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.
Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-police-tech-trfn/california-city-bans-predictive-policing-in-u-s-first-idUSKBN23V2XC
Reuters
California city bans predictive policing in U.S. first
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As officials mull steps to tackle police brutality and racism, California’s Santa Cruz has become the first U.S. city to ban predictive policing, which digital rights experts said could spark similar moves across the…
Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper https://unim.press/#dataisbeautiful
unim.press
Unim.Press: read Reddit on a newspaper
Unim.Press is a Reddit reader in the style of a certain classic metropolitan newspaper
Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves, with origins unknown http://news.mit.edu/2020/astronomers-rhythm-radio-waves-0617
MIT News
Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves, with origins unknown
Radio signals from deep space: Astronomers including researchers at MIT have detected the first periodic fast radio burst from 500 million light years away.
Secretive – macOS native app to store SSH keys in the Secure Enclave https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive
GitHub
GitHub - maxgoedjen/secretive: Protect your SSH keys with your Mac's Secure Enclave
Protect your SSH keys with your Mac's Secure Enclave - maxgoedjen/secretive
The Sci-Hub Effect: Sci-Hub downloads lead to more article citations https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14979
Abstract Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/June_2020_announcement
Openstreetmap, a global map for worldwide insight https://blog.mapbox.com/openstreetmap-a-global-map-for-worldwide-insight-4e041cbf1ec1
Medium
OpenStreetMap, a global map for worldwide insight
By: Mikel Maron
Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing https://www.zettlr.com/
Zettlr
Your One-Stop Publication Workbench
Your One-Stop Publication Workbench. Author Markdown documents with ease. For researchers, journalists, and writers.
A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternative to the web https://toffelblog.xyz/blog/gemini-overview/
A terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day at Slack https://slack.engineering/a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day-at-slack-dfe05b485f82
Engineering at Slack
A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day at Slack - Engineering at Slack
This story describes the technical details of the problems that caused the Slack downtime on May 12th, 2020. To learn more about the process behind incident response for same outage, read Ryan Katkov’s post, “All Hands on Deck”. On May 12, 2020, Slack had…