nerd7473 @nerd7473@librem.one

Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/07/hiding-secret-codes-light-protects-against-fake-videos

Fact-checkers may have a new tool in the fight against misinformation for AI generated or manipulated videos.

A team of Cornell researchers has developed a way to “watermark” light in videos, which they can use to detect if video is fake or has been manipulated.

AMD CPUs surpass the 40% threshold in latest Steam hardware survey — RTX 5070 emerges as the most preferred GPU within the Blackwell series - Intel’s lead shrinks as gamers increasingly embrace AMD’s 3... - https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-cpus-surpass-the-40-percent-threshold-in-latest-steam-hardware-survey-rtx-5070-emerges-as-the-most-preferred-gpu-within-the-blackwell-series #pccomponents #cpus

Great game, just a bit buggy.

The chip uses these components to turn an FM radio signal into audio by combining an oscillator, mixers, filters, amplifiers, and other circuits. If you want to know more about this FM radio chip, I go into great detail in my blog post: https://www.righto.com/2025/08/reverse-engineering-analog-TDA7000.html

You wanna know why the US economy hasn't already tipped into a huge depression?

AI.

Literally.

Megatech is throwing so much capital at AI it's legit keeping the economy afloat.

https://bsky.app/profile/mims.bsky.social/post/3lvdn42m7js2l

Dead & Co are playing for free in SF this weekend, so now is as good a time as any to revisit the contributions of Deadheads to the early development of the internet: https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20250618-how-the-grateful-dead-shaped-social-media

🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/EFF/status/1951387504101433691#m

[2025/08/01 21:00]

Rampant emoji use suggests crypto-stealing NPM package was written by AI - Kodane code was either machine-generated or done by a teenager An NPM package packed with... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/emoji_use_ai_malware/

So I'm thinking of adding support for %time{} in #curl's -w function.

One reason for doing this is for users who use -w for logging and want to include the time of the event (post-transfer) in a convenient way.

https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/18119

Feel free to share your opinion!

Unsupervised bathroom usage is prohibited 🐈‍⬛

Fujifilm is raising camera prices by up to $800 https://www.theverge.com/cameras/717685/fujifilm-camera-price-hikes-tariffs-x100vi #news #Cameras #Gadgets #News

💸 eBay impulse control challenges 💸

Look, look at these. They're beautiful, they work, they could be mine! Yet like with all vintage window shopping that occurs on eBay when I'm in-between tasks or relaxing, I just have to remind myself that there are already plenty of unfinished projects in my purview, and to just finish something equally fun from the FIFO queue.

oooh but it's so difficult! 💝🎁

#vintage #vintagecomputing #laptop #gridcase #omnibook #eBayFinds #dopamineImpulseControl #want