Why Engineers Need to Write
Link: developing.dev/p/why-engineers…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
I hated writing in high school. It wasn’t objective like my favorite subjects, math and science. It also didn’t help that we had to write about old, hard-to-understand literature like Shakespeare.Ryan Peterman (The Developing Dev)
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Sahil Dhiman (sahil) Jakub Ružička (jru) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Josenilson Ferreira da Silva Ileana...Debian Project
Zippyshare Quits After 17 Years, 45M Visits per Month Makes No Money
Link: torrentfreak.com/zippyshare-fi…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Citing ad-blocking and rising costs, file-hosting veteran Zippyshare will shut down at the end of the month after almost 17 years online.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
A group of librarians argue the Internet Archive is a library, saying that the four major publishers' lawsuit threatens the development of digital collections (Inside Higher Ed)
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Researchers are sounding the alarm on the world’s first-known instance of real-world malware that can hijack a computer’s boot process even when Secure Boot and other advanced protections are enabled.
arstechnica.com/information-te…
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BlackLotus represents a major milestone in the continuing evolution of UEFI bootkits.Ars Technica
Unicode Roman Numerals and Screen Readers
Link: shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/03/unico…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Regular blogging by Terence Eden.shkspr.mobi
The Be My Eyes app for the visually impaired will integrate with GPT-4, which can inspect and describe images, through a new Virtual Volunteer feature (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2023/03/14/gpt-…
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Vlajka pro Tibet
I tento rok vlaje na budově Krajského úřadu Středočeského kraje vlajka Tibetu jako připomínka 64. výročí tibetského povstání a zároveň snaha poukázat na porušování lidských práv.
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Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone
Link: wired.com/story/twitter-data-a…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data.Chris Stokel-Walker (WIRED)
Version 1.68.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include the stabilization of the "sparse" Cargo protocol, the ability for (some) applications to recover from memory-allocation failures, and "local Pin construction":lwn.net
Občas bývá zábavné sledovat, kde kolisté mají na šlapce nohu. Někdo šlape patou, někdo při tom divně vytáčí nohu, jiný vystrkuje kolena, někdo má šlapku kdesi v polovině nohy. Najdete i "špičkové" šlapače.Kolotipy.cz
Co je o datovkách pravda a co je jen strašák odrazující od jejich používání? Prozkoumali jsme pravdivost sedmi nejčastějších tvrzení, která o datových schránkách kolují.Martin Drtina (Internet Info, s.r.o.)
Mixxx 2.3.4 brings controller mapping support for Traktor Kontrol S2 Mk1 and Numark Party Mix among other improvements. Learn more here.LinuxToday
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Formalising Yoneda Ext in Univalent Foundations
Jarl G. Taxerås Flaten
arXiv.org/abs/2302.12678 arXiv.org/pdf/2302.12678
Ext groups are fundamental objects from homological algebra which underlie important computations in homotopy theory. We formalise the theory of Yoneda Ext groups in homotopy type theory (HoTT) using the Coq-HoTT library.arXiv.org
Ext groups are fundamental objects from homological algebra which underlie important computations in homotopy theory. We formalise the theory of Yoneda Ext groups in homotopy type theory (HoTT) using the Coq-HoTT library.arXiv.org
Making Go telemetry opt-in is a mistake
Link: twi.github.io/blog/making-go-t…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
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Work is slowly beginning on preparing #FediVision2023, and on that note, the person behind this bot (@zatnosk) has written a blog post of how it went in may 2022, and where we're going from here.
Canada's second-largest telecom TELUS is investigating a potential data breach after a hacker puts up private GitHub repositories and employee data for sale (Ax Sharma/BleepingComputer)
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Canada's second-largest telecom, TELUS is investigating a potential data breach after a threat actor shared samples online of what appears to be employee data.Ax Sharma (BleepingComputer)
Fastbook: Listen to audiobooks faster (2020)
Link: davidbieber.com/snippets/2020-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Aaron Mayer aims to listen to 100 audiobooks in a single month. He intends to listen to these audiobooks at 2x - 3x speed. Intense! For the last few weeks, I’ve been working on automatic video editing tools.David Bieber
A Microsoft forum post from November 23, 2022 describes AI chatbot Sydney "misbehaving" and being "so rude", suggesting the company knew about its quirks (Gary Marcus/The Road to AI We Can Trust)
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A new discovery that makes a curious story a whole lot more curiousGary Marcus (The Road to AI We Can Trust)
Some common patterns that stood out to me during usability interviews with frequent screen reader users.jessbudd.com
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