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With the start of the new year, we can see a new trend delineating Linux software. Phosh with its newborn libadwaita, KDE's Kirigami and Maui Shell show that – like it or not – the era of convergent Linux applications has just started.

After all, even laptop…

MFA can protect your Office 365 accounts, but attackers are looking to compromise this security feature through new threats such as Push Notification Spamming. Learn more about MFA fatigue and how to mitigate attacks in this article.

📖 A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes. - dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible

It's often said that the Analytical Engine was before its time, but that's feels only half-true. Yes, the AE ran into challenges that were nightmares for a mechanical impl, and that first electromechanical and then electronic devices would solve, but that's…

One of the goals of this newsletter is to figure out ways to improve construction productivity and reduce the costs of construction, particularly residential construction (ie: housing) - if you could reduce the costs of construction, housing costs would fall…

This post introduces Arrow Flight SQL, a protocol for interacting with SQL databases over Arrow Flight. We have been working on this protocol over the last six months, and are looking for feedback, interested contributors, and early adopters.

Own a loud car in New York City? You might receive a notice in the mail from a computer.

cast YouTube videos to your smart TV from command-line - MarcoLucidi01/ytcast

What is your idea of fun? Kelly Cordes details The Fun Scale, measuring the degrees of fun activities in the outdoors.

We’re pleased to share that Elastic and Amazon have resolved the trademark infringement lawsuit related to the term Elasticsearch. Now the only Elasticsearch service on AWS and the AWS Marketplace is Elastic Cloud.

It’s my ritual: every time I enter a secondhand bookshop, I go straight to the Sciences section and search for old computer manuals. They’re very hard to come by, as their owners tend to throw them away once they stop using a particular device or piece of…

I quit my job. I'm now unemployed. I remember daydreaming about making an aggregation site for flash games back when I was 10 years old.

Microservice orchestration platform aims for scalable apps

The psychedelic alkaloid ibogaine has anti-addictive properties in both humans and animals.1 Unlike most substance use disorder (SUD) medications, anecdotal reports suggest that ibogaine possesses the potential to treat patients addicted to a ...

You can access IonQ hardware using every major quantum framework and language

The most painful part of writing The Case Against Education was calculating the return to education.  I spent fifteen months working on the spreadsheets.  I came up with the baseline case, did scores of “variations on a theme,”  noticed a small mistake or…