Collaborate Disseminate
When your homebrew Yagi antenna only sort-of works, or when your WiFi cantenna seems moody on rainy days, we can assure you: it is not only you. You can stop …read more Continue reading A Hacker’s Approach to All Things Antenna
“A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit,” reports the BBC, “in the Brazilian city of Belém.”
The highway will ease traffic into the city, whi… Continue reading Amazon Forest Felled To Build Road For Climate Summit
Photo-printing kiosks are about as common as payphones these days. However, there was a time when they were everywhere. The idea was that if you didn’t have a good printer …read more Continue reading Repairing a Kodak Picture Maker Kiosk
“Why can’t we each have our own AI software that runs locally,” asks long-time Slashdot reader BrendaEM — and that doesn’t steal the work of others.
Imagine a powerful-but-locally-hosted LLM that “doesn’t spy… and no one else owns it.”
We do… Continue reading Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Open-Source Local-Only AI Solutions?
Ever wanted to produce nitrogen fertilizer like they did in the 1900s? In that case, you’re probably looking at the Birkeland-Eyde process, which was the first industrial-scale atmospheric nitrogen fixation …read more Continue reading Building a Fully Automatic Birkeland-Eyde Reactor
“For the first time in history, a privately operated lunar lander has captured images of a total eclipse from the Moon’s surface,” reports Daily Galaxy.
While the Athena lunar lander tipped over and ended its mission, elsewhere on the moon Firefly Ae… Continue reading Firefly’s ‘Athena’ Lander Watched Friday’s Eclipse – from the Moon
“For the first time in history, a privately operated lunar lander has captured images of a total eclipse from the Moon’s surface,” reports Daily Galaxy.
While the Athena lunar lander tipped over and ended its mission, elsewhere on the moon Firefly Ae… Continue reading Firefly’s ‘Athena’ Lander Watched Friday’s Eclipse – from the Moon
What an awesome response to the new brand! I’m so, so happy with all the feedback, and I’ve gotta be honest, I was nervous about how it would be received. The only negative theme that came through at all was our use of Sticker Mule, which
Long-time Slashdot reader BenFenner writes: For the third time in recent memory, CloudFlare has blocked large swaths of niche browsers and their users from accessing web sites that CloudFlare gate-keeps. In the past these issues have been resolved quic… Continue reading Cloudflare Accused of Blocking Niche Browsers
The WebUSB standard is certainly controversial. Many consider it a security risk, and, to date, only Chromium-based browsers support it. But there is a workaround that is, ironically, supposed to …read more Continue reading Add WebUSB Support To Firefox With a Special USB Device