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The races are long and overtaking, rare. Formula 1? No, I’m talking about the Snail racing simulator. Choose yours, cheer it, and hope for the best. (The website reports that the slug race is a “genuine sport” popular in Britain.)
A series of hardware tests that run directly from the web browser. It has for keyboard, mouse, screen, video game controls… For free.
This year, unlike 2025, I updated my computer as soon as macOS 27 Golden Gate was released. The positive feedback during the testing period was encouraging, and deep down I figured that the original Liquid Glass, from macOS 26 Tahoe, was so bad that it couldn’t get any worse. No surprise: macOS 27 looks better....
This Wednesday (16th), the stable version of Gnome 51, the famous desktop environment for Linux, was released. (Announcement video.) The highlight is improvements in performance and graphics. I don’t know if it was already there, but I’m glad to see that Sushi is a default app and was ported to GTK4. It displays...
Browse and organize your physical media collection on this website. The standout feature is the display: a three-dimensional shelf. “Take down” (click on) a movie and examine the box from every angle. For free.
I’ve published more than a couple of pieces on this blog trying to raise awareness about the risks of viral photo-editing apps, like FaceApp back in 2019 [pt_BR]. We are curious beings. The promise of looking into a magic mirror that shows us old, as a different gender, or in another era is nearly irresistible — a...
This site allows you to draw the life of a random person among all 100 billion who have ever lived on this planet, based on statistics and historical fragments of each period. I thought it was cool to analyze the lives of people who lived centuries or millennia ago and then trace my own profile.
At the end of August, I had the chance to fiddle with a Galaxy Z Fold8, Samsung’s passport-style foldable phone. It’s smaller than I expected. I found it somewhat curious. My time with the device was brief and I think I saw enough. It’s not for me. This Wednesday (9th), Apple made its debut in the foldable phone...
Stéphane Pigeon, a signal processing engineer and passionate about sounds, keeps this site alone. He runs the world to record various noises with the highest possible quality. Why? The short answer, according to himself, is because he is crazy.
After several beta and RC versions, Jellyfin 12 was released this Monday (7th). This is the server application, which other devices access to display stored videos, music, and other digital media. It also comes with a client accessible via the web. The versioning scheme has changed, and this new release comes with a...
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