Leftovers

• The Straits Times ☛ He saved a 140-year-old house, then he built a hotel using the ancient art of ‘Korean Lego’

  South Korea is racing to preserve traditional hanoks amid rising modern apartment developments.

• Ruben Schade ☛ Quality of life changes, week 45 2024

  In no particular order:

  The serif fonts have been retired. It was fun, but they weren’t as legible on non-HiDPI/Retina displays. You might need to clear your cache or press SHIFT when refreshing to see any change.

• Hackaday ☛ A Beautifully Illustrated Guide To Making

  If you’ve ever been wondering what you should make next, it can be a daunting task to decide with the firehose of inspiration coming straight from the series of tubes that makeup the World Wide Web. Perhaps a more curated digital catalog of projects would help?

• Hackaday ☛ The Badge Hacks Of Supercon

  We just got home from Supercon and well, it was super. It was great to see everyone, and meet a whole bunch of new folks to boot! The talks were great, and you can see a good half of them already on the Hackaday YouTube channel, so for that you didn’t even have to be there.

• Hackaday ☛ All Aboard The Good Ship Benchy

  We’ll go out on a limb here and say that a large portion of Hackaday readers are also boat-builders. That’s a bold statement, but as the term applies to anyone who has built a boat, we’d argue that it encompasses anyone who’s run off a Benchy, the popular 3D printer test model. Among all you newfound mariners, certainly a significant number must have looked at their Benchy and wondered what a full-sized one would be like. Those daydreams of being captain of your ship may not have been realized, but [Dr. D-Flo] has made them a reality for himself with what he claims is the world’s largest Benchy. It floats, and carries him down the waterways of Tennessee in style!

• Science

  • Science Alert ☛ Computers Find Impossible Solution, Beating Quantum Tech at Own Game

    Here's how they did it.

  • Science Alert ☛ Strange Metal From Beyond Our Planet Found in an Ancient Treasure Stash

    More precious than gold.

  • Science Alert ☛ Stunning Footage Reveals Ocean Floor Absolutely Teeming With Spider Crabs

    Watch your step.

• Hardware

  • Hackaday ☛ Brick Layers: The Promise Of Stronger 3D Prints And Why We Cannot Have Nice Things

    It is a fact of life that 3D-printed parts from an FDM (fused deposition modeling) printer have weaknesses where the layers join. Some of this is due to voids and imperfect layer bonding, but you can — as [Geek Detour] shows us — work around some of this. In particular, it is possible to borrow techniques from brick laying to create a pattern of alternating blocks. You can check out the video below.

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Gorilla Glass maker Corning is set to receive $32 million under the CHIPS and Science Act

    Corning may not make chips, but its contribution to semiconductor production is rather huge.

  • Hackaday ☛ HIDman Brings Modern Input To Vintage PCs

    Retro computing enthusiasts, rejoice! HIDman, [rasteri]’s latest open source creation, bridges the gap between modern USB input devices and vintage PCs, from the IBM 5150 to machines with PS/2 ports. Frustrated by the struggle to find functioning retro peripherals, [rasteri] developed HIDman as an affordable, compact, and plug-and-play solution that even non-techies can appreciate.

  • Hackaday ☛ Inside An Arcade Joystick

    If you ever played an arcade game and wondered what was inside that joystick you were gripping, [Big Clive] can save you some trouble. He picked up a cheap replacement joystick, which, as you might expect, has a bunch of microswitches. However, as you can see in the video below, there are some surprising features that make sense when you think about it.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Off Guardian ☛ The Meaning of Life is Not Happiness

    I can’t tell you the number of times every day I hear from clients in my practice, “All I want is to be happy.”

  • The Straits Times ☛ Drug use rises in South Korea, but 13 addiction clinics treated no one in 2023: Report

    A total of 641 people were being treated at the designated hospitals last year, up from 260 in 2019.

  • Science Alert ☛ Osteoporosis Is a 'Silent Killer'. Here's How to Avoid It.

    Prevention is simpler than you think.

  • Science Alert ☛ One Animal Species Has a Shockingly High Tolerance For Alcohol

    Sober as a wasp.

  • Science Alert ☛ The Mystery of How Neurons Control The Brain Has Finally Been Solved

    "The brain’s secret is surprisingly simple."

• Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

    • Nick Heer ☛ Apple Quietly Introduced iPhone ‘Inactivity Reboot’

      It is impossible to differentiate between improving the security of user data on an iPhone that has been stolen, and locking out police as a phone sits in an evidence locker. The former is worth pursing, and sorry about the latter.

• Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub)

  • Hackaday ☛ Here’s Code For That AI-Generated Minecraft Clone

    A little while ago Oasis was showcased on social media, billing itself as the world’s first playable “AI video game” that responds to complex user input in real-time. Code is available on GitHub for a down-scaled local version if you’d like to take a look. There’s a bit more detail and background in the accompanying project write-up, which talks about both the potential as well as the numerous limitations.

• Defence/Aggression

  • The Straits Times ☛ North Korea jams GPS signals, affecting ships, aircraft in South

    Seoul's military warned ships and aircraft operating in the Yellow Sea to beware of such attacks.

  • The Straits Times ☛ South Korean court upholds 8-year sentence for mother who killed newborns, stored bodies in freezer

    The mother admitted to killing the babies, claiming financial hardship while raising her three other children.

  • JURIST ☛ China objects to new Philippine maritime laws

    China expressed on Friday its strong objections to two new Philippine laws that define the country’s maritime boundaries over disputed areas in the South China Sea, summoning the Philippines’ ambassador.

  • France24 ☛ USA: What is Donald Trump's position on foreign policy?

    The EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrel is in Kyiv to reassure Ukraine of Europe's support. It is the first visit by a top EU official to the country since Donald Trump was elected next president of the United States. This comes as European leaders have been digesting the outcome of the poll and as Russia's war on Ukraine continues. But what exactly is Donald Trump's foreign policy?

  • France24 ☛ EU's Borrell in Kyiv to reassure Ukraine of 'unwavering support' after Trump win

    EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell sought to reassure Ukraine of Europe's unwavering support on Saturday, days after Donald Trump's election win cast uncertainty over its war effort.

  • New York Times ☛ Suicide Bombing in Pakistan Leaves Dozens Dead or Wounded at Quetta Railway Station

    A banned ethnic separatist group in a restive province claimed responsibility for the deadly attack in Quetta, the provincial capital.

  • France24 ☛ Pakistani separatists kill 26 in a powerful suicide bombing at a rail station

    A suicide bomber blew himself up at a train station in restive southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 24 people, including soldiers and railways staff, and wounding about 50 others, some critically, officials said. Story by Morgan Ayre.

  • France24 ☛ Why did Balochistan separatists kill 26 people in railway station suicide bombing?

    A suicide bomber blew himself up at a train station in restive southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 24 people, including soldiers and railway staff, and wounding about 50 others, some critically, officials said. For more information, FRANCE 24's William Hilderbrandt interviews Ayesha Siddiqa, Senior Fellow at Kings College Department of War Studies in London.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Fatal stabbing of schoolboy in neighbouring Shenzhen sparks unease among Japanese families in Hong Kong

    Since the fatal stabbing of a Japanese schoolboy in neighbouring Shenzhen, the Takedas have not let their son come home alone after classes in Hong Kong. On September 18, a 10-year-old Japanese boy was stabbed while on his way to school in the mainland Chinese city of Shenzhen. The boy died the following day.

  • NYPost ☛ American nurse killed by man she met in Budapest nightclub during vacation to ‘happy place’: police

    The suspect's internet history was riddled with searches on body disposal, police procedures, and whether pigs eat bodies.

  • France24 ☛ Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon's Tyre kill at least seven people including two children

    Lebanon's health ministry said Saturday seven people including two children were killed in Israeli strikes on the southern city of Tyre a day earlier, with rescuers still searching for missing people under the rubble.

  • JURIST ☛ Federal US judge strikes down Illinois assault weapons ban over Second Amendment violations

    A federal US judge struck down Illinois’ Protect Illinois Communities Act (PICA) on Friday, ruling it unconstitutional under the Second Amendment of the US Constitution. US District Judge Stephen McGlynn ruled that PICA infringes on an individual’s Second Amendment rights, citing recent US Supreme Court interpretations of the Second Amendment.

  • France24 ☛ Israeli launches overnight wave of powerful air strikes pounding Beirut

    At least seven people have been killed and 46 injured following Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon's coastal city of Tyre, the Lebanese health ministry said on Saturday. Israeli strikes are also pounding the country's capital, Beirut.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • Meduza ☛ With new media guidelines, the Kremlin seeks to make Putin’s Valdai Club speech into the foundation of a Russian-defended ‘new world order’ — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ WSJ says Russia is exploring merger plans for ‘mega oil producer’ — Meduza

    • RFERL ☛ Burkina Faso Says Russia Partnership 'Suits' Better Than France

      Burkina Faso's foreign minister praised cooperation with Russia on November 9 as "suiting" his country better than its historic ties with France.

