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11

I don't want to use GitHub ... what would you recommend?

10 hours ago | ColinWright | ycombinator.com | frontpage

3

What's So Bad About POSIX I/O? (2017) (nextplatform.com)

12 hours ago | ColinWright | nextplatform.com | frontpage

1

How to Build a Speech-Jamming Gun (technologyreview.com)

a day ago | ColinWright | technologyreview.com | newest

2

Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet (wired.com)

2 days ago | ColinWright | wired.com | newest

2

Legal Aid Agency data breach (gov.uk)

4 days ago | ColinWright | www.gov.uk | newest

1

Epic v. Apple Contempt order (documentcloud.org)

5 days ago | ColinWright | documentcloud.org | newest

4

Iceland's shorter working week has been a success (theguardian.com)

6 days ago | ColinWright | theguardian.com | frontpage

10

Apple is placing warnings on EU apps that don't use App Store payments (theverge.com)

a week ago | ColinWright | theverge.com | newest

3

Solving the local optima problem – NQueens (github.com/dpbm)

a week ago | ColinWright | github.com | frontpage

2

Cody Dock Rolling Bridge [video] (youtube.com)

a week ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

3

NIST Releases First 3 Finalized Post-Quantum Encryption Standards (2024/Aug) (nist.gov)

a week ago | ColinWright | nist.gov | newest

2

DeltaChat: "We can not hand out data that we don't have" [pdf] (merlinux.eu)

a week ago | ColinWright | merlinux.eu | newest

4

Speeding duck: Switzerland traffic cameras catch flying mallard (bbc.co.uk)

a week ago | ColinWright | bbc.co.uk | newest

2

Two Supreme Court Cases That Could Break the Internet (2023) (newyorker.com)

a week ago | ColinWright | newyorker.com | newest

1

Terence Tao: Using modern tools to semi-automatically formalize a proof in Lean (mathstodon.xyz)

a week ago | ColinWright | mathstodon.xyz | newest

3

The Monster in the Forest (solipsys.co.uk)

a week ago | ColinWright | solipsys.co.uk | frontpage

59

CryptPad: An Alternative to the Google Suite (cryptpad.org)

2 weeks ago | ColinWright | cryptpad.org | best

3

UK government websites to replace passwords with secure passkeys (computerweekly.com)

2 weeks ago | ColinWright | computerweekly.com | newest

3

Wikipedia's Nonprofit Host Brings Legal Challenge to New Online Safety Act Regs (medium.com/wikimedia-policy)

2 weeks ago | ColinWright | medium.com | newest

1

Installing PostmarketOS with full disk encryption on a OnePlus 6 (neilzone.co.uk)

2 weeks ago | ColinWright | neilzone.co.uk | newest

13

Why is English so weirdly different from other languages? (aeon.co)

3 weeks ago | ColinWright | aeon.co | frontpage

5

People trust legal advice generated by ChatGPT more than a lawyer – new study (theconversation.com)

3 weeks ago | ColinWright | theconversation.com | newest

4

The Fish Doorbell (visdeurbel.nl)

3 weeks ago | ColinWright | visdeurbel.nl | newest

167

We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads [video] (ted.com)

3 weeks ago | ColinWright | ted.com | best

5

Category Theory [pdf] (logicmatters.net)

3 weeks ago | ColinWright | logicmatters.net | frontpage

8

Sign the Petition: It's Time to Defend Encryption Worldwide (foundation.mozilla.org)

4 weeks ago | ColinWright | mozilla.org | newest

16

US PhD Timeline (xkcd.com)

4 weeks ago | ColinWright | xkcd.com | newest

9

If you're a scientist in the US you should think about leaving (mathstodon.xyz)

4 weeks ago | ColinWright | mathstodon.xyz | newest

4

Silence Isn't Consent (2023) (shkspr.mobi)

4 weeks ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | newest

15

Wife of wrongly deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia doxxed by government (independent.co.uk)

4 weeks ago | ColinWright | independent.co.uk | frontpage

4

Jedi Blue (wikipedia.org)

4 weeks ago | ColinWright | wikipedia.org | frontpage

4

Bluesky trusts the client app to fetch, and honestly report, webpage metadata (mathstodon.xyz)

