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Modernising RISC OS in 2020: is there hope for the ancient ARM OS?
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Modernising RISC OS in 2020: is there hope for the ancient ARM OS?
The first computer I owned was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, and I retain a lot of fondness for these tiny, cheap, severely-compromised machines. I just backed the ZX Spectrum Next kickstarter, for instance. But after I left university and got a job, I bought myself…
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Apple Tells Messaging App Telegram to Take Down Protestor Channels in Belarus
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iPhone in Canada Blog
Apple Tells Secure Messaging App Telegram to Take Down Protestor Channels in Belarus
The tension between Apple and Telegram is part of the wider issue surrounding Belarus’ 2020 election.
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Loading CSV File at the Speed Limit of the NVMe Storage
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Google sues me for using the word “droid” in my company name Orpheusdroid
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Team-BHP.com
Google sues me for using the word "droid" in my company name Orpheusdroid
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Good sleep, good learning, good life
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UN Rapporteur on torture: “Julian Assange is a political prisoner.”
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EXBERLINER
UN Rapporteur on torture: “Julian Assange is a political prisoner.”
We launch our coverage of Assange’s extradition trial by speaking with Nils Melzer, a UN official and professor of law who’s outlined the inhumane treatment the WikiLeaks founder faces.
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Measuring the Memory Overhead of a Postgres Connection
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blog.anarazel.de
Measuring the Memory Overhead of a Postgres Connection
It's surprisingly hard and we use less than immediately obvious
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They're Made Out of Meat (1991)
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They're Made out of Meat
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Is your programming language unreasonable? (2015)
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Is your programming language unreasonable?
or, why predictability is important
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OPSEC critique of the Michigan Governor kidnap plot
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OPSEC plan: Secure location
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Seize and secure all mobile phones to prevent surveillance
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Honour system that no one is wearing a wire
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All that security to protect against “them” but nothing to protect against “us”
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'Real and imminent' extinction risk to whales
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'Real and imminent' extinction risk to whales
A letter signed by hundreds of scientists calls for global action to protect whales, dolphins and porpoises.
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Pakistan bans TikTok over ‘immoral and indecent’ videos
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TechCrunch
Pakistan bans TikTok over ‘immoral and indecent’ videos
Pakistan has banned popular short video app TikTok, citing circulation of videos that it deemed “immoral and indecent.” The move comes months after the South Asian country raised serious concerns about the nature of some videos on ByteDance’s app and the…
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Arch Conf 2020 Streaming [video]
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Arch Conf – Arch Conf 2020 Streaming
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Nine in 10 Adults Think Buying Latest Smartphone Is ‘Waste of Money’
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The Independent
Nine in 10 adults think buying latest smartphone is ‘waste of money’
Third of people will spend less on mobiles and other gadgets over next two years
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A New Back End for Cranelift
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Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
A New Backend for Cranelift, Part 1: Instruction Selection
This post will describe my recent work on Cranelift as part of my day job at Mozilla. In this post, I will set some context and describe the instruction selection problem. In particular, I’ll talk about a revamp to the instruction selector and backend framework…
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Bash Error Handling
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bash errors
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OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 language model
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MIT Technology Review
OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 language model
The news: On September 22, Microsoft announced that it would begin exclusively licensing GPT-3, the world’s largest language model, built by San Francisco–based OpenAI. The model acts like a powerful autocomplete: it can generate essays given the starting…
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You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss (2008)
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Cameras and secret trackers reveal where Amazon returns end up
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CBC
Hidden cameras and secret trackers reveal where Amazon returns end up | CBC News
It’s safe to say that online shoppers like the promise of easy — and even better, free — returns. But it may surprise consumers to learn what can actually happen to all those unwanted items.
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Down the ergonomic keyboard rabbit hole
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Scott Logic
Down the ergonomic keyboard rabbit hole
Over the past few months I've had an ergonomic keyboard obsession. It started out simple, just wanting to improve my typing experience. It ended with me writing a driver. This is my story - now available as an audiobook!
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