Mismatched modern and ancestral environments, and their consequences.

“Cockroaches on wheels”, “mozzies”, “road toads”, “pedalphiles” – just some of the names cyclists are called on social media. A new study out of Monash University suggests this deconstruction of cyclists as less than human could be contributing to acts of…

🖤🖤🖤 Hey Sven @guckes - vielen Dank, dass wir uns 1999 auf dem Linuxtag getroffen haben. Die ganzen anderen Events und meine Zeit in Berlin wären langweilig gewesen ohne dich. Wo du jetzt bist, ist das Brunchen bestimmt super ;-) R.I.P.

Markdown in all its flavors, interpretations, and forks won’t go away. However, it’s important to look at emerging content formats that try to encompass modern needs. In this article, Knut shares his advice against Markdown by looking back on why it was introduced…

Tried downloading an app from the Today tab on the App Store

A JSON-like data structure (a CRDT) that can be modified concurrently by different users, and merged again automatically. - GitHub - automerge/automerge: A JSON-like data structure (a CRDT) that c...

An 8-bit tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue

For almost two decades, hackers with Snake have been forcing their way into government networks. Who they work for, though, has always been a matter of pure speculation. But reporters with the German public broadcasters BR and WDR have discovered some clues…

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📝 #NVIDIA's paper "Instant Neural Graphics Primitives with a Multiresolution Hash Encoding" (i.e., instant-ngp) is available here:
https://nvlabs.github.io/instant-ngp/…

Kubernetes Documentary Part 1: A Critical Review - Yeah you better defend that argument

AGL Energy rejected a takeover proposal valued at more than $3.5 billion from Mike Cannon-Brookes and Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management, who want to shut AGL’s coal-fired power plants ahead of schedule.

Linux Real Time: [ANNOUNCE] v5.17-rc3-rt6

Our romantic happiness goes through normal ups and downs as we get older—and we're least happy around age 40, a new study finds.

An inside look at the creation and fallout of Square's industry-defining role-playing game.

From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

Markets rise, and markets fall. This much, at least, is well-known. But why do market cycles occur? What causes the pendulum to swing from euphoria to crisis and back? Hyman Minsky was a 20th-century economist whose ‘financial instability hypothesis’ is probably…

To say I've been skeptical about Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto universe would be an understatement of epic proportions. Since the early 2010s, some of my most ferocious Twitter battles have been against the HODL army with the laser eyes. There's just…