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From the end of the article: > Clear considered selling user data in the past, but instead uses that data to promote relevant ads to users. Is there really a functional difference …

Would the S3 inventory help here? That would allow you to get the list of all files (albeit on a delay similar to the lifecycle rule approach), which you could process offline to g…

White supremacists took the 4chan meme and ran with it. Even if it started as a meme, it's now reality.

Bitcoin Futures* ETF

I'd be interested in seeing what the performance difference between the NGINX SSI and is. Just because PHP _can_ be slow, doesn't mean it _must_ be slow.

Correct me if I am wrong, but this all just sounds like we're inventing PHP again.

I took an ethics class in college taught by the computer science department. It definitely wasn't an ethical indoctrination, as much of "here is what ethics is, here are the basic …

If you want the ability to use a third party store, why not buy an Android phone instead? Apple doesn't have a monopoly on the market as affirmed by the outcome in TFA. Users choos…

podman has no revenue model, it is an open source project managed by https://github.com/containers

Latency will remain around the same levels as DDR4. The increase in clock speed will yield a hypothetical increase in maximum bandwidth. (via https://www.anandtech.com/show/16143/i…

Sounds like the NY Post is purposefully conflating a lab-leak with a researcher accidentally getting infected in the field. "A lab employee infected in the field while collecting s…

This is snappier running in my browser than my actual OS shell. Ahh, I miss the simpler days of computing.

Say what you want about the stability of the npm ecosystem, but if this were JS, a new SemVer patch release could be cut, and it would be fixed in thousands of code bases essential…

There is zero actual security impact.

Top-level await is very, very new and requires ES modules -- you can only use this feature without warnings recently in Node 15. For the foreseeable future, the final line should b…

There would be no point in having two ways to do the exact same thing if function-style declaration and arrow-style declaration implementations were identical. Why would they add a…

Please send me $3.00 via Lightning Network and I will agree whole-heartedly.

It's just normal selling. If I borrow a game from my friend in order to sell it to GameStop, anticipating the re-sale price will be lower then the trade in price, so I can give the…

COVID probably won't _kill_ you if you are young and fit -- but it can certainly leave you sick in bed for a week or so.

Or potentially aria-role="presentation" aria-hidden="true" will make the element completely invisible to the screen reader software, whereas setting aria-role will tell the screen …

Perhaps related: our load tests this week showed an increase in 502s from the ALB. The app server request logs indicate those requests never made it from the ALB.

Node streams are excellent, but unfortunately don't get as much fanfare as Promises/async+await. A number of times I have gotten asked "how come my node script runs out of memory" …