Hello! The other day I ran a Mastodon poll asking people how confident they were that they understood how HEAD works in Git. The results (out of 1700 votes) were a little surprising to me:

SEA-KIT designs and builds hi-tech USVs (uncrewed surface vessels) for the commercial, defence and security and luxury sectors. SEA-KIT over-the-horizon, long-range USV solutions reduce risk, carbon emissions and cost with remotely-controlled, multi-mission…

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We consider a proposed alternative to quantum gravity, in which the spacetime metric is treated as classical, even while matter fields remain quantum. Consistency of the theory necessarily...

BBC News is shown the secret site protecting the remains of the Sycamore Gap tree felled last year.

The Linux kernel uses a number of hardening techniques to try to protect itself against comprom [...]

Here is Claude 3's system prompt!
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Students said they were given little information about when and if the devices would be returned, and many wondered if they’d lose access to the work they saved.

The lack of a cooling fan on the M3 MacBook Air has severe consequences, as it throttles due to extremely high temperatures

Dead Simple Sites curates the most minimal sites on the web.

A lite demo server, inspired by Vite. Contribute to Jinjiang/vlite development by creating an account on GitHub.

Cliff Stoll (who is probably most famous for writing the wonderful Cuckoo's Egg about tracking a hacker when doing so was almost recreatio...

Next week, a fairly rare ceremony will take place in and around the Tower of London, and it's even more special than usual this time.

How can the world reach net zero if it keeps inventing new ways to consume energy?