How Dwarf Fortress is built https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/07/28/700000-lines-of-code-20-years-and-one-developer-how-dwarf-fortress-is-built/
Stack Overflow Blog
700,000 lines of code, 20 years, and one developer: How Dwarf Fortress is built
Dwarf Fortress is one of those oddball passion projects that’s broken into Internet consciousness. It’s a free game where you play either an adventurer or a fortress full of dwarves in a randomly generated fantasy world. The simulation runs deep, with new…
Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-go-brrr/
Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mozilla-common-voice-adds-16-new-languages-and-4600-new-hours-of-speech/
Mozilla Foundation
Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech
The Mozilla Common Voice initiative has released a new, expanded data set featuring 16 new languages — like Basaa and Kazakh — and 4,622 new hours of sp…
CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative https://calyxos.org/
Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-apples-child-protection-features-spark-concern-within-its-own-ranks-2021-08-12/
Reuters
Exclusive: Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks -sources
A backlash over Apple's move to scan U.S. customer phones and computers for child sex abuse images has grown to include employees speaking out internally, a notable turn in a company famed for its secretive culture, as well as provoking intensified protests…
1800s Astronomical Drawings vs. NASA Images (2016) https://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/08/19/1800s-astronomical-drawings
The New York Public Library
1800s Astronomical Drawings vs. NASA Images | The New York Public Library
Comparing astrological drawings from our Digital Collections to NASA images—how similar do you think they are?
Show HN: Sturdy – online-first version control focused on collaboration https://getsturdy.com/
Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt https://scotthelme.co.uk/heres-another-free-ca-as-an-alternative-to-lets-encrypt/
Scott Helme
Here's another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt!
As the use of HTTPS continues to increase across the Web, we need more support from Certificate Authorities that issue the certificates to make it all work. I'm a huge fan of Let's Encrypt and what they're doing, but if we want to encrypt the entire Web,…
Manim: An animation engine for explanatory math videos https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim
GitHub
GitHub - ManimCommunity/manim: A community-maintained Python framework for creating mathematical animations.
A community-maintained Python framework for creating mathematical animations. - GitHub - ManimCommunity/manim: A community-maintained Python framework for creating mathematical animations.
My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019) https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1146135405793669121
Twitter
foone
Ahh yes, my mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption so it can accept incoming connections. This is a totally normal thing to happen
Apple agrees to settle potential class action suit by U.S. developers https://www.axios.com/apple-settles-developer-class-action-c13bb308-daf3-4231-a399-ffd48b6b2c52.html
Axios
Apple makes App Store concessions to settle developer suit
The company agrees to offer some additional freedoms to developers.
Linux in a Pixel Shader – A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat https://blog.pimaker.at/texts/rvc1/
blog.pimaker.at
Linux in a Pixel Shader - A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat
The Evolution of Smalltalk from Smalltalk-72 to Squeak [video] https://www.pldi21.org/prerecorded_hopl.17.html
Apple and Google must allow other in-app payment systems, Korean law declares https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/31/22643800/apple-google-south-korea-app-store-payment-legislation-passes
The Verge
Apple and Google must allow developers to use other payment systems, new Korean law declares
A major milestone in global anti-trust legislation
Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/03/apple-delaying-rollout-of-child-safety-features/
MacRumors
Apple Delays Rollout of Controversial Child Safety Features to Make Improvements
Apple has delayed the rollout of the Child Safety Features that it announced last month following negative feedback, the company has today...
Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/chrome-cookie.html
US Cybercom says mass exploitation of Atlassian Confluence vulnerability ongoing https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cybercom-says-mass-exploitation-of-atlassian-confluence-vulnerability-ongoing-and-expected-to-accelerate/
ZDNET
US Cybercom says mass exploitation of Atlassian Confluence vulnerability 'ongoing and expected to accelerate'
IT leaders have taken to Twitter to confirm that the exploitation is ongoing globally.