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You're Missing Out If You Don't Write Weekly Digests
Summary A scheduling faux-pas earlier this year led to the accidental discovery of a best practice that has improved knowledge sharing, discussion, and documentation at thredUP while requiring minimal time investment. An Odd Handoff I work on the thredUP merch…
How and why I stopped buying new laptops
Being an independent journalist – or an office worker if you wish – I always reasoned that I needed a decent computer and that I need to pay for quality.
Cryptologie | Vetted Encryption
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Counterfactual communication and intimidation
A few years ago a remarkable event happened. A team of physicists performed an experiment of counterfactual communication. Using the quantum properties of light, they were able to transmit information without sending photon particles to the receiver. This was …
Why I left the U.S.
Last week I announced that I'm leaving the U.S and going back to my home country, Turkey. Many people asked why I am leaving. I want to share some of the details of our decision.
Path to my financial independence
I thought I will write down how am I doing with reaching financial independence, to track progress and see if it is doable, or I need to do major changes. So I’ll be updating this page yearly…
The birth of the Web
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around…
Kira McLean | How To Set Up Your Own Nextcloud Server
One of my goals for 2020 was to stop using Google's products. There are a lot of reasons why, but that's not the point of this post. I found out about Nextcloud last month and it turns out it's a great replacement for a lot of Google. I don't actually use all …
Apple M1 foreshadows RISC-V
The M1 is the beginning of a paradigm shift, which will benefit RISC-V microprocessors, but not the way you think.
tuhdo/tuhdo.github.io
Emacs Mini Manual. Contribute to tuhdo/tuhdo.github.io development by creating an account on GitHub.
Windows 10 20H2: ChkDsk damages file system on SSDs with Update KB4592438 installed
[German]In Windows 10 20H2 with installed cumulative update KB4592438, chkdsk causes massive issues. It destroys the file system during a disk check on SSDs, so Windows 10 can’t start after a reboot. Here is some information about the problem and the affected …
Back to the '70s with Serverless
Mostly technical musings by Cees de Groot. Expect Elixir, Agile, devops, and whatnot.
r/AmItheAsshole - AITA for telling my son to grow up and accept the consequences of his choice to snitch on his friends?
11,708 votes and 2,494 comments so far on Reddit
Episode 5: Isogeny-Based Cryptography For Dummies!
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Get the local images working in the templates · RssBandit/RssBandit@73c4681
Browsing web news without a browser . Contribute to RssBandit/RssBandit development by creating an account on GitHub.
Bring Intelligence to the Edge with Custom Vision
Get familiar with with Custom Vision, its API and ML algorithms for image classification, and explore an app for image capturing that uses a trained model wi...
Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla ban Kazakhstan's MitM HTTPS certificate | ZDNet
This marks the second time browsers makers had to intervene and block a certificate used by the Kazakhstan government to spy on its citizens.
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Analyzing Solorigate, the compromised DLL file that started a sophisticated cyberattack, and how Microsoft Defender helps protect customers - Microsoft Security
We, along with the security industry and our partners, continue to investigate the extent of the Solorigate attack. While investigations are underway, we want to provide the defender community with intelligence to understand the scope, impact, remediation guid…
ImmutableInterlocked.Update Method (System.Collections.Immutable)
Mutates an immutable array in-place with optimistic locking transaction semantics via a specified transformation function. The transformation is retried as many times as necessary to win the optimistic locking race.
gRPC Web with .NET
gRPC-Web allows browser based applications to call into gRPC services via a special proxy. .NET developers are now able to build and consume services that use gRPC-Web using the Grpc.AspNetCore.Web Nu
Update to nodejs 14.15.1 by JHyeok · Pull Request #6203 · TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks
Changes the following for NodeJS: Update node version for nodejs
Markdown list syntax now autocompleted - GitHub Changelog
Markdown list syntax now autocompleted
Release DurableFunctionsMonitor 3.9 · scale-tone/DurableFunctionsMonitor
Gantt Charts for orchestrations (in addition to Sequence Diagrams): 'Go to instanceId...' feature to quickly navigate to an orchestration/entity instance by its id. DotLiquid replaced with Fluid...
Bizarre Design Choices In Zoom’S End-To-End Encryption
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Your Credit Score Should Be Based on Your Web History, IMF Says
International Monetary Fund (IMF) researchers see the possibility of using the data from your browsing, search, and purchase history to create a more accurate mechanism for determining the credit rating of an individual or business.
An Alternate AltaVista Search Engine History Lesson For Internet Nerds
Why you can’t find the groundbreaking search engine AltaVista on the web anymore. Friends don’t let friends visit digital.com without knowing the truth.