C9:AA:BE:12:91 23041911K

kanapala | 3 years ago | on: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

Can't use it on a Mac as it won't play ball with Keychain. Not going to reenter all my passwords.