So the other day I heard from Change.org, a company that lets anyone make an online petition and gather signatures. In over a decade of existence, they’ve hosted about 5 million unique petitions.

Some of the petitions are VERY unique - like the ongoing…

Two amateur sleuths have uncovered a collection of mysterious rock carvings on the Indian coastal plain south of Mumbai.

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Our ancient Roman would simply wipe him- or herself, rinse the tersorium in whatever was available (running water and/or a bucket…

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The College Board plans to assign an adversity score to every student who takes the SAT to try to capture their social and economic background, jumping into the debate raging over race and class in college admissions.

Canada is not Google's lab rat, say those protesting against plans to build a smart city in Toronto.

In this C++ code, sorting the data (before the timed region) makes the primary loop ~6x faster:
#include <algorithm>
#include <ctime>
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
// Gene...

In a secret recording from 2017 obtained by DER SPIEGEL, Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache of the far-right Freedom Party is heard discussing a deal with a purported Russian millionaire to trade state contracts for campaign support. By DER…

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Enel Group says Google refused to allow a mapping app for finding charging stations

One of my favorite openings is the King's Gambit. It is extremely aggressive, and makes for a sharp tactical game without sacrificing too much material. It isn't played much at the highest level at

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The flight simulators are unable to accurately replicate the difficult conditions created by a malfunctioning system on the jet, which played a role in two fatal crashes.

Come back capitalism, all is forgiven

Recently at I gave a short talk noscriptd "Linux at Cloudflare". The talk ended up being mostly about BPF. It seems, no matter the question - BPF is the answer.

Here is a trannoscript of a slightly adjusted version of that talk.