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Resources for understanding cryptocurrency and blockchain technology
If you are interested in learning more about cryptocurrencies, crypto networks, and blockchain technology, here's a short collection of some of our pieces.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,567 posts.
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Millions of email addresses leaking to advertising and analytics companies
Breaches have been found on websites including Wish.com, JetBlue.com, Quibi.com, WashingtonPost.com, NGPVan.com and numerous other…
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The Open Web Is Dying
It\'s difficult to comprehend that there would be anything else more important right now than public health and the COVID-19 pandemic, but in the midst of it all
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Google Meet premium video meetings–free for everyone
To help businesses, schools, and others navigate remote work and life, we're making our premium video conferencing solution free for all.
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SSH hacks – a little sanity for remote workers
A few of our favorite SSH tricks and tips sure to improve your daily experience.
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A case for ending lockdown
Introduction [DISCLAIMER: The original author is a layperson without medical/scientific credentials and this post represents a best-effort attempt to synthesize relevant research and unpack the policy implications of the “lockdown” approach as compared with the proposed alternative.] [Note: See the very last section…
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Mac sandbox escape
This blog post discloses a sandbox escape on macOS. I reported the issue to Apple Product Security on December 19 2019, the day the Apple Security Bounty program finally opened. (I discovered the issue in August 2019.) Today I received an email from Apple Product Security saying "we do not see any actual security…
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Hacking Together an E-ink Dashboard
A prototype Raspberry Pi dashboard to save me talking to my smart assistant.
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Ennui: How to Overcome Chronic Boredom
Ennui (pronounced on-wee ) is chronic boredom that involves weariness, apathy, dissatisfaction, and lack of fulfillment. Some people experience a general sense of ennui in life, whereas others experience it in a specific domain, like their hobbies or work. For example, someone might experience ennui when it comes to a…
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Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018)
I have frequently wanted to use the external link symbol ( ) in text that I’m writing, without having to resort to including an image. Normally the solution there would be to find the graphical symbol in Unicode and figure out how to type it.
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Anger Management
I was molested and raped as a child. I spent my teens and twenties filled with anger. My therapist once said something like "How did I know ...
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De-Googling: My Progress
I wrote a bit about my reasoning to De-Google here . Now I want to write a bit about my progress, the struggles and what I ended up with.
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68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice
UPDATE Several years ago on my 68th birthday I wrote up 68 bits of advice for my adult children, and posted them here. Here are the first five bits: Learn how to learn from those you disagree with, or even … Continue reading →
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Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam?
You may have heard that today’s phone fraudsters like to use caller ID spoofing services to make their scam calls seem more believable. But you probably didn’t know that these fraudsters also can use caller ID spoofing to trick your bank into giving up information about recent transactions on your account — data that…
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With questionable copyright claim, Jay-Z orders deepfake parodies off YouTube
With a questionable claim to copyright, Jay-Z ordered two deepfake audio parodies of his voice off YouTube. I talked to the video's creator about the future of AI for creative expression.
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We Need DevOps for ML Data
What is MLOps?
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British Museum makes 1.9M images available for free
The British Museum has revamped its online collections database, making over 1.9 million photos of its collection available for free online under a Creative Commons license.
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IPFS 0.5
All the latest information about the IPFS Project in one place: blog posts, release notes, videos, news coverage, and more.
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How we use Rust in our mobile SDK
In this post, we'll discuss some specifics of how we use Rust to power our mobile frameworks for iOS and Android.
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DigitalOcean VPC
Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.
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The Anti-Amazon Alliance
Google Shopping is changing its model, suggesting Google is joining the Anti-Amazon Alliance; 3rd-party merchants should do the same.
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Guide to Making 3D Maps with Satellite Imagery in R
E ver since I released rayshader to the public, there’s been one question that comes up time and time again: “How do I use rayshader to overlay satellite imagery onto a 3D surface?” And I can see why: 3D maps with real satellite images are super cool, and there are few detailed tutorials out there on how it’s done in…
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What’s in that .wasm? Introducing wasm-decompile
WABT gains a new decompilation tool that can make it easier to read the contents of Wasm modules.
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Good writing is a business advantage
Starting about ten years ago, I started hearing about agencies and agency people getting involved in what they were calling product design....
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What I wish I knew about React
Articles on frontend development and more.
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Software Folklore – A collection of weird bug stories
a blog post by @azwinkau
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At least 11 cities use automated surveillance in the EU
At least 11 local police forces in Europe use computer vision to automatically analyze images from surveillance cameras. The risks of discrimination run high but authorities ignore them.