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The Paywalled Garden: iOS is Adware (2020)
Over the years, Apple has built up a portfolio of services and add-ons that you pay for. Starting with AppleCare extended warranties and…
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Flow-Based Programming
Official website for flow-based programming
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How I Use Notion
This post is a fairly comprehensive discussion of how I use Notion (a free personal knowledge management app) to organise various aspects of my life: project management, reading, academics, plans/goals, investing, and more. The post is not designed to be read linearly – pick and choose the bits that are relevant to…
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The Patriot Act Has Threatened Freedom for 20 Years
In passing the PATRIOT Act, Congress enacted a “solution” to preventing another 9/11-like debacle without having any evidence that a lack of surveillance powers was what allowed Osama bin Laden’s suicide hijackers to succeed in killing nearly 3,000 Americans.
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Physicists observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for first time
Physicists at MIT and elsewhere have used gravitational waves to observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for the first time.
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Useful Spy Books
Reading a good book is a great joy. And recommending a good book is almost as enjoyable. I’ve long been fascinated by books on espionage, and this contributed in no small part to me eventually joining the Dutch intelligence world, and later, rejoining it in some fashion. If you have favorite books that should be on…
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Buy a coal mine, drive a gas guzzler, and other uses of reverse logic
Readers with long memories may recall the brief, inglorious UK fuel shortage of a few weeks ago, which was mostly caused by the rush to refuel for fear the pumps would run dry. Some petrol stations…
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Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction
Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD) is a condition in which sexual function does not return to normal after the use of SSRIs and related antidepressants.
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The Sucker Complex
One is killed every minute
2502
Ethereum Services Are Centralized
EDIT: I would have fleshed this out more had I known it would be so widely circulated, but to address some common criticisms:
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Webb flies Ariane 5: watch the launch live on 25 December
Update 22 December (22.00 CET): launch confirmed for 25 DecemberUpdate 21 December (22.30 CET): new target launch dateESA and NASA will be broadcasting live as the James Webb Space Telescope is launched to space on ESA’s Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana at 12:20 GMT / 13:20 CET on Saturday 25 December.
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Why Wasn't Ruby 3 Faster?
Ruby 3.0 is a lot faster than Ruby 2.0, with both incremental tuning and interesting new disruptive changes. 'Three times faster' is hard to define. JIT! Ractors! Autofibers!
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Go 1.18 Beta 1 is available, with generics
Go 1.18 Beta 1 is our first preview of Go 1.18. Please try it and let us know if you find problems.
2507
Mozilla publishes position paper on the EU Digital Identity Framework
The EU is considering a draft law that has serious ramifications for the website security ecosystem. We have recommendations for how to fix it.
2508
Websites should not use dithered images
Despite claims that dithered images will reduce your image's file size, there are much better ways to compress your website's images.
2509
Briar 1.4 – Offline sharing, message transfer via SD cards and USB sticks
Press release The Briar Project released version 1.4 of its Android app today. This release adds a couple of new features, highlighted below. First of all, users can now share the app offline. Prior to this release, the only way to get the app was to to download it from the internet, which requires an internet…
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PyCon US 2021 Recordings are Available
The PyCon US 2021 recordings are available on our YouTube channel . Be sure to subscribe to our channel for notifications of new content. T...
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I wish I'd self-published sooner
It took until this year to write my first eBook and now it generates revenue while I sleep. What's holding you back? Learn from my experience so far.
2512
Turing Pi V2 is here
It’s been a long time since we announced the Turing Pi V2, but finally, we are ready to reveal all the details of the new cluster board. But first, we want to thank you all for your patience and for every feedback you gave us along the way. We appreciate the community’s input and support. […]
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You Don’t Need Permission
I was pleasantly surprised to hear from Suresh, an ex-student I’ve known for a long time. A U.S. citizen he was now the head of sales and marketing for a company in London selling medical devices t…
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Wgpu-0.10 released: WebGPU implementation now in pure Rust
gfx-rs is a project bringing efficient cross-platform graphics to rust. This blog supposedly hosts the major milestones, concepts, and recaps of the project.
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Understanding Connections and Pools
What connections are, how they affect our systems, and how and why pooling works.
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Node-RED 2.0
Find out more on the blog
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Ribbon filter: Practically smaller than Bloom and Xor
What the research is: The Ribbon filter is a new data structure that is more space-efficient than the popular Bloom filters that are widely used for optimizing data retrieval. One of the ways that …
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The stack monoid revisited
This is a followup to my previous post on the stack monoid, but is intended to be self-contained.
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