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December 2024

r/Chess - 2024-12-18 - - Reddit is a network of communities where people can dive into their interests, hobbies and passions. There's a community for whatever you're interested in on Reddit.
MIT Maker Portfolio [ACCEPTED CLASS OF 2028] - YouTube - 2024-12-09 - Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Grant Sanderson: 3Blue1Brown and the Beauty of Mathematics | Lex Fridman Podcast #64 - YouTube - 2024-12-07 - Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
How GitHub monopolized code hosting - 2024-12-05 - How GitHub became a version control monopoly
Paul Graham and the Cult of the Founder - by Dave Karpf - 2024-12-05 - "Founder Mode" is such garbage.
Y Combinator and Power in Silicon Valley - Commoncog Case Library - 2024-12-03 - - A demonstration of power by Silicon Valley’s top startup accelerator.
Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger - 2024-12-02 - - David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus named interim Co-CEOs. Holthaus also appointed to the newly created position of CEO of Intel Products. Frank Yeary named interim executive chair.
Engineers Do Not Get To Make Startup Mistakes When They Build Ledgers - 2024-12-02 - - Practical accounting for fintech engineers, and also how not to repeat my silly mistakes.
Peeking under the hood of GCC's `__builtin_expect` | Tudor Brindus - 2024-12-01 - - If you've ever poked at high-performance C code, you've probably seen GCC's__builtin_expect extension being used to manually hint the likelihood of abranch b...
The Man Who Killed Google Search - 2024-12-01 - - Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. UPDATE: Prabhakar has now been deposed as head of search, read here for more details. This is the story
Controlling AI’s Growing Energy Needs – Communications of the ACM - 2024-12-01 -

November 2024

Modular: Understanding SIMD: Infinite Complexity of Trivial Problems - 2024-11-29 - - A deep dive into the complexities of optimizing code for SIMD instruction sets across multiple platforms.
Abolish High School, by Rebecca Solnit - 2024-11-29 -
PyPI now supports digital attestations - The Python Package Index Blog - 2024-11-15 - - Announcing support for PEP 740 on the Python Package Index
PyPI now supports digital attestations - The Python Package Index Blog - 2024-11-15 - - Announcing support for PEP 740 on the Python Package Index
Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself · mtlynch.io - 2024-11-09 - - For the past four years, I've worked as a software developer at Google. On February 1st, I quit. It was because they refused to buy me a Christmas present.
Intel Spots A 3888.9% Performance Improvement In The Linux Kernel From One Line Of Code - Phoronix - 2024-11-08 -
Live2D: A Security Trainwreck | Undeleted Files - 2024-11-08 - - Translations of this article are welcome. If you know Japanese or any other language, feel free to contact me. The markdown source for this article is here. Update 2: For an expansion on the So Why Publish This? section, please see my follow-up article Live2D: Why Full Disclosure. Update: the vulnerability discovered here has been assigned CVE-2023-27566. Live2D Cubism is a popular 2D puppet animation software most known for its use by VTubers1 and in certain mobile games.
Australia proposes 'world-leading' ban on social media for children under 16 | Reuters - 2024-11-08 - - The Australian government will legislate for a ban on social media for children under 16, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday, in what it calls a world-leading package of measures that could become law late next year.
Did OpenAI just spend more than $10 million on a URL? - The Verge - 2024-11-08 - - ChatGPT now lives at chat.com.
2309.07181v1.pdf - 2024-11-06
State of Python 3.13 Performance: Free-Threading - CodSpeed - 2024-11-06 - - Python 3.13 is out and it's time to run some benchmarks to see how well it performs with the new free-threaded mode.
Russia Is Getting Nvidia AI Chips From an Indian Pharma Company - Bloomberg - 2024-11-05 - - Trade-tracking data show that the Indian firm is selling top-end Dell servers optimized for artificial intelligence to Russia.
Halting Prescribed Burns in California is History Repeating - Center for Economic and Policy Research - 2024-11-04 - - Exploring the consequences of ending prescribed burns in California. Discover the importance of understanding the state's forest management practices.
Gibsonia man sentenced for insider trading - 2024-11-04 - Frank Poerio Jr., 62, pleaded guilty to four counts of securities fraud in July.
Hacker News - 2024-11-03 -
remove axis labels - Google Search - 2024-11-03
remove axis labels - Google Search - 2024-11-03
Why doesn't Cloudflare use containers in their Workers platform infrastructure? - 2024-11-03 - - Cloudflare enables its customers to run serverless code at the edge globally at blazing speeds with almost zero cold startup time.
Converting a Python library to Rust - 2024-11-03 - - I rewrote a Python project in Rust. The rewrite took a fair bit longer than expected, but the results were good (about 9 times faster...
selenium_rs - Rust - 2024-11-03 - API documentation for the Rust `selenium_rs` crate.
selenium_rs - Rust - 2024-11-03 - API documentation for the Rust `selenium_rs` crate.
Stockfish 17 - Stockfish - Strong open-source chess engine - 2024-11-03 - Stockfish is a strong and open-source chess engine.
Raspberry Pi Receives Strategic Investment from Arm, Further Extending Long-Term Partnership - Arm Newsroom - 2024-11-03 - - Arm has acquired a minority stake in Raspberry Pi, further extending a successful long-term partnership between the two companies.
My Time Working at Stripe | Hacker News - 2024-11-03
My Time Working at Stripe | Hacker News - 2024-11-03
Introducing ChatGPT search | OpenAI - 2024-11-01 - - Get fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources
Ubuntu Hoping To Remove Qt 5 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS - Phoronix - 2024-11-01 -
3b1b/manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos - 2024-11-01 -
A new home for Pixelmator - Pixelmator Blog - 2024-11-01 - - Today we have some important news to share: the Pixelmator Team plans to join Apple.

