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Max, a Real Programmer

The Story of Max, a Real Programmer Sun 29 June 2025 This is a story about Imagebin. Imagebin is the longest-lived software project that I still maintain. I'm the only user. I use it to host images, mainly to include in my blog, sometimes for sharing in other places. Imagebin's oldest changelog entry is dated May 2010, but I know it had already existed for about a year before I had the idea of keeping a changelog. Here's an image hosted by Imagebin: For years Imagebin was wide open to the pu

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Building Linux kernel on macOS natively

I've recently added a Linux compatibility layer to Starina operating system based on a lightweight VM approach similar to WSL2. I can cross-compile its init program with Cargo. I can prepare a container image contents using skopeo. However, I need to build the genuine Linux kernel, preferably on my daily driver: macOS. The most common way to build Linux kernel on macOS would be using Docker Desktop, and that works fine. I know nobody need to build on macOS natively, but it looked possible - th

Apple’s New M4 MacBook Air Hits All-Time Low for 4th of July, Stock Might Be Gone If You Wait Until Prime Day

If you’re waiting for Prime Day to make your big laptop upgrade, Amazon’s just dropped a deal that might have you thinking about jumping the gun. The 13-inch 2025 MacBook Air, powered by Apple’s state-of-the-art M4 processor, is 15% off at Amazon, coming in at a cool $849 for a hot early 4th of July Weekend deal. This $849 sale price is a couple of clicks above the all-time low it hit a couple of weeks ago, but Apple deals — especially on their top-line M4 MacBooks — are fleeting at best, and t

Experts Say These Are the Best Foods for Headaches

While eating a certain food or adjusting your diet won't provide a miracle cure for headaches or migraines, it may offer some relief. That is, in addition to maintaining your hydration, exercise, sleep and stress management. "The most important thing I tell patients is that migraines are highly individualized," says Dr. Nicholas Church, a board-certified member of the American Board of Family Medicine and the American Academy of Family Physicians. "What helps one person may not help another, an

I'm Rethinking My Upgrade Based on These 5 iPhone 17 Pro Max Rumors

I've always been on team Regular Size when it comes to iPhone Pro models, even in years when the larger Pro Max models have gained exclusive features, like the 5x telephoto "tetraprism" camera in the iPhone 15 Pro Max (which expanded to both models in the iPhone 16 Pro). Despite the more expansive screen size, the Max has always seemed too bulky to carry around all day. But a host of rumored features and design changes for the upcoming iPhone 17 Pro Max has me weighing the benefits of embracing

Razer Handheld Dock Chroma Follows Its Accessories' Formula: High Quality With a Higher Price

The Handheld Dock Chroma from Razer is a compact stand and dock for portable gaming consoles and tablets, offering charging and an interface to send your games to a bigger screen. As the name suggests, it includes RGB lighting that's part of Razer's Chroma ecosystem. It was announced at CES in January, and it recently started shipping. Is it any good? Well, largely yes, with some important caveats. What I like about the Razer Handheld Dock Chroma The Razer Handheld Chroma Dock is well built. I

The Promise and Peril of Digital Security in the Age of Dictatorship

Steven Rodríguez traveled more than 40 miles from his home in Santa Ana, in western El Salvador, to attend the Pride march in the capital on June 28. It is the second time he has attended. There, some 20,000 people gathered in a mix of celebration and protest for the rights of sexual diversity. But this year, joy was replaced by fear. “Maybe it won't escalate, but there is a fear that what happened to the El Bosque cooperative will happen. But, from deep down I believe that, as people, we have

Gmailtail – Command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON

A command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON, designed for automation, monitoring, and integration with other tools. # Clone and setup the project # Install uv if you haven't already # Monitor all new emails # JSON Lines format (one JSON per line) # Resume from last checkpoint

Nano-engineered thermoelectrics enable scalable, compressor-free cooling

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have developed a new, easily manufacturable solid-state thermoelectric refrigeration technology with nano-engineered materials that is twice as efficient as devices made with commercially available bulk thermoelectric materials. As global demand grows for more energy-efficient, reliable and compact cooling solutions, this advancement offers a scalable alternative to traditional compressor-based refrigeration.

gmailtail: tail -f Your Gmail

A command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON, designed for automation, monitoring, and integration with other tools. # Clone and setup the project # Install uv if you haven't already # Monitor all new emails # JSON Lines format (one JSON per line) # Resume from last checkpoint

More Efficient Thermoelectric Cooling

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have developed a new, easily manufacturable solid-state thermoelectric refrigeration technology with nano-engineered materials that is twice as efficient as devices made with commercially available bulk thermoelectric materials. As global demand grows for more energy-efficient, reliable and compact cooling solutions, this advancement offers a scalable alternative to traditional compressor-based refrigeration.