4 weeks ago | ColinWright | mathstodon.xyz | newest

1

Morse code and the limits of human perception (johndcook.com)

4 weeks ago | ColinWright | johndcook.com | newest

5

For any multiple of 37, reverse and interleave with 0s, you get a multiple of 37 (math.stackexchange.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | stackexchange.com | newest

7

Doge Is Just Getting Warmed Up (wired.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | wired.com | frontpage

14

The White House has seized COVID.gov and pointed it at a conspiracy theory site (cyberplace.social)

a month ago | ColinWright | cyberplace.social | frontpage

4

The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet (1997) [video] (youtube.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | frontpage

124

arXiv moving from Cornell servers to Google Cloud (arxiv.org)

a month ago | ColinWright | arxiv.org | best

2

Remember Pidgin, formerly GAIM? It's coming back (theregister.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | theregister.com | frontpage

5

Growing a Language [pdf] (1998) (langev.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | langev.com | frontpage

1

Pocket-sized PC is made from an old smartphone motherboard (liliputing.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | liliputing.com | newest

7

Trump administration denial of climate change continues (commerce.gov)

a month ago | ColinWright | commerce.gov | newest

2

During the French Revolution, undecimal was briefly considered (wikipedia.org)

a month ago | ColinWright | wikipedia.org | newest

124

Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution (emilygorcenski.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | emilygorcenski.com | best

3

Titanic digital scan reveals new details of ship's final hours (bbc.co.uk)

a month ago | ColinWright | bbc.co.uk | newest

1

Deconstructions of the Jigsaw Puzzles (mathstodon.xyz)

a month ago | ColinWright | mathstodon.xyz | newest

2

Grappling with Infinity in Constraint Solvers (tuzz.tech)

a month ago | ColinWright | tuzz.tech | frontpage

4

Sentient Programming Language (sentient-lang.org)

a month ago | ColinWright | sentient-lang.org | newest

3

Math journal editors resign to launch open-access title (retractionwatch.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | retractionwatch.com | newest

2

The UK's proposed measures for court orders to suspend IP addresses/domain names (decoded.legal)

a month ago | ColinWright | decoded.legal | newest

34

ITAPPMONROBOT (2007) (thedailywtf.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | thedailywtf.com | frontpage

2

Learn Uxntal in Y Minutes (learnxinyminutes.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | learnxinyminutes.com | newest

4

Tell the UK Government: Don't Break Apple's iCloud Encryption (foundation.mozilla.org)

a month ago | ColinWright | mozilla.org | frontpage

5

Crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects (wikimedia.org)

a month ago | ColinWright | wikimedia.org | frontpage

88

ToS;DR (tosdr.org)

a month ago | ColinWright | tosdr.org | best

1

Adam Atkinson – The Heavy Boots Story [video] (youtube.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

105

[flagged] ICE Revoking Students' Immigration Statuses Without Their or the Uni's Knowledge (zeteo.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | zeteo.com | best

2

Terence Tao: A short text about when to consider using an AI for a task (mathstodon.xyz)

a month ago | ColinWright | mathstodon.xyz | frontpage

2

How to prevent Payment Pointer fraud (shkspr.mobi)

a month ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | newest

1

It's time to leave Substack (2024) (garbageday.email)

a month ago | ColinWright | garbageday.email | newest

1

Tunnelling through a Mountain in Ancient Greece [video] (youtube.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

1

Create a Table of Contents Based on HTML Heading Elements (shkspr.mobi)

a month ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | newest

1

Voyager's Slingshot Maneuvers (johndcook.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | johndcook.com | newest

1

Advantages of Reed-Solomon codes over Golay codes (johndcook.com)

a month ago | ColinWright | johndcook.com | newest

122

Sell yourself, sell your work (solipsys.co.uk)

a month ago | ColinWright | solipsys.co.uk | best

6

Where to share: Current US political situation

2 months ago | ColinWright | ycombinator.com | newest

12

Google are breaking my mittens – Sonofa (aus.social)

2 months ago | ColinWright | aus.social | frontpage

36

Extracting content from an LCP “protected” ePub (shkspr.mobi)