August 2024

Fixing a Bug in Google Chrome as a First-Time Contributor - Casey Primozic's Homepage - 2024-08-26 - - A rundown of my experience finding and fixing a bug in the Chromium/Google Chrome browser - specifically in the devtools. It includes details about the bug itself as well as notes about what it was like working on the Chromium project as a first-time contributor.

November 2023

Linux Hotplug a CPU and Disable CPU Cores At Run Time - nixCraft - 2023-11-06 - How do I hotplug a CPU on a running Linux system? I would like to dynamically enable or disable a CPU on a running system?
New .ing top-level domain available now - 2023-11-02 - - Google Registry launches the .ing top-level domain.
ShellTorch Vulnerabilities Expose PyTorch Models to Remote Code Execution - 2023-11-02 - ShellTorch vulnerabilities chain exposes tens of thousands of servers to remote code execution and data exfiltration.
How many kids are homeschooled in the U.S.? Growth by school district. - Washington Post - 2023-11-01 - - A district-by-district look at home schooling’s explosive growth, which a Post analysis finds has far outpaced the rate at private and public schools

October 2023

Screensaver on the Raspberry Pi - Pi My Life Up - 2023-10-26 - Configure with a simple graphical interface
If I win a game, I use a lower TV Royale deck - YouTube - 2023-10-26 - This went pretty much as expected▶ Creator Code: BRAD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------Become a part of the comm...
AMD Introduces New AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series Processors and Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series Processors for the Ultimate Workstation :: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) - 2023-10-19 - - Browse AMD’s company-wide and financial press releases.
Invidious - An open source alternative front-end to YouTube - 2023-10-17 - - Invidious is an open source alternative front-end to YouTube.
Stack Overflow lays off over 100 people as the AI coding boom continues - The Verge - 2023-10-16 - - Stack Overflow just doubled its staff last year.
How tech giants are hijacking the internet – DW – 10/13/2023 - 2023-10-16 - - Amazon, Google, Facebook and others are overrunning us, media expert Martin Andree writes in a new book. It's time to free the internet, he argues.
Framework | Configure Framework Laptop 16 DIY Edition (AMD Ryzen™ 7040 - 2023-10-15 - We know consumer electronics can be better for you and for the environment. Unlike most products, ours are open for you to repair and upgrade
Learn to use email with git! - 2023-10-12 -
How Kagi finally let me lay Google Search to rest | Dann Berg: blog, newsletter, shop, and more - 2023-10-12 - - Google Search is dead to me. Here's how and why Kagi's high quality results and compelling value proposition allowed me to fully make the switch.
I’m Sorry I Bit You During My Job Interview - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency - 2023-10-11 - - Dear Robert, Thank you for taking the time to interview me for the junior analyst position at Rawles and Hilt. It was great to meet with you and ...

