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Privacy is the most important concept of our time
Privacy is more than the right of an individual to be left alone. It concerns the very fabric of society.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,567 posts.
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Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later
Flatpak - a security nightmare
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C Programming on System 6 – Intro [video]
I've been writing an IMAP client for and on my Mac 512Ke over the past many weeks. Taking inspiration from Andreas Kling's excellent YouTube videos documenting his development of the Serenity operating system, I thought I'd start screencasting some of my work.
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Escaping strings in Bash using !:q
TIL this trick, via Pascal Hirsch on Twitter. Enter a line of Bash starting with a # comment, then run !:q on the next line to see what that would be with proper Bash escaping applied.
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One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
If you aren't familar, Hacktoberfest is an annual event that occurs every October. It is held by Digital Ocean and encourages developers to submit Pull…
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Swift Atomics
I’m delighted to announce Swift Atomics, a new open source package that enables direct use of low-level atomic operations in Swift code. The goal of this library is to enable intrepid systems programmers to start building synchronization constructs (such as concurrent data structures) directly in Swift.
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Software Freedom Conservancy: New Strategy for GPL Enforcement
Software Freedom Conservancy, the only organization actively engaged in General Public License (GPL) enforcement and compliance work for Linux, announces today a new strategy toward improving compliance and the freedom of users of devices that contain Linux-based systems. The new work has received an initial grant…
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Bringing the browser developer tools to Visual Studio Code
Last year, we released the experimental “Elements for VS Code” extension, giving developers the option of embedding the browser developer to
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Compiling a Lisp to x86-64: Let expressions
Compiling Lisp let expressions to x86-64
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The internet needs our love
It’s noisy out there. We are inundated with sensational headlines every minute, of every day. You almost could make a full-time job of sorting the fun, i
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Programming language notation is a barrier to entry
Research in programming languages offers powerful tools, but our systems of notation stymie outsiders. Can we change our notational approach and broaden our audience—without compromising on c…
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Baremetal programming on the tinyAVR 0 micro-controllers
All you need is a text editor, a makefile and a USB-serial cable.
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MobX 6
Homepage of Michel Weststrate
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Code scanning for security vulnerabilities now available
Now available, code scanning is a developer-first, GitHub-native approach to easily find security vulnerabilities before they reach production.
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Industrial Literacy
When you know these facts of history, you understand what “industrial civilization” is and why it is the benefactor of everyone who is lucky enough to live in it
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DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source
A plea for DigitalOcean to stop making open source maintainers' lives miserable, once a year every year.
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Say goodbye to hold music
Hold for Me helps you take your time on hold back, starting with an early preview on Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a (5G) in the U.S.
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Why is Snowflake so Valuable?
An overview of some of the reasons Snowflake is trading at 150x its revenue.
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Linux under WSL2 can be leaking
We have found that you could be leaking your Internet traffic when running Linux under WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux 2).
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The Failed Promise of Web Components
Web Components had so much potential to empower HTML to do more, and make web development more accessible to non-programmers and easier for programmers. Remember how exciting it was every time we got new shiny HTML elements that actually do stuff ? Remember how exciting it was to be able to do sliders, color pickers…
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Gitter is joining Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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