Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure LibGen Never Goes Down https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7jxb/archivists-are-trying-to-make-sure-a-pirate-bay-of-science-never-goes-down
Vice
Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down
A new project aims to make LibGen, which hosts 33 terabytes of scientific papers and books, much more stable.
Show HN: Space Invaders in C http://blog.loadzero.com/blog/si78c/
Loadzero
Space Invaders in C
The Great Cannon has been deployed again https://cybersecurity.att.com/blogs/labs-research/the-great-cannon-has-been-deployed-again
Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups – Deletion: Dec. 14 https://modsandmembersblog.wordpress.com/2019/12/08/verizon-yahoo-bad-form/
YAHOO GROUPS CRUSADE HEADQUARTERS!
VERIZON / YAHOO! BAD FORM!
Well, as of sometime on December 5th a huge number of the archivists that were scrambling to rescue archives from Yahoo Groups, had their {e-mail addresses} apparently banned so they can no longer…
ZedRipper: A 16-core Z80 laptop http://www.chrisfenton.com/the-zedripper-part-1/
FUSE for macOS is no longer open source https://colatkinson.site/macos/fuse/2019/09/29/osxfuse/
Colin Atkinson's Blog
osxfuse is no longer open source
And what that means for the rest of us.
Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/learning-for-a-living/
MIT Sloan Management Review
Learning for a Living
Learning at work is work, and we can make it easier.
Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766078468911106
X (formerly Twitter)
jack (@jack) on X
Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard. 🧵
Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191211-crows-could-be-the-smartest-animal-other-than-primates
Bbc
Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates
Crows have long been considered cunning. But their intelligence may be far more advanced than we ever thought possible.
Happy Hues – Curated colors in context https://www.happyhues.co/
www.happyhues.co
Happy Hues - Curated colors in context.
See color palette inspiration on a real example website. As you click on different palettes every color on this site updates to give you context of how that color could be used for your design or illustration projects.
Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2019/12/13/why-nukemap-isnt-on-google-maps-anymore/
Restricted Data: A Nuclear History Blog
Why NUKEMAP isn't on Google Maps anymore | Restricted Data
The top-secret story of why NUKEMAP switched from Google Maps to Mapbox+Leaflet.
The Outer Worlds: Fixing the “game thinks my companion is dead” bug https://twitter.com/_taylorswope/status/1205252714680045568
Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair https://uspirg.org/blogs/blog/usp/nebraska-farmers-vote-overwhelmingly-right-repair
PIRG
Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair
Delegates of the Nebraska Farm Bureau, which represents 58,000 member families, voted nearly-unanimously on a voice vote to formally endorse the right of its constituents to repair the products they own, and set strong standards for any legislation or agreement…
Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/17/over-100-pbs-local-stations-start-streaming-today-on-youtube-tv/
TechCrunch
Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming today on YouTube TV
Earlier this year, PBS announced it had secured for its member stations streaming agreements on YouTube’s live TV service, YouTube TV. Today, that deal goes live. PBS says more than 100 of its local stations are now available on YouTube TV by way of dedicated…
Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client http://yeokhengmeng.com/2019/12/building-a-new-win-3-1-app-in-2019-part-1-slack-client/
YKM's Corner on the Web
Building a new Win 3.1 app in 2019 Part 1: Slack client
In October 2019, my company SP Digital held an internal hackathon. My colleague Subhransu and I worked on a whacky idea of writing a brand-new Windows 3.1 app which was an OS released almost 30 years ago. The idea we chose was a Slack client. After all, Slack…
This Page is Designed to Last https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/