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Best Practices for Securing SSH
This article explores 5 SSH best practices you should observe to boost the security of your infrastructure.
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Internet disrupted in Kazakhstan amid energy price protests
Network data from NetBlocks confirm a significant disruption to internet service in Kazakhstan from the evening of Tuesday 4 January 2022, progressing to a nation-scale communications blackout on Wednesday afternoon. ...
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Study finds no detrimental effects of psilocybin in 10mg or 25mg dose
Psilocybin can be safely administered at doses of either 10mg or 25mg to up to six participants simultaneously.
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IETF: The HTTP Query Method ( Draft)
This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent request method that can carry request content.
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Rewriting Libimagequant in Rust for Portability
libimagequant is a library for generating high-quality palettes, useful for compression of transparent PNG images (~75% smaller!) and making nice GIF animations .
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No code reviews by default
How we built an engineering culture based on trust that allows us to move incredibly fast without requiring code reviews.
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A New Future for GnuPG
It has been quite some time since my last status report on GnuPG. I have been quite busy working on the project but unfortunately rarely active on the usual channels. So, here is a new report telling what we did over the last two or three years. Please read at least the last section.
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My Personal Note Taking Journey
quickly capture your thoughts, as a service
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American Astronomical Society (AAS) journals transition to open access
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) is an international non-governmental organization with a mission to enhance and share humanity’s scientific understanding of the universe as a diverse and inclusive astronomical community.
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Elena Ceausescu: Greatest Scientist Ever – except she was a fraud
If you think that people who deliberately engage in dubious scientific practices like plagiarism, falsification of results, or attendance at fake conferences represent the worst of scientific misconduct—then you have clearly never heard of Elena Ceausescu.
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Compiling a Go program into a native binary for Nintendo Switch
Ebitengine is an open source game engine for the Go programming language. Ebitengine's simple API allows you to quickly and easily develop 2D games that can be deployed across multiple platforms.
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Ultra High Resolution Photo of Night Watch (2022)
Op 8 juli 2019 start het Rijksmuseum Operatie Nachtwacht, het grootste en meest veelzijdige onderzoeks- en restauratieproject van Rembrandts meesterwerk in de geschiedenis. Operatie Nachtwacht heeft tot doel het schilderij optimaal te behouden voor de toekomst.
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Welcoming Recorded Music to the Public Domain
Every January we feature works that are entering the public domain. And this year the big story is in recorded music. Recorded Music from 1922 and earlier Approximately 400,000 sound recordings made before 1923 will join the public domain in the U.S. for the first time due to the Music Modernization Act (read more at
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How Dwarf Fortress is built
Dwarf Fortress is one of those oddball passion projects that’s broken into Internet consciousness. It’s a free game where you play either an adventurer or a fortress full of dwarves in a randomly generated fantasy world. The simulation runs deep, with new games creating multiple civilizations with histories…
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If – A Poem by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
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The Modern Guide to OAuth
Learn how OAuth 2.0 works with this simplified explanation and guide. Learn what it is, why it's essential for secure authorization, and best practices for implementation.
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Unicode Normalization Forms: When ö ≠ ö
How special characters in file names can ruin your day.
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How Audio Fingerprinting Works
An intuitive explanation of how audio fingerprinting works helping users in identifying music from short snippets
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Germany: Data retention to be abolished
According to the German Minister of Justice data retention or "the storage of telecommunications data without any reason" could soon come to an end.
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Unusual login activity was due to bug
As part of our commitment to security, we regularly monitor our services for actual, suspected, or attempted malicious or unusual activity. We recently investigated reports of an uptick of users recei[..]
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How often people copy and paste from Stack Overflow
April Fool's may be over, but once we set up a system to react every time someone typed Command+C, we realized there was also an opportunity to learn about how people use our site. Here’s what we found.
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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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Northvolt assembles first lithium-ion battery cell at Swedish gigafactory
The cell is the first to have been fully designed, developed and assembled at a gigafactory by a homegrown European battery company.
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Playable English Localizations of Slovak Digital Games from the Late 80s Period
English translations of early Slovak digital games from the late 80s period, created in cooperation with Slovak Game Developers Association by Stanislav Hrda, Slavomír Labský, Marián Kabát, Darren Chastney, Jakub Celušák and Maroš Brojo. Download gamesENG versions of all games Accompanying contentGuides for all…
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Japan HP accidentally deleted 77TB data in Kyoto U. supercomputing system
京都大学学術情報メディアセンターセンター長 岡部 寿男
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Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective in controlled study
In a double-blind controlled study, high doses of magnetic brain stimulation, given on an accelerated timeline and individually targeted, caused remission in 79% of trial participants with severe depression.
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Databases in 2021: A Year in Review
Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University,
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Implant.ARM.iLOBleed.a
HP servers provide a management module called iLO (a.k.a. Integrated Lights-Out), which turns on as soon as the power cable is connected, loading a full-blown proprietary operating system. This module has full access to all the firmware, hardware, software, and operating system installed on the server. In addition to…