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Shell utility to interactively select lines from stdin - chfritz/lineselect

The planet’s temperature spiked on Tuesday to its hottest day in at least 44 years and likely much longer.

A few days ago I came across a blog post, by Valentina Cupać, noscriptd “Are bugs and slow delivery ok?”. The noscript itself was enough to irritate me. What do you mean? That’s been an…

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I'm investigating the applicability of the IETF's DDoS Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) specifications[1] to the needs of privacy-preserving overlay networks, including VPNs but with particular interest in Tor. Specifically, now that the July 2022 D/DoS attack…

Almost half of the tap water in the US is contaminated with chemicals known as “forever chemicals,” according to a study. The number of people drinking contaminated water may be even higher than what the study found, however, because the researchers weren’t…

Enough rock fell off a Himalayan peak to bury Paris to the height of the Eiffel Tower

New species named Pinanga subterranea as Kew botanists admit they have no idea how its flowers are pollinated

In the world of data, textual data stands out as being particularly complex. It doesn’t fall into neat rows and columns like numerical data does. As a side project, I’m in the process of developing my own personal AI assistant. The objective is to use the…

A study details that open source code that contains swear words exhibits significantly better code quality...

Update: Single Fire Hydrant Nets NYC $33,000 a Year, not just $25,000 Since there was some interest on my last post on the most lucrative hydrant in NYC, I wanted to download a bit more data and...

The internet shutdown is set to continue until Thursday, 15 June.

San Andreas Mercenaries is out today, and the new update both giveths and takeths…

The rate at which workers are voluntarily leaving employers is approaching prepandemic levels.

(And why one is better than the other)