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Study: CA Fast-Food Minimum Wage Hike Didn't Cut Jobs, Raise Prices Much

berkeley.edu

On April 1, 2024, California implemented its first sectoral wage policy, setting a $20 floor on...
On April 1, 2024, California implemented its first sectoral wage policy, setting a $20 floor on hourly pay for workers in the larger fast food restaurant chains and snack and nonalcoholic beverages chains. A tripartite Fast Food Council will determine future wage increases as well as recommend industry-wide standard...
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What Went Wrong at Blizzard Entertainment

theatlantic.com

technology
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XCP-ng 8.3 is now available

xcp-ng.org

We are excited to introduce XCP-ng 8.3, the final release in the 8.x platform series. This...
We are excited to introduce XCP-ng 8.3, the final release in the 8.x platform series. This marks a significant milestone for our community and sets the stage for exciting developments in the future.To download the netinstall version, along with all signatures and SHASUMs, visit xcp-ng.org and select "Download 8.3 La...

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US judge orders Google to open up app store to competition

reuters.com
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How Dwarf Works: Parsing Just Enough ELF

calabro.io

Sep 25, 2024 This is part of the series on DWARF. Executable and Linkable Format (ELF)...
Sep 25, 2024 This is part of the series on DWARF. Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) is a file format for executables, object files, shared libraries, and more that's used on various Unix-like systems. If you've ever downloaded and run a program on Linux, you're using an ELF executable. It's akin to an .exe file o...
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Modern USB gadget on Linux and how to integrate it with systemd (Part 1) (2019)

collabora.com

tl;dr: Automate your gadget creation. A look at how to implement USB gadget devices on Linux...
tl;dr: Automate your gadget creation. A look at how to implement USB gadget devices on Linux machines which have the necessary UDC hardware, automate the manual configfs process via declarative gadget "schemes", and use systemd for gadget composition at boot time. The big picture In order to understand what is a USB...
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EuroBSDcon 2024 some notes after the conference

netbsd.org

October 04, 2024 posted by Leonardo Taccari I have not been at EuroBSDCon for a while,...
October 04, 2024 posted by Leonardo Taccari I have not been at EuroBSDCon for a while, unfortunately! My last EuroBSDCon was EuroBSDcon 2017 in Paris, France (and I have also blogged about it)! I was very excited to come back to EuroBSDCon. Meet again in person with people. Talk in the "hall track"... and, why not!,...
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Who's a Good Boy? A Puppy Linux Mini-Review

codeberg.page
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The survival skills of Helena Valero

substack.com

Helena Valero with three of her children, her ex-husband Akawe and her father. From Ettore Biocca’s...
Helena Valero with three of her children, her ex-husband Akawe and her father. From Ettore Biocca’s Yanoama - The Story of Helena Valero, a Girl Kidnapped by Amazonian Indians, 1996One of the most important anthropologists of the 20th century was a dirt-poor mestizo woman called Helena Valero. After having read the ...
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Microsoft didn't sandbox Windows Defender, so I did (2017)

trailofbits.com

Microsoft exposed their users to a lot of risks when they released Windows Defender without a...
Microsoft exposed their users to a lot of risks when they released Windows Defender without a sandbox. This surprised me. Sandboxing is one of the most effective security-hardening techniques. Why did Microsoft sandbox other high-value attack surfaces such as the JIT code in Microsoft Edge, but leave Windows Defende...
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Is the Attack Helicopter Dead?

