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Red Hat Announces No-Cost RHEL for Small Production Environments
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Redhat
New Year, new Red Hat Enterprise Linux programs: Easier ways to access RHEL
Introducing new no-cost RHEL programs for small production deployments and enterprise development teams.
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Update: YouTube-dl reinstantiated thanks to EFF (2020)
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TheAssassin's blog
Update: youtube-dl reinstantiated thanks to EFF
In October, the popular and famous archivist tool youtube-dl was taken down by GitHub due to a DMCA request by the Recording Industry Association of America. I posted a detailed analysis explaining …
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Flow-Based Programming
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jpaulm.github.io
Flow-based Programming
Official website for flow-based programming
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Fediverse in 2020
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fediverse.party
Fediverse in 2020 - Fediverse.Party - explore federated networks
One more year in Fediverse passed. Let's have a look at what we have achieved, new projects that appeared and things that happened in 2020
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Periodical cicada Brood X will emerge in 15 states in 2021
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Cicada Mania
Magicicada – Cicada Mania
Learn about cicadas, specifically Magicicada
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FedEx Shipping Damage Creates Fractured Artworks
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Kottke.org
FedEx Shipping Damage Creates Fractured Artworks
Since 2007, artist Walead Beshty has been cleverly using FedEx’s shipping infrastructure to create a series of artworks. He constructs glass objects that fit exactly into FedEx’s shipping boxes and then ships them to galleries and muse
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Ajit Pai Is Officially Gone
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Vice
Gigantic Asshole Ajit Pai Is Officially Gone. Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
Pai killed net four years of handouts to Big Telecom are over.
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Ten computer codes that transformed science
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Nature
Ten computer codes that transformed science
Nature - From Fortran to arXiv.org, these advances in programming and platforms sent biology, climate science and physics into warp speed.
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AirPods Max one-month review: heavy, pricey and not worth it
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WIRED UK
AirPods Max one-month review: heavy, pricey and not worth it
Apple is proud of its new top-end headphones. And they are very good. But, even discounting the high price, you shouldn’t buy them
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Someone tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked them (2019)
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Samuelmaddock
I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
After 4 months of waiting, that is the response I got from Widevine, Google’s DRM for web browsers, regarding a license agreement. For the last 2 years I’ve been working on a web browser that now cannot be completed because Google, the creators of the open…
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Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and grocery stores
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New Atlas
Vertical farms grow veggies on site at restaurants and grocery stores
Last month we reported that a huge vertical farming operation near Copenhagen in Denmark recently completed its first harvest. That setup uses hydroponics, but the veggies grown in Vertical Field urban farming pods take root in real soil.
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I Switched from TypeScript to ReScript
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Medium
How I Switched from TypeScript to ReScript
A glimpse into a more civilized (yet challenging) tool in the JavaScript ecosystem
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Vitamin D uncorrelated with Covid severity in those of European descent
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BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health
No evidence that vitamin D is able to prevent or affect the severity of COVID-19 in individuals with European ancestry: a Mendelian…
Background Upper respiratory tract infections are reportedly more frequent and more severe in individuals with lower vitamin D levels. Based on these findings, it has been suggested that vitamin D can prevent or reduce the severity of COVID-19.
Methods We…
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Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite
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GitHub
GitHub - lmatteis/torrent-net: Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite
Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite - lmatteis/torrent-net
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Show HN: A mindfulness based social network designed to be checked once a week
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Chatmosphere
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Chatmosphere
Chatmosphere is a fun and dynamic open source video chat. Ready to host it on your own server. For free.
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Janet Yellen suggests 'curtailing' cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin
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Markets Insider
Janet Yellen suggests 'curtailing' cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, saying they are mainly used for illegal financing
Janet Yellen, Joe Biden's nominee for treasury secretary, suggested the administration could be tough on cryptocurrencies after huge price increases.
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Launch HN: Manara (YC W21) – Connect Middle East engineers with global companies
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90% of Everything Is Crap
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Mike Crittenden
90% of everything is crap
I like Sturgeon’s law for a lot of reasons. But most of all, I like it as a nudge to try harder to like things.
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Python 3's F-Strings: An Improved String Formatting Syntax
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Realpython
Python's F-String for String Interpolation and Formatting – Real Python
Python's f-strings provide a readable way to interpolate and format strings. They're readable, concise, and less prone to error than traditional string interpolation and formatting tools, such as the .format() method and the modulo operator (%). F-strings…
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The Left-NIMBY Canon
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Noahpinion
The Left-NIMBY canon
Standing athwart urban history, yelling Stop
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