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It’s Time to Reaffirm Our First Amendment Right to Boycott
The Supreme Court must affirm that politically-motivated consumer boycotts are protected by the Constitution.
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Long Now Years: Five-digit Dates and Y10K-compliance at Home
The Long Now Foundation fosters long-term thinking. Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next and last 10,000 years — a timespan we call the long now.
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Programming at the REPL: Data Visualization
Each time we evaluate an expression, the REPL shows us a textual representation of the result: that’s the Print part of Read-Eval-Print-Loop . Most of the time, this textual representation is clear enough for the programmer, but sometimes it becomes difficult to read - especially when dealing with big or deeply nested…
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Redox OS 0.8
The Redox official website
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Finch: An open-source client for container development
Today we are happy to announce a new open source project, Finch. Finch is a new command line client for building, running, and publishing Linux containers.
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Gore-TEX, a lightweight, waterproof fabric made from the expanded form of PTFE
By literally stretching materials science to the limit, Gore invented Gore-Tex, a lightweight, waterproof fabric made from the expanded form of the polymer PTFE.
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Cloudflare servers don't own IPs anymore so how do they connect to the internet?
In this blog we'll discuss how we manage Cloudflare IP addresses used to retrieve the data from the Internet, how our egress network design has evolved, how we optimized it for best use of available IP space and introduce our soft-anycast technology
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Factorio runs on Apple Silicon
Hello, engineers! I'm a newer face at Wube and have been mainly working on expansion content for about one year now. Today, I'm here to share some exciting non-expansion news for our Mac players.
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Apple is becoming an ad company despite privacy claims
Apple’s ad business is growing fast. It tracks you in its apps and uses that data to sell ads despite its privacy claims.
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CEO pay skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978: CEOs paid 399 times as much vs. worker
What this report finds: Corporate boards running America’s largest public firms are giving top executives outsize compensation packages that have grown much faster than the stock market and the pay of typical workers, college graduates, and even the top 0.1%. In 2021, we project that a CEO at one of the top 350 firms…
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Investigating a backdoored PyPI package targeting FastAPI applications
In this post, we analyze a malicious PyPI package attempting to backdoor FastAPI applications.
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Stable Diffusion 2.0
The open source release of Stable Diffusion version 2.0.
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Earth might be experiencing 7th mass extinction, not 6th
New research suggests environmental changes caused the first mass extinction event in history, which occurred millions of years earlier than scientists previously realized.
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Wasmer 3.0
Today we are very excited to launch Wasmer 3.0, following three months of work since our first alpha. So, what’s new in Wasmer? - `wasmer` is now able...
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Writing by hand is still the best way to retain information
Typing might be faster, but longhand stays with you better.
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Fosstodon Hub – More Upgrades
The Twitter storm continues to swell and in response, we've had to upgrade, yet again.
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WebAssembly back end merged into GHC
Announcing the GHC WebAssembly backend – present and future
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Decades of air pollution undermine the immune system
The diminished power of the immune system in older adults is usually blamed on the aging process. A new study shows that decades of inhaled particulates due to air pollution also take a toll.
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Bullshit Software Projects
Discover the frustrations and challenges faced by software developers in the world of "bullshit work." From pointless projects to busy wo...
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November 2022 Progress Report
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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High-documentation, low-meeting work culture
We get a lot more done in way less time at Tremendous. We'll tell you exactly what that means.
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CICERO: An AI agent that negotiates, persuades, and cooperates with people
Meta AI has built CICERO, the first AI to achieve human-level performance in the popular strategy game Diplomacy. It's a breakthrough toward building AI that can use language to work with people to achieve strategic goals.
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Retrofitting null-safety onto Java at Meta
We developed a new static analysis tool called Nullsafe that is used at Meta to detect NullPointerException (NPE) errors in Java code. Interoperability with legacy code and gradual deployment model…
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Improving Firefox stability on Windows by retrying failed memory allocation
Poorly behaving web pages and apps are no longer capable of crashing the browser by exhausting memory, thanks to a simple trick.
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Hanami 2.0
Hanami 2.0 opens a new chapter for the Ruby community.
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MicroPython officially becomes part of the Arduino ecosystem
At Arduino we like to experiment with new technologies to figure out if we can use them to improve the tools we make for our users. We’ve recently been