Month: February 2024

Show HN: Gitlab Meeting Simulator 2024

Gitlab Meeting Simulator 2024 Gitlab Meeting Simulator 2024 Pretend to work from Gitlab with Gitlab Meeting Simulator 2024. What? Set Name Stealth [embedded content] Testimonials from YouTube I play this when I need my family to leave me alone – so helpful Im not ready to tell my parents that i resigned my job, so […]

How to copy a file between devices?

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Introduction Copying a file across devices is painful. You’re on your phone, but you want to access a file that’s on your laptop. How do you do it? What about the other way around? What about copying any file between any of your devices? I asked my dad how he copies a file from his […]

Torching the Google car: Why the growing revolt against big tech just escalated

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We don’t yet know exactly why a group of people very publicly graffitied, smashed, and torched a Waymo car in San Francisco. But we know enough to understand that this is an explosive milestone in the growing, if scattershot, revolt against big tech. We know that self-driving cars are wildly divisive, especially in cities where […]

Researchers have developed a beef-rice hybrid

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International researchers have developed a beef-rice hybrid they say could be a protein-rich food of the future. The team says they took muscle and fat stem cells from cows, and transplanted them into grains of rice – because the porous nature of rice allows room for the stem cells to grow within the rice in […]

Internal tools often make bad startup ideas

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Usefulness as an internal tool is an overrated signal Just saw YC updated their request for startups page, and they’re asking for startups inspired by internal tools: We would like to see more startups created that are inspired by…homegrown tools, because it’s likely that if it’s very useful at one company, it’s very useful at […]

I Went to FOSDEM

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I Went To FOSDEM February 14, 2024 ( Prev / Next ) Go Gophers I went to FOSDEM, the Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting. I’ve been meaning to do this for about a decade but we’ve always had a work event at the end of January that clashed, or the work event […]

The happiest kids in the world have social safety nets

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When my sister, her husband and their four-month-old daughter moved from New Jersey to the Netherlands in March of 2022, I wasn’t expecting our family to receive a lesson in Dutch parenting. But, after spending time at their former home on Bloemgracht, a street and canal in the Jordaan neighborhood of Amsterdam, I learned a […]

Kent Pitman (KMP)’S Lisp Eliza from MIT-AI’s Its History Project

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TEAM ELIZA  David M. Berry (https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p125219-david-berry) is Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Sussex, UK. David writes widely on philosophy and technology, particularly in terms of computation, software and algorithms. His most recent book is Digital Humanities: Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age. His more recent work has looked at explainability, human understanding and […]

Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork

announcing freenginx.org Maxim Dounin mdounin at mdounin.ru Wed Feb 14 18:03:11 UTC 2024 Hello! As you probably know, F5 closed Moscow office in 2022, and I no longer work for F5 since then. Still, we’ve reached an agreement that I will maintain my role in nginx development as a volunteer. And for almost two years […]