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TI sent a DMCA takedown to a site archiving datasheets
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Hector Martin
@gts99503 I just learned that @TXInstruments sent a DMCA takedown to a site archiving datasheets last year. This immediately disqualifies them from any future design I make. If engineers cannot share and archive datasheets, I cannot work with you. Ever. …
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Love’s contradictions: Catullus on the agony of infatuation
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Psyche
Love’s contradictions: Catullus on the agony of infatuation
Behold a man tortured on the rack, pulled apart by love and hate: how to understand Catullus’s best-known poem
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Avoiding instruction cache misses (2019)
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Paweł Dziepak
Avoiding instruction cache misses
Excessive instruction cache misses are the kind of a performance problem that's going to appear only in larger codebases. In this article, I'm describing some ideas on how to deal with this issue.
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Tether has been manipulating Bitcoin's price upwards for years now
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Jacob King
Tether Price Manipulation Thread: Tether has been manipulating #Bitcoin's price upwards for years now by printing unlimited, and unbacked $USDT. This thread will cover the controversial aspects surrounding Tether, and how it will eventually meet its demise.
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Apple's privacy labels show WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger hunger for user data
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TechRadar
Apple's privacy labels reveals Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger's hunger for user data
Both Facebook and Apple have been at loggerheads over new privacy guidelines by the latter that require apps to seek explicit permission from users before tracking their activity.
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WhatsApp Beaten by Apple’s New iMessage Privacy Update
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Forbes
WhatsApp Beaten By Apple’s New iMessage Privacy Update
WhatsApp has just been caught out by Apple's latest strike at Facebook...
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Google Chrome browser privacy plan investigated in UK
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BBC News
Google Chrome browser privacy plan investigated in UK
The Competition and Markets Authority will explore whether Google is abusing its market dominance.
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Victory at the High Court against the government’s use of 'general warrants’
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Privacy International
Victory at the High Court against the government’s use of 'general warrants’
Today, the UK High Court has quashed a decision by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), and ruled that section 5 of the Intelligence Services Act (ISA) 1994 does not permit the issuing of general warrants to authorise property interference and certain…
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Wikipedia frequently-encountered sources, color-coded by perceived reliability
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The Amiga 1000, Still Receiving New Peripherals 35 Years Later
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Hackaday
The Amiga 1000, Still Receiving New Peripherals 35 Years Later
In the world of retrocomputing it’s the earliest models that garner the most interest, usually either due to their rarity, or sometimes just because of their flaws. The Commodore Amiga 1000 …
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Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Counterfeit” Content
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Torrentfreak
Sci-Hub Founder Criticises Sudden Twitter Ban Over Over "Counterfeit" Content * TorrentFreak
Twitter suspended the account of Sci-Hub, often referred to as the Pirate Bay of science, for violating the counterfeit policy.
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I am closing down the Cordless project
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GitHub
GitHub - Bios-Marcel/cordless: The Discord terminal client you never knew you wanted.
The Discord terminal client you never knew you wanted. - Bios-Marcel/cordless
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Doing Symbolic Math with SymPy
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lwn.net
Doing symbolic math with SymPy
On November 29, version 1.7 of SymPy, a Python library for
symbolic mathematics, was released. The new version brings a large number
of enhancements and bug fixes, and some minor backward
incompatibilities. While these are enumerated in detail in the release…
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Show HN: Ecco – See what your NLP language model is “thinking”
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WhatsApp security whitepaper update: server might have access to private keys
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Shift
Hm, I do not feel OK with WhatsApp's new e2ee paper.
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World's Busiest International and Domestic Air Routes Right Now
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Oag
Busiest Flight Routes in the World | Busiest Air Routes | OAG
Discover the busiest air routes in the world, for both domestic and international flight routes. Learn more about the busiest air routes here.
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Excess protein enabled dog domestication during severe Ice Age winters
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Scientific American
Dog Domestication May Have Begun because Paleo Humans Couldn’t Stomach the Original Paleo Diet
Unable to digest large amounts of protein, hunters likely left scraps that could have led to the taming of wolves
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Europe: close to power grid blackout (49,74Hz power line frequency)
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Extremer Absacker in der #Netzfrequenz.
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In dieser Höhe und zu diesem Zeitpunkt ziemlich ungewöhnlich. Eins meiner Messgeräte zeigt sogar 49,74Hz als Minimum an. Ist irgendwo ein großes #Kraftwerk ausgefallen?
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Signal WhatsApp Chats Import
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GitHub
WhatsApp Import · Issue #1014 · signalapp/Signal-Android
Similar to SMS import it would be nice to have a WhatApp import. I (like others) used WhatApp and would like to keep my old chat history. I have no idea how to get the data from WhatsApp but there ...
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Dominion Voting Systems sues pro-Trump lawyer, seeking more than $1.3B
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Clubhouse uploads all your contacts
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Espen from @MakePlans
Woah. Want to invite someone to @joinClubhouse? Their app will take your entire contact list and upload it to their servers. Clearly against GDPR - hello @Datatilsynet.
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