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'Anonymisation' schemes are a little like encryption, in that they just get monotonically weaker over time as people work out attacks. But the attacks tend to be much worse. I work…

--DRESS means your clothes with fall off.

I think this has just been fixed. A bit of dark mode was leaking into light in the css.

My (really limited) understanding is that 'British subject' was the status of people in the British empire. It's now reduced to just some people born pre-1949 in Ireland and India.…

Then somebody needs to let the government know, because the relevant 1981 act is "[a]n Act to make fresh provision about citizenship and nationality". In that 'British subjects' ar…

No, Braun invented the cathode ray tube.

It's in the article. Not sure it had his name, but certainly his family name since he looked for records concerning his relatives.

Curses, I was close. Also: yikes to the design.

Not exactly true, but they deprecated absolutely everything that made it a date. It expresses deep regret in the medium of annotations: https://javaalmanac.io/jdk/1.2/api/java/util…

Are you saying WebDAV doesn't support range requests?

> This isn't a pyramid? Thank you for saying this. It immediately drove me crazy.

Academic publishing is _notoriously_ profitable. Authorship and the bulk of the editorial process is done by others for free, and these days you often aren't even creating a physic…

> Instead of journals getting revenue from subscribers, they charge authors an “Article Processing Charge” (APC) Just to be clear this is specifically _gold open access_. There are…

> QL-looking for the Spectrum I was going to object, but probably right to just skip the horror of the true Spectrum keyboard.

It sounds like this will include Teesworks, one of the dodgiest land deals of recent years. For a small investment two people essentially held the entire thing to ransom and secure…

The author works in Google developer relations, and while devrel aren't quite marketing they will use the latest and greatest Google hammer.

The article states "I currently run an Ampere Arm server in my rack with Linux and ZFS as my primary storage server" and this is just explaining how to try it out on the Pi, which …

> Are there any good Linux distros left with 32-bit x86 support? When your kernel stopped support over a decade ago (iirc) it does seem inevitable that distros will slowly evaporat…

It's a minor thing, but: > Most of my open source work followed Unix philosophy, so the packages did one thing at a time. Nobody has suggested that libc -- to take the most obvious…

> Containerization executes each Linux container inside of its own lightweight virtual machine. That’s an interesting difference from other Mac container systems. Also (more obviou…

If I had to guess, colima? But there are a number of open source projects using Apple's virtualisation technologies to run a linux VM to host docker-type containers. Once you have …

Java has two somewhat related projects in this space, and it does add a substantial cost to language changes (assuming you commit to keep expression trees up to date). https://open…

Not that you have to use all caps for acronyms, e.g. scuba, radar, laser.

Trade deficit is a partial view of matters, and may not mean much anyway. It's a partial view in that there are a bunch of things it doesn't cover like inward investment. And it ma…

Hard links are only used on HFS+. APFS has snapshot support.