There’s been a lot of talk about how a backdoor sneaked into a compression library, but what’s just as fascinating is how, over time, the author managed to gain trust and become one of the trusted programmers. This is an evolving situation and will be updated as more information comes to light. You can contact…
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Pixel Perfection in Godot 4
Sadly for some reason Godot 4 made pixel art more challenging to achieve but nonetheless its possible to configure the engine to achieve pretty good results. Project Settings Open the project setting menu and in Display > Window In my case the resolution of my game is 640×360 Size Section Viewport Width: 640 Viewport Height:…
Creating our own number station code
Maybe you have heard of those mysterious radio broadcasting on shortwave frequencies sequences of number. While there was never an official explanation to what exactly those broadcast are, the most common theory is they are used by governments and intelligence agencies around the world as an one way channel to communicate with their foreign agents.…
Creating our own status page to monitor the local network
Nothing is more annoying than having to deal with outages, and while we like to blame it on outside forces often the culprit is, sadly our own network. Troubleshooting will always follow the same steps: First by pinging the gateway router. Then if it works we ping some public IP address like 8.8.8.8. Finally checking…
Picking a random recipe for your cooking inspiration
If, like us, you enjoy cooking and you have collected hoarded hundreds (if not thousands) of various delicious recipes over the years, choosing what to eat for the week can be overwhelming. Of course, you could go ahead and classify everything nicely. But that would be a tremendous task and, here at urbanhacker.net , we…