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Elestic Search gets a new license to deal with AWS not paying them [1]. Of course AWS will fork the products in question. We need some anti-trust action against Amazon. Big Think has an interesting article about what appears to be ritualistic behaviour in chompanzees [2]. The next issue is that if they are developing […] Krebs on Security has an informative article about web notifications and how they are being used for spamming and promoting malware [1]. He also includes links for how to permanently disable them. If nothing else clicking “no” on each new site that wants to send notifications is annoying. Michael Stapelberg wrote an insightful posts about […] Business Insider has an informative article about the way that Google users can get locked out with no apparent reason and no recourse [1]. Something to share with clients when they consider putting everything in “the cloud”. Vice has an interestoing article about people jailbreaking used Teslas after Tesla has stolen software licenses that were […] KDE has a long term problem of excessive CPU time used by the screen locker [1]. Part of it is due to software GL emulation, and part of it is due to the screen locker doing things like flashing the cursor when nothing else is happening. One of my systems has an NVidia card and […] MD5 cracker, find plain text that matches MD5 hash [1]. Debian Quick Image Baker – Debian VM images for various architectures [2]. Insightful article on Scientific American about how dental and orthodontic problems are caused by our modern lifestyle [3]. Cory Doctorow wrote an insightful article for Locus Magazine about Intellectual Property [4]. He makes […] iMore has an insightful article about Apple’s transition to the ARM instruction set for new Mac desktops and laptops [1]. I’d still like to see them do something for the server side. Umair Haque wrote an insightful article about How the American Idiot Made America Unlivable [2]. We are witnessing the destruction of a once […] Bruce Schneier wrote an informative post about Zoom security problems [1]. He recommends Jitsi which has a Debian package of their software and it’s free software. Axel Beckert wrote an interesting post about keyboards with small numbers of keys, as few as 28 [2]. It’s not something I’d ever want to use, but interesting to […] Rolling Stone has an insightful article about why the Christian Right supports Trump and won’t stop supporting him no matter what he does [1]. Interesting article about Data Oriented Architecture [2]. Quarantine Will normalise WFH and Recession will Denormalise Jobs [3]. I guess we can always hope that after a disaster we can learn to […] Truthout has an interesting summary of the US “Wars Without Victory and Weapons Without End” [1]. The Korean war seems mostly a win for the US though. The Golden Age of White Collar Crime is an informative article about the epidemic of rich criminals in the US that are protected at the highest levels [2]. […] C is Not a Low Level Language [1] is an insightful article about the problems with C and the overall design of most current CPUs. Interesting article about how the Boeing 737Max failure started with a takeover by MBA aparatcheks [2]. Interesting article about the risk of blood clots in space [3]. Widespread human spaceflight […] |
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