September 2023

China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation - 2023-09-27 - - With elections looming, China wants Taiwanese voters to think America is their greatest threat
Is Math Real? | Mathematical Association of America - 2023-09-25 -
Aesthetic Machine Learning Images - Home - 2023-09-25
Hasan Minhaj’s “Emotional Truths” | The New Yorker - 2023-09-24 - - In his standup specials, the former “Patriot Act” host often recounts harrowing experiences he’s faced as an Asian American and Muslim American. Does it matter that much of it never happened to him?
Juniors Chess Ratings - 2700chess.com - 2023-09-24 - The Top-20 juniors chess players in the world including Gukesh, Sindarov, Praggnanadhaa, Keymer, Abdusattorov and immediate updates of their ratings and rankings.
dnkl/foot: A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator - foot - Codeberg.org - 2023-09-24 - - A fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
Apple TV, now with more Tailscale · Tailscale - 2023-09-19 - - Today we’re expanding the list of devices that can run Tailscale, bringing secure remote networking to the Apple TV. The newly released tvOS 17 offers support for VPNs, and we’re proud to say Tailscale is among the first to use this new feature. You can now add your Apple TV directly to your tailnet, unlocking three powerful new use cases that we’re excited to share.
Windows Subsystem for Linux September 2023 update - Windows Command Line - 2023-09-19 - - There is a new release for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with new features and bug fixes! Check out the summary below, and read on to learn more about new experimental features, and some significant quality improvements. Experimental features We know that WSL is used for a wide array of workflows and we want to help you get the best performance and quality experience from these workflows.
Eating the Cloud from Outside In - 2023-09-19 - - AWS is playing Chess. Cloudflare is playing Go.
Software developers have stopped caring about reliability - 2023-09-19 -
NixOS on Framework laptop - 2023-09-19 - - The time has come to replace the work laptop (thanks, Mozilla!). Here is an adventure of setting up NixOS on a Framework laptop. I’m writing this on it right...
Don't be afraid to be wrong - 2023-09-18 - - Being afraid of being wrong can hold you back - know how to deal with it.
Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement · Gwern.net - 2023-09-18 - - <p>A classic pattern in technology economics, identified by Joel Spolsky, is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive markets which are commoditized, in order to harvest most of the consumer surplus; discussion and examples.</p>
Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber — Susan Fowler - 2023-09-18 - - As most of you know, I left Uber in December and joined Stripe in January. I've gotten a lot of questions over the past couple of months about why I left and what my time at Uber was like. It's a strange, fascinating, and slightly horrifying story that deserves to be told while it is still fresh in
Android 14 Still Allows Modification of System Certificates - 2023-09-15 - - Tim Perry recently claimed in an article that “Android 14 blocks all modification of system certificates, even as root”. This sparked significant discussion on Hacker News. Thankfully my tests show that it is still possible to adjust the system certificate store in Android 14.
New surveillance footage shows Miami TSA officers accused of stealing from passengers – NBC 6 South Florida - 2023-09-15 - - New surveillance footage appears to show Transportation Security Administration officers at Miami International Aiport going through travelers’ bags and allegedly stealing money during security screenings.
NSA's Warrantless Wiretaps -- INTRODUCTION - 2023-09-14 -
Home | BOSS Linux - 2023-09-14 -
VLC Media Player banned in India, website and VLC download link blocked - 2023-09-14 - - VLC Media Player has been banned in India, but this happened nearly 2 months ago. Neither the company nor the Indian government has revealed any details about the ban.
