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Toni Schneider was just on Decoder last week too talking about this and more https://www.theverge.com/podcast/974387/bluesky-toni-schneid...

The css is ".prose-invert" and there's a ".prose" that looks better, I wonder if something threw a switch to make it "invert" when it should be ".prose" because you're right, this …

There's a video of the entire session here: https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k14/k14ej1ucqu?kalturaStartTim... (if that link doesn't work, it starts about 12 minutes into the start)

I just started using Claude Code for my work as a sysadmin. For my work, it's great. I don't need to wrestle with MySQL joins, claude gets even the most complex ones right WAY fast…

Are there any defenses I can put in front of my websites that are good for stopping these things? The amount of traffic I see from residential proxies is just killing me. In partic…

That link it throwing me: "Scan this QR code with your mobile device to verify you are human. reCAPTCHA protects your privacy and does not share your details with this website or a…

Planet Money just did an episode on this. The answer is, at least according to this, yes, pretty accurate. At least in the past https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5815308

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I'm glad they had the "Brands That Still Make Their Own Stuff" list, that was my first thought. What other brands are still decent?

John McPhee had a great New Yorker article (which I think was also in the collection Irons in the Fire), where he wrote about how U.S. geologists used sand found in the Japanese "F…

You're right, those tags are GREAT! Worth clicking through and having a look.

"Most of the private credit loans were floating rate and tied to the federal funds rate, which has persisted at a high level over the past three years. Fitch pointed to this as a c…

Reminds me of when kids were doing the same on MySpace https://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20070917/SUB/709170352... https://mixergy.com/interviews/andrew-fashion/

Meta aims to introduce facial recognition to its smart glasses while its biggest critics are distracted, according to a report from The New York Times. In an internal document revi…

I'll just add another vote for OrbStack. I found it way faster on M1 and M5 and never found any compatibility issues.

That's handy! I just started using oh-my-zsh and I feel like I know about 4% of useful things it can do so far.

Alex Stamos talked about this a bit on TWiT late last year: "It's getting hard to not be conspiracy minded here. They closed CSRB, destroyed CISA. CISA has no confirmed director. T…

It also reminded me of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti-tree_hoax One of those things that seem POSSIBLE, but then again...

Of course, why are the good ones always in mice? A study led by Stanford Medicine researchers has found that an injection blocking a protein linked to aging can reverse the natural…

This closes on a bit of a downer: "As the Internet continues to evolve, it is no longer the technically innovative challenger pitted against venerable incumbents in the forms of th…

"It’s hard to quantify just how widespread the phenomenon is, but certain notably offline hobbies are exploding in popularity." Assuming this is an actual trend that is actually "e…

"It is a DDOS attack involving tens of thousands of addresses" It is amazing just how distributed some of these things are. Even on the small sites that I help host we see these ty…

I guess the hypothesis makes sense. They say it's probably Drugs, Alcohol, Obesity and Fourth, some of the increase may be due to changes in reporting. As people have become more a…

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification... Cory Doctorow's talk is quite strong.