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Hacking My Nabaztag: Reading MSN Messages Out Loud With a Talking Rabbit (2008)
10+ min ago (248+ words) Archival repost — originally published on my old blog on December 12, 2008. Lightly cleaned up for dev.to; most of the tech mentioned here (Nabaztag, MSN Messenger, Messenger Plus! Live) has long since been discontinued, but I'm keeping the content as-is for…...
I Built a Lottery Simulator That Shows You Losing Money for 1000 Years
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (492+ words) howtolosemoneyfast.com is a satirical lottery analysis tool. You can simulate thousands of EuroJackpot or Lotto 6aus49 draws, check your numbers against every real historical draw (back to 1955 for 6aus49), and watch a chart of your net worth go relentlessly downward. The…...
Malawi Paid $5 Million for Drought Insurance. The Model Was Watching a Crop the Farmers Had Stopped Planting.
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (596+ words) In April 2016, the government of Malawi declared a national emergency. The rains had failed across southern Africa for the second year running, and 6.7 million Malawians were food-insecure, unable to feed themselves until the next harvest. The drought came. The emergency…...
The Agricultural Data Africa Needs Already Exists. It's Just 100 Years Old.
1+ week, 3+ day ago (376+ words) The data problem for AI in African agriculture is not a lack of data. It is a structural absence of structured data — the kind that AI agents can query, validate, and reason with. The raw material exists. It has existed…...
TryHackMe: Overflow The Jackpot writeup
1+ week, 4+ day ago (822+ words) # Challenge Category Flag 1 B1t Recovery Crypto THM{[REDACTED]} 2 Lost Fortune... Tagged with cybersecurity, ctf, writeup, tryhackme....
How a Snow Day Calculator Estimates the Probability of a School Closure
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1455+ words) When snow is in the forecast, most people ask the same question: Will school be canceled tomorrow? A weather app can tell you how much snow is expected. It can tell you the temperature, wind speed, and probability of precipitation....
Show Dev: How I built an AI Legal Document Factory for Africa using Groq & Streamlit
2+ week, 3+ day ago (438+ words) Architecting the Digital Supreme Court: How I’m Building Lawyie to Bridge Africa’s $10B Legal Gap In Africa, millions of small businesses, entrepreneurs, and individuals operate in a "legal shadow." Not because they want to avoid the law, but because the law…...
Why players leave before your game starts
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1022+ words) Your game is listed on a portal. The page gets visits. The play count does not move. It is tempting to read that as a verdict on the game — but nobody who left ever played it. Whatever they rejected, they…...
citefid 0.1.0: verificar la fidelidad de citas en wikis OKF con NLI (AUC 0.7029 sobre código)
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (299+ words) Los generadores de wikis OKF comprueban que la cita existe, no que su contenido respalde la afirmación. citefid cierra esa brecha: verifica fidelidad, no existencia. Los wikis de conocimiento generados por LLM que siguen el estándar OKF (Open Knowledge Format)…...
The Economics of Local LLMs: Why Practical Models Win in African Tech
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (740+ words) One thing I deeply appreciate about Gemma is that Google appears to understand a reality many AI companies conveniently ignore: most developers are not sitting on clusters of H100s. Most of us are trying to build reliable, useful systems with whatever…...