Carrera Smart Glasses drop to a new record-low price, nearly half off

Yesterday, we reported on a fantastic deal for the Amazon Echo Frames, but we know some of you may prefer something more stylish. If you want smart glasses that also look great, the Carrera Smart Glasses with Alexa are also on sale, saving you nearly half of the retail price. Buy the Carrera Smart Glasses with Alexa for $199.99 ($190 off) This offer is available from Amazon, but there is a caveat. This is an Amazon Prime exclusive offer. You can learn more about Amazon Prime plans and pricing h

9to5Mac Daily: July 2, 2025 – iPhone Fold, Apple vs DOJ

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Bitwarden: Check out Bitwarden Password Manager, featuring a new Apple Watch authenticator integration, secure autofill on Safari and iOS apps, and enterprise-grade security tools that help you manage credentials with confidence. New episodes of 9to5Mac D

Best early Prime Day monitor deals: Over 30 discounts that are live now

It's that time of the year again -- Amazon Prime Day is less than a week away. This is a massive sales event where tech brands roll out many discounts for a wide selection of products, including computer monitors. You'll find just about everything from office displays that are $50 off to gaming displays that are hundreds of dollars off. If you're looking to upgrade your desktop setup or just want a second or even a third monitor, now is one of the best times to buy a display. Get daily deals st

Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

WASHINGTON (AP) — Websites that displayed legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared, making it harder for state and local governments and the public to learn what to expect in their backyards from a warming world. Scientists said the peer-reviewed authoritative reports save money and lives. Websites for the national assessments and the U.S. Global Change Research Program were down Monday and Tuesday with no links, notes or referrals elsewhere. The White House,

Amazon Offers the Dreo Smart Tower Fan at All-Time Low Ahead of Prime Day Just in Time for the Heat

Keeping your house cool during the summer can be tough. Maybe you don’t have central air. Or maybe your family insists that you keep the thermostat higher than what’s normally to your liking. Whatever the case may be, now that the warmer months are here, you might want to cool things down a bit. And the temperature can be hard to bring down when you don’t have a lot of options. Luckily, a fan can be just the soothing balm you need to stop dealing with sweaty nights and frustrating days. And this

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I'm a Pro Photographer: Here's How to Get the Best Firework Photos With Your Phone

Whether you're taking photos on July 4th, at New Year's or for another celebration, fireworks are always amazing opportunities for photos. The bright lights and vibrant colors contrast incredibly well with the dark night skies, making your photos look beautifully dramatic with very little effort on your part. While taking photos at night used to be something you'd need a big DSLR for, today's best camera phones, including the iPhone 16 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro and Galaxy S25 Ultra, are capable of takin

Everything that could go wrong with X’s new AI-written community notes

Elon Musk's X arguably revolutionized social media fact-checking by rolling out "community notes," which created a system to crowdsource diverse views on whether certain X posts were trustworthy or not. But now, the platform plans to allow AI to write community notes, and that could potentially ruin whatever trust X users had in the fact-checking system—which X has fully acknowledged. In a research paper, X described the initiative as an "upgrade" while explaining everything that could possibl

Amazon Prime Day starts July 8: Here's everything to know

It's almost time to add to cart. Amazon confirmed in a June press release that its annual Prime Day event will return Tuesday, July 8, through Friday, July 11. And for the first time ever, Prime Day will be a four-day extravaganza two days longer than last year, confirming early rumors that swirled back in March. Now, the event is just a few days away, kicking off next week just as the Fourth of July weekend comes to a close. Also: Amazon extends July Prime Day and confirms 2025 dates In June

New evidence that some supernovae may be a “double detonation”

Type Ia supernovae are critical tools in astronomy, since they all appear to explode with the same intensity, allowing us to use their brightness as a measure of distance. The distance measures they've given us have been critical to tracking the expansion of the Universe, which led to the recognition that there's some sort of dark energy hastening the Universe's expansion. Yet there are ongoing arguments over exactly how these events are triggered. There's widespread agreement that type Ia supe

Amazon to shut down Freevee streaming TV service in August

Amazon is discontinuing its standalone free streaming TV service next month as it looks to consolidate its content offerings under Prime Video. The service, called Freevee, launched in 2019 underneath IMDb, the film and TV site Amazon bought in 1998. It offered a stable of free, ad-supported video, including original series and some Prime Video content, primarily through an app. The Freevee app will shut down in August, at which point users will be able to watch shows and movies on Prime Video

