When Prohibition finally went into effect on January 16, 1920, those who owned American vineyards for the sole purpose of turning those grapes into wine faced a dilemma: tear up the vines and plant something else, or try and find a way to still make a profit…

I still get excited about programming languages. But these days, it’s not so much because of what they let me do, but rather what they don’t let me do.
Ultimately, what you can with a programming l...

SoftBank Group Corp has shelved its blockbuster sale of Arm Ltd to U.S. chipmaker Nvidia Corp valued at up to $80 billion citing regulatory hurdles and will instead seek to list the company.

Studies in mice show selenium increases the number of new neurons, and improves memory in old age

This ultralight OS has a good reputation for giving new life to rheumatic hardware.

Nature - As global methane concentrations soar over 1,900 parts per billion, some researchers fear that global warming itself is behind the rapid rise.

Meta Platforms Inc.’s veiled threat to quit Europe because of blocked talks over privacy rules was more like music to the ears of two top German and French politicians.

The ASR33, like most teletypes of the era, works at a fixed rate. It does 10 characters per second. It is 110 Baud, using 1 start, 8 data (i...

From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

Reputation firms like Eliminalia use legal threats and copyright notices to have material taken down around the world.

Deuxfleurs is a non-profit based in France that aims to defend and promote
individual freedom and rights on the Internet. In their quest to build a
d…

It was day three of NFT.NYC, and I had a headache. I had spent the night before in a series of Ubers from Brooklyn to Times Square and back again, fielding texts about which VC-sponsored rave was happening when. As I queued for this morning’s event, a “Digital…

What's that animal on the front of your O'Reilly book? You'll find it listed here.

What if you could host a web service with no ports exposed? With Cloudflare Tunnel, you can!