#stunting — Public Fediverse posts

Associated Press: How 2 men claimed an absurd record by driving an old 3-wheel car the length of Africa. “Englishman Ollie Jenks remembers when his friend first pitched the idea to him. ‘It was so ridiculous I couldn’t say no,’ Jenks said. The proposal by his Canadian buddy Seth Scott, a fellow lover of cars and crazy adventures, was for them to drive a decades-old British-made Reliant Robin […]

Tom’s Hardware: Crazed World of Warcraft gamer plays game with 3D-printed hot dog controller — the left wiener quad-array controls movement, the right triggers abilities. “Specifically, addison2k conceptualized and built a hot dog-based game controller. This smoky-flavored, tactile, dead-flesh device features a pair of quad-array hot dog silos. As designed, the left weiner quartet controls […]

Tom’s Hardware: Crazed World of Warcraft gamer plays game with 3D-printed hot dog controller — the left wiener quad-array controls movement, the right triggers abilities. “Specifically, addison2k conceptualized and built a hot dog-based game controller. This smoky-flavored, tactile, dead-flesh device features a pair of quad-array hot dog silos. As designed, the left weiner quartet controls […]

Tom’s Hardware: Crazed World of Warcraft gamer plays game with 3D-printed hot dog controller — the left wiener quad-array controls movement, the right triggers abilities. “Specifically, addison2k conceptualized and built a hot dog-based game controller. This smoky-flavored, tactile, dead-flesh device features a pair of quad-array hot dog silos. As designed, the left weiner quartet controls […]

Tom’s Hardware: Crazed World of Warcraft gamer plays game with 3D-printed hot dog controller — the left wiener quad-array controls movement, the right triggers abilities. “Specifically, addison2k conceptualized and built a hot dog-based game controller. This smoky-flavored, tactile, dead-flesh device features a pair of quad-array hot dog silos. As designed, the left weiner quartet controls […]

Tom’s Hardware: Crazed World of Warcraft gamer plays game with 3D-printed hot dog controller — the left wiener quad-array controls movement, the right triggers abilities. “Specifically, addison2k conceptualized and built a hot dog-based game controller. This smoky-flavored, tactile, dead-flesh device features a pair of quad-array hot dog silos. As designed, the left weiner quartet controls […]

TechSpot: YouTuber built a car powered by 500 discarded vapes, and drove it 18 miles. “A small car parked in a rainy British driveway might seem an unlikely place for a battery revolution. Yet that’s where engineer and YouTuber Chris Doel has built the world’s first vape-powered vehicle – a working proof of concept that challenges both the limits of lithium-ion recycling and society’s growing […]

Gizmodo: A Dish of Neurons Playing DOOM Is the Wildest Thing I’ve Seen in Ages. “A couple of years ago, a company called Cortical Labs released a video that showed a simplified version of Pong being played by a culture of human neurons in a Petri dish. The idea that a bunch of neurons in a dish can do anything is impressive enough, but it turns out that things have gotten significantly […]

TechSpot: Someone built an x86 CPU emulator using pure CSS, for science. “Thanks to JavaScript, WebAssembly, and other modern web standards, it is now possible to run a wide range of applications directly in a web browser. Programmer Lyra Rebane went even further by (ab)using Cascading Style Sheets to emulate a partially functional x86 processor.”

Hackaday: Taking Photos With Scotch Tape Instead Of A Lens. “If you just put Scotch tape over an image sensor without a lens, you’ll just get a blurry image, whatever you point it at. With the right algorithms, though, it’s possible to recover an image from that mess, using special ‘lensless imaging’ techniques.”

