When it comes to units, we disagree to a certain degree
Numbers without units are meaningless. From Hemingway's feverish Schatz to Jules Verne's leagues - unit confusion shapes literature, history, and daily life.
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If Nobody Does It, Do It Yourself - pdf-encrypt-lib
I published my first JavaScript library: pdf-encrypt-lib brings AES-256 PDF encryption to pdf-lib, filling a gap that most PDF libraries leave open.
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Nostr and Tor Against Big Data and Techno-Feudalism
Nostr and Tor are the architectural answer to techno-feudalism. On decentralization, cryptographic identity, and escaping Big Data's feudal grip.
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The Digital Estate: Seed Phrases and/or Passwords Could Drive Your Family to Despair
Between 2.3 and 3.7 million Bitcoin are gone forever - not hacked, but because no heir knew the keys. Shamir Secret Sharing fixes that.
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Publishing and/with AI - Poetry, Authorship, and Questions we need to answer
A reflection on publishing poetry before AI changed everything, and the open questions around AI-generated content, media literacy, and authorship.
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The Invisible Memory of Your Photos
Photo may carry hidden metadata. GPS coordinates, camera model, timestamps, author details. What EXIF data reveals, why WebP is affected too, and how to remove it cleanly.
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Why Our Stegofile Tool Failed With Brave
Brave Shields protects against canvas fingerprinting but breaks pixel-accurate canvas operations in the process. How the Stegofile tool was affected and how it was solved by bypassing the canvas API.
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From Pixels to Characters, from Characters to Pixels
Two new browser tools on ascend: the Asciifile-Creator turns images into ASCII art, the QRcode-Generator creates QR codes with no account, no tracking, fully offline.
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FuKyu Beta Is Open
FuKyu, a new browser-based strategy game about conquering space, is in beta. How the game idea came about, what 普及 means, and where to try it now.
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Seed Phrase in Your Head
BIP39 mnemonics you can actually memorize, brute-force last word, and browser tools that recover missing words - and why none of this makes sense online.
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