Patricia Collinson, 87, unwittingly ordered an Amazon subscription for app to say a prayer

  The California Senate Appropriations committee failed to pass Sen. Susan Eggman’s (Stockton) Right to Repair bill, SB 983, Thursday, which would have significantly expanded Californians’ access to the parts, tools, and service information needed to fix…

Texts on this and that.

Conference submissions etc. Contribute to jdjakub/papers development by creating an account on GitHub.

For nearly two years, as the Covid pandemic disrupted life around the globe, other infectious diseases were in retreat. Now the viral and bacterial nuisances are returning — and behaving in unexpected ways.

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The time is (also) way overdue for IT professional liability.

A climate change what-if

Over a few beers...
Growing up, I was obsessed with space. Like many tech workers, I consumed
everything I could find about space and space travel. Young me was convinced we
were on the verge of space travel, imagining I would live…

A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached. Contribute to dragonflydb/dragonfly development by creating an account on GitHub.

Fraud. When systems require novel accounting methods the reason is usually fraud. twitter.com/Bitfinexed/sta…

Why did the oracle of Delphi go into a trance state? Does it have anything to do with ethylene?

The Threading library Starting in Emacs 26 some very ambitious changes were added. Basic thread support was enabled, laying the groundwork for a future concurrent emacs. The docs layout this possibility:
Emacs Lisp provides a limited form of concurrency…

C++11 has been around for around 11 years and C++14 for 8. From my experience, I see that even today, many companies struggle to use those standards in production in the most efficient way. As always, with new stuff came benefits, risks, and increased learning…

Three men who have been staying in the tent city outside the Venice library branch talk about how they came to be there and how they see their futures.