Overrun by influencers, historic sites are banning TikTok creators in Nepal - Rest of World - 2023-09-14 - - Prominent tourist and religious sites in Nepal are putting up “No TikTok” signs to keep creators from shooting at the premises.
HireGoats.com - 2023-09-14 - HireGoats.com is a worldwide directory of companies using goats for vegetation management, often known as “targeted grazing,” “goat rental,” "prescribed grazing," or “goatscaping.” We help you connect with goat grazing pros who are ready to tackle invasive plants, prevent wildfire spread,
Arm IPO kicks off today with company valued at $54.5B • The Register - 2023-09-14 - - British chip designer to trade on Nasdaq only
Googlers Told to Avoid Words Like ‘Share’ and ‘Bundle,’ US Says - Bloomberg - 2023-09-14 - Hi all, it’s Tom Giles in San Francisco and Davey Alba in Washington. Like Fight Club inductees, Googlers must never say certain things about Google. But first...
Google extends automatic updates for Chromebooks - 2023-09-14 - - Chromebooks are getting 10 years of automatic updates, plus new features to help devices last longer.
Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates | Hacker News - 2023-09-14
Don’t mess with a genius | The Lumber Room - 2023-09-14 - - Or: What happens when Newton’s laws are violated Recently, I read a book called Newton and the Counterfeiter, subtitled The Unknown Detective Career of the World’s Greatest Scientist. I…
Password-stealing Linux malware served for 3 years and no one noticed | Ars Technica - 2023-09-13 - - It's not too late to check if a Linux device you use was targeted.
The MacBook Air M2 is so good it's given Apple a problem | TechRadar - 2023-09-12 - - Where does the MacBook Air go next?
Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users | Ctrl blog - 2023-09-12 - - Microsoft announces vague changes to the default web browser setting for Windows Insider. Nothing but wishful thinking. Still force-opens web links in Edge.
Report: 95% of employees say IT issues decrease workplace productivity and morale | VentureBeat - 2023-09-11 - Organizations can improve DEX in a remote work environment – it will just take time, strategy and full company support.
My Youtube earnings | Brick Experiment Channel - 2023-09-10 - - How much money I have made with my Lego YouTube channel? Let’s go through the YouTube Analytics. Whether you’re a colleague or an aspiring Youtuber, you may find this information valuab…
I Am No Longer Speaking at RustConf 2023 | The Pasture - 2023-09-10 - - I will no longer be speaking at RustConf 2023 about A (Possible) Future for Compile-Time Programming.
Charles Petzold: Screw You, Microsoft Edge - 2023-09-09 - - Recently while searching for a book on Bookshop.org, I was interrupted by a popup apparently generated by Microsoft Edge advising me of an alternative:
Christian Mills - Testing Intel’s Arc A770 GPU for Deep Learning Pt. 2 - 2023-09-09 - - This post covers my experience training image classification models with Intel’s PyTorch extension on the Arc A770 GPU.
The Pentagon and CIA Have Shaped Thousands of Hollywood Movies into Super Effective Propaganda - World BEYOND War - 2023-09-07 - - Propaganda is most impactful when people don't think it's propaganda, and most decisive when it's censorship you never knew happened. When we imagine that the U.S. military only occasionally and slightly influences U.S. movies, we are extremely badly deceived.
GitLab Laptop Management | GitLab - 2023-09-07 - Learn more from GitLab, The DevSecOps Platform.
Thinking with pen and paper - 2023-09-07 - - With the world inundated with productivity apps, it feels nice to return to the tried and tested pen-and-paper methods. In this blog post, I'll share my anal...
Most popular 'real' desktop will soon be the Linux desktop • The Register - 2023-09-06 - - Microsoft is moving Windows to the cloud and Apple will be happy to have you run macOS on the cloud
Oscilloscope Watch Ships After 10 Years on Kickstarter | Tom's Hardware - 2023-09-06 - - Now you can tell time and measure current on the go.
Android 14 blocks all modification of system certificates, even as root | HTTP Toolkit - 2023-09-06 - - When Android was initially announced in 2007 by the Open Handset Alliance (headed by Google) their flagship project was billed as an "open…
