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Stepping Away from Sass
My latest site redesign and why I left out Sass and media queries in favour of native CSS grid, calc, viewport units and custom properties.}
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,838 posts.
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Speedgate: World’s First Sport Generated by AI
Developers from AKQA, a global innovation agency most known for working with some of the hottest brands and public figures, trained a recurrent neural network and a deep convolutional generative…
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MuseNet
We’ve created MuseNet, a deep neural network that can generate 4-minute musical compositions with 10 different instruments, and can combine styles from country to Mozart to the Beatles. MuseNet was not explicitly programmed with our understanding of music, but instead discovered patterns of harmony, rhythm, and style…
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A Recipe for Training Neural Networks
Musings of a Computer Scientist.
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Setting Up an Ad-Blocking VPN with WireGuard and Pihole
This guide will walk you through the setup of a remote machine that will act as a personal VPN server at the cost of 3 to 5 USD per month. We will also configure it to act as a DNS resolver that will automatically block spam, tracking, advertising and malware domains on all of your connected devices.
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ProtonMail now offers elliptic curve cryptography
Proton Mail has become the first and only encrypted email provider to support elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), providing more security and performance.
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How healthy is the internet?
With over two decades of global impact, Mozilla Foundation continues to lead the movement for a better technology future—powered by people, open by design, and fueled by imagination.
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Psychology of Human Misjudgment
A summary of the legendary investor, Charlie Mungers talk on Psychology.
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VPN services blocked in Sri Lanka as information controls tighten
Internet providers in Sri Lanka are in the vanguard of blocking access to digital security tools that allow users to work around censorship, according to new NetBlocks network measurement data. ...
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Massachusetts Court Blocks Warrantless Access to Real-Time Location Data
There's heartening news for our location privacy out of Massachusetts this week. The Supreme Judicial Court, the state's highest court, ruled that police access to real-time cell phone location data—whether it comes from a phone company or from technology like a cell site simulator—intrudes on a...
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Xdpcap: XDP Packet Capture
Our servers manage heaps of network packets, from legit traffic to big DDoS attacks. For top efficiency, we adopted eXpress Data Path (XDP), a Linux kernel tool for swift, low-level packet handling.
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The hidden costs of engineering time in technical interviewing
Whether you’re a recruiter or an engineer, you’ve probably heard of "cost per hire". Here's how to measure it properly.
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Medical records on the blockchain – the history of a bad idea
Patients having some sort of “control” over their own medical data is a perennial favourite blockchain pitch. We may have found the source.
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Notes on AI Bias
Machine learning is the new centre of tech, and like all big new things there are issues. ‘AI bias’ is much-discussed right now: machine learning finds patterns but sometimes it finds the wrong one, and it can be hard to tell.
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Smoke and Mirrors: How Snap and Pinterest Hide User Attrition
Social media companies today are using smoke and mirrors to hide an important key metric. I’m going to pick on Pinterest first because the social media company recently...
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An Introduction to C and GUI Programming
An Introductrion to C & GUI Programming, the new book from Simon Long and the Raspberry Pi Press is out now. Get your copy today.
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Python in Visual Studio Code – April 2019 Release
We are pleased to announce that the April 2019 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release we have closed a total of 84 issues, including a Variable Explorer and Data Viewer, enhancements to debug configuration and additional improvements to the Python Language Server…
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Reasons not to reveal your DNA
With over two decades of global impact, Mozilla Foundation continues to lead the movement for a better technology future—powered by people, open by design, and fueled by imagination.
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QEMU v4.0.0 released
We would like to announce the availability of the QEMU 4.0.0 release. This release contains 3100+ commits from 220 authors.
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Revisting the gui.cs framework
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
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