    • LRT ☛ Unable or unwilling? Central Europe slow to kick its Russian energy dependence

      The European Union has set itself the goal of ending all imports of Russian hydrocarbons by 2027. But some countries in Central and Eastern Europe are struggling to quench their thirst for oil and gas from the east.

    • Latvia ☛ Latvijas Gāze buys back shares from Gazprom

      In October of this year, 34% of AS Latvijas gāze (Latvian Gas, LG) shares were bought back from the Russian company Gazprom, the LETA newswire reported.

    • New York Times ☛ How Ukraine’s Widows Are Shouldering Their Grief

      It’s impossible to say how many widows the war in Ukraine has created because Kyiv closely guards its casualty figures. But estimates suggest they number in the tens of thousands.

    • New York Times ☛ Russia Sentences 2 Soldiers Over Killing of Ukrainian Family

      The case, in which two soldiers murdered nine members of a family after breaking into their home, was a rare prosecution over crimes against civilians in Ukraine.

    • RFERL ☛ EU Pledges 'Unwavering' Support For Ukraine As Kyiv Plans Trump Meeting

      EU foreign policy chief Josef Borrell assured Ukraine that the war-torn country had Europe’s "unwavering" support, while Kyiv announced during the EU official’s surprise visit that it was organizing a meeting with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.

    • RFERL ☛ Ukraine Commander Says North Korea Troops Prepare To Fight Alongside Russian Troops

      Ukraine's top military commander, Oleksandr Syrskiy, said on November 9 that there were reports North Korean troops were preparing for combat alongside Russian forces.

    • New York Times ☛ Trump Should Not Let Putin Claim Victory in Ukraine, Says NATO Official

      Adm. Rob Bauer warned against any peace deal that was too favorable to Russia, arguing that it could undermine American interests.

    • France24 ☛ 'Elon Musk's recurring contact with Russia raises concerns about Putin's access to Trump's circle'

      Although foreign policy was a minor issue for American voters, Donald Trump’s election has enormous consequences on international issues. At a summit of the European political community in Hungary, discussing security, French president Emmanuel Macron told fellow leaders to wake up and face the new reality to protect European interests. Analysis by Alexandra Filippenko, Political Analyst in Vilnius, Lithuania.

    • Dispatches from Europe, No. 10, November 6, 2024 – Election Reflections

      Election Reflections

      People in Ukraine were following the U.S. presidential election more intensely than most Americans. The future of their country might be at stake. Would Harris continue Biden’s miserly drip feed of ammunition and weapons to defend against Russia’s military offensives, or would Trump come in and get together with Putin to sell Ukraine down the river?

• Environment

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Super Typhoon Yinxing: Hong Kong Observatory raises T3 storm warning

    The Hong Kong Observatory has issued a T3 storm warning as Super Typhoon Yinxing edged closer to the coast of southern China. The Strong Wind Signal No. 3 was raised at 3.40 pm on Saturday and was expected to remain in force until at least Sunday morning.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China passes new energy law to ‘actively and steadily’ promote carbon neutrality

    China on Friday passed a new energy law to promote carbon neutrality, state media reported, as Beijing moves ahead with its pledge to decarbonise its economy by 2060. China is the world’s biggest emitter of the greenhouse gases scientists say drive global warming and climate change.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • The Straits Times ☛ China touts success of its first home-grown nuclear reactor

      Beijing wants to export its expertise, and analysts say it could be an attractive package for developing nations.

    • Barry Kauler ☛ How to look after your LFP battery

      I have posted before about the two main classifications of lithium battery; NMC (nickel manganese cobalt) and LFP (lithium iron phosphate, also known as LiFePo4). There are a lot more classifications and in-between classifications, but these are the most well-known two.

    • Barry Kauler ☛ IEC C13 versus Anderson connectors

      Something that has surprised me, is the use of the IEC C13 connector for DC. This connector is intended for mains AC, yet, this is what my lithium battery came with for charging: [...]

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Barry Kauler ☛ The USA has a new President

    Here in Australia, we were watching from the outside; the election was a time to sit in front of the TV with drink and snacks. Entertaining, but very serious implications.
    