WASM: Big deal or little deal? • The Register - 2023-09-05 - - WebAssembly is getting a lot of hype, but is it the game-changer some think it is?
WASM: Big deal or little deal? • The Register - 2023-09-05 - - WebAssembly is getting a lot of hype, but is it the game-changer some think it is?
Don't be clever - stitcher.io - 2023-09-05 - - The story of the CRUDController
Man Spends Entire Career Mastering Crappy Codebase - 2023-09-05 - - Westbrook spent 35 years in a codebase that allegedly powers some sort of medical software somewhere. During his tenure, he contributed hundreds of lines of code to his projects.
PyPI Data - 2023-09-05 - - PyPI code explorable on Github
Code: Falsehoods programmers believe about email - 2023-09-03 - - In the spirit of falsehoods programmers believe about names and time, here’s some falsehoods about email which are all too common.
3-Year Ban For Kenyan Player Who Pretended To Be A Woman To Win Lucrative Prize - Chess.com - 2023-09-03 - A mysterious participant in the women's section of the Kenya Open Chess Championship in Nairobi, Kenya was exposed as a male impostor and removed from the tournament.
Flash Report: Triumph On A Choppy Day: Carlsen Defeats Firoujza Again - Chess.com - 2023-09-03 - This is a flash report. Full report coming soon. GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Alireza Firouzja in the Grand Final of the 2023 Julius Baer Generation Cup to clinch his third tournament victory on the Champions Chess Tour. Though both players were in imperfect form, Firouzja scored a must-win victory...
Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come! - Conservancy Blog - Software Freedom Conservancy - 2023-09-03 - - Those who forget history often inadvertently repeat it. Some of us recall that twenty-one years ago, the most popular code hosting site, a fully Free and Open Source (FOSS) site called SourceForge, proprietarized all their code — never to make it FOSS again. Major FOSS projects slowly left SourceForge since it was now, itself, a proprietary system, and antithetical to FOSS. FOSS communities learned that it was a mistake to allow a for-profit, proprietary software company to become the dominant FOSS collaborative development site. SourceForge slowly collapsed after the DotCom crash, and today, SourceForge still refuses to solve these problems0. We learned a valuable lesson that was a bit too easy to forget — especially when corporate involvement manipulates FOSS communities to its own ends. We now must learn the SourceForge lesson again with Microsoft's GitHub.
Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years - 2023-09-03 - - Microsoft announced today that it will deprecate WordPad with a future Windows update as it's no longer under active development, though the company did not specify the precise timing of this change.
Tax prep companies that spent over $90 million lobbying against free tax-filing system face new scrutiny from lawmakers • OpenSecrets - 2023-09-03 - - Top tax prep companies spent over $90 million on lobbying in the past two decades since the IRS Free File Program’s launch.
College students are still struggling with basic math. Professors blame the pandemic | AP News - 2023-09-02 - - U.S. colleges are searching for solutions as they see alarming numbers of students arrive with gaps in their math skills.
Doing Laundry on Campus Without a Phone – Naveen Arun's Blog - 2023-09-02 - - A Graduate Student’s Attempt to Find Sunshine as the Cloud Reigns Summary: I tried doing my laundry without a smartphone. This proved to be difficult, since our laundry machines can only be o…
California late start law aims to make school less of a yawn | AP News - 2023-09-02 - Middle and high school students in California will be able to sleep a little bit later when the new school year starts.
A brief history of Rust at Facebook - Engineering at Meta - 2023-09-01 - - Facebook is embracing Rust, one of the most loved and fastest-growing programming languages available today. In addition to bringing new talent to its Rust team, Facebook has announced that it is o…