The Register: Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote . “Smart TV UIs are hard enough for adults to navigate, let alone preschoolers. When his three-year-old couldn’t learn to navigate with a remote, one Danish computer scientist did what any enterprising creator would do: He turned an old floppy disk drive into a kid-friendly content controller that starts streams […]

The Register: Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote . “Smart TV UIs are hard enough for adults to navigate, let alone preschoolers. When his three-year-old couldn’t learn to navigate with a remote, one Danish computer scientist did what any enterprising creator would do: He turned an old floppy disk drive into a kid-friendly content controller that starts streams […]

The Register: Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote . “Smart TV UIs are hard enough for adults to navigate, let alone preschoolers. When his three-year-old couldn’t learn to navigate with a remote, one Danish computer scientist did what any enterprising creator would do: He turned an old floppy disk drive into a kid-friendly content controller that starts streams […]

The Register: Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote . “Smart TV UIs are hard enough for adults to navigate, let alone preschoolers. When his three-year-old couldn’t learn to navigate with a remote, one Danish computer scientist did what any enterprising creator would do: He turned an old floppy disk drive into a kid-friendly content controller that starts streams […]

The Register: Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote . “Smart TV UIs are hard enough for adults to navigate, let alone preschoolers. When his three-year-old couldn’t learn to navigate with a remote, one Danish computer scientist did what any enterprising creator would do: He turned an old floppy disk drive into a kid-friendly content controller that starts streams […]

Hackaday: Hardware Store Marauder’s Map Is Clarkian Magic. “The ‘Marauder’s Map’ is a magical artifact from the Harry Potter franchise. That sort of magic isn’t real, but as Arthur C. Clarke famously pointed out, it doesn’t need to be — we have technology, and we can make our own magic now. Or, rather, [Dave] on the YouTube Channel Dave’s Armoury can make it.”

The Register: AWS: How do you do, fellow kids? Please watch our keynotes in Fortnite. “Amazon Web Services has decided to stream all five keynotes from its re:Invent conference in the hit multiplayer game Fortnite, which is more than a little bit bonkers.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/02/aws-how-do-you-do-fellow-kids-please-watch-our-keynotes-in-fortnite-the-register/

Tom’s Hardware: DOOM gets ported to board design app, transforming walls into PCB traces, iconic demons into 64-pin packages, and ammo into 3-pin parts — fully playable KiCAD editor port runs at up to 25 FPS on modern systems. “Developer Michael Ayles has unleashed a version of DOOM that runs within a PCB design application, of all places. KiDOOM is a portmanteau of KiCad, the free and open […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/01/toms-hardware-doom-gets-ported-to-board-design-app-transforming-walls-into-pcb-traces-iconic-demons-into-64-pin-packages-and-ammo-into-3-pin-parts-fully-playable-kicad-editor-port-runs/

PC World: It’s official: Doom can run for 2.5 years straight without crashing. “Even the most simple, stable game can’t run forever. In endless mode, I’ve gotten something as lowkey as 20 Minutes Till Dawn—a 2D pixelated game with only four colors—to crash a gaming PC. But what about the ever-venerable Doom? Someone did an incredible test and found that it’ll take the 1993 shooter […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/20/its-official-doom-can-run-for-2-5-years-straight-without-crashing-pc-world/

Hackaday: 3D-Printing A Full-Sized Kayak In Under A Day. “With the new setup capable of extruding over 800 grams of plastic per hour, [Ivan] then found a whole bunch of new issues thanks to the amount of heat involved. He steps through the issues one at a time until he has a setup capable of extruding an entire kayak in less than 24 hours.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/15/hackaday-3d-printing-a-full-sized-kayak-in-under-a-day/

Hackaday: Digital Etch-A-Sketch Also Plays Snake. “The build relies on an Inkplate e-paper screen as a display, which is probably as close you can get in appearance to the aluminium dust and glass screen used in an Etch-a-Sketch. The display is hooked up to an ESP32 microcontroller, which is charged with reading inputs from a pair of rotary encoders.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/14/hackaday-digital-etch-a-sketch-also-plays-snake/

Tom’s Hardware: Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s . “A music and science lover has revealed that some birds can store and retrieve digital data. … Benn Jordan made a video of this feat, sharing it on YouTube, and according to his calculations, the bird-based data transfer system could be […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/02/toms-hardware-yes-you-can-store-data-on-a-bird-enthusiast-converts-png-to-bird-shaped-waveform-teaches-young-starling-to-recall-file-at-up-to-2mb-s/

