The UNDP report noted that the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on poverty in India cannot be fully assessed because 71% of the data from the 2019-2021 'Demographic and Health Survey' for the country were collected before the pandemic. The incidence of poverty…

Run your own Mastodon server to control your social media presence

When I got my Apple ][plus back in 2017, it came with two all-important cards: the Microsoft 64kiB expansion card, and an Apple 5.25” Floppy Interface card. ...

In the aggressive pursuit of expanding ad revenue, Apple is gambling with one of its core values: great products.

New Research Shows Why We Hear “Lemon” and Not “Melon”

TL;DR: We’ve created a DSL and compiler for modeling micro-architecture that handles a very broad class of architectures - CPU, GPUs, VLIWs, DSPs, ML accelerators, and embedded devices. This effort grew out of a need to quickly develop and experiment with…

If your favorite way to update your friends about life disappears in 24 hours, we’ve got some happy news for you. Stories are now available on Signal for Android and iOS, with Desktop coming soon!

Using Purchasing Power Parity, you can offer a fair pricing based on your user’s location. Here I explain what it is, then I show you how I implemented it on my course’s selling page using serverless functions and a little bit of React.

With official Thunderbolt 4 certification, the Framework Laptop has the most Thunderbolt ports on the market!

Phylum uncovers a new campaign targeting Python developers. Malware authors surreptitiously replace cryptocurrency addresses in developer clipboards.

A little while ago, I wrote a thread on glitch.social about ephemerality of posting on social media as compared to Usenet. It got a little bit of traction, and one person asked if I could post more about Usenet clients. I haven’t gotten to it until today…

Whalers from the 18th and 19th centuries are helping 21st Century scientists on climate change.

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