August 2023

Internet Storm Center Diary 2023-08-31 - SANS Internet Storm Center - 2023-08-31 - - Internet Storm Center Diary 2023-08-31, Author: Johannes Ullrich
ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is. | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 2023-08-31 - - Entrusting our speech to multiple different corporate actors is always risky. Yet given how most of the internet is currently structured, our online expression largely depends on a set of private companies ranging from our direct Internet service providers and platforms, to upstream ISPs (sometimes...
Ruddle/Fomos: Experimental OS, built with rust - 2023-08-31 - - Experimental OS, built with rust. Contribute to Ruddle/Fomos development by creating an account on GitHub.
Remote Development at Slack - Slack Engineering - 2023-08-30 - - In this article, “remote development environments” refer to AWS EC2 instances where engineers make code changes and can see a running Slack application with those changes. For years, engineers at Slack isolated and tested their changes by running microcosms of the Slack application on their local computers. This was difficult for many reasons: it involved …
Why I chose the ThinkPad Z13 Gen1 as my Linux laptop - 2023-08-30 - - Blog, Podcasts, Live Streams and Videos about Linux and Open Source with a focus on Ubuntu, Debian and NixOS.
Elite Colleges’ Quiet Fight to Favor Alumni Children - The New York Times - 2023-08-30 - - Colleges like Yale and Harvard give a boost to legacy applicants. But with affirmative action under attack, that tradition may become harder to defend.
Introducing ChatGPT Enterprise - 2023-08-28 - - Get enterprise-grade security & privacy and the most powerful version of ChatGPT yet.
Ajit Pai apparently mismanaged $9 billion fund—new FCC boss starts “cleanup” | Ars Technica - 2023-08-28 - - Starlink and other ISPs may have to give up money that Pai shouldn't have awarded.
A UX case study on YouTube Shorts ✌️ - 2023-08-28 - - A user experience (UX) case study, showing what they've done right, and what they could improve on. Learn about UX design with Built for Mars.
Windows 11 will create heaps of needless trash - 2023-08-28 - - The latest announcements for Windows 11 have revealed that the next version of the Windows operating system will have very stringent hardware requirements. Some of them are, in my opinion, quite reasonable. For example, they’re finally dropping support for 32 bit X86 and legacy BIOS boot. These make sense, because almost every PC manufactured since 2011 has supported X64 and UEFI. It also sheds a substantial amount of technical debt and cruft, and simplifies the system slightly.
Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping Ads from Profobuf - 2023-08-28 - - Apple TV and iOS YouTube ads are not blocked by Pi-hole, so I researched this and discovered a flaw in Protobuf that allows me to restrict YouTube ads.
Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 (and 22.10, 23.04, and later) from .deb (not from snap) | Obsessed with reality - 2023-08-28 - - It is now widely known that Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) ships Firefox as a snap, but some people (like me) may prefer installing it from .deb packages to retain control over upgrades or to keep extensions working. Luckily there is still a PPA serving firefox (and thunderbird) debs at https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa maintained by the Mozilla Team. (Thank you!) You can block the
Core i9-12900KS World Record: How I Hit 7.8 GHz on 8 Cores | Tom's Hardware - 2023-08-28 - - 70 liters of liquid nitrogen works wonders.
Prisoners of Google Android Development | Solutional - 2023-08-27 - - A real-life case-study of how things can get really bad really fast when developing Android (or iOS) apps.
Lack of sleep, stress can lead to symptoms resembling concussion - 2023-08-27 - - A new study suggests that a lot of people might be going through life with symptoms that resemble concussion – a finding supporting researchers’ argument that athletes recovering from a brain injury should be assessed and treated on a highly individualized basis.In the national study, between 11% and 27% of healthy college athletes with no histo...
Nationwide tells 13,000 staff to 'work anywhere' - BBC News - 2023-08-26 - - The UK's biggest building society says it wants to give employees more control over their lives.
calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code | Ars Technica - 2023-08-26 - - The actual calculation engine is more than 20 years old.
Google has been DDoSing SourceHut for over a year - 2023-08-26 -
This week in KDE: Double-click by default – Adventures in Linux and KDE - 2023-08-26 - - This was a week of huge changes and improvements, starting with our headliner! Yes it’s true, by default in Plasma 6, you’ll single-click to select files and folders, and double-click t…
AI Isn’t Good Enough - by SK Ventures - 2023-08-26 - - On a recent cross-country trip—I (Paul) drove from California to Illinois and back again. On the drive, I saw a sign I had never seen before: In a McDonald’s window it said $1,000 SIGNING BONUS. That was not a thing when I was a teenager doing minimum-wage jobs. No one paid you $1,000 signing bonuses to work for fast-food restaurants.
Rust Malware Staged on Crates.io - 2023-08-26 - - Phylum routinely identifies malware and other software supply chain attacks targeting high-value, critical assets: an organization’s software developers. Most recently, we’ve reported on a flurry of sophisticated attacks targeting JavaScript developers, respawning malware on PyPI, and were the first to identify North Korean state actors publishing malicious packages
