No, the UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online

Young people should be able to access information, speak to each other and to the world, play games, and express themselves online without the government making decisions about what speech is permissible. But in one of the latest misguided attempts to protect children online, internet users of all...

Re: (subset) [PATCH v7 00/10] Apple Mac System Management Controller - Lee Jones

Hearing Lightning with an RTL-SDR

On YouTube, user MatdoFM has uploaded a video demonstrating what lightning sounds like over the radio and how to receive lightning pulse noise using an RTL-SDR. When lightning strikes it releases a pulse of electromagnetic radiation, which shows up as a short wideband noise pulse over the radio spectrum. Lightning detection and mapping services like Blitzortung use a network of volunteer run VLF receivers spread out across the globe to determine the location of lightning pulses using time of arrival radio direction finding techniques. In the video, MatdoFM uses a frequency of 124 MHz. Because the lightning pulse noise is

clownpertino - A simple macOS debugger detection trick

I haven’t seen this trick in the wild (and couldn’t find any references) and I’m dumbfounded as to why I didn’t notice it before. I knew and used this feature a lot, but assumed that the underlying breakpoint was only set when the option was enabled (assumptions, assumptions…tss tss tss). The story starts with an upgrade to macOS 15.4. Given Apple’s recent software quality issues, it comes as no surprise that this update broke some custom debugger-related code I was using.