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VPN – A Very Precarious Narrative
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overengineer.dev
VPN - a Very Precarious Narrative - Dennis Schubert
A very long article about commercial VPNs, their marketing strategies, and the truth behind their privacy and security claims.
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How I accidentally took down GitHub Actions (2019)
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Teddy Katz’s Blog
How I accidentally took down GitHub Actions
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…
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How to achieve sustainable remote work
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The New Yorker
How to Achieve Sustainable Remote Work
Companies must move away from surveillance and visible busyness, and toward defined outcomes and trust.
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“Cat Person” and Me
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Slate Magazine
I’ve Always Suspected “Cat Person” Was Based on My Life. Now I Know It Was.
Since I first read Kristen Roupenian’s viral story, I’ve wondered: How did she know about me?
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The hottest temperature ever reliably measured recorded in Death Valley today
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Jeff Masters
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…
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Cheating in FPS by using a second computer to move mouse
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Ars Technica
Cheat-maker brags of computer-vision auto-aim that works on “any game”
Capture cards, input hardware, and machine learning get around system-level lockdowns.
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Adaptive social networks promote the wisdom of crowds
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PNAS
Adaptive social networks promote the wisdom of crowds
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…
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Unlimited, free intraday stock data API
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Styvio
Best Free Trading Platform / API 2021 | Styvio
Free intraday API, live stock chat, fundamental and technical data, social sentiment screener, and much more...
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CMake Part 1 – The Dark Arts
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Sticky Bits - Powered by Feabhas
CMake Part 1 - The Dark Arts - Sticky Bits - Powered by Feabhas
Introduction In our previous post Why We Need Build Systems we examined the need for Build Systems in modern software development. In this post we will examine how to use CMake to mange the build process for a cross compilation project. CMake can be described…
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Kmart In-Store Music Tapes [audio]
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Forkeepspodcast
For Keeps: 71. Kmart In-Store Music Tapes, Saved by Mark Davis
Attention Kmart shoppers! When Mark Davis worked at Kmart stores in the 1980s and 90s, he saved the cassette tapes (full of soft-rock hits, sale announcements, and "elevator music") that played over the in-store audio system. Years later, the digitized audio…
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Are animals more conscious than we are?
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The Intrinsic Perspective
Are animals more conscious than we are?
On rabbit experience
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Controlling Marantz amplifier using Arduino via “Remote” socket
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Controlling Marantz amplifier using Arduino via “Remote” socket
Recently I decided to control my old Marantz PM-62 programmatically. There were a few reasons to do so: Original remote control died and "compatible replacements" were not good enough. I …
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Against SQL
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Iceland found that work 35h/week with same pay as 40h have better productivity [pdf]
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80% of my traffic is excluded from Google Analytics
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Eric Khun
One of my posts was trending yesterday on HackerNews. The difference between what report @Cloudflare (DNS metric based - can't block) and @googleanalytics (noscript easy to block with an adblocker) are mindblowing. GA reported only 20% of the visitors. Is GA…
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Seagate Barracuda Ramp Weakness
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Dataquest
Seagate Barracuda Ramp Weakness - Dataquest
During a recent RAID 5 recovery attempt, John made an interesting discovery inside the two failed disks. The plastic ramp that the heads park onto when idle had snapped in the same position on both drives. We don’t know if the heads got damaged first, and…
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HTTrack Website Copier – Free Software Offline Browser (GNU GPL)
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Httrack
HTTrack Website Copier - Free Software Offline Browser (GNU GPL)
HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from…
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Beetle walking upside down under water surface filmed in Australia
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the Guardian
Beetle that can walk upside down under water surface filmed in Australia in world first
Researcher accidentally spots tiny insect walking on the underside of the water surface as if it were a pane of glass
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Hottest Temperature Ever – A Crazy Year of Weather
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Weather
7:15 AM | *Hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth took place on July 10th, 1913 in Death Valley, California – a crazy year…
Death Valley, California will have high temperatures near the 125 degree mark over the next few days, but this is still short of the all-time record there that occurred way back in 1913. On July 10th, 1913, the weather observer at Greenland Ranch in Death…
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No more DSLs: Implement and deploy a distributed system with a single program
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My proposal for scaling open source: don’t
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