    I rarely make a political blog post. Once or twice a year. Well, there was one about the US economy, in May 2024:
    

    "The US economy and de-dollarization"
    https://bkhome.org/news/202405/the-us-economy-and-de-dollarization.html
    

    Not political exactly. There was a political post about misinformation on YouTube, in August 2023:
    

    "Misinformation and more misinformation"
    https://bkhome.org/news/202308/misinformation-and-more-misinformation.html
    

    Making political posts is going down a rabbit hole. Better to stick with my custom trike project and EasyOS development posts.
    

    However, I am motivated to post an observation, just before the US election. The media that we get here is, apart from Fox News, just about all pushing that the Democrats are the Good Guys. But, a strange thing happened...
    

    I was watching Donald Trump being interviewed by Tucker Carlson on YouTube, then the next day, it was all over the news that Donald Trump was inciting violence against Liz Cheney. Kamala Harris announced that Trump should be barred from running to be President and prosecuted. Liz Cheney and others echoed the same.
    

  • BIA Net ☛ DEM co-leader faces investigation over critical remarks on municipal takeovers

    Tuncer Bakırhan had referenced Kurdish insurgencies in the early years of the republic and in the insurgency led by the PKK in a speech criticizing the replacement of DEM mayors.

  • France24 ☛ Botswana's new president Duma Boko ends former ruling party's 58 years in power

    In Botswana thousands of people attended the inauguration of their country's new president, Duma Boko. His 'Umbrella For Democratic Change' party won 36 parliamentary seats and denied former president Mokgweetsi Masisi a second term. Addressing the nation in his first official speech as president, Boko called for unity after an election that brought an end to the former ruling party's 58 years in power.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ China’s Pooh-tin Jinping hails ‘new chapter’ in relations with Indonesia

    Chinese President Pooh-tin Jinping told his Indonesian counterpart that Beijing hopes for a “new chapter” in bilateral relations, as the two leaders met on Saturday. Pooh-tin held talks with President Prabowo Subianto in Beijing, the first stop of the Indonesian leader’s inaugural foreign tour since he took office in October.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Indonesia’s Prabowo meets China’s Pooh-tin on first overseas visit since being sworn in

    Business deals worth $13.3 billion are expected to be signed during the visit.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China and Indonesia sign multiple cooperation deals

    BEIJING - Chinese President Pooh-tin Jinping signed multiple cooperation deals with his Indonesian counterpart Prabowo Subianto on Saturday, Chinese state TV CCTV reported, as the two countries seek increased partnerships in key areas.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Donald Trump’s victory in US election could be costly for Taiwan, analysts say

    By Allison Jackson and Amber Wang Taiwan has publicly hailed Donald Trump’s US election victory, but analysts warn it may end up paying a high price for American support to defend itself against China.

  • The Straits Times ☛ In Taiwan, an Andy Lau classic sparks cross-strait controversy

    Heated debate over his song, Zhong Guo Ren (Chinese people), underscores the delicate Taiwan-China ties.

  • The Straits Times ☛ EU does not want trade war with Beijing, says bloc's ambassador to China

    The EU does not want a trade war with Beijing but five years of talks have yielded no real progress, the bloc's ambassador to China said on Saturday, adding that concern was growing over Chinese market access for European medical devices.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • BIA Net ☛ MUBI Fest censorship latest in a series of bans targeting LGBTI+s in İstabul's Kadıköy

    While İstanbul's Kadıköy district's censorship of MUBI Fest İstanbul 2024 has drawn international reactions, this is only the latest in a series of restrictions. Since 2019, the governor's office has been prohibiting even the simplest gatherings for LGBTI+s, including meetings for tea, dancing, and organizing sports tournaments.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • APNIC ☛ APNIC EC appoints Akinori Maemura to NRO NC

    The APNIC EC has appointed Akinori Maemura, Chief Policy Officer at JPNIC, to the NRO NC.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Copyrights

  • JURIST ☛ US judge dismisses media outlets’ copyright monopoly suit against OpenAI

    A federal judge in New York dismissed a lawsuit Thursday brought by Raw Story Media, Inc., and AlterNet Media, Inc. against OpenAI. The suit alleged that OpenAI’s product Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot infringed on the plaintiffs’ copyrights by using their news articles to train its language models without authorization and without retaining copyright monopoly attribution.

  • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ IP [sic] Rights [sic] and Hey Hi (AI) Regulation: Finding the Right Balance

    I’m excited to share a new article I recently published examining the relationship between intellectual property rights and artificial intelligence regulation, recently published in Volume 89, Issue 3 of the Missouri Law Review.