MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations https://news.mit.edu/2020/guided-by-open-access-principles-mit-ends-elsevier-negotiations-0611
MIT News
MIT, guided by open access principles, ends Elsevier negotiations
Standing by its commitment to provide equitable and open access to scholarship, MIT has ended negotiations with Elsevier for a new journals contract. Elsevier failed to present a proposal that aligned with the principles of the MIT Framework for Publisher…
A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website https://coding.napolux.com/a-facebook-crawler-was-making-7m-requests-per-day-to-my-stupid-website/
Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser http://cs-online.club
Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981) https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk.html
SQLite as an Application File Format (2014) https://sqlite.org/appfileformat.html
Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, including non-paying https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/06/17/end-to-end-encryption-update/
Zoom Blog
End-to-End Encryption Update
Since releasing the draft design of Zoom’s end-to-end encryption (E2EE) on May 22, we have engaged with a number of organizations to gather feedback.
Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/822568/61d29096a4012e06/
lwn.net
Lightweight alternatives to Google Analytics
More and more web-site owners are concerned about the "all-seeing Google"
tracking users as they browse around the web. Google Analytics (GA) is a
full-featured web-analytics system that is available for free and, despite the privacy
concerns, has become…
tracking users as they browse around the web. Google Analytics (GA) is a
full-featured web-analytics system that is available for free and, despite the privacy
concerns, has become…
Wirecard CEO exits as search for missing billions hits dead end in Asia https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wirecard-accounts/wirecard-ceo-quits-as-search-for-missing-billions-hits-dead-end-in-asia-idUSKBN23Q0YA
Reuters
Wirecard CEO exits as search for missing billions hits dead end in Asia
FRANKFURT/MANILA (Reuters) - Wirecard’s chief executive quit on Friday as the German payments firm’s search for $2.1 billion of missing cash hit a dead end in the Philippines and it scrambled to secure a financial lifeline from its banks.
Written communication is remote work super power https://snir.dev/blog/remote-async-communication/
Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-dissertation/
CHM
Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation
Until recently, across a half-century perhaps fewer than a dozen people had ever had the opportunity to read Dennis Ritchie’s dissertation—the intellectual and biographical fork-in-the-road separating an academic career in computer science from the one at…
RSS Box – RSS for websites that do not support RSS https://rssbox.herokuapp.com/
London tube map made from a working circuit board https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2020/06/23/check-out-this-london-tube-map-made-from-a-working-circuit-board/
ianVisits
Check out this London tube map made from a working circuit board
Fancy a tube map with a difference? How about one made from a circuit board - with lights that show live train movements?
iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes https://twitter.com/jeremyburge/status/1275896482433040386
Twitter
Jeremy Burge
Okay so TikTok is grabbing the contents of my clipboard every 1-3 keystrokes. iOS 14 is snitching on it with the new paste notification
Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks https://theconversation.com/why-the-us-military-usually-punishes-misconduct-but-police-often-close-ranks-127898
The Conversation
Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks
No 'blue wall of silence:' A military lawyer explains why the US armed forces take accountability and justice seriously.