Tuesday assorted links: Winners of the $10,000 ISBN visualization bounty - Anna’s Blog We got some incredible submissions to the $10,000 ISBN visualization bounty. πŸ”— --- European word translator: an interactive map πŸ”—
Monday assorted links: GitPodcast Turn any GitHub repository into an engaging podcast in seconds. πŸ”— --- Jose Storopoli, PhD β€’ Shamir's Secret Sharing In this post, we’ll talk about Shamir’s Secret Sharing (SSS), a cryptographic algorithm that allows us to split a secret into multiple parts, called shares, in such a way that the secret can only be reconstructed if a certain number of shares are combined. The idea is to give a visual intuition of how the algorithm works, and describe the mathematical details behind it. πŸ”— https://storopoli.com/blog/shamir-secret-sharing/ --- Stoic Quotes πŸ”—
Sunday assorted links: Jose Storopoli, PhD β€’ BitVM: How to bridge using 1-of-N trust assumptions How BitVM works πŸ”— https://storopoli.com/blog/bitvm/
Saturday assorted links: CoinFlip CoinFlip game in Ark and MutinyNet πŸ”—
Friday assorted links: beala/xkcd-password A password generator inspired by the xkcd password spec: πŸ”—
Thursday assorted links: Quest For Sats It's like Geocaching with Bitcoin. Use the map to find hidden containers. πŸ”— https://questforsats.com/ --- The Over-Engineering Pendulum | Three Dots Labs blog πŸ”—
Wednesday assorted links: ffmpeg for Artists: A Cookbook for Audio and Video Processing on the Command Line ... with Examples! | hyaline.systems πŸ”—
Tuesday assorted links: Spacetime maps This is a map that can show time instead of space. Distances in the map reflect travel times: points that are close but take a long time to travel between (by car) get pushed away from each other, and vice versa. πŸ”— --- Atlas of Surveillance Law enforcement surveillance isn’t always secret. These technologies can be discovered in news articles and government meeting agendas, in company press releases and social media posts. It just hasn’t been aggregated before. That’s the starting point for the Atlas of Surveillance, a collaborative effort between the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the University of Nevada, Reno Reynolds School of Journalism. πŸ”—
Monday assorted links: WinterBreak | Kindle Modding Wiki All Kindles can now be jailbroken πŸ”— --- ELEGNT: Expressive and Functional Movement Design for Non-anthropomorphic Robot Apple Research Paper Documents Anthropomorphic, Emotionally Expressive Robot Lamp, Γ  la Pixar’s Luxo πŸ”— https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12493
Saturday assorted links: What is device code phishing, and why are Russian spies so successful at it? - Ars Technica Overlooked attack method has been used since last August in a rash of account takeovers. πŸ”—