Hackaday: 8 Bit Mechanical Computer Built From Knex. “The K’nex computer is built by [Shadowman39], and this first video features just the ALU [arithmetic logic unit]. It can accept numbers from 0-255 or -128 to 127 and can add two of these numbers by storing them in registers using levers to represent each digit. A drive system underneath with a rack and pinion system operates on each […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/24/hackaday-8-bit-mechanical-computer-built-from-knex/

Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it growth stunting overreach

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/meta-europe-ai-code.html

#HackerNews #Meta #Europe #AI #agreement #growth #stunting #overreach #tech #news

Hackaday: Look To The Sky With This Simple Plane Tracker. “Do you ever get tired of stressing your neck looking for planes in the sky? Worry not! Here is a neat and cheap Arduino/Ras Pi project to keep your neck sore free! [BANK ANGLE] presents a wonderfully simple plane tracking system using an affordable camera and basic microcontrollers.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/29/hackaday-look-to-the-sky-with-this-simple-plane-tracker/

Boing Boing: Subreddit dedicated to running DOOM on anything and everything. “‘DOOM can run on everything’ has been a meme longer than I’ve been alive, but I promise that the concoctions they’re cooking up in the scarily dedicated Will It Run DOOM? subreddit will surprise you all the same. Running DOOM on Nintendo’s weird alarm clock? Beginner stuff. A captcha? Okay for a beginner. Try […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/08/boing-boing-subreddit-dedicated-to-running-doom-on-anything-and-everything/

eieio.games: Running Pong in 240 Browser Tabs . “That’s 240 browser tabs in a tight 8×30 grid. And they’re running pong! The ball and paddles are able to cleanly move between the canvas in the foregrounded window and all of the tabs above.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/25/eieio-games-running-pong-in-240-browser-tabs/

Adam Le Doux: i made snake in a bookmarklet. “thanks to the current bitsy jam theme i’ve been on a bit of a snake kick… and anyway, as the title of this post says, i made snake in a bookmarklet!”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/24/adam-le-doux-i-made-snake-in-a-bookmarklet/

Tom’s Hardware: Maker creates Raspberry Pi-powered thermal fusion night vision goggles. “Night vision camera support on the Raspberry Pi is nothing new but this crazy thermal fusion night vision helmet put together by maker and developer Angus Logue is absolutely something different. Using our favorite SBC, he’s blown our expectations out of the water by merging different night vision […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/15/toms-hardware-maker-creates-raspberry-pi-powered-thermal-fusion-night-vision-goggles/

Tom’s Hardware: Maker creates Raspberry Pi-powered thermal fusion night vision goggles. “Night vision camera support on the Raspberry Pi is nothing new but this crazy thermal fusion night vision helmet put together by maker and developer Angus Logue is absolutely something different. Using our favorite SBC, he’s blown our expectations out of the water by merging different night vision […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/15/toms-hardware-maker-creates-raspberry-pi-powered-thermal-fusion-night-vision-goggles/

Tom’s Hardware: Maker creates Raspberry Pi-powered thermal fusion night vision goggles. “Night vision camera support on the Raspberry Pi is nothing new but this crazy thermal fusion night vision helmet put together by maker and developer Angus Logue is absolutely something different. Using our favorite SBC, he’s blown our expectations out of the water by merging different night vision […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/15/toms-hardware-maker-creates-raspberry-pi-powered-thermal-fusion-night-vision-goggles/

Boing Boing: Play Tetris inside a PDF. “Given the power of the PDF engines in current desktop Web browsers, Thomas Rinsma created a version of Tetris that can be played within a PDF itself: PDFTRIS.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/15/boing-boing-play-tetris-inside-a-pdf/

#Agriculture inputs and #nutrition outcomes: Mineral #fertilizers make significant contribution to reducing child #stunting, a proxy for #undernourishment. In countries with low levels of #fertilizer adoption, there might be larger gains with minimal #environment impact: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-024-00503-2