Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time traveler. Thelemite. Technomage. Hacker on main. APT 3319. Not human. 30% software and implants. H+ - 0.4 on the Berram-7 scale. Furry adjacent. Pan/poly. Burnout.
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Harassment of scientists is surging — institutions aren’t sure how to help (www.nature.com)
As researchers increasingly face many kinds of attack over their work, there is debate about how to support and protect them....
ASML and TSMC Can Remotely Disable Chip Machines If China Invades Taiwan (www.bloomberg.com)
ASML Holding NV and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have ways to disable the world’s most sophisticated chipmaking machines in the event that China invades Taiwan, according to people familiar with the matter....
Linux 6.10 Honors One Last ReiserFS Request Made By Hans Reiser (www.phoronix.com)
Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men (www.researchgate.net)
Our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's [when their gender is hidden]. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.
Biden's Tariffs Are a Bad Idea (reason.com)
Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress (www.wired.com)
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What is the most appropriate way of tracking web traffic?
I have my personal blog, made with Hugo and hosted on GitHub pages. Initially I did not turn on any kind of web tracking / web analytics, because I do not like tracking at all. But I want to make my blog better and to achieve it, I need a feedback loop about traffic. For example, what are the most popular publications, or how...
YouTube Blocks Access to Protest Anthem in Hong Kong (www.nytimes.com)
Herpes cure with gene editing makes progress in laboratory studies (www.fredhutch.org)
Raw milk sales spike despite CDC's warnings of risk associated with bird flu (www.pbs.org)
Firefox to collect your (anonymized) search data (blog.mozilla.org)
Are right wingers creating FUD around Signal? (hachyderm.io)
Chat Apps, Government Ties, and Transparency – Threema (threema.ch)