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Why ActivityPub is the future
We often tout things like “Mastodon is based on open web protocols” as one of its advantages. I want to elaborate why exactly that’s a good thing.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,089 posts.
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A legend reborn: Microsoft brings back the iconic Classic IntelliMouse
Microsoft IntelliMouse. Originally launched in 1996, it became instantly famous with gamers and highly regarded as a great gaming mouse. The IntelliMouse 3.0 had exceptional ergonomics due to its the asymmetric from, and sculpted buttons and finger rests, making it fit perfectly into your hand. It also used long life…
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How Old Are Successful Tech Entrepreneurs?
A definitive new study dispels the myth of the Silicon Valley wunderkind.
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Facebook abandons Aquila, its internet drone
Today nearly 4 billion people globally do not have access to the Internet. It’s why Facebook, along with many other companies and governments, is investing heavily to address the three key ba…
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Applications for YC W19 Are Open
Applications for YC Winter 2019 are now open. Apply here [http://www.ycombinator.com/apply/]. Here are some helpful resources if you’re thinking about applying: * Why Apply? [https://www.ycombinator.com/why/] * YC Bio [https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-bio/]: A new way for us to fund early-stage life science companies…
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Effectively using AWS Reserved Instances
Learn how Stripe uses AWS Reserved Instances and capacity planning to effectively manage a dynamic, scalable cloud infrastructure.
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Wi-Fi Alliance Introduces Wi-Fi Certified WPA3 Security
Next generation Wi-Fi® security for personal and enterprise networks
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Migrating Messenger storage to optimize performance
More than a billion people now use Facebook Messenger to instantly share text, photos, video, and more. As we have evolved the product and added new functionality, the underlying technologies that …
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Cloud Filestore, high-performance file storage for GCP users
By Tad Hunt, Product Manager; Chris Talbott, Product Marketing As we celebrate the upcoming Los Angeles region for Google Cloud Platform ...
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Firefox 61.0 Released
Firefox Quantum keeps on keeping on. Look to this release for even more performance improvements, features that let you do more without leaving the webpage you’re on, and a safer online experience.
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‘You can't use Brotli for dynamic content’ and other misconceptions
And other horses**t.
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HashiCorp Consul 1.2: Service Mesh
Consul now provides secure service-to-service communication with automatic TLS encryption and identity-based authorization.
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Testing Firefox Monitor, a New Security Tool
From shopping to social media, the average online user will have hundreds of accounts requiring passwords. At the same time, the number of user data breaches occurring each year continues ...
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Our Vision for Rust and WebAssembly
Stay up to date with events, learning resources, and recent developments in Rust and WebAssembly community.
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OpenAI Five
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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Wendelstein 7-X achieves world record
In the past experimentation round Wendelstein 7-X achieved higher temperatures and densities of the plasma, longer pulses and the stellarator world record for the fusion product. Moreover, first confirmation for the optimisation concept on which Wendelstein 7-X is based, was obtained. Wendelstein 7-X at Max Planck…
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The Architecture of Mailinator (2007)
Almost 3.5 years ago I started the Mailinator(tm) service. I got the bulk of the idea from my drunk roommate at the time and the first incar...
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Study reveals how, when a synapse strengthens, its neighbors weaken
Neuroscientists at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT have discovered that when a synapse strengthens, neighboring synapses weaken based on the action of a crucial protein called Arc. The finding provides an explanation of how synaptic strengthening and weakening combine in neurons to produce…
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A GTK+ 3 update
Plans When we started development towards GTK+ 4, we laid out a plan that said GTK+ 3.22 would be the final, stable branch of GTK+ 3. And we've stuck to this for a while. I has served us reasonably well — GTK+ 3 stopped changing in drastic ways, which was well-received, and we are finally...
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Yakhchal: Ancient Refrigerators (2009)
By 400 BC, Persian engineers had mastered the technique of storing ice in the middle of summer in the desert. The ice was brought in during the winters from nearby mountains in bulk amounts, and stored in a Yakhchal , or ice-pit. These ancient refrigerators were used primarily to store ice for use in the summer, as…
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Codec2: A Whole Podcast on a Floppy Disk
The automatic audio post production webservice.
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Poverty reduces brainpower needed for navigating other areas of life (2013)
Research based at Princeton University found that poverty and all its related concerns require so much mental energy that the poor have less remaining brainpower to devote to other areas of life.
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How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy
Slack is both amazing and awful. At a time when many companies quit Slack, we refined our processes to make it work well for us.
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Using the Chrome OS Graphics Stack on Intel-Based Linux Desktops
Access technologies from partnerships with the community and leaders. Everything open source at Intel. We have a lot to share and a lot to learn.
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Understanding contravariance
The concept of contravariance, contravariant functors, and the Contravariant typeclass defined in the ‘contravariance’ Haskell library.
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Reverse Shell from an OpenVPN Configuration File
While doing background research on OpenVPN I stumbled upon an interesting question on Stack Exchange.