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Elixir and Machine Learning: Nx v0.1 released
A huge milestone towards Elixir and Machine Learning has been reached with the release of Nx v0.1
OpenBSD Webzine Issue #6
Webzine created by volunteers who are passionate about the OpenBSD project development.
Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation
This page is no longer available. Order to comply or sanctions issued by the CNIL may be made public. In this case, a time limit shall be specified in the decision. Once this time period has expired, the organisations that have been given formal notice or sanctioned are no longer identified in the public decision. For…
We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
How the heck do we run a massively popular website and asset resource while being funded primarily by donations?
Best Practices for Securing SSH
This article explores 5 SSH best practices you should observe to boost the security of your infrastructure.
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. ...
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
My Personal Note Taking Journey
quickly capture your thoughts, as a service
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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…