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Our Dazzling Night Sky When the Milky Way Collides with Andromeda in 4B Years
This is what our night sky is going to look like in 3.9 billion years: Wow! So what’s going on here? Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers at
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The Internet and the Third Estate
Mark Zuckerberg suggested that social media is a “Fifth Estate”; in fact, social media is a means by which the Third Estate — commoners — can seize political power. Here history matters…
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Performance Tuning for .NET Core
Some of you may know I've been spending whatever time I can scrounge together grinding away at a new serialization library for .NET. Serializers can be complicated beasts. They have to be reliable, flexible, and fast beyond reproach. I won't convince you that serialization libraries have to be quick — in this post…
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The BeagleBone AI is Available
BeagleBoard.org Foundation is a Michigan, USA-based 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation existing to provide education in and collaboration around the design and use of open-source software and hardware in embedded computing.
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A New R6RS Scheme Compiler
Some readers already know this and a few have suspected. I’ve been working on a new R6RS Scheme compiler for a while. Now I have released it as free software. Read on to learn the many wonderful drawbacks of this niche compiler.
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NetHack 3.6.2
3.6.2 is a general patch release. It includes a large number of fixes to the 3.6.1 version, beyond the Windows issue fixed at the time of that release.
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The $10m Engineering Problem
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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Atlas observes light scattering off light
Figure 1: ATLAS event display showing the energy deposits of two photons in the electromagnetic calorimeter (green) on opposite sides and no other activity in the detector, which is the clean signature of light-by-light scattering. The Feynman diagram of this process is shown in the lower right corner. (Image: ATLAS…
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DKIM Demystified
DKIM is a way to secure your email, increasing deliverability and avoiding fraud. A 20i Senior Systems Administrator explains DKIM in depth.
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The sad state of font rendering on Linux
As it turns out, font rendering is a highly controversial topic. If you don’t see anything wrong with Linux font rendering, please disregard this as a shitpost. Thanks.
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Why are the username and password on two different pages?
Twilio posts cloud communications trends, customer stories, and tips for building scalable voice and SMS applications with Twilio's APIs.
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How to Track Your Kids (and Other People's Kids) with the TicTocTrack Watch
Do you ever hear those stories from your parents along the lines of "when I was young..." and then there's a tale of how risky life was back then compared to today. You know, stuff like having to walk themselves to school without adult supervision, crazy stuff like that
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Biology Is Eating the World
We are at the beginning of a new era, where biology has shifted from an empirical science to an engineering discipline. After a millennia of using man-made approaches for controlling or manipulating biology, we have finally begun using nature’s own machinery—through biological engineering—to design, scale, and…
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Openwrt 18.06.2 released
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The trouble with VPN and privacy review sites
Evergreen privacy guides, threat modeling, encryption, practical tutorials.
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Why Are Creators Paying for TikTok’s Mistake?
TikTok is an app that makes it easy for people to make short lip-synching videos, which unsurprisingly makes it a goldmine of creativity and memes. TikTok recently got in hot water with the Federal Trade Commission because it failed to comply with Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)....
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Battle testing data integrity verification with ZFS and Btrfs
In this article I share the results of a home-lab experiment in which I threw some different problems at ZFS, Btrfs and mdadm+dm-integrity in a RAID-5 setup.
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Minimum Viable Personality (2011)
Today we have a special guest post. There have been a few guest posts here at AVC. Maybe a half dozen in total. One of my favorites was this one by JLM during the financial crisis of 2008/2009. But this one today may top that gem. It's from our favorite Giant Robot Dinosaur and it's […]
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Tor Browser 8.5
Tor Browser 8.5 includes our first stable release for Android plus many new features.
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Windows XP minimal-requirement experiments (2006)
Wettbewerb um die ultimative Mindestanforderung für Windows XP zu finden.
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Git ransom campaign incident report
This is a coordinated effort to help educate and inform users on secure best practices relating to the recent Git ransomware incident.
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BoringTun, a Userspace WireGuard Implementation in Rust
Today we are happy to release the source code of a project we’ve been working on for the past few months. It is called BoringTun, and is a userspace implementation of the WireGuard® protocol written in Rust.
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Combine statistical and symbolic artificial intelligence techniques
MIT researchers show that merging statistical and symbolic artificial intelligence promises to enable computers to reason more like humans. Their hybrid model can learn object-related concepts like color and shape, and leverage that knowledge to interpret complex relationships.
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