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Direct PDF download: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/cart/download.cgi?record_i...

You cannot make the cost-efficiency argument without acknowledging all the costs which aviation and automotive travel externalize: air and water pollution, damage to wildlife, glob…

Bollards are good at preventing the inconsiderate from parking on the sidewalk. For fewer people to be killed by cars, however, you want transportation infrastructure which does no…

The investigation partly relies on notes seized from the defendants which mention various privacy tools: GrapheneOS, LineageOS, Signal, Silence, Jitsi, OnionShare, F-Droid, Tor, Ri…

Students in France protested multiple times at least partly against Parcoursup, the government software where high school students enter their choices for higher education and get …

See the first item in this post: https://auntymuriel.com/2012/12/23/asterix-in-translation-th... Was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22678816

Wow that is amazing! His proposal for "IPv4+" is... I have no words. Thanks for the laugh.

As soon as you start having you own server/network rooms, yes. You will have to monitor your HVAC systems, your fire extinguisher systems, your alarm systems (for smoke and water l…

FYI, your webserver sets the ContentType header based on the file extension, which is probably not what you want. For example: http://textfiles.com/100/black.box gave me "applicati…

There are a few guidelines about titles: > Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. > If the …

Took me a while to figure out why I was not able to pull MMS over WiFi anymore! (My "hack" was to have a SIM from a country where RCS/Chat is enabled, but actually using it in a co…

You want dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled set to false

https://archive.is/2f9pz

Non-clickbait: "History of the invention of the black box (in-flight recorder)"

Excellent! Just one thing: on a touchscreen interface with Firefox, zooming out works well but zooming in is sometimes jittery or not registering at all. (Panning and rotating work…

Article was updated: > Mr. Baig, 18, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with manslaughter.

What is this title? The page is named "PHP Sucks" and the heading also says "PHP Sucks".

> Umar Baig barreled through a red light at a terrifying speed and T-boned an S.U.V., sending it flying across the street into José Alzorriz, a cyclist,(...) killing him instantly.…

The Memo [PDF] itself: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6278613/The-Weigh...

Reuters news flash: https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKCN1V50DQ (has picture!)

No No No There Is No Vulnerability In VLC From the bug tracker: > Issue is too old libebml in Ubuntu 18.04: libebml 1.3.6 fixes this issue. End of story: VLC is not vulnerable, whe…