Rooted Android phone Disabled IMS (VoLTE, VoWIFI) Lock the LTE band to the lowest band available No voice calls SMS via SGd

My STT journey started with Whisper. One of Freya's STT models was a fine-tuned Whisper Large-V3. I optimized it with TensorRT, got it to 130ms, around 94x realtime. Solid, but we hit a wall. The…

By Peter Gabaldon (X / LinkedIn) TL;DR This past summer (2025), during an Ethical Hacking process, we found a Smart Drawer machine for automated payment management. The employees of this recreation…

IndieGameJoe is the only person I know who can actually make twitter work. Nobody else can tweet once and earn a game thousands of wishlists. 4 Years ago I talked to him about going Viral on Twitter…

Blog Post Preview: Unveiling the Adventure in *Operation Perilous Magnetism. Exciting News for Young Readers! Good morning everyone! We're thrilled to announce an upcoming middle-grade novel that…

I spent two nights in Arezzo, which is surprisingly a great town to stay and relax. I stayed at The Homestay, which was a nice place to rest and not too far from the attractions, plus it’s next to a…

in which i finally put down DDFF and write about something else

We implement tokenization using the byte pair encoding algorithm.

I first heard about Cloudflare around 2011, on Google Reader. I was 18 or 19, working at a small shop where most of what we shipped ran on an internal PHP framework that was mostly chunks of Zend…

Couple, Too, Tree During Boise Code Camp this past weekend, pgFirstAid hit 500 stars on Github! Honestly, I really did not think it would gain the attention it has. Not to mention, in the thick of…

What happens when someone generates a front-end comp for you and says this must be the way? Of course this hasn’t happened with any of our clients, since this is unallowable into the field. But we’ve…

Chrome 148 shipped this week, and in the release notes you’ll find one of the best things to happen to web performance in a long time: loading="lazy" for <video> and…

Today I read “This is why I’m fat” by Gordon McLean, and a lot of the ideas he puts forth I can relate to, so I wanted to write about those, and my own experiences. With the societal…

I've been not playing RPG for 20-or-so years, after having played a bunch as teen. This year, I got into the hobby again, after stumbling on the Die comics and getting super curious about how RPG had…

A new academic study reveals what active fund management really sounds like behind closed doors. King's College London professor Crawford Spence interviewed 28 senior fund managers and found an…

I turned 50 years old at the very end of 2025. I don’t really have any perspective on that, though I keep thinking I should. I certainly don’t feel like a 50 year old man and I am sometimes…

In our quest to minimize our electronic support travel kit, we hit a snag with non-PD devices.

As a developer I type lot of command lines but there are certain commands that we type more than others : (example for (git : git status, git commit -m “message”) or (angular : ng g c myComponent) or…

In Copenhagen, five of us shared a cosy apartment where the windows overlooked the courtyard, and the balconies of all the other apartment buildings near us. I could see the flowers beginning to…

Why do agency projects become unprofitable? It’s usually not scope creep alone. A look at delivery leadership, boundaries, burnout, and agency profitability.

I could be wrong, but I feel like this post is going to be similar to the one I wrote recently about crypto stablecoins. I know some readers never got past the headline, because they were busy…

Step by step explanation of a Zoom option, which can be useful if you tend to re-meet the same trusted people on an irregular schedule.

For The Devil Wears Prada 2 . Originally opened by ABC Cinema is 1998 , it was bought by Odeon in 2000 and rebranded. But most of the decor doesn't seem to have been updated, including the small red…

Writing to Learn Math: Math journal explanations avoid the formality that turns so many students away from geometry proofs. Do you want your children to develop the ability to reason creatively and…

Department Chair Barbara Stewart, Nicci Obert, Andy Hines The Department of Human Development & Consumer Science, within which our Foresight program sits, initiated a series of Excellence awards…

Some sumptuous hand-carved scrollwork returns to its original designer after two decades’ service.

Thomas Scheibe walked on stage and said the quiet part out loud. Most “AI for networking” pitches you’ve sat through this year work the same way: vendor has a controller, they…

Roundup of the best places to eat cheese in Rome

I can't recommend highly enough that you visit Kesennuma on your next trip to Japan's Sanriku Coast. The post Should I Keep Kesennuma a Secret? appeared first on Japan Starts Here.

Hello everycabbage, The dawn is upon us. The… ALABASTER DAWN … Early Access Version. You can now buy it on Steam, here: Okay let’s move on! Why Early Access You might be wondering why we are using…

PVM (PHP Version Manager) is a Windows-native command-line tool that eliminates the complexity of managing multiple PHP versions on Windows systems. With simple commands like pvm use 8.2.0 or pvm…

I asked Claude: “What are the most effective and impactful ways you can help me?” One of its ideas was to ask it: What are the three questions this field has not resolved, where the…

A sequel to TestamentTestament.On an ordinary person’s extraordinary journey I became a Christian when I was nine years old. I don’t remember the moment. My mother tells me we were at…

books Want to read ¶ The Star Diaries Stanisław Lem What Color Is Your Parachute? Richard Nelson Bolles Crafting Interpreters Robert Nystrom Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread…

27-04-26 Big thanks to Derek for flagging up Newhailes as a potential spot for Holly Blues. I think he may have been dogwalking there; and had noticed around ten HBs in passing. I thought that…

by Gertrud U. Rey Contrary to popular belief, most vaccines don’t actually prevent infection with a pathogen, instead, they prevent the disease that follows infection. The human papillomavirus (HPV)…

A way to turn goals into mantras

I have been asked a few times to review student resumes and in my current position I review quite a few resumes of potential candidates. I think a lot of resume advice out there is tied to…

It is right that the murder of many people be mourned and lamented.

I’ve been putting off writing this for over a month. Turns out I find writing hard. Moving on. We’re into the next cycle of Delightfully Friday Junior. The format: one team member hosts 30 minutes,…

[Note] Impact of AlphaEvolve across fields

Bell and I spent March first in Kerala (a state in southwest India), then flew to Taiwan. From Taipei in the northwest, we got started cycling on a counterclockwise circumambulation known as 環島 /…

Every experience in your life has a last time. You almost never know when it is. That's not a reason for guilt or grief — it's a reason to design your life with intention.

An interactive visualisation of Kullback–Leibler divergence. Shape two distributions and watch forward vs reverse KL, the pointwise integrand, and the effects of asymmetry, support mismatch and…

Stood up GoAccess on the production logs this morning. Noticed iOS clients 404'ing on /apple-touch-icon.png within minutes. Resized the admin avatar with PowerShell and System.Drawing, dropped the…

An interactive GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-effort curve on 26 matched GraphQL-go-tools tasks: low, medium, high, and xhigh.

Ablation lets you disable parts of a model one at a time to figure out what each part does. Once you know which components handle a specific capability, you can fine-tune just those parts instead of…

I was on a call with a runner I coach last week and she said “I feel kinda dumb that my goal is just to finish my first half without walking. My friend’s training for a sub-3 marathon and…