This is horrific but true! The terrorist regime of Iran has once again committed crimes against humanity. Targeting its own population. This regime has to fall and these murderers brought to justice.
Iran 'killed 16,500 protesters and injured more than 300,000' in brutal crackdown, report claims - as regime accused of 'genocide under cover of digital darkness' trib.al/r5rQjKf
It is Myo armband revived. Myo’s creator Thalmic Labs (aka North) was acqui-hired by Google. I met a few of their engineers when at Google Waterloo. But Myo's tech IP went to CTRL-labs which was eventually bought by Meta.
Big tech acquiring Canadian innovation in 2x speed.
Imagine controlling your devices with a subtle hand or finger gesture. Our cutting-edge research turns intent and muscle signals into seamless computer control. This breakthrough wrist technology is redefining how we interact with computers—intuitive, precise, and ready for the
There are 16 invisible variation selectors which enables efficient encoding of any arbitrary data. We (ab)use them to encode metadata appended to all translated strings with no UI impact. A simple plugin then decodes these to surface very useful info to our localization QA.
UTF-8 🤦♂️
I already knew about the "confusables", e.g.: e vs. е. Which look ~same but are different.
But you can also smuggle arbitrary byte streams in any character via "variation selectors". So this emoji: 😀󠅧󠅕󠄐󠅑󠅢󠅕󠄐󠅓󠅟󠅟󠅛󠅕󠅔 is 53 tokens. Yay
paulbutler.org/2025/smuggling…
