Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronics is a visual feast for those who love electronics.
Eric Schlaepfer was trying to fix a broken piece of test equipment when he came across the cause of the problem—a troubled tantalum capacitor. The component had somehow shorted out, and he wanted to know why. So he polished it down for a look inside. He never found the source of the short, but he…
…thousands of pro-Bolsonaro extremists have refused to accept Lula’s narrow victory in October’s election, spending recent weeks camping outside army bases across the country and calling for a military coup.
Hundreds of hardcore supporters of Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, have stormed the country’s congress, presidential palace and supreme court in a stunning security breach that was immediately compared to the 6 January invasion of the US Capitol by followers of Donald Trump in 2021.“What we are witnessing is a terrorist attack,” the news anchor…
Researchers say the information was assembled by unknown actors who exploited a previously disclosed flaw in Twitter’s system for verifying account ownership.
Records of 235 million Twitter accounts and the email addresses used to register them have been posted to an online hacking forum, setting the stage for anonymous handles to be linked to real-world identities. Source: Twitter leak of email addresses totals at least 200 million – The Washington Post
Many sources of rules govern our interactions with technology and our behavior online—law, ethical guidelines, community norms, website policies—and they do not always agree. This is particularly true in the context of content production because copyright law represents a collection of complex policies that often do not always account for the ways that people use…
Most new users join the Fediverse via Mastodon, but that’s just one part of a much wider Fediverse with many different kinds of servers. This section explores the non-Mastodon kinds of servers out there. Because Fedi servers use a common … Continue reading
Source: The Fediverse beyond Mastodon | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
TOKYO, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The Social Coop Limited (Social Coop), the entity affiliated with Mask Network has acquired Pawoo.net, one of the largest Mastodon instances. The new team will be taking over the operation and maintenance of Pawoo.net starting from December 21st, 2022, with no impact on existing users.Pawoo, operated from Japan since 2017, is…