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Software spotlight: Cassette software for the IBM PC

winworldpc.com

While people stick their noses up at floppies these days (or any physical media for that...
While people stick their noses up at floppies these days (or any physical media for that matter), few realize that the original IBM PC and PCJr both supported an even more primitive form of program storage: audio cassette tape. First, a slight clarification. It turns out that the "Diagnostics 1.02" we had posted is ...
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Bluesky struggles to moderate child abuse material in Portuguese

nucleo.jor.br

⚠️This report addresses a sensitive topic that may be disturbing to some readers, but it does...
⚠️This report addresses a sensitive topic that may be disturbing to some readers, but it does not contain explicit images.Bluesky, an alternative social network to X that has surpassed 10 million users, is facing significant challenges in moderating content in Portuguese related to the sexual exploitation of childre...

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How to make Product give a shit about your architecture proposal

wordpress.com

I had a plumber over the other day. I was worried that my water service line...
I had a plumber over the other day. I was worried that my water service line might be leaking. There was a wet patch in the yard and I noticed that one of my sink’s water pressure seemed to be lower than usual. If the line had a pinhole leak in it, it could easily burst into a multi-thousand dollar flood on my hands...
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Analyzing New Unique Identifier Formats (UUIDv6, UUIDv7, and UUIDv8)

scaledcode.com
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60 Minutes Deceptively Edits Interview

twitter.com
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Gboard Double Sided Version

github.com
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Being Generous, Thoughtful, and Kind is a Sign of High Intelligence

inc.com
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A crash test reveals EVs aren't stopped by guardrails, compared to gas engines

kbtx.com

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) is sounding the alarm on a...
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) is sounding the alarm on a roadway safety concern that policymakers need to pay attention to.Electric vehicles (EVs) have been gaining popularity with some high-tech capabilities, but when it comes to a crash, researchers have suggested that current ...
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How to make Psylocibin with yeast – Journal Club [video]

youtube.com

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Valproate reopens critical-period learning of absolute pitch (2013)

nih.gov

Absolute pitch, the ability to identify or produce the pitch of a sound without a reference...
Absolute pitch, the ability to identify or produce the pitch of a sound without a reference point, has a critical period, i.e., it can only be acquired early in life. However, research has shown that histone-deacetylase inhibitors (HDAC inhibitors) enable adult mice to establish perceptual preferences that are other...
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Instagram and Threads moderation is out of control

theverge.com
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The Disappearance of an Internet Domain

every.to

Today we have something a little different from Gareth Edwards, who typically chronicles the forgotten history...
Today we have something a little different from Gareth Edwards, who typically chronicles the forgotten history of Silicon Valley in his column, The Crazy Ones. When the British government announced last week that it was transferring sovereignty of an island in the Indian Ocean to the country of Mauritius, Gareth imm...
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Elon Musk Owes You $100 • Cards Against Humanity Saves America Day 7

cahsuesmusk.com
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JetBlue is no longer serving hot food in economy class on transatlantic flights

usatoday.com

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The Romance of Seahorses

nautil.us

As the first blue hues crept into the otherwise lightless black sky, I carefully continued down...
As the first blue hues crept into the otherwise lightless black sky, I carefully continued down the slippery ladder. Donning full scuba gear and tank—with a clipboard, fins, and underwater camera somehow all wedged, clipped, or balanced around my body—I sank into the inky, inscrutable water. Earthly burden lifted, I...
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The Case for Web Components: A Simpler, Framework-Free Future for the Web

lnear.dev

Over the past few years, frontend frameworks like Svelte, Solid, and Vue have gained popularity for...
Over the past few years, frontend frameworks like Svelte, Solid, and Vue have gained popularity for their ability to streamline web development and introduce new paradigms like reactivity and component-based architectures. However, these frameworks come with a significant cost: they require a Node.js-driven developm...
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A 24-hour party of pain – a day and night running round a track

bbc.co.uk

Justin GouldingIt is midnight in central London and the rain is bouncing off the ground.Most of...
Justin GouldingIt is midnight in central London and the rain is bouncing off the ground.Most of the city is asleep, but on an athletics track just south of the River Thames one man - shivering and soaked to the bone in shorts, T-shirt and makeshift gilet fashioned from a black bin bag - is running laps.A pensioner, ...
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The geometry of mass graves

substack.com

Donald and Vera Blinken at home in 1978, when Tony Blinken was 16Most people have to...
Donald and Vera Blinken at home in 1978, when Tony Blinken was 16Most people have to go to a museum to seek out a spiritual encounter with Mark Rothko. But Antony Blinken grew up surrounded by the gauzy masterpieces. His father, Warburg-Pincus cofounder Donald Blinken, bought five canvases directly from the artist, ...
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Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31M users

bleepingcomputer.com

Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the...
Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records. News of the breach began circulating Wednesday afternoon after visitors to archive.org began seeing a JavaScript alert create...

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Is Android Unicode Yet?

shkspr.mobi
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Tcl the Misunderstood (Antirez)

antirez.com
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Why Gov.uk's Exit this Page component doesn't use the Escape key

beeps.website

Content warning: This blog post references domestic abuse and violence but doesn’t go into specific detail....
Content warning: This blog post references domestic abuse and violence but doesn’t go into specific detail. I’m not an expert in that topic at all, so I may not use the preferred terminology in all instances. Sorry. Last year (oh how time flies), we launched the GOV.UK Design System’s Exit this Page component, or Et...
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You Don't Know Jack about Bandwidth

acm.org

Imagine you are a company with a lot of remote employees, and they all hate the...
Imagine you are a company with a lot of remote employees, and they all hate the local Internet service providers (ISPs). Videoconferences are the worst: People cannot hear each other, they randomly start sounding like Darth Vader, and they occasionally just disappear from the conversation.Or you are a small ISP, and...
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Trump Pledges to End 'Double Taxation' of Americans Abroad

wsj.com
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