The dark side of whistleblowing

I think that lots of advice given is bad - it isn’t practical, it isn’t insightful, and it is often something that is amazingly obvious to the person who is receiving it. Take, for example, these two pieces of advice from Sam Altman (someone who I admire…

"There’s just a lot of potential for the information loop to be a closed loop that’s controlled by one company."

Back at the beginning of 2020, it was predicted that retirements would increase
during this decade. In 2021, the prediction
was that retirements would increase over the next couple of years. It is
happening and LWN is no exception. I am retiring at the…

Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and CEO until recently, has been highly active this week on the social network, but not about it, but about the future

The “Quite OK Image Format” for fast, lossless image compression - phoboslab/qoi

Some servers and EBS volumes won’t make it back

A delightfully blockchain-free tool for licensing your art.

“Sometimes our automated review systems get things wrong."

a unique Ruby implementation, compiled to C++ (WIP) - GitHub - natalie-lang/natalie: a unique Ruby implementation, compiled to C++ (WIP)

A spokesperson told The Drive that making the key fob remote start part of a subnoscription plan was an "unintentional" move.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission vetoed two proposals to offer bitcoin exchange-traded funds, dealing a blow to market participants who had hoped the agency would green light the effort after approving futures-backed bitcoin funds in October.

A dead simple tool to sign files and verify digital signatures. - jedisct1/minisign

Yesterday, @Google's search engine removed all mentions of this @theintercept investigation by @radleybalko into Little Rock's police department and the FOP's efforts to unseat Keith Humphrey, a Black police chief appointed by the city’s first Black mayor.…