New macOS malware targets crypto and Web3 startups with fake Zoom update

North Korean hackers are behind a new and unusually sophisticated macOS malware campaign that targets the crypto industry using fake Zoom invites. Here’s how it works. Dubbed “NimDoor” by researchers at SentinelLabs, the attack is more sophisticated than the typical macOS threat, and it chains together AppleScript, Bash, C++, and Nim to exfiltrate data and maintain access in compromised systems. Here’s SentinelLabs’ executive summary of the hack: DPRK threat actors are utilizing Nim-compiled

NimDoor crypto-theft macOS malware revives itself when killed

North Korean state-backed hackers have been using a new family of macOS malware called NimDoor in a campaign that targets web3 and cryptocurrency organizations. Researchers analyzing the payloads discovered that the attacker relied on unusual techniques and a previously unseen signal-based persistence mechanism. The attack chain, which involves contacting victims via Telegram and luring them into running a fake Zoom SDK update, delivered via Calendly and email, resembles the one Huntress manag

Best early Prime Day deals 2025: 55+ sales on tech products live now

Tharon Green/ZDNET When is Amazon Prime Day? Amazon Prime Day will run from Tuesday, July 8, to Friday, July 11, 2025. The annual two-day sale was extended to four days in 2025. How long will Prime Day last? Amazon Prime Day will last four days, running from July 8-11, 2025. That's two days longer than the years prior. Where will Prime Day take place? Amazon announced that its July Prime Day event will return in over 20 countries, including Ireland for the first time. Prime Day 2025 will r

WebAssembly Troubles part 4: Microwasm (2019)

WebAssembly Troubles part 4: Microwasm Preamble This is the final part of a 4-part miniseries on issues with WebAssembly and proposals to fix them. Part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here. This article assumes some familiarity with virtual machines, compilers and WebAssembly, but I’ll try to link to relevant information where necessary so even if you’re not you can follow along. Also, this series is going to come off as if I dislike WebAssembly. I love WebAssembly! I wrote a whole article about h

A list is a monad

The term “monad” is often invoked when describing patterns in functional programming. Yet explanations typically swing between high-level metaphors and deep mathematical abstractions. Each approach offers part of the picture, intuition without precision, or rigor without intuition but seldom both. Monads can be idealized as a container (albeit is a flawed metaphor) or context holding a value (or multiple values, or no value), but in some cases we will get into later on it’s better to think of i

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Behind the Scenes, Sam Altman Is Absolutely Furious

The tug of war for artificial intelligence developers between Meta and OpenAI is devolving into a knock-down, drag-out fight. In an effort to revive his crumbling AI program, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has recently declared open season on OpenAI's staffers. The billionaire tech mogul is said to be hand-selecting AI researchers and developers to build out a "superintelligence" AI lab, offering up to $100 million in sign-on bonuses if they leave OpenAI for a seat at Meta's table. So far, OpenAI has

The Last of Us co-creator Neil Druckmann is stepping away from the show to focus on future games

Neil Druckmann, head of the PlayStation studio Naughty Dog and co-creator of The Last of Us, is stepping away from the HBO show based on the 2013 game and its 2020 sequel to focus his work on Naughty Dog's next game. On Instagram, the studio published the following statement from Druckmann: "I've made the difficult decision to step away from my involvement in The Last of Us on HBO. With work completed on season 2 and before any meaningful work starts on season 3, now is the right time for me to

How to watch Summer Games Done Quick 2025

In a mad, mad world, speedruns for charity can be a calm oasis. Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) has your fix with the 2025 edition of the marathon. You can tune in starting on Sunday, July 6. As usual, the lineup includes loads of fun games and bonkers challenges. It's fitting that this year's lineup includes a Switch 2 game. On the event's last day, the speedrunner Peas will take on Mario Kart World on the new console. Nintendo Perhaps to commemorate the new console's launch, Nintendo is ever

Marvel Rivals Season 3: New Phoenix Trailer Had Me Screaming 'What?!'

As Marvel Rivals gets ready to kick off season 3 next week, we're getting our first glimpse at some of the upcoming changes. And, with respect to my poor beleaguered Blade bros, the biggest news for me is that Jean Grey, original member of the X-Men and sometimes terror of the cosmos, is joining the roster as Phoenix. There's plenty more coming, including Blade in Season 3.5 next month, but Phoenix is the headliner for me, and here's our first look at what she can do. Phoenix's abilities in Ma