hushkit.net

The attack helicopter is costly and complex to operate, yet it is taking a mauling in...
The attack helicopter is costly and complex to operate, yet it is taking a mauling in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s full-scale invasion attempt of Ukraine starting in 2022 has shown both the vulnerability of helicopters and the effectiveness of small, uncrewed aircraft against armour. With this in mind, ...
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Gunter's Space Page

skyrocket.de

What's New? 21.09.2024 24.08.2024 Hyperfield 1A eo sat Kanyini eo sat 24.08.2024 CAKRA 1 tech sat...
What's New? 21.09.2024 24.08.2024 Hyperfield 1A eo sat Kanyini eo sat 24.08.2024 CAKRA 1 tech sat CUAVA 2 tech sat 23.08.2024 EagleEye eo sat EOS 08 eo sat ERNST tech sat SR 0 edu sat ZX 4A comsat 22.08.2024 16.08.2024 11.08.2024 Solar Cell Experiment tech sat 06.08.2024 17.07.2024 11.07.2024 04.07.2024 03.07.2024 3...
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How private intelligence companies became the new spymasters

engelsbergideas.com

In 2014 Dan Geer, a computer security analyst, gave a speech at the RSA Conference, an...
In 2014 Dan Geer, a computer security analyst, gave a speech at the RSA Conference, an annual gathering of cyber-security specialists, titled: ‘We Are All Intelligence Officers Now’. It described the ways in which computers were insinuating themselves into every aspect of life, the resulting haemorrhage of data, and...
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Teen achieves first NES Tetris "rebirth," proves endless play is possible

arstechnica.com

Months ago, 13-year-old Willis "Blue Scuti" Gibson became the first person to "beat" NES Tetris, crashing...
Months ago, 13-year-old Willis "Blue Scuti" Gibson became the first person to "beat" NES Tetris, crashing the game after a 1,511-line, 157-level performance. Over the weekend, 16-year-old Michael "dogplayingtetris" Artiaga became the first to reach an even more impressive plateau in the game, looping past Level 255 ...
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U.S. judge orders sweeping changes to Google's Android app store

washingtonpost.com
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Jazz – Apps with Distributed State

jazz.tools

A new way to build apps with distributed state. Jazz is an open-source toolkit that replaces...
A new way to build apps with distributed state. Jazz is an open-source toolkit that replaces APIs, databases and message queues with a single new abstraction: “Collaborative Values” — distributed state with secure permissions built-in. Features that used to take months to build now work out-of-the-box.A chat app in ...
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Is AWS S3 having an outage?

ycombinator.com
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Wigle.net: All the Networks. Found by Everyone

wigle.net

802.11 802.11b wifi wireless wireless maps
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Google must crack open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge

theverge.com

Google’s Android app store is an illegal monopoly — and now it will have to change....
Google’s Android app store is an illegal monopoly — and now it will have to change. Today, Judge James Donato issued his final ruling in Epic v. Google, ordering Google to effectively open up the Google Play app store to competition for three whole years. Google will have to distribute rival third-party app stores w...
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Sam Altman Goes Full Emperor

substack.com

In 2008, Paul Graham, founder of the Silicon Valley firm Y Combinator, described Sam Altman, who...
In 2008, Paul Graham, founder of the Silicon Valley firm Y Combinator, described Sam Altman, who was then 23 years old, like this: “You could parachute him into an island full of cannibals and come back in five years and he’d be the king.” In 2011, Graham made Altman a partner at Y Combinator. Three years later, Gra...
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NASA 3D Resources

nasa.gov
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Virtualizing iOS on Apple Silicon

nickb.website

In this blog post, I explore how I achieved virtualizing iOS on Apple silicon Macs, exploring...
In this blog post, I explore how I achieved virtualizing iOS on Apple silicon Macs, exploring many internals along the way.Part 0: Uncharted Waters?One large project I’ve spent large amounts of time working on was vma2pwn, a project that can create a fully modifiable vma2 macOS boot-chain for macOS guest virtual mac...
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Optimizing Postgres table layout for maximum efficiency

ena.to

mysql postgres sqlite
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Slow Deployment Causes Meetings – By Kent Beck

substack.com

First published 2016.“I can’t get any code out with all these meetings.” What if this perennial...
First published 2016.“I can’t get any code out with all these meetings.” What if this perennial engineer complaint has causation backwards? Adding and removing organizational overhead is relatively easy compared to increasing an organization’s capacity to deploy code. What if meetings and reviews are an organization...
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