Going exclusive has its effects

ISPs are quietly distributing "netflow" data that can, among other things, trace traffic through VPNs.

Haiku, Inc. is proud to announce that we have hired existing contributor waddlesplash to work on general Haiku improvement full-time. The contract was signed on Monday, August 23, 2021 and waddlesplash plans to start work tomorrow.
In the past Haiku, …

Won’t be big Thirty years ago today, Linus Torvalds announced his free operating system to the world. As with many of the world’s greatest, Linux had humble beginnings as a very small pet project. The GNU was working on an ambitious free, public domain operating…

I'm burnt out. If you're reading this, there's a strong chance you're burnt out too. We're about to have, uh, a moment, so brace yourself.

It begins with a clever Ruby trick to extract a value from a deeply nested hash we want to refactor and ends with a prototype changing the language itself.

In April 2017 the government of Turkey blocked all access to Wikipedia. The block lasted almost three years until it was finally lifted on January 15th, 2020. During this time traffic to Turkish Wikipedia went down significantly, but not completely:

For some reason, when my brother told me our dad was dead, I immediately went
and listened to my voicemails. He left me silly voicemails often and I wanted to
hear his voice.

I came across the last voicemail he ever left me, a month before. This one
wasn’t

In 2018, Andrew Schober was digitally mugged for approximately $1 million worth of bitcoin. After several years of working with investigators, Schober says he's confident he has located two young men in the United Kingdom responsible for developing a clever…

An Alameda County judge ruled that UC Berkeley must study the impacts of its enrollment growth before it expands any further.

“Under His Eye,” she says. The right farewell. “Under His Eye,” I reply, and she gives a little nod.

A friend of mine recently pointed me at a well hidden command line tool. In the JavaScript framework used by Safari and other parts of Apple’s products, there is a tool called jsc. It’s a command line interface for JavaScript that uses the same code as the…

Famed since Roman times, the Spanish city’s artisans are all but extinct. But a reprieve is at hand from the TV and film industry

Next month, an industrial facility in Iceland will join a growing number of projects to remove CO2 from the air and put it underground. But major hurdles, including high costs, remain before this technology can be widely deployed and play a key role in tackling…

Here’s how an offhand idea to mark the fifteenth anniversary of a software company launched a decade-long saga of twists, turns, and mini-boss battles that led to a gaming console as surprising and unique as its creators. 

Two fairly modest proposals to allow greater housing density are under debate in Sacramento. They shouldn't be controversial, and yet they are.

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