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Forums Are Still Alive

aftermath.site

When I want information, like the real stuff, I go to forums. Over the years, forums...
When I want information, like the real stuff, I go to forums. Over the years, forums did not really get smaller, so much as the rest of the internet just got bigger. Reddit, Discord and Facebook groups have filled a lot of that space, but there is just certain information that requires the dedication of adults who h...
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US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case

ft.com
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Otter Wiki: A minimalistic wiki powered by Python, Markdown and git

otterwiki.com
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DOJ's proposals risk hurting consumers, businesses, and developers

blog.google

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Your CI pipeline isn't ready for AI

morgante.net

In developing my AI codegen agent, I’ve surprisingly been far more frustrated by CI/testing systems than...
In developing my AI codegen agent, I’ve surprisingly been far more frustrated by CI/testing systems than any unreliable LLM API. I’ll often have a simple code change that’s ready to go, but it takes longer to build, review, and deploy than it took to write in the first place. This isn’t unique to my small startup—a ...
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Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother

theguardian.com

Teeth are our meeting place with the outside world, the point of attack. Crystalline and mineral...
Teeth are our meeting place with the outside world, the point of attack. Crystalline and mineral in nature, teeth show us at our most mollusc-like. The fact that we can grow them, lose them and grow them again (if only once) seems to ally us with reptiles and the largest of the cartilaginous fish. Yet few things mar...
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COBOL's Map Reduce (2022)

ztoz.blog

COBOL is for Big Data. Well, sort of. Awhile back, I noticed that the COBOL SORT...
COBOL is for Big Data. Well, sort of. Awhile back, I noticed that the COBOL SORT verb was overpowered. Rather than sorting an array of items or even sorting a file, it included a generalized ability to stream in arbitrary inputs — () => Stream[T] —, where T is a key/value pair, and process the outputs in order — Sor...
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Google's search dominance is unwinding

cnn.com

A version of this story appeared in CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your...
A version of this story appeared in CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free, here. Google is so synonymous with its core product that its name is a verb that means “search.” Yet Google’s dominance of that market is shrinking. For the first time in decades, Google next year will n...
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Our son died. Now we can use his sperm to have a grandchild

bbc.com

Getty ImagesThe couple say they approached the court because they wanted to carry on their son's...
Getty ImagesThe couple say they approached the court because they wanted to carry on their son's "legacy"A couple in India have said they are "delighted" after a court ordered a hospital to hand over the frozen semen sample of their dead son to them so they could have a grandchild through surrogacy.The landmark Delh...
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Exposed: How Israeli Spies Control Your VPN

mintpressnews.com

An estimated 1.6 billion people rely on VPNs to carry out the most sensitive tasks online,...
An estimated 1.6 billion people rely on VPNs to carry out the most sensitive tasks online, from watching illegal videos to engaging in sexual or political activities. But few people know that a considerable chunk of that market—including three of the six most popular VPNs—is quietly operated by an Israeli-owned comp...
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Emoji as a Favicon Using SVG

css-tricks.com

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A Vtuber Just Became Twitch's Most-Subscribed Streamer

kotaku.com

Ironmouse is a Vtuber, meaning she streams as an anime avatar rather than as herself, and...
Ironmouse is a Vtuber, meaning she streams as an anime avatar rather than as herself, and she just became the most subscribed channel in the history of Twitch. The record-breaking run capped off a subathon that saw her overtake Kai Cenat with a campaign that was largely in service of raising money for the Immune Def...

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Why the First Pet Cemetery Was Revolutionary

smithsonianmag.com

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The human internet is dying. AI images are taking over Google top results

reddit.com

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Gitea: Self-hosted Git service with CI/CD and team collaboration

github.com
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Show HN: My microkernel-based OS built from scratch now has basic Unix commands

github.com
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Through Hurricanes Helene and Milton, Amateur Radio Triumphs When All Else Fails

wired.com
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If the Django Software Foundation had $1M

jacobian.org
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Qantas apologizes after R-rated film plays on every screen during flight

cnn.com

Things got unexpectedly racy onboard a recent Qantas flight when an R-rated film was played on...
Things got unexpectedly racy onboard a recent Qantas flight when an R-rated film was played on all the aircraft’s screens. According to a statement from the Australian airline confirming the incident to CNN, passengers on the flight from Sydney to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport last week were unable to select movies individ...
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An unbroken night's sleep is a myth. Here's what good sleep looks like

theconversation.com

What do you imagine a good night’s sleep to be? Often when people come into our...
What do you imagine a good night’s sleep to be? Often when people come into our sleep clinic seeking treatment, they share ideas about healthy sleep. Many think when their head hits the pillow, they should fall into a deep and restorative sleep, and emerge after about eight hours feeling refreshed. They’re in good c...

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Bitcoin creator is Peter Todd, HBO film says

politico.eu

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HBO Documentary Suggests Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Peter Todd

bloomberg.com
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An Earnest Exploration of Hublot, the Most Polarizing Watch Brand (2023)

hodinkee.com

Ever since I first clasped myself into a pink Tutti Frutti, a watch I did not...
Ever since I first clasped myself into a pink Tutti Frutti, a watch I did not initially want to wear but then never wanted to take off, I have been fascinated by Hublot. This fascination has only increased during my time writing for Hodinkee, hitting a climax earlier this year when I was tasked with assessing a new ...
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Don't let dicts spoil your code

roman.pt

Photo by Martin SanchezHow often do your simple prototypes or ad-hoc scripts turn into fully-fledged applications?The...
Photo by Martin SanchezHow often do your simple prototypes or ad-hoc scripts turn into fully-fledged applications?The simplicity of organic code growth has a flip side: it becomes too hard to maintain. The proliferation of dicts as primary data structures is a clear signal of tech debt in your code. Fortunately, mod...
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