August 2023 Archive
3031.
Busting a myth: “only writers subscribe to genre magazines” (neil-clarke.com)
3032.
Twitter, now X, to remove blocking feature (bbc.co.uk)
3033.
Three Antiquities Traffickers and Their Fall from Grace (hyperallergic.com)
3034.
Pollution cuts have diminished “ship track” clouds, adding to global warming (science.org)
3035.
An Open Letter to Hobbyists (1976) (archive.nytimes.com)
3036.
Is Slack Down?
3037.
Meteorologist Is Naming Heatwaves After Big Polluting Oil Companies (kottke.org)
3038.
Worldcoin Banned in Kenya (techcrunch.com)
3039.
Firefox 116 Patches High-Severity Vulnerabilities (securityweek.com)
3040.
Blender Instagram account suspended with no explanation [video] (youtube.com)
3041.
The AI-First Code Editor (cursor.so)
3042.
‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Musk Files Obvious Slapp Suit Against Non-Profit Critic (techdirt.com)
3043.
More Than Half of Earth's Species Live Underground (scientificamerican.com)
3044.
Probe censored DIA intelligence that Covid was likely from a lab (skynews.com.au)
3045.
There are too many honeybees (nytimes.com)
3046.
I'm sending a weekly PHP community newsletter (weeklyphp.substack.com)
3047.
The Economics of Organized Play (outsidetheasylum.blog)
3048.
Build a Business, Not an Audience (jakobgreenfeld.com)
3049.
A new way to identify chiral molecules with light could vastly improve detection (phys.org)
3050.
Preventing software piracy with crypto-microprocessors (1980) [pdf] (princeton.edu)
3051.
ClamAV, The Free and open source AntiVirus 1.2.0 out (blog.clamav.net)
3052.
Moonbit: Fast, compact and user friendly language for WebAssembly (moonbitlang.com)
3053.
Google is going to remove NetGuard from the Play Store for a nonsensical reason (old.reddit.com)
3054.
CA Supreme Court Concludes No Reason to Generate Precedent on Geofence Warrants (techdirt.com)
3055.
Making Postgres backups 100x faster via EBS snapshots and pgBackRest (timescale.com)
3056.
When seat belt laws drew fire as a violation of personal freedom (history.com)
3057.
EV Chargers Should Be Dumber (heatmap.news)
3058.
Wi-Fi sniffers strapped to drones: odd plan to stop election fraud (arstechnica.com)
3059.
Flash mobs invade luxury L.A. retailers with brute force, overwhelming numbers (latimes.com)
3060.
99% of top Python packages are now wheels (pythonwheels.com)