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This year, once again, so many people are led into thinking Wikipedia is "broke" and must be "saved". In fact, the Wikimedia Foundation is richer than ever, with hundreds of millions in assets, 8-figure annual surpluses and $350K executive salaries. http…

He's a cyber activist, not a business executive.

Ever wondered how a QR code works?
No, me neither but it's low-key fascinating.

(Warning, there is some extremely nerdy shit here.👇 )

Dissecting the Octopus

One Sausalito resident set out to build housing. He ended up exposing the cracks in SF’s processes, but not much has changed.

Smartphone apps collect more user data (also called tracking) than most consumers prefer. Besides privacy risks, the collection of user data also results in a carbon footprint as sending this user data to third parties and showing personalised advertisements…

Lockdown Mode helps protect devices against extremely rare and highly sophisticated cyber attacks.

cachegrand - a modern data ingestion, processing and serving platform built for today's hardware - danielealbano/cachegrand

A free, open source codec for lossless audio compression and decompression

An article describing the experience of writing a Lisp interpreter in Haskell.

OpenRailwayMap - An OpenStreetMap-based project for creating a map of the world's railway infrastructure.

Yvon Chouinard has forfeited ownership of the company he founded 49 years ago. The profits will now be used to fight climate change.

AI has moved at an incredible pace in the last few years. Scaling up Transformers has led to remarkable capabilities in language (e.g., GPT-3, PaLM, Chinchilla), code (e.g., Codex, AlphaCode), and image generation (e.g., DALL-E, Imagen).