Lup Yuen Lee 李立源 @lupyuen@social.cleverlibre.org

World University Rankings 2023 (Times Higher Education)

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2023/world-ranking

In praise of ffmpeg

https://drewdevault.com/2022/10/12/In-praise-of-ffmpeg.html

"WhatsApp is now a Spammers’ paradise in India"

https://restofworld.org/2022/india-whatsapp-spam/

California makes Digital License Plates legal for everyone

https://www.autoblog.com/2022/10/10/digital-license-plates-legal-all-of-california/

Nikon Small World Microscopy contest winners

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/10/nikon-small-world-microscopy-contest-2022-meet-this-years-top-10-winners/

"Edmonton Police Service (EPS) shared a computer generated image of a suspect they created with DNA Phenotyping"

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkgma8/police-are-using-dna-to-generate-3d-images-of-suspects-theyve-never-seen

RAII: Compile-Time Memory Management in C++ and #RustLang

https://www.thecodedmessage.com/posts/raii/

"Single Event Upsets (SEUs) occur in computer circuits when high-energy particles such as neutrons or muons from Cosmic Rays or gamma-rays strike the silicon used in microchips. This generates an electric charge that can change the internal voltage of nearby transistors"

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221011-how-space-weather-causes-computer-errors

Reverse Engineering a GPU from 2009 (PowerVR SGX540)

https://garnet.codeberg.page/posts/gpu-reversing/

Alex Oshmyansky: The genius who convinced Mark Cuban to sell drugs (Cost Plus Drug Company)

https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2022/october/mark-cuban-cost-plus-drugs-alex-oshmyansky/

"XBB strain is causing a small surge in cases in countries like Bangladesh and Singapore"

https://fortune.com/2022/10/11/what-is-xbb-variant-covid-singapore-immune-evasive/

Zero-Knowledge Proofs: How to prove you know a Secret without giving it away

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-to-prove-you-know-a-secret-without-giving-it-away-20221011/

How much ‘tech’ is actually in Uniqlo’s HeatTech?

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2022/oct/11/uniqlo-heat-tech-does-it-work

Recent research on Crash Consistency: the guarantee that application data will survive system crashes

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3561654

Inside #PinePhone's Display is an ST7703 LCD Controller ... Let's send the commands in #ZigLang to init the display

https://lupyuen.github.io/articles/dsi2?2#pinephone-lcd-display

OpenAMP in Apache #NuttX RTOS (2020)

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NUTTX/NuttX+And+OpenAMP?desktop=true&macroName=view-file

OpenAMP (Open Asymmetric Multi-Processing): "seeks to standardize the interactions between operating environments in a Heterogeneous #Embedded System through open source solutions for Asymmetric MultiProcessing (AMP)"

https://www.openampproject.org/

Unexpected revival of Firefox OS

https://tuxphones.com/capyloon-firefox-os-b2gos-linux/

Angela Lansbury, beloved star of 'Murder, She Wrote,' dead at 96

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/11/entertainment/angela-lansbury-dead/index.html

Introduction to WebAssembly in Crystal

https://glue.im/noah/introduction-to-webassembly-in-crystal