‘Seven Sisters’ Myths May Reach Back 100k Years https://singularityhub.com/2021/01/10/the-worlds-oldest-story-astronomers-say-global-myths-about-seven-sisters-stars-may-reach-back-100000-years/
Singularity Hub
The World’s Oldest Story? Astronomers Say Global Myths About ‘Seven Sisters’ Stars May Reach Back 100,000 Years
Many cultures refer to the Pleiades as “seven sisters” and tell similar stories about them. Why? Researchers suggest an answer in the motion of the stars.
BitLocker Lockscreen Bypass https://secret.club/2021/01/15/bitlocker-bypass.html
secret club
BitLocker Lockscreen bypass
BitLocker is a modern data protection feature that is deeply integrated in the Windows kernel. It is used by many corporations as a means of protecting company secrets in case of theft. Microsoft recommends that you have a Trusted Platform Module which can…
GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free https://www.eleuther.ai/gpt-neo
Kids find a security flaw in Linux Mint by mashing keys https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver/issues/354
GitHub
Screensaver lock by-pass via the virtual keyboard · Issue #354 · linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver
* Cinnamon version: Cinnamon 4.6.7 * Distribution: Fedora 32 * Graphics hardware *and* driver used: 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 47...
Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster https://www.vim.so
learnvimhere
LearnVim - Learn Vim Fast and Build Muscle Memory with Interactive Exercises
Learn vim fast by building muscle memory. 2000+ engineers learned vim with our hands on training. Train your fingers, master vim commands!
Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App https://www.beeperhq.com/?hn
Beeper
Beeper — All your chats in one app. Yes, really.
A single app to chat on iMessage, WhatsApp, and 13 other chat networks. You can search, snooze, or archive messages. And with a unified inbox, you’ll never miss a message again.
FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol https://www.wusa9.com/article/features/producers-picks/fbi-tracks-cell-phones-that-were-near-capitol-insurrection-and-riot/65-ca268165-a5c5-46a4-8b88-943a8517343a
Deskreen – Turn any device with a web browser to a second computer screen https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen
GitHub
GitHub - pavlobu/deskreen: Deskreen turns any device with a web browser into a secondary screen for your computer. ⭐️ Star to support…
Deskreen turns any device with a web browser into a secondary screen for your computer. ⭐️ Star to support our work! - pavlobu/deskreen
Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/01/26/supercookie-protections/
Mozilla Security Blog
Firefox 85 Cracks Down on Supercookies
Trackers and adtech companies have long abused browser features to follow people around the web. Since 2018, we have been dedicated to reducing the number of ways our users can ...
Berty: Peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access https://github.com/berty/berty
GitHub
GitHub - berty/berty: Berty is a secure peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access, cellular data or…
Berty is a secure peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access, cellular data or trust in the network - berty/berty
Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GB/S IO on a Single ThreadRipper Workstation https://tanelpoder.com/posts/11m-iops-with-10-ssds-on-amd-threadripper-pro-workstation/
Tanelpoder
Achieving 11M IOPS & 66 GiB/s IO on a Single ThreadRipper Workstation - Tanel Poder Consulting
TL;DR Modern disks are so fast that system performance bottleneck shifts to RAM access and CPU. With up to 64 cores, PCIe 4.0 and 8 memory channels, even a single-socket AMD ThreadRipper Pro workstation makes a hell of a powerful machine - if you do it right!…
Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store https://twitter.com/element_hq/status/1355290296947499013
X (formerly Twitter)
Element on X
Google have suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying us; we're reaching out to find out what's going on. Apologies for the inconvenience; in the interim there's https://t.co/aaZ9qXz69W but it's a few versions behind. We'll post updates here.
Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites (2019) https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/dark-patterns/
Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal https://signal.org/blog/help-iran-reconnect/
Signal
Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal
Just over a week ago, we announced that Iranian censors had started blocking all Signal traffic in the country. As an interim solution to help people in Iran get connected again, we’ve added support in Signal for a simple TLS proxy that is easy to set up…
The man who produced Steve Jobs’ keynotes for 20 years (2018) https://www.cake.co/conversations/jNZlq6j/the-man-who-produced-steve-jobs-keynotes-for-20-years
The Elements of Computing Systems, Second Edition https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/elements-computing-systems-second-edition
MIT Press
The Elements of Computing Systems
A new and extensively revised edition of a popular textbook used in universities, coding boot camps, hacker clubs, and online courses.The best way to underst...
Paul Taylor, the engineer who created the TTY machine for the deaf, has died https://www.oregonlive.com/health/2021/02/he-died-in-portland-his-legacy-of-helping-the-deaf-communicate-with-the-world.html
OregonLive
TTY innovator died in Portland, leaving legacy of helping the deaf communicate
Paul Taylor, born deaf, was an engineer who worked to create technology to allow deaf people to communicate, first with each other and then the world.
A stroll through the archives of Editor & Publisher https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/02/thanks-to-the-internet-archive-the-history-of-american-newspapers-is-more-searchable-than-ever/
Nieman Lab
Thanks to the Internet Archive, the history of American newspapers is more searchable than ever
A stroll through the archives of Editor & Publisher shows an industry with moments of glory and shame — and evidence that not all of today's problems are new.