Friday Facts #373 - Factorio: Space Age | Factorio - 2023-08-26 - - Hello, long time no see! Today we are going to talk about the expansion which is called Factorio: Space Age. Mp4 playback not supported on your device. (Click here for static image version) What is Factorio: Space Age?kovarex Factorio: Space Age continues the player's journey after launching rockets into space. Discover new worlds with unique challenges, exploit their novel resources for advanced technological gains, and manage your fleet of interplanetary space platforms. Vanilla Factorio ends by launching the rocket into space, so I always expected it to be quite obvious what we are going to do next. Honestly the space platform related gameplay was actually planned a very long time ago, and we had shown a little bit in FFF-74. ...
Abhimanyu Mishra Becomes Youngest Grandmaster In Chess History - Chess.com - 2023-08-25 - - IM Abhimanyu Mishra became the youngest chess grandmaster in history today. The 12-year-old player from New Jersey scored his third GM norm in Budapest, having already crossed the required 2500 Elo rating barrier. Mishra (often called "Abhi") broke GM Sergey Karjakin's record that has stood for 19 years.
Why South Africa Is on the Brink of Chaos - Bloomberg - 2023-08-25 - Corruption, government incompetence and policy paralysis risk turning Africa’s most-industrialized nation into a failing state, leaving the ANC struggling to hang on to power
"Forgot Password" Captcha Unnecessarily Hard · community · Discussion #64625 - 2023-08-24 - - Select Topic Area Bug Body After 5 or so tries of a dice sum captcha that asks me to select the dice that count up to 14, I fail because I can't do sums quickly under pressure. It's now impossible ...
Opinion | What Can Replace China as a Global Economic Engine? - The New York Times - 2023-08-24 - Much of the world’s economic fate hangs on the speed and scale of the green transition.
#Shitoberfest: How free T-shirts ruined #Hacktoberfest2020 – Hwee's Portfolio – Data Engineer. Loves things that fly. - 2023-08-24 - - Hacktoberfest is an annual event organized by DigitalOcean that celebrates open-source contributions. Occuring every October, the goal of Hacktoberfest is to encourage developers (of all backgrounds and skill level) and companies to make positive contributions to the open-source community. All these sound like an initiative with good intentions on paper - incentivise developers to contribute to open-source projects. Unfortunately, the organizers underestimated the extent of what people are willing to do for the sake of getting free T-shirts (or freebies in general).
Bun v0.8.0 | Bun Blog - 2023-08-24 - - Bun gets debugger support, fetch streaming, and `bun update`. ReadStream and WriteStream from `node:tty` are implemented, including raw mode on `process.stdin`. SvelteKit now works in Bun. Plus bug fixes and stability improvements.
NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2024 | NVIDIA Newsroom - 2023-08-24 - - NVIDIA today reported revenue for the second quarter ended July 30, 2023, of $13.51 billion, up 101% from a year ago and up 88% from the previous quarter.
I Made Stable Diffusion XL Smarter by Finetuning it on Bad AI-Generated Images | Max Woolf's Blog - 2023-08-23 - - And then telling it to not generate those images!
A half-hour to learn Rust - 2023-08-23 - - In order to increase fluency in a programming language, one has to read a lot of it. But how can you read a lot of it if you don't know what it means? In this article, instead o...
Mastering Emacs - 2023-08-23 -
Coffee offers performance boost for concrete - RMIT University - 2023-08-23 - - Engineers in Australia have found a way of making stronger concrete with roasted used-coffee grounds, to give the drink-additive a “double shot” at life.
WinRAR zero-day exploited since April to hack trading accounts - 2023-08-23 - - A WinRar zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-38831 was actively exploited to install malware when clicking on harmless files in an archive, allowing the hackers to breach online cryptocurrency trading accounts.
A State Official Refused To Release Water For West Maui Fires - Honolulu Civil Beat - 2023-08-23 - - The fight over water is nothing new on Maui. But the impact on the county's ability to battle fires is coming clear.
Unlocking Discord Nitro Features for Free | 0x7D0 - 2023-08-23 - - There are several modded Discord clients available that allow you to tweak the appearance or add certain features. However, some plugins can even unlock certain functionalities that require a paid subscription to Discord Nitro. How is this possible?
The Broad Set of Computer Science Problems Faced at Cloud Database Companies - 2023-08-23 - - A couple of weeks ago, I was in an internal meeting where our CTO (Adam Prout) was giving a talk to our summer interns. The talk was about the current state of database companies, and how different providers are competing on different facets of their products. As the talk was
Experian fined $650K by the FTC and DOJ for spam emails with no opt out - The Verge - 2023-08-23 - - Experian can’t send you fake account update emails now.
Someone needs to save the Internet Archives from the lawyers and I have an idea | TechRadar - 2023-08-23 - - It's time for us to get serious about saving the history of the Internet
What is Screen Apnea? Why You May Breathe Less While Online - The New York Times - 2023-08-23 - - Here’s how to get “screen apnea” in check.
How to avoid KPI psychosis in your organization? | by Ágoston Török | Aug, 2023 | Promaton - 2023-08-23 - - A practical guide to a good measurement culture where numbers don’t replace common sense
LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6 - Phoronix - 2023-08-23 -
Skiff - Private, encrypted, secure email - 10 GB free - 2023-08-23 - - Skiff Mail privacy-first, end-to-end encrypted product home, with Mail, Calendar, Pages, and Drive overview.
An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated | Quanta Magazine - 2023-08-23 - - The telescope conjecture gave mathematicians a handle on ways to map one sphere to another. Now that it has been disproved, the universe of shapes has exploded.