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Amazon Web Services in Plain English
It's named what? Figure out what Amazon Web Services should actually have been called.
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The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million
Trust me, I counted.
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The Machine Fired Me
It was 7am when my phone rang. Instead of an alarm, it was my recruiter disturbing me from a pleasant dream. It was too early for a phone call or to be caught off guard, so I did not answer. I went to
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We are removing the option to create new subscriptions
In order to store less data we will no longer accept NEW PayPal and Credit card subscriptions (recurring payments). One-time payments are not affected.
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I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors
<p><a href=https://sponsorsyrup.com target=__blank><img src=/post_images/3735079629.png></a></p> <p>I have a story to tell.</p> <p>My last y...
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ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the .org registry
After completing extensive due diligence, the ICANN Board found that withholding consent of the transfer of PIR from the Internet Society (ISOC) to Ethos Capital was reasonable, and the right thing to do.
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Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing
We've had a few questions about our recent license change to Elasticsearch and Kibana.
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Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
A refreshed, more powerful Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3.5 Haiku, and a new experimental AI capability: computer use.
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Amazon's customer service backdoor
As a security conscious user who follows the best practices like: using unique passwords, 2FA, only using a secure computer and being able…
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Outlawed by Amazon DRM
Bekkelund.net er en blogg om teknologi, samfunn og politikk skrevet av Martin Koksrud Bekkelund
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Factorio: Space Age
Hello, long time no see! Today we are going to talk about the expansion which is called Factorio: Space Age.
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My Resignation from the Intercept
The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles.
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Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
Our most advanced models for coding and knowledge work. Their research capabilities also offer an early glimpse of how AI models will contribute to scientific progress.
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The Amazon tax
It’s not technically a tax. Taxes produce valuable public benefits, like medical research and parks. This is simply legal theft. Amazon makes nearly a billion dollars in profit from search ad…
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Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio
Unsolicited volume can be a great source of distraction and frustration for users of the web. So we are making changes to how Firefox handles playing media with sound and ...
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Half-Baked Product
A fable about ovens, founders, and the second-highest priority that never gets done.
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Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
Last year I said I'd probably never recommend another Bambu Lab printer again. I still use my P1S, but after Bambu Lab started pushing their always-connected cloud solution as the new default: I blocked the printer from the Internet via my OPNsense Firewall I stopped updating the firmware I locked the printer into…
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Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
I’ve taken agency in the treatment of my bone cancer (osteosarcoma in the T5 vertebrae of the upper spine). After I ran out of standard-of-care treatment options and there were no trials available for…
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Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used
Design lessons from an industrial supply company
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Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection
Bryan Mansell built the largest personal LEGO Star Wars collection in history. Over 0,000 worth of sets. Bricks & Minifigs is trying to steal his collection.
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Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
There is such a thing as a free lunch
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Cloudflare acquires Deno
Putting ourselves in the best place to build the future of the web
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Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx
With profound gratitude for his contributions to both F5 and the Internet at large, we announce that Igor Sysoev, author of NGINX and co-founder of NGINX, Inc., is retiring to spend time with friends and family and work on personal projects. Спасибо, Игорь.
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Google Memory Loss
[Update: As of Jan 1, 2023 this is fixed! Thanks to Danny Sullivan and John Mueller of Google for figuring out what was going on. Yay!] I think Google has stopped indexing the older parts of the Web. I think I can prove it. Google’s competition is doing better. [Update, Feb. 2022: It’s still happening.]
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maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
For as long as I can remember, maps.google.com was the defacto domain for Google Maps. Also for as long as I can remember, I allowed this domain to use the location services of my browser.
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Mozilla VPN
We are working hard to make the official product, the Mozilla VPN, available in selected regions this year. We will continue to offer the Mozilla VPN at the current pricing model for a limited time, which allows you to protect up to five devices on Windows, Android, and iOS at $4.99/month.
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Android developer verification: Early access starts
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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The dead economy theory
We can laugh at them but we have to take this seriously
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Claude Sonnet 4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade of the model’s skills across coding, computer use, long-reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design.