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HMRC offers a Linux version of Basic PAYE Tools, but it recently stopped working
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The Register
Good news: HMRC offers a Linux version of Basic PAYE Tools. Bad news: It broke
Python 2 has been dead for four years
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Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal
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TechCrunch
Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal | TechCrunch
A secret program called "Project Ghostbusters" saw Facebook devise a way to intercept and decrypt the encrypted network traffic of Snapchat users to study their behavior.
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Dealerships Rip You Off With The “Four-Square,” Here’s How To Beat It (2007)
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Consumer Reports
How to Beat the 'Four Square' and Other Car Dealership Sales Tactics
Consumer Reports experts and former car salespeople explain sales tactics like the "four square" and how to get a great deal despite old-school dealership techniques.
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Butterflies Full of Wasps Full of Microwasps Are a Science Nightmare (2021)
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Atlas Obscura
These Butterflies Full of Wasps Full of Microwasps Are a Science Nightmare
Accidentally released on a Finnish island 30 years ago, the parasites are spreading.
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Backpressure explained – the resisted flow of data through software (2019)
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Medium
Backpressure explained — the flow of data through software
Backpressure is something nearly every software engineer will have to deal with at some point, and for some it’s a frequent problem. But…
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MIT Unveils Gen AI Tool That Generates High Res Images 30 Times Faster
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HotHardware
MIT Unveils Gen AI Tool That Generates High Res Images 30 Times Faster
A new method from MIT's CSAIL researchers is able to generate images at about 20 FPS on current-gen hardware.
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Death and typos: my six years screening online obituary comments
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the Guardian
Death and typos: my six strange years screening online obituary comments
My job was overwhelming and rich in errors. And it drove home one message: we’re always on the clock
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Symbolics Sunstone Development Plan (1987) [pdf]
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How (and why) to run SQLite in production
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fractaledmind.github.io
How (and why) to run SQLite in production | Fractaled Mind
This is my personal site, where I write about Ruby, programming, and any of my varied fascinations.
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Cream is thicker than blood: the rise and fall of the Devon split
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Vittlesmagazine
Cream is thicker than blood: the rise and fall of the Devon split
A story of Devonian clotted cream and London’s railway milk. Words by Max Walker.
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What Computers Cannot Do: The Consequences of Turing-Completeness
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Yzena, LLC
What Computers Cannot Do: The Consequences of Turing-Completeness
I have found a lot of programmers that do not understand the Halting Problem and its implications, so here is my attempt to fix that.
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The Bayesian Cringe (2021)
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Nomic
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legacy.earlham.edu
Peter Suber, Nomic
A game of self-amendment in which changing the rules is a move. Invented by Peter Suber in 1982.
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Astronomers find 49 galaxies in under three hours
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ICRAR
Astronomers discover 49 new galaxies in under three hours - ICRAR
A team of international astronomers have discovered 49 new galaxies using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa from observations that were less than three hours long,
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Vultr is now claiming full perpetual commercial rights over all hosted content
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Recent 'MFA Bombing' Attacks Targeting Apple Users
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Krebs on Security
Recent ‘MFA Bombing’ Attacks Targeting Apple Users
Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in Apple's password reset feature. In this scenario, a target's Apple devices are forced to display dozens of system-level prompts…
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NixOS-generators – Collection of VM and Container disk image builders for NixOS
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GitHub
GitHub - nix-community/nixos-generators: Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus]
Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus] - nix-community/nixos-generators
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Boeing chief must have engineering background, Emirates boss says
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Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat
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Gizmodo
Project Ghostbusters: Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat
Unsealed court filings reveal Meta's secret plan, "Project Ghostbusters," to acquire valuable intel about Snapchat through its users' devices.
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FuryGpu – Custom PCIe FPGA GPU
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First practical SHA-256 collision for 31 steps. fse2024
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First practical SHA-256 collision for 31 steps. #fse2024
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