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…
Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting https://smitop.com/post/reddit-whiteops/
U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-court-oklahoma/us-supreme-court-deems-half-of-oklahoma-a-native-american-reservation-idUSKBN24A2BE
Reuters
U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday recognized about half of Oklahoma as Native American reservation land and overturned a tribe member’s rape conviction because the location where the crime was committed should have been considered…
New German law would force ISPs to allow secret service to install trojans https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/new-german-law-would-force-isps-to-allow-secret-service-to-install-trojans-on-user-devices/
PIA VPN Blog
New German law would force ISPs to allow secret service to install trojans on user devices
A new law being proposed in Germany would see all 19 federal state intelligence agencies in Germany granted the power to spy on German citizens through
App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1427
GitHub
App suddenly crashing on startup in production due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m · Issue #1427 · facebook/facebook-ios…
Checklist I've updated to the latest released version of the SDK I've searched for existing GitHub issues I've looked for existing answers on Stack Overflow, the Facebook De...
Linux kernel in-tree Rust support https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAKwvOdmuYc8rW_H4aQG4DsJzho=F+djd68fp7mzmBp3-wY--Uw@mail.gmail.com/T/#u
Do not remain nameless to yourself (1966) https://lettersofnote.com/2015/10/23/do-not-remain-nameless-to-yourself/
The most remarkable legacy system I have seen https://thehftguy.com/2020/07/09/the-most-remarkable-legacy-system-i-have-seen/
The HFT Guy
The Most Remarkable Legacy System I Have Seen
There was one remarkable legacy system when I was working in a bank sometime back. This could be summarized as an internal AWS lambda equivalent. The offering was complete with full CI, CD, unit te…
German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving https://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN24F1T5
Reuters
German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany has banned Tesla from repeating what a court says are misleading advertising statements relating to the capabilities of the firm’s driver assistance systems and to autonomous driving, a Munich judge ruled on Tuesday.
Data structures and algorithms I actually used while working at tech companies https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/data-structures-and-algorithms-i-actually-used-day-to-day/
The Pragmatic Engineer
Data Structures & Algorithms I Used Working at Tech Companies
Do you actually use data structures and algorithms on your day to day job? I've
noticed a growing trend of people assuming algorithms are pointless questions
that are asked by tech companies purely as an arbitrary measure. I hear more
people complain about…
noticed a growing trend of people assuming algorithms are pointless questions
that are asked by tech companies purely as an arbitrary measure. I hear more
people complain about…
Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/07/tech-job-interviews-anxiety/
NC State University News
Tech Sector Job Interviews Assess Anxiety, Not Software Skills
The design of "technical interviews" is hurting the tech sector.
Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of warnings about Wirecard https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-germanys-sec-dismissed-a-decade-of-warnings-about-wirecard-11594907212
WSJ
How Germany’s SEC Dismissed a Decade of Warnings About Wirecard
Germany’s top financial supervisor received detailed warnings about deceptive financial practices at Wirecard starting in 2008 but repeatedly declined to investigate the allegations, turning instead against the accusers.