Accessing PostgreSQL databases in Go - Eli Bendersky's website
Super Punch: Dubai says pre-positioned drone bases will allow police to respond to anywhere in the city in a few minutes
What Is “Planned Obsolescence,” and How Does It Affect My Devices?
In 2017, Reddit users discovered that Apple was using software updates to slow down or throttle the performance of old iPhones, supposedly to improve battery health. It eventually ended in 2020 with a $500 million lawsuit settlement. Apple’s lack of communication about the slowdowns—it wasn’t disclosed to consumers before researchers discovered it—brought a debate regarding “planned obsolescence” to the forefront of the tech world.
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Hashing Phone Numbers For 2-Factor Authentication
With the rise of internet and increasing risks of getting hacked, it's more than necessary nowadays that we have an extra layer of security on our accounts, since password alone is not enough. Thus, using Phone numbers for 2FA sounds much more secure, but phone numbers are considered to be much more personal than Emails and most people hestitate to give it away from the risk of getting marketing SMS, or even worse, a data breach.
Build An Emotion Based Movie Recommendation System Using Python
Hello, buddies! Watching movies is a great way to reduce your stress. Also, we have to select suitable movies you should watch. Like when you are tired of coding and debugging all day, watching a scientific movie may harm your brain. So, here we are ...
Ventriloquism - Futility Closet
On September 19, 1968, as the Soviet Union’s Zond 5 spacecraft was circling the moon, Jodrell Bank Observatory and the CIA were shocked to intercept the voices of cosmonauts Valery Bykovsky, Vitaly Sevastyanov and Pavel Popovich reading out telemetry and computer data and even discussing the prospect of a landing. The Zond mission had been thought to be uncrewed; now it sounded as though the Soviets might beat the United States to a moon landing. Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan said that the incident “shocked the hell out of us.” It was a hoax. Popovich recalled later, “When we realized...
What I learned from Software Engineering at Google | Swizec Teller
When I first picked up Software Engineering at Google I thought it was another one of those FAANG books full of lessons that make no sense at human scale. I was surprised, lessons apply to teams as small as 5.
All at once vs. chronic | Seth's Blog
The emergency wins every time. The newspaper, social media, dinner time conversation, the principal’s office, sportscasters, the weather, the boardroom–the conversation is almost always…
The Print Shop Club – Create Apple II Print Shop Printouts On-Line!
Gorse - Open Source Recommender System
Getting z/OS installed on my Ubuntu laptop – ColinPaice
Some people retire and buy an open top sports car or big motorbike. Up here in Orkney the weather can change every day, so instead of buying a fast car with an open top, when I retired, I got z/O…
WebSocket uses cases and how to implement them with minimal code - The Toolmaker
Learn how to use WebSocket for real time two communcation between a server and a client with minimum code in ASP.Net and NodeJS.
Sunday Firesides: Are You Making an Escape From Freedom? | The Art of Manliness
Freedom is a funny thing. Societally, individually, we struggle for it. Fight for it. But when we get it, we often find we don’t like it all that much. As freedom goes up, so do feelings of anxiety, restlessness, and insignificance. While freedom can be experienced as an exhilarating thrill, it can also be experienced […]
How to avoid waste when writing code | Opensource.com
The long road toward quality is filled with diversions, false starts, and detours. The enemy of quality is waste, because waste is never desirable. No one pays anyone to deliver waste. We sometimes tolerate waste as part of the process of making something useful and desirable, but the more we can reduce waste while making something, the better. In software engineering, waste can be expressed in a few ways:
How to Install My Weather Indicator for Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS) and 20.10 – Linux Hint
My Weather Indicator is a useful application that comes with a weather indicator widget, alongside a lot of other features. This article shows you how to install My Weather Indicator, in addition to describing some of the features offered by this application.
A look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s internal Linux distribution - Juanma’s Blog
Mariner or more exactly CBL-Mariner where CBL stands for Common Base Linux, is a Linux distribution created by Microsoft’s Linux System Group which is the same team at Microsoft which created the Linux kernel used for Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2, or WSL2. The goal of Mariner is to be used as an internal Linux distribution for Microsoft’s engineering teams to build cloud infrastructure and edge products and services.
Configuring the Google Cloud Platform for High Availability – The New Stack
Here is a guide for migrating an on-premises SQL Server infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), in such a way that you can ensure (HA) or 99.99% uptime of your system, by way of multizone clustering. One of the first questions you’ll need to answer is just what kind of virtual machines (VMs) you’ll need.…
Say hi to Microsoft's own Linux: CBL-Mariner | ZDNet
Microsoft has its own Linux distribution and, yes, you can download, install and run it. In fact, you may want to do just that.
Coding Maxims – grin.io
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These 10 books will expand your mind this summer | Boing Boing
Summer is the perfect time to engage in activities you never seem to find a minute to enjoy—like cracking open and devouring a new book. There’s a stereotype of summer reading that the season…
The Census Clairvoyant — Futures Told | Newgeography.com
Rethinking the Internet for Everyone
Syntropy is an open project providing next-generation connectivity technology for the Internet. Syntropy is designed to solve issues prevalent in the current Internet framework, including security, privacy, governance, performance, reliability, and ineffective resource utilization.
NOIA Network
NOIA Network has 23 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
Noia Network — Creating the Programmable Internet | by Cryzon | Medium
In this article, i will provide a small and very basic/simple insight over Noia Network project, together with very useful links:
Building a Steam Caching Server for Faster Game Downloads - PC Perspective
Building a Steam Caching Server for Faster Game Downloads Thanks to Wendell from Level1Techs for his all of his help on this project and pointing us in the
Network Caching Appliance - Xroads Networks
XRoads Networks caching appliance manages http/https content, SSL acceleration via dynamic cache. Cloud services can improved through multi-sesion acceleration and dynamic caching.
What Causes Network Lag and How to Fix It
High latency can make your computer run slowly. Learn what latency means, why latency is so high, and how to reduce latency.
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Becoming an Organizational Leader | Square Corner Blog
Progressing from a team leader to an organizational leader as an individual contributor