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A BBC navigation bar component broke depending on the external monitor

joshtumath.uk
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Pre-Greek Substrate

wikipedia.org
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November 1861: Chalmers' under Channel railway

theengineer.co.uk

Over the years The Engineer has reported on several schemes to connect the UK to mainland...
Over the years The Engineer has reported on several schemes to connect the UK to mainland Europe and, as we know, only one project has been successful so far. Tunnels and bridges have been proposed and in 1880 work started on experimental tunnels in Folkstone that were dug by hand and an early tunnel boring machine....

archive channel crossing
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Vladimir Shklyarov who criticised Putin's Ukraine war dies in fall from building

lbc.co.uk
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Bluesky, eXit, and vague thoughts about self-hosting

lazaruscorporation.co.uk

The “Folk Horror and folklore” starter pack The mass exodus from Twitter/X to Bluesky over the...
The “Folk Horror and folklore” starter pack The mass exodus from Twitter/X to Bluesky over the past weekend — #eXit as some have tagged it — has dramatically increased the number of followers I have there from about four hundred to over a thousand in the space of just a couple of days. With the number of new Bluesky...

indieweb social media
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Reports of Unwanted Telemarketing Calls Down More Than 50 Percent Since 2021

ftc.gov

Today, the Federal Trade Commission released the National Do Not Call Registry Data Book for Fiscal...
Today, the Federal Trade Commission released the National Do Not Call Registry Data Book for Fiscal Year 2024 which shows that consumer reports about unwanted calls continue to drop for the third straight year, with complaint volume down by more than half since 2021.The FTC has pursued a multifaced strategy to crack...
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Tim Berners-Lee Wants the Internet Back

bloomberg.com
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Teen behind hundreds of swatting attacks pleads guilty to federal charges

wired.com
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Libobscura

dorotac.eu
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Mystery fault takes out undersea internet cable between Germany and Finland

cnn.com

An unexplained fault in an undersea telecommunications cable linking Finland and Germany has disrupted communication services,...
An unexplained fault in an undersea telecommunications cable linking Finland and Germany has disrupted communication services, the company that runs the link said Monday. The C-Lion1 cable that connects Helsinki to Rostock in Germany was built and is operated by Cinia, a state-controlled Finnish company. Covering a ...
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Electron Spins: a special case of Chromium mods

littlebearlabs.io

Chromium is a powerful project, implementing functionality that's critical to the web and web-related technologies. Perhaps...
Chromium is a powerful project, implementing functionality that's critical to the web and web-related technologies. Perhaps the greatest credit to its quality and completeness is the fact that it's become an almost-de facto standard. So it's no surprise that other projects would want to inherit much of that codebase...
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Bhutan, after prioritizing happiness, now faces an existential crisis

cbsnews.com
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I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind (2023)

michaels.world

Need a blazing fast and reliable server? Get one here! Get an awesome price on domains!...
Need a blazing fast and reliable server? Get one here! Get an awesome price on domains! Update: I’ve been informed that hCaptcha now has a text captcha option. The bulk of this blog post still stands. Thanks to D Hamlin for the correction. Also thanks to T Spivey for pointing out my capitalization error causing eloq...
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Google Gemini tells grad student to 'please die' while helping with his homework

theregister.com

When you're trying to get homework help from an AI model like Google Gemini, the last...
When you're trying to get homework help from an AI model like Google Gemini, the last thing you'd expect is for it to call you "a stain on the universe" that should "please die," yet here we are, assuming the conversation published online this week is accurate. While using Gemini to chat about challenges in caring f...
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Show HN: Dumbo – Hono inspired framework for PHP

github.com
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Faking Shaders III: Tixyland

salat.dev
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$500k Pay, Easy Hours: How Dermatology Became the 'It' Job in Medicine

wsj.com
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Nothing-up-my-sleeve number

wikipedia.org

Numbers used by cryptographers to show that they are working in good faith In cryptography, nothing-up-my-sleeve...
Numbers used by cryptographers to show that they are working in good faith In cryptography, nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers are any numbers which, by their construction, are above suspicion of hidden properties. They are used in creating cryptographic functions such as hashes and ciphers. These algorithms often need ra...
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LLaVA-O1: Let Vision Language Models Reason Step-by-Step

arxiv.org
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Phonetic Matching

smoores.dev
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Museum of Bad Art – art too bad to be ignored

museumofbadart.org

MOBA is the world’s only museum dedicated to the collection, exhibition, and celebration of art that...
MOBA is the world’s only museum dedicated to the collection, exhibition, and celebration of art that would not be welcomed to any traditional art museum. Our collection includes sincere art in which something has gone wrong in a way that results in a compelling, interesting image. Location: inside the Dorchester Bre...
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Impressions of React and TypeScript from an Elixir/Elm Developer

korban.net

I was recently on a project where I chose to use React and TypeScript as part...
I was recently on a project where I chose to use React and TypeScript as part of the tech stack because of the existing skillset of my team. I myself managed to avoid both React and TypeScript until this year. So when I finally used them on a real project, I was looking at them as an experienced Elm & Elixir develop...
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Recurrent noise limiting coding, Mandelbrot (1954) [pdf]

yale.edu
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Fortran II Hypersource

texdraft.github.io
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