YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers https://www.androidpolice.com/youtube-ad-blockers-three-strikes/
Android Police
YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers
YouTube's got its sights on ad blockers with a new dialog box notifying users of a three-strike policy
Far Cry 1.34 source code (2006) https://archive.org/details/far-cry-1.34-complete
Data-Oriented Design (2018) https://www.dataorienteddesign.com/dodbook/dodmain.html
An Architectural Overview of QNX (1992) [pdf] https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~voelker/cse221/papers/qnx-paper92.pdf
Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013) https://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/07/sao-paulo-city-with-no-outdoor.html
Amusing Planet
Sao Paulo: The City With No Outdoor Advertisements
In September 2006, the mayor of São Paulo passed the so-called “Clean City Law" that outlawed the use of all outdoor advertisements, including on billboards, transit, and in front of stores. Within a year, 15,000 billboards were taken down and store signs…
PhD Simulator https://research.wmz.ninja/projects/phd/index.html
Mianzhi Wang
PhD Simulator
A completely random event based text game. Simply make your choice at the beginning of each month and see if you can graduate in time. All outcomes are determined by the random number generator and do not take them seriously. Sometimes the RNG can be brutal…
Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll https://dm.hn
Casino -
Home - Casino
What is Lorem Ipsum? Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen…
Underwater ears everywhere https://computer.rip/2023-07-15-underwater-ears-everywhere.html
Kevin Mitnick has died https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/las-vegas-nv/kevin-mitnick-11371668
Dignity Memorial
Kevin Mitnick Obituary - Las Vegas, NV
Celebrate the life of Kevin Mitnick, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of King David Memorial Chapel & Cemetery.
No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets
GitHub
GitHub - bartobri/no-more-secrets: A command line tool that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie…
A command line tool that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers. - bartobri/no-more-secrets
Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his SPARC4 was running slow https://infosec.exchange/@paco/110772422266480371
Infosec Exchange
Paco Hope #BLM (@paco@infosec.exchange)
@regehr@mastodon.social Back in the day, I got called to a professor’s office (I was IT support in the CS department) and the professor was complaining his Sparc4 was running slow. First thing I did was minimise a window and there was just this black square.…
Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/breaking-superconductor-news
Science
Breaking Superconductor News
I wrote recently about the turmoil in the field of higher-temperature superconductors, but little did I know what was coming. Yesterday two preprints appeared on the rXiv site, the first bearing the attention-getting title “The First Room-Temperature Ambient…
Tarsnap outage postmortem https://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-announce/msg00050.html
Cap'n Proto 1.0 https://capnproto.org/news/2023-07-28-capnproto-1.0.html