2 months ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | frontpage

2

Delta Chat, decentralized secure messenger (delta.chat)

2 months ago | ColinWright | delta.chat | frontpage

1

A-Puzzle-a-Day (mathsgear.co.uk)

2 months ago | ColinWright | mathsgear.co.uk | newest

1

Evolving H5N1 Receptor Specificity (science.org)

2 months ago | ColinWright | science.org | newest

172

Finland applies the “Housing First” concept (2020) (thebetter.news)

2 months ago | ColinWright | thebetter.news | best

1

Intuitive Machines' Athena lander is set to touch down on the Moon (intuitivemachines.com)

2 months ago | ColinWright | intuitivemachines.com | newest

5

FB search for Cyclone Alfred blocked for content breaching 'community standards' (abc.net.au)

2 months ago | ColinWright | abc.net.au | newest

1

Thinking about a Revolution (davidallengreen.com)

2 months ago | ColinWright | davidallengreen.com | newest

4

The Most Mathematical Flag [video] (youtube.com)

2 months ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

1

Dumb Comments (fraser.name)

2 months ago | ColinWright | fraser.name | newest

2

Saturn Lamp (fraser.name)

2 months ago | ColinWright | fraser.name | frontpage

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Translating natural language to first-order logic for logical fallacy detection (arxiv.org)

2 months ago | ColinWright | arxiv.org | best

38

The inspection paradox is everywhere (2015) (allendowney.blogspot.com)

2 months ago | ColinWright | blogspot.com | best

2

Abrdn adds back vowels after widely mocked rebrand (bbc.co.uk)

2 months ago | ColinWright | bbc.co.uk | newest

23

Urban Dead is shutting down (urbandead.com)

2 months ago | ColinWright | urbandead.com | best

31

Towards a test suite for TOTP codes (shkspr.mobi)

2 months ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | frontpage

1

Risch Algorithm (wikipedia.org)

2 months ago | ColinWright | wikipedia.org | newest

106

What, if anything, should I do about using Mozilla's Firefox (neilzone.co.uk)

2 months ago | ColinWright | neilzone.co.uk | best

2

Write for Yourself (rodyne.com)

3 months ago | ColinWright | rodyne.com | newest

7

Thousands report Lloyds, Halifax and TSB banking apps not working (bbc.co.uk)

3 months ago | ColinWright | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

4

You read the terms and conditions, right? For your children's classes, right? (abc.net.au)

3 months ago | ColinWright | abc.net.au | newest

2

How to reset your body's internal clock and manage your circadian rhythm (vox.com)

3 months ago | ColinWright | vox.com | newest

32

Muon's magnetic moment exposes a hole in the Standard Model, unless it doesn't (physicsworld.com)

3 months ago | ColinWright | physicsworld.com | frontpage

2

Approximating 52 Factorial by Hand (solipsys.co.uk)

3 months ago | ColinWright | solipsys.co.uk | newest

2

Change the way dates are presented in WordPress's admin view (shkspr.mobi)

3 months ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | newest

1

Ever wonder why Africa's borders appear so strange? (aljazeera.com)

3 months ago | ColinWright | aljazeera.com | newest

5

The fog of lawlessness: what we can see – and what we cannot see (davidallengreen.com)

3 months ago | ColinWright | davidallengreen.com | newest

1

Bell's Spaceship Paradox (wikipedia.org)

3 months ago | ColinWright | wikipedia.org | newest

1

Listen and Visualize Sorting Algorithms (xosh.org)

3 months ago | ColinWright | xosh.org | newest

104

Lobsters blocking UK users because of the Online Safety Act (lobste.rs)

3 months ago | ColinWright | lobste.rs | best

152

In memoriam (onlinesafetyact.co.uk)

3 months ago | ColinWright | onlinesafetyact.co.uk | best

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Part two of Grant Sanderson's video with Terry Tao on the cosmic distance ladder (mathstodon.xyz)

3 months ago | ColinWright | mathstodon.xyz | best

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Doge and the Coming Tsunami (forkingpaths.co)

3 months ago | ColinWright | forkingpaths.co | newest