Interruptions are one of the biggest sources of inefficiency for programmers. Now, to be fair, they’re probably a big source of inefficiency for everyone, but relatively speaking, they’re worse for programmers. To understand what I mean, let’s take someone…

Greetings! Today I'm happy to announce a new era in Tor implementation. Over the past year or so, we've been working on "Arti", a project to rewrite Tor in Rust. Thanks to funding from Zcash Open Major Grants (ZOMG), we can finally put the Arti project up…

‘We just can’t stop talking about how high the prices are getting. It’s ridiculous.’

The guileful Medici family advanced humanism in all the arts in Florence, and most of the city’s painters fell into line, flattering the dynasty with masterly portraiture.

Pessoa was one of the greatest and strangest poets of the 20th century, famous for the elusive profusion of his ‘heteronyms’. Yet in light of the first biography worthy of him, and recent Portuguese studies of his work, he emerges as perhaps the most passionate—and…

Git repository with a commit for every single shorthash - not-an-aardvark/every-git-commit-shorthash

This is post # 35 of the series, dedicated to exploring JavaScript and its building components. In the process of identifying and…

The town of Älvdalen is fighting to preserve its local language amid pushback from some members of parliament.

a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel font. Contribute to romeovs/creep development by creating an account on GitHub.

With many million users across all age groups and income levels, video games have become the world’s leading entertainment industry. Behind the fun experience t

2021-02-07 Linux Audio is Dead ~~#F00:CENSORED~~

Due to threats directed at TuxFamily from those behind the attack of this project and its author, the content of this post has been relocated to a platform more supportive of freedo

Maya Deren was a fringe filmmaker who existed far outside the Hollywood machine, but she often borrowed its tactics to promote herself and her movies.

Extracting concentrated lithium from seawater will only cost five dollars of electricity per kilogram! And the output material covers the cost.

A very long article about commercial VPNs, their marketing strategies, and the truth behind their privacy and security claims.

Last December, I was invited to a private bug bounty program to test a beta version of GitHub Actions. GitHub Actions is a workflow automation tool integrated with GitHub. One common use case of GitHub Actions is for CI builds – a project can fairly easily…

Companies must move away from surveillance and visible busyness, and toward defined outcomes and trust.

Since I first read Kristen Roupenian’s viral story, I’ve wondered: How did she know about me?

Death Valley hit 130°F this hour, breaking all-time reliably measured world heat record of 129.9°F set August 16, 2020 at the same site. To see the obs, choose 24 hours and click Decoded Data from this link: bit.ly/3ww8odK. Final high may be higher; Saturday…

Capture cards, input hardware, and machine learning get around system-level lockdowns.

Under what conditions do groups outperform their individual members? This question is of paramount importance and has spurred many studies in management and organizational science, psychology, sociology, complex systems, and computer science. Here, we investigate…