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We Don't Sell Ads (2012)
Brian and I spent a combined 20 years at Yahoo!, working hard to keep the site working. And yes, working hard to sell ads, because that's what Yahoo! did. It gathered data and it served pages and it sold ads.
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Victory at the High Court against the government’s use of 'general warrants’
Today, the UK High Court has quashed a decision by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), and ruled that section 5 of the Intelligence Services Act (ISA) 1994 does not permit the issuing of general warrants to authorise property interference and certain forms of computer hacking.
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College campuses are designed at human-scale – cities can be too
Many college campuses are designed to be walkable and human-scaled. But living in a neighborhood like that doesn’t have to end at graduation.
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Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach
The ongoing breach affecting thousands of organizations that relied on backdoored products by network software firm SolarWinds may have jeopardized the privacy of countless sealed court documents on file with the U.S. federal court system, according to a memo released Wednesday by the Administrative Office (AO) of the…
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Our Response to the Violence in Washington
We're treating these events as an emergency and sharing the actions we're taking.
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What I Use Instead of Google
I made a goal for myself in January 2020 to stop using Google products by the end of the year. That might sound like way too generous a timeline, but…
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GitHub is fully available in Iran
All developers should be free to use GitHub, no matter where they live. At the same time, GitHub respects and abides by US law, which means government sanctions have limited our ability to provide developers in some countries the full range of GitHub services.
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Moral Competence
Doing social-good businesses better
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New Defaults
The pandemic and vaccine rollout have highlighted where the West has lost its way; we need new defaults about information, change, and speed.
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EFF to FinCEN: Stop Pushing for More Financial Surveillance
Today, EFF submitted comments to the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) opposing the agency’s proposal for new regulations of cryptocurrency transactions. As we explain in our comments, financial records can be deeply personal and revealing, containing a...
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After spending $57M on Facebook ads, I was kicked off
The purpose of this article is to share my story in hopes of connecting to the right people at Facebook who can help me save my businesses…
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Taking FOSDEM online via Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Look Up Unknown Phone Numbers Using Facebook Reset Password
This tutorial is meant to help find clues as to who is calling you when you're receiving calls from an unknown phone number (a number that is displayed on
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Long-term survey reveals Chinese government satisfaction
Ash Center research team unveils findings from long-term public opinion survey.
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Atlassian Cloud ToS section 3.3(I) prohibits discussing performance issues
The Atlassian Customer Agreement governs our Cloud and Data Center product offerings under a single, simplified contract for all customers.
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What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die
The manner in which a state kills people has major implications for that state's structure
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Mealworms can compost styrofoam
Within our living systems, we have been raising several types of mealworms in order to compost polystyrene (styrofoam). We recently came across the study by 2015 Standard University that confirms our suspicions that they are indeed turning styrofoam into usable organic matter! Their notes are not m
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The Great Software Stagnation
Software is eating the world. But progress in software technology itself largely stalled around 1996. Here’s what we had then, in chronological order: LISP, Algol, Basic, APL, Unix, C, SQL, O…
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Peer-reviewed papers are getting increasingly boring
The number of researchers and peer-review publications is growing exponentially. It has been estimated that the number of researchers in the world doubles every 16 years and the number of research outputs is increasing even faster. If you accept that published research papers are an accurate measure of our scientific…
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What Is Life? (2019)
What is life? This question keeps many people awake at night and has led to rafts of definitions, some involving features (procreation, metabolism and so forth), some involving chemistry, entropy or energy flux and some are of a more philosophical bent. A BBC article noted there are over 100 definitions of life and it…
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Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it
Rootclaim helps people understand complex issues by combining the power of crowdsourced information with the mathematical validity of statistics.
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Emotional headlines have an impact regardless of the credibility of the source
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Bye-Bye Mastodon, our account on Fosstodon.org was deleted yesterday
We discovered the Mastodon peer to peer social network in February 2019 from a customer suggestion and we loved it. The idea of having a decentralized social network, not dependent on one source is…
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations
Explore data on COVID-19 vaccinations across the world.
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The Fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System
Published December 2, 2020 Since autumn of 2019, I’ve been bearish on the dollar, meaning I have a longish-term outlook towards a weaker dollar. This view began forming when the Federal Reserve cut interest rates in summer 2019, and then the view solidified with a catalyst after an overnight repo rate spike in…
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Repairability
My Macbook Pro I have a Macbook pro retina 15 inch, that I bought in 2016. A few days back, the battery started bulking up and the laptop ha...