I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display via Ben Holmen [Shared]

Six years ago I had an idea to build a large, inefficient display with a web interface that anyone could interact with. I've enjoyed Danny Rozin's unconvenional mirrors over the years and was inspired by an eInk movie player that played at 24 frames per hour that got me thinking about a laborious display that could slowly assemble an image.

I landed on the idea of a 40×25 pixel grid of pixels, turned one by one by a single mechanism. Compared to our modern displays with millions of pixels changing 60 times a second, a wooden display that changes a single pixel 10 times a minute is an incredibly inefficient way to create an image. Conveniently, 40×25 = 1,000 pixels, leading to the name Kilopixel...

https://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/10/17/i-spent-6-years-building-a-ridiculous-wooden-pixel-display-via-ben-holmenshared/

#tech #technololgy #display #project #art #artwork #live #fun #build #make #shared

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'The New York Times' takes OpenAI to court. ChatGPT's future could be on the line

A group of news organizations, led by The New York Times, took ChatGPT maker OpenAI to federal court on Tuesday in a hearing that could determine whether the tech company has to face the publishers in a high-profile copyright infringement trial.

#NYT #media #copyright #legal #ChatGPT #OpenAI #artificialintellilgence #AI #LLM #data #TrainingData #data #technololgy #tech

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/14/nx-s1-5258952/new-york-times-openai-microsoft

Our new episode of Cyberside Chats is live! This week, @sherridavidoff and @MDurrin dive into the launch of the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark for IoT devices.

Learn how this new initiative can help protect your privacy and security in today's connected world!

Listen here: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-k7izj-17ad5f1

Watch here: https://youtu.be/WuFCvnnU444

#Cybersecurity #IoTSecurity #USCyberTrustMark #CybersideChats #Cyberaware #Cyber #Technololgy #CISO #IT #Infosec

Meta's AI Profiles Are Indistinguishable From Terrible Spam That Took Over Facebook

the Meta controlled, AI-generated Instagram and Facebook profiles going viral right now have been on the platform for well over a year and all of them stopped posting 10 months ago after users almost universally ignored them

#meta #instagram #facebook #spam #bot #bots #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #GenAi #chatbots #technololgy #tech #DeadInternet

https://www.404media.co/metas-ai-profiles-are-indistinguishable-from-terrible-spam-that-took-over-facebook/

Banks Are Breaking Up With Crypto During Regulatory Crackdown

Banks are backing away from crypto companies, spooked by a regulatory crackdown that threatens to sever digital currencies from the real-world financial system.

#fintech #crypto #cryptocurrency #web3 #defi #SEC #FTX #finance #banks #banking #technololgy #tech

https://www.wsj.com/articles/banks-are-breaking-up-with-crypto-during-regulatory-crackdown-22de1832

Framework laptops look incredible.
This insight into how well they, and the team behind them, react when things go wrong from @pluralistic is a reminder that their commitment to making laptops good for the USER again is solid.

My current 7th Gen i5 HP laptop is still working very well, I’m not replacing it any time soon, but when I do finally need a new #laptop it will absolutely be a Framework one.

#tech #consumertech #Technololgy #Technology_News

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/13/graceful-failure/