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3 votes
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Escargot: A custom, reverse-engineered server to bring back MSN Messenger
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Meet the customer service reps for Disney and Airbnb who have to pay to talk to you
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US House Democrats say Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, Apple enjoy ‘monopoly power’ and recommend big changes
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The badly thought-out use of Microsoft's Excel software was the reason nearly 16,000 coronavirus cases went unreported in England
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Nvidia replaced video codecs with a neural network
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Come back with a warrant for my virtual house
8 votes -
Depth-aware video frame interpolation
6 votes -
AT&T shelving DSL may leave hundreds of thousands hanging by a phone line
6 votes -
Why privacy is the most important concept of our time
8 votes -
A primer on the technology announced at Tesla's Battery Day
6 votes -
Time to pardon Edward Snowden?
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The end of the American internet - Technology is becoming a regulated industry, and we can no longer assume that companies, products, and users will be primarily from the USA
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YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K. Historians want them to stop
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Hacking Grindr accounts with copy and paste
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EARN IT Act introduced in House of Representatives
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How to make video calls almost as good as face-to-face
9 votes -
Freetube rewrite with Newpipe-like local API released
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The Online Content Policy Modernization Act is an unconstitutional mess
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Microsoft announces new Surface Laptop Go and Surface Pro X
I couldn’t find a good roundup that covered both of these and didn’t want to add clutter to the front page with two posts. From The Verge: Microsoft’s new $549 Surface Laptop Go aims to compete...
I couldn’t find a good roundup that covered both of these and didn’t want to add clutter to the front page with two posts.
From The Verge:
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Microsoft’s new $549 Surface Laptop Go aims to compete with Chromebooks
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Microsoft’s updated Surface Pro X has a faster processor and new platinum color option
The Surface Pro X seems like just a spec bump, so there isn’t too much interesting there. But the Surface Laptop Go is interesting. The base model is absolute garbage (4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of EMMC storage) but the other models are somewhat decent.
The overall design of the Surface products is really striking. I honestly think they look much more modern and clean than Apple’s laptops. I also really love that they are offering colors. I wish Apple would offer more colors than just gray, silver and pink/gold on their laptops.
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Tell me about your early experiences with debugging and software QA
Are you an “old timer” in the computer industry? I’m writing a story about the things programmers (and QA people) had to do to test their software. It’s meant to be a nostalgic piece that’ll...
Are you an “old timer” in the computer industry? I’m writing a story about the things programmers (and QA people) had to do to test their software. It’s meant to be a nostalgic piece that’ll remind people about old methods — for good or ill.
For example, there was a point where the only way to insert a breakpoint in the code was to insert “printfs” that said “I got to this place in the code!” And all testing was manual testing. Nothing was automated. If you wanted a bug tracking system, you built your own.
So tell me your stories. Tell me what you had to do to test software, way back when, and compare it to today. What tools did you use -- or build? Is there anything you miss? Anything that makes you especially glad that the past is past?
C’mon, you know you wanted a “remember when”!
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What are your favourite online publications?
Somewhat inspired by this post, I wondered what (non-personal) blogs/online jounrals you read? Here are some of mine in no particular order. opensource.com for open source devlopment Glimmer for...
Somewhat inspired by this post, I wondered what (non-personal) blogs/online jounrals you read? Here are some of mine in no particular order.
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opensource.com for open source devlopment
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Glimmer for tech culture as a whole
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lwn.net for linux kernel articles etc..
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WeDistribute for content on federated networks/the fediverse
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PrivacyTools Blog, The Privacy Issue and decentralize.today for privacy articles*
*I'm a team member at PrivacyTools.io
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Palantir, Big Data’s scariest, most secretive unicorn, is going public. But is its crystal ball just smoke and mirrors?
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Washington emergency responders first to use SpaceX’s Starlink internet in the field
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Project Gemini: Stripped back web // souped up Gopher internet protocol
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Spritely - A project to improve the capabilities of the federated social web, from one of the co-authors of the ActivityPub standard
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Nokia has clinched a deal with Britain's biggest mobile operator BT to supply 5G radio equipment – coming months after UK said it would ban Huawei from 5G networks
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Linux graphical apps coming to Windows SubSystem for Linux
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Negotiating the developer-to-tester ratio. Turns out that 3:1 is just the beginning
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Druva introduces software as a service data protection for Kubernetes
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People expect technology to suck because it actually sucks: so much of our usage involves dealing with a constant stream of minor annoyances
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Moxie Marlinspike on decentralization
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The guide to unbundling Reddit
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The flashing warning of QAnon: The embrace of apocalyptic memes is a symptom of hyperconnected societies in distress
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∞ Inbox versus Inbox Zero
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Here are Tesla’s biggest announcements from Battery Day: Elon Musk said the company will phase out cobalt and aims for a $25k car
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How do I ask a good question?
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Lenovo goes all in with the Linux desktop with over two dozen Ubuntu Linux powered PCs and laptops
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How open-source software transformed the business world
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A million students and counting have learned Linux
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Escaping the dark forest - Rescuing over $9.6 million worth of Ethereum from a vulnerable smart contract
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President Trump is continuing his war on Section 230 and the right for the open internet to exist
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Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up 400%
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Microsoft leaks 6.5TB in Bing search data via unsecured Elastic server
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Please don't say just hello in chat
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Viral hate, election interference, and hacked accounts: Inside the tech industry’s decades-long failure to reckon with risk
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You're going to be using confidential computing sooner rather than later
8 votes -
Twitter to investigate apparent racial bias in photo previews
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Adobe’s "Liquid Mode" uses AI to automatically redesign PDFs for mobile devices
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2020 Bundles - An overview of bundle-based offerings from major tech companies
5 votes