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A digital twin of our planet is to simulate the Earth system in future. It is intended to support policy-makers in taking appropriate measures to better prepare for extreme events. A new strategy paper by European scientists and ETH Zurich computer scientists shows how this can be achieved.
Google Analytics is only very superficially free. Why I removed it, what it really costs your users, and the privacy-friendly alternatives I use instead.
If you haven't noticed already I really love plain text so I thought I would find some plain text protocols that are used in different software systems. The Redis Protocol specification states it best by describing its own protocol, but this applies to all of the plain text protocols I will cover.
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It's taken me much longer than I hoped, but I finally have a second version of my patches to build static executables tested and ready to go! This set of patches vastly improves upon the first by reducing the amount of compilation needed at the cost of sacrificing a little purity. Additionally I have created a system…
There's a lot to consider when charting the rise and fall of developer salaries over the years. Let's dive in!
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Detectify analyzed 50,000 unique Nginx configuration files on GitHub and reported some common misconfigurations.
My home city of Chicago continues to reel from soaring crime rates. Among the categories of increasing crime is a 135% spike in carjackings. One would think that the legislators would be focused o…
Beginning last year, the internet began playing a bigger role in our lives than ever before. In the US, we went from only three percent of workers to more
Icon fonts became popular over a decade ago. But their convenience comes at a high cost to your visitors.
Kevin Lin builds tools for humans and agents.
During the pandemic, a dangerous business has prospered: invading students’ privacy with proctoring software and apps. In the last year, we’ve seen universities compel students to download apps that collect their face images, driver’s license data, and network information. Students who want to move...
Learn why rotating your SSH keys is essential for preventing credential theft. Discover best practices for SSH key rotation and how to protect your systems from potential breaches.
Today we would like to share how we test concurrency primitives in Kotlin Coroutines. Many of our users are delighted with the experience of using coroutines to write asynchronous code. This does not
State Partitioning is the new privacy feature called Total Cookie Protection, which will be available in ETP Strict Mode in Firefox 86.
The Nim team is happy to announce the double patch release of versions 1.2.10 and 1.4.4.
Learn what are microservices, when are microservices beneficial and how module boundaries impact software design.
I know we don’t like Louis C.K.
In the Unity for Software Engineers (now updated and available as a book), series, I give an accelerated introduction to game development in Unity.
A series where I’m documenting my process of designing and building an e-ink laptop.
Deep Black Horizon posted an air traffic control broadcast from American Airlines flight AA2292 on Sunday. The aircraft was flying from Cincinnati to Phoenix and at 1:19 p.m. Central time, while over the northeast corner of New Mexico at around 37,000 feet, radioed Albuquerque Center about "a long cylindrical object…
A note from the author This was a very quick first draft, written in around two hours as part of my 30 More First Drafts project. You can now read the finished short story. This article is about the standard test brain image. For the original human, see [[Miguel A...
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
