In this blog we explore how FFmpeg uses Vulkan Compute to seamlessly accelerate encoding and decoding of even professional-grade video on consumer GPUs — unlocking GPU compute parallelism at scale, without specialized hardware. This approach complements Vulkan Video

We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Protocol client written in Fortran, with a Rust native firehose decoder for the relay-raw stream path. Yes, that Fortran. - FormerLab/fortransky

The Soul of a Pedicab Driver, by Carl Etnier.

The Social Smolnet par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

I spent too much time looking at too many colo(u)rs to try and optimise them
for csskit. Here are some interesting findings.

The cryptocurrency industry super PACs dumped $14.2 million into the Illinois primaries. 90% of that – $12.8 million – was wasted, in that it went to opposing Democratic candidates who won their primaries (Stratton in the Senate race, Ford in H-07) or supporting their opponents. The PACs

Germany requires Open Document Format in its new sovereign digital framework, standardizing document use across public administrations.

A new Northwestern University study in humans and mice has discovered a novel biomarker of schizophrenia that could also serve as a new drug candidate to treat the cognitive symptoms of the disorder. Schizophrenia affects .5% of the world’s population, including about two million people in the U.S.

A bespoke software revolution? I don't buy it. It'll exist. It already exists. Small consultants and big consulting firms have made custom software for years. It almost always sucks. It’s bloated, confusing, and because the client pays, it’s built in all the wrong ways. Who’s excited about bespoke software? Software makers! Of course t...

Building a Reader for the World’s Smallest Hard Drive — MK4001MTD

Our long-term payment provider Nexi has terminated our contract without prior notice. As a result, our supporters’ recurring credit card and direct debit d...

define brings email, chat, meetings, docs, and video together—so teams decide faster, switch less, and stay in flow.

“Whiplash”: Heart Attack and Stroke Risk Jumps When People Stop Taking GLP-1s: Stopping GLP-1 treatments has side effects, too

I've always liked wearing a watch. It seems redundant at first, since we're perpetually glued to our phones these days, but it's really not.

A smartphone ...

Open source Baltic Sea shadow fleet tracker. 1200+ vessels, live AIS, cable proximity alerts. No cloud, no subscription, runs locally - FormerLab/shadow-fleet-tracker-light

An interactive journey about IVF, told from two perspectives.

Offline MGRS navigation + BLE proximity team sync for 2-8 people. No cell service needed. V1.0 through V4.0 roadmap in README. - RedGridTactical/RedGridLink

Yesterday at lunch a friend asked me what tech trend he should pay attention to but was probably ignoring.

Without thinking much I said “artificial intelligence”, but having thought about that a...

How Linux demand-pages memory, what mmap does to physical pages, why replacing a mapping breaks direct memory access and shared memory, and how userfaultfd lets you lazily populate memory without destroying the mapping.

Windows users sitting in the sidelines are not understanding the source of the Windows hate. But that's because the messages are not getting through. Windows...

Insights and analysis on liquid cooling, immersion cooling, and thermal management for data centers.

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