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Private equity firms are buying profitable local businesses all over the US, including HVAC, plumbing, auto techs, storage, etc. So it’s possible that this case of enshittification…

I was just reminiscing about an old Pieter Hintjens post with my kids yesterday. They still hold up. RIP (Needs a 2016 in the title)

This is presented as an official position of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS or Mormons) on AI, similar to the canon presented by the Pope recently regarding t…

Weirdly enough I was wondering what Tavis Ormandy has been up to recently, as I haven't seen his name associated with any global show-stopping vulnerabilities from the Project Zero…

How much of this could attributed to simply having less artificial hormonal support for not overeating after discontinuing treatment, and falling back into old habits? I’d love to …

As a European project the foundation is likely pursuing funding from EU sources using the fact that it isn’t US tech as a selling point.

It does , however, provide the ApexBio catalog number A8709, which is this 15-PGDH inhibitor: https://www.apexbt.com/sw033291.html

My favorite manual discovery/social was Napster, for that moment that you could view other user’s entire shared music folder and use the chat function to talk to them about their t…

This headline BADLY buries the lede! The real scary stuff is the massive future costs of the blatant vendor lock-in that ALL the big tech firms, including Microsoft, are banking on…

Ahhh, So THESE are the “Moonies” I’ve heard cult-y references to in pop culture for decades…

With all due respect: the author states in the FIRST paragraph that while recession is NOT most analyst’s base case for 2025 he was going to stick to his contrarian reputation and …

>imagine an alternate universe where the founders of GitHub decided instead to found HgHub. I'm reading this as "HugHub" and audibly laughing!

Thank you for sharing this, Scott! He mentions "Taste" throughout the post and this intangible quality makes all the difference in an early-stage winner-take-all market dominance r…

This is a fascinating area of research in general, but what’s notable here is that the researcher herself was afflicted with the tumors and self-administered these experimental tre…

I've been using (and occasionally paying) Kagi on and off for a couple of years now. I truly think they're building something interesting and valuable! While I haven't agreed with …

This is a fantastic idea, and I think the overall negativity misses the point of it being an evolving and collaborative project on github. When you don't know what you don't know, …

I agree, but only because I routinely speak with people who make double that and still struggle to pay monthly bills. Short answer: financial outcomes aren't about the number (abov…

All of the sibling comments are good answers to this question! What hasn’t been mentioned is that Signal is an extremely high-profile target for rogue actors and nation-states. Emp…

Author: Thank you for writing this! I love reading about how people overcome challenges like this, especially under pressure (and usually overnight!). I am better for hearing not j…

You’re both correct— tptacek is correct in that the 4th amendment is constrained to government search and seizure and there is no positive assertion regarding privacy written into …

They could start by citing Matt Levine’s own 2021 introduction to the idea published during the halcyon days of r/wallstreetbets and pandemic markets, titled “Is Everything Securit…

If anything it shows they have real skin in the game™ and that their motivations for prodding Apple are authentic.