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Irssi 1.0.0 Released
Posted on January 5th 2017Irssi 1.0.0 has been released. This release contains many improvements. Irssi 1.0.0 includes contributions by Lukas Mai, Xavier G, Kenny Root, Jari Matilainen, Todd A. Pratt,...
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Goodbye to GNU Libreboot
Goodbye to GNU Libreboot [Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]From: Richard StallmanSubject: Goodbye to GNU LibrebootDate: Thu, 05 Jan 2017 11:47:43 -0500When a...
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Browser auto-fill phishing
readme.mdThis is a simple demonstration of form fields hidden from the user, but will be filled anyways when using the browser form autofill feature, which poses a security risk for users, unaware of...
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Deepest X-ray Image Ever Reveals Black Hole Treasure Trove
This is the deepest X-ray image ever obtained, made with over 7 million seconds of observing time with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/B.Luo et al.An unparalleled...
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Uber Doesn’t Want to Give NYC (or Anyone) More Data
Ride-hailing companies aspire to be something akin to public transportation, but that doesn’t extend to sharing data with governments. by January 5, 2017, 6:00 AM ESTUber Technologies Inc. is starting...
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Magic (YC W15) is hiring engineers
Magic is a Y Combinator-backed software company in San Francisco, CA that is building a hyper-intelligent, ubiquitous executive assistant and concierge service available over SMS. We provide...
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Hands on with the First Open Source Microcontroller
2016 was a great year for Open Hardware. The Open Source Hardware Association released their certification program, and late in the year, a few silicon wizards met in Mountain View to show off the...
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Emirates Has Invested $500M to Build a 'Fort Knox' of Wine
On just about any given day, at any given altitude on an Emirates flight, you can order a glass of Dom Pérignon. If you're flying first class, you might find a Premier Grand Cru Classé from Château...
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The Polyamorous Christian Socialist Utopia That Made Silverware
The first time you heard the word “Oneida,” it was probably in the context of silverware. Perhaps it was before a Christmas dinner, when your mom or grandmother instructed you get out the “good silver”...
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Goroutines, Nonblocking I/O, and Memory Usage
I am generally a fan of Go's approach to concurrency: writing code with goroutines is a lot easier than writing traditional nonblocking network servers in a language like C or C++. However, while...
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Go – Proposal: Accept GitHub PRs
proposal: accept Github PRs · Issue #18517 · golang/go · GitHubSkip to content You can't perform that action at this time.You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.You...
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Wi-Fi TimeSync – Wi-Fi Alliance
Discover Wi-Fi Precisely synchronized audio, video, and dataHome entertainment systems, automotive infotainment systems, and industrial sensor-based systems rely on precisely synchronized components to...
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The Reality of Developer Burnout
Burnout is, unfortunately, a very real phenomena in software development — especially when creating and maintaining open source projects with large numbers of users. I've experienced it, and I wanted...
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LEDs may cause retinal toxicity at occupational domestic illuminance
Abstract To save energy, the European directives from the Eco-design of Energy Using Products (2005/32/CE) have recommended the replacement of incandescent lamps by more economic devices such as Light...
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FOSDEM 2017 Schedule
Every year, FOSDEM hosts a wide variety of activities. This page gives an overview with links to further information about scheduled events. FOSDEM is a very busy conference. This edition features 587...
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Visiting a site that uses Disqus when not logged in sends URL to Facebook
(Update: There’s a comment from Disqus about this issue here)Recently I was making some tweaks to my blog and reviewing the page load time. I noticed that when I loaded an article the Facebook SDK was...
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Research papers in the .NET source
12 Dec 2016 - 2422 wordsThis post is completely inspired by (or ‘copied from’ depending on your point of view) a recent post titled JAVA PAPERS (also see the HackerNews discussion). However, instead of...
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Bootstrap 4 Alpha 6 Released
06 Jan 2017Alpha 6 has landed, and it’s one of our biggest ships to date. We’ve rewritten our grid system and all major components in flexbox, forging ahead with it as our default layout option as we...
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Scale Out Multi-Tenant Apps Based on Ruby on Rails
Today we’re happy to announce our new activerecord-multi-tenant Ruby library, which enables easy scale-out of applications that are built on top of Ruby on Rails and follow a multi-tenant data...
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Radio Bursts Traced to Faraway Galaxy, but Caller Is Probably ‘Ordinary Physics’
More recently, searches for radio signals from a set of stars with anomalous spectral features and another star known as Tabby’s Star that has shown suspicious variations in its light seem to have come...
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