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- Driver Fix for 30 Year Old Creative SoundBlaster AWE32 ISA Sound Card
by zdw on 6/21/25, 9:22 PM, with comments
- Bill Atkinson: Polaroids Showing the Evolution of the Lisa GUI [video]
by zdw on 6/21/25, 3:13 PM, with comments
- Tiny Undervalued Hardware Companions (2024)
by zdw on 6/21/25, 2:19 AM, with comments
- Removal of unwanted drivers from Windows Update
by zdw on 6/20/25, 4:38 PM, with comments
- Visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä
by zdw on 6/20/25, 3:23 PM, with comments
- Jay Miner, Atari and Amiga computer designer
by zdw on 6/20/25, 2:34 PM, with comments
- In praise of “normal” engineers
by zdw on 6/19/25, 5:36 PM, with comments
- Amazon orders employees to relocate to Seattle and other hubs
by zdw on 6/19/25, 3:55 PM, with comments
- Moral Puzzles: Man vs. Machine
by zdw on 6/19/25, 3:53 PM, with comments
- A better Kubernetes, from the ground up (2020)
by zdw on 6/19/25, 3:36 PM, with comments
- June 2025 C2PA News
by zdw on 6/19/25, 4:32 AM, with comments
- Triaging security issues reported by third parties
by zdw on 6/19/25, 4:27 AM, with comments
- Death to WYSIWYG!
by zdw on 6/19/25, 4:20 AM, with comments
- Writing Toy Software Is a Joy
by zdw on 6/19/25, 4:18 AM, with comments
- Craig Federighi Opens Up About iPadOS, Its Multitasking Journey, and Essence
by zdw on 6/18/25, 4:54 PM, with comments
- The FT's Humane JavaScript
by zdw on 6/18/25, 3:42 PM, with comments
- Huang's Law
by zdw on 6/18/25, 12:13 PM, with comments
- Prunt Motion Controller
by zdw on 6/18/25, 12:11 PM, with comments
- Every Google &udm=? in the world (2024)
by zdw on 6/18/25, 4:19 AM, with comments
- Manage the Noise
by zdw on 6/17/25, 8:36 PM, with comments
- Windows 10 EOL
by zdw on 6/17/25, 3:46 PM, with comments
- Please take my weird moral puzzles quiz
by zdw on 6/17/25, 3:42 PM, with comments
- Linux kernel WireGuard can go 'fast' on decent hardware
by zdw on 6/17/25, 12:34 PM, with comments
- Pipelined State Machine Corruption
by zdw on 6/17/25, 12:33 PM, with comments
- Rhapsody OS: Installing Apple's Lost x86 OS from 1998 on modern hardware [video]
by zdw on 6/17/25, 12:23 PM, with comments
- WWDC 2025 Viewing Guide
by zdw on 6/16/25, 4:34 PM, with comments
- Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
by zdw on 6/16/25, 1:44 AM, with comments
- Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi
by zdw on 6/15/25, 4:00 PM, with comments
- Dice Identification 101: Mold Characteristics (2019)
by zdw on 6/15/25, 3:10 AM, with comments
- 'Ghost' AI students being enrolled in college as a financial aid scam
by zdw on 6/15/25, 12:35 AM, with comments
- Poline – An enigmatic color palette generator using polar coordinates
by zdw on 6/14/25, 11:38 PM, with comments
- Acorn in the f'n WWDC 2025 Keynote
by zdw on 6/14/25, 7:49 PM, with comments
- AMD's Pre-Zen Interconnect: Testing Trinity's Northbridge
by zdw on 6/14/25, 4:07 PM, with comments
- Inside the Apollo “8-Ball” FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)
by zdw on 6/14/25, 3:43 PM, with comments
- On the Usability of Editable Software
by zdw on 6/14/25, 3:46 AM, with comments
- Pip's Quake
by zdw on 6/14/25, 3:40 AM, with comments
- Let's Play some Glider 4.0 with John Calhoun [video]
by zdw on 6/14/25, 3:25 AM, with comments
- End of an Era: NOAA's Polar Sats Wind Down Operations
by zdw on 6/12/25, 5:32 PM, with comments
- macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format
by zdw on 6/12/25, 3:49 PM, with comments