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Take a look: Rare film of Market Street in San Francisco in 1906. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG9XXbKuYfA

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will be investigating whistleblower retaliation complaints concerning Sunnyvale Apple office building built on superfund site.

I also don’t want to take my expensive and distracting iPhone to the gym. To this day I use an iPod Shuffle. I have one playlist that I change over time in iTunes, sync up, and pla…

USB 1.1 moved data at 12 Mb/s and carried insufficient power to charge an iPod. Whereas FireWire shifted data at 400 Mb/s. That difference was huge. Apple didn’t come out with USB …

Legacy admissions: also known as affirmative action for rich white people.

Those two statements are only in contradiction if you believe there are only two choices for how to organize a society: A Red one and a White one — and both built on hierarchical p…

I have several servers running it, and I’ve been pretty pleased with it. If you want to try it out you can get an OpenBSD VM at Vultr or OpenBSD.amsterdam for about $6/month. I als…

The majority of bike thieves in Portland are not going to buy a $15-$20 RF detector because that would have to come out of their meth budget. They are not a tech-savvy lot.

Me too! I was just reading this article from this week’s issue of The Nation. https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/b-traven-sierra-ma...

In his book Mutual Aid a Factor in Evolution, the 19th century naturalist Peter Kropotkin remarks on the flocks of mixed species of birds he encountered in Siberia. He documented c…

In my opinion, Michael W Lucas is one of the best tech writers working today. I have made great use of his books Absolute OpenBSD, SSH Mastery, and Httpd & Relayd Mastery. He also …

Sites that respect user privacy can disable FLoC on the server side. I’ve already done so with the five that I manage. https://spreadprivacy.com/block-floc-with-duckduckgo/

This weekend I came across an interesting comment on the Netgate WireGuard fiasco from a former FreeBSD Core team member David Chisnall. He does consider it a failure of FreeBSD's …

This is just incorrect. Nowhere in the article does the author, Jim Salter, generalize about all open source software. When someone in the comments did make that leap, Salter point…

If Telegram has access to the keys it is not e2e. People who like to play fast and loose with the definition of end-to-end encryption are not to be trusted. Looking at you Zoom.

I apologize. I think I was remembering this passage incorrectly. "And there, the Finnish capital is fortunate. Helsinki owns 60,000 social housing units; one in seven residents liv…

I became addicted to SimCity 2000 in 1996 when I was in economics grad school. I loved it, but was so frustrated by the neoliberal assumptions built into the game. The game rewarde…

We have tested a few other VPN clients from competitors and found that all of them leak in the same way. The way Microsoft has implemented virtual networking for Linux guests makes…