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The FCC is set to vote on April 25 to restore its authority over the companies we pay to get online, and reinstate federal net neutrality protections that were jettisoned by the Trump administration in 2017. Net neutrality protections are supposed to ensure that we, not the internet service providers
When you launch an app, macOS connects to Apple's OCSP service to check whether the app's Developer ID code signing certificate has been revoked by Apple. In November 2020, Apple's OCSP service experienced a mass outage , preventing Mac users worldwide from launching apps. In response and remedy to this outage, Apple…
After Snowden’s whistleblowing in 2013, large parts of the internet became encrypted, enabling private and secure communication. Not everyone has welcomed this change. Most notably, the FBI and other U.S. government agencies have fought what is often called the “crypto wars”, the war on encryption. In recent years…
If Instagram and Facebook users want to withdraw their consent, they have to buy an expensive subscription
Google Scholar celebrates two decades of breaking down barriers to academic research and making it accessible to everyone, everywhere.
It is wrong to think these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible.
I'm one of the founders at Corelatus. Our niche is telecom hardware for the E1/T1 and SDH/SONET interfaces. I work with layer 2 signalling, i.e SS7 MTP-2, ATM and frame relay, and the Erlang control system for our embedded hardware.
When does our taste in music stagnate?
Is Product Hunt worth it? Dive into the data to find out.
One-indexing problems in everyday life
A few weeks ago I was roasting some pumpkin for a delicious soup and towards the end of the cooking time the fan on the oven started into overdrive, making a lot of noise then it started beeping and p…
Knowing your ABCs is essential to academic success, but having a last name starting with A, B or C might also help make the grade.
And why adults’ fears put them at risk
Kids growing up in close-knit communities where the social ties are thick are more protected from the harms of the phone-based childhood.
🏡 My home automation setup built with Home Assistant
Stop Using Fandom 2024-06-16 fandom is a wiki website (allegedly) if you are unfortunate enough to browse a fandom wiki without an ad blocker, you will experience what i like to call "attention assault" upon opening a fandom page (for me, it was the hollow knight wiki), you will note the very subtle aroma of a 1/3…
The strange transformation of a criticality accident into dark Internet humor
One of the great things about being open source is that we’ve grown a vibrant community around the project. Since launch we’ve accepted code from over…
HPV vaccines offer a rare opportunity to effectively eliminate one type of cancer. By taking this opportunity, it’s possible to save hundreds of thousands of women each year.
Interceptor 006 captured over 250 truckloads of trash – and counting – in just a few hours in the first flood of the year.
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
i talk about how the idea of a humanity-saving tech revolution from the usual tech suspects is dead (for me).
An MIT study on “legalese” suggests this convoluted language acts to convey a sense of authority in legal documents. The researchers also found that even non-lawyers use legalese when asked to write laws.
Over the summer, I spent about two weeks in Tajikistan, mostly in Dushanbe (the capital) and various points along the Pamir Highway, which borders Afghanistan and later leads into Kyrgyzstan. This …
