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Most educated people believe that premier news outlets are inherently trustworthy.

How the worst apple took over the United States, and continues to spread

Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.

How did things get this bad?The Axioms of linking Every few months I end up in the a shady corner of the internet, with twenty tabs open searching for variations on ‘why the $%^&!@ does this not work’. Hours later I end up re-discovering the truth: using…

Some patched versions of gcc (observed with gcc 9.3.0 on Ubuntu 20.04)
enable -fcf-protection=full by default. This breaks code that is not
explicitly written to expect the use of this flag. The ...

Sometimes I'm at a coffee shop and get locked out of the wifi, after an hour or two has passed. Rather than spending 2 minutes/week entering terminal commands, I thought it made sense to spend a few hours figuring out how to make it take one minute a week…

One study, involving around 2,000 people, found that the vaccine offered "minimal protection" against mild and moderate cases of COVID-19. The government says it will use other vaccines in the meantime.

In a single update, a popular barcode scanner app that had been on Google Play for years turned into malware.

I wanted to be prepared for the worst nature could throw at me. But the real threat turned out to be human.

Intel wants to take a bite out of Apple and prove its processors to be more worthy