LogRocket
A complete guide to declarative diagramming with D2
7 min · · Declarative diagramming creates diagrams using a declarative approach, from flowcharts to organization charts. In a declarative approach, the user specifies the relationships and logic of the… · Shared by 4, including slumos
wcnews.com
Mythbusters: Wing Commander I Edition
5 min · · You've probably heard of the famous 'thank you for playing Wing Commander' story. It claims that a programmer on the original Wing Commander was stuck getting an error message when the game unloaded… · Shared by 4, including slumos
Android Police
Android at 15: Everything the T-Mobile G1 had that your phone doesn't
8 min · · As the first Android phone ever turns 15, we're looking at everything the T-Mobile G1 had that your phone doesn't · Shared by 4, including slumos
pluralistic.net
Apple fucked us on right to repair (again) (22 Sept 2023)
10 min · · Today's links Apple fucked us on right to repair (again) (permali · Shared by 9, including Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, slumos
CBC
'A public relations nightmare': Ticketmaster recruits pros for secret scalper program
8 min · · Read about what CBC News and the Toronto Star discovered after sending a pair of reporters undercover to a ticket industry convention in Las Vegas that brings together box-office giants and the world's top scalpers in the same room. · Shared by 12, including slumos, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr
kron4.com
San Francisco area gains nearly quarter-million people after correction of errors
1 min · · (AP) — Some of the most high-profile urban areas in the U.S. gained population on Tuesday. But it’s not because of a sudden flood of moving trucks into San Francisco, Atlanta and New Or… · Shared by 4, including slumos
FORTUNE
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is hiring again–with a particular focus on ‘boomerang’ employees: ‘It’s okay, come back’
2 min · · ‘It’s okay, come back,’ Benioff is telling Salesforce alumni · Shared by 4, including slumos
blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk
Why It's OK to Block Ads
· Over the past couple of months, the practice of ad blocking has received heightened ethical scrutiny. (1,2,3,4) If you’re unfamiliar with the term, “ad blocking” refers to software—usually web browser… · Shared by 36, including Nir Eyal, Serge K. Keller ❦, slumos, Ryan Boren, Graham Marshall, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, 🚀 Perspective IX
Ars Technica
Microsoft finally explains cause of Azure breach: An engineer’s account was hacked
5 min · · Other failures along the way included a signing key improperly appearing in a crash dump. · Shared by 61, including slumos
ijmacd.github.io
RFC 3339 vs ISO 8601
· Shared by 40, including Tim Bray, slumos, Pieter Wuille, Brad Fitzpatrick 🌻, Joe Groff ⎷⃣, Bruce Lawson
daniel.haxx.se
CVE-2020-19909 is everything that is wrong with CVEs
4 min · · This is a story consisting of several little building blocks and they occurred spread out in time and in different places. It is a story that shows with clarity how our current system with CVE Ids and… · Shared by 5, including slumos
Ars Technica
Want to have your genes tested? It might be genetic
4 min · · People in a genetic database have segments of DNA in common unexpectedly often. · Shared by 6, including slumos
NPR
What happens when thousands of hackers try to break AI chatbots
· In a Jeopardy-style game at the annual Def Con hacking convention in Las Vegas, hackers tried to get chatbots from OpenAI, Google and Meta to create misinformation and share harmful content. · Shared by 82, including slumos
adamdrake.com
Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster
7 min · · As I was browsing the web and catching up on some sites I visit periodically, I found a cool article from Tom Hayden about using Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) and mrjob in order to compute some… · Shared by 37, including rohit, slumos, Delip Rao e/σ, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, mebmc