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Tim Freeman

@peakscale

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Curt (@curtbarnard) 's Twitter Profile Photo

OSINT tip: One very good reason to get global entry is that you will get an email if it's revoked, and that's a really good way to find out if you are the subject of a criminal investigation. Don't ask me how I know this.

Tim Freeman (@peakscale) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Do you remember Etherpad? etherpad.org There was a brief period where it seemed like everyone was using it, talking about it, and even posting recordings of themselves drafting posts in it.

Ry Walker — oss/acc (@rywalker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I am going to start a podcast about Postgres extensions. Postgres extensions are not well understood, and I want to make them understandable by talking to the people who create them. Extensions are so valuable to me and to the broader community, and awareness deserves to be

morgan (@casualeffects) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We teach sorting in algorithms classes because it is a simple and easy to motivate EXAMPLE of different algorithms for accomplishing the same task. The solution isn't the point in the classroom. The problem is the point...

Determinate Systems (@determinatesys) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We're extremely excited to introduce the Magic Nix Cache, a GitHub Action that will dramatically speed up your Nix workflow runs with a single line of YAML. No signup, SaaS membership, or additional Nix config required. determinate.systems/posts/magic-ni…

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Speaking of CAPTCHA, I added Cloudflare Turnstile to yupdates.com/try/ Now there's no email needed to check it out. Had a good experience setting up Turnstile. The fact that for most people it's completed automated is a big plus. No crosswalk puzzles to solve, etc.

Alberto Ruiz (@acruiz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

An aspect of participating in the FOSS ecosystem that I struggle with a lot is dealing with the excessive entitlement people who have barely commited anything to contribute to the commons and how they use it against the people doing the work.

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"GPT-3 is a double-edge sword: In comparison with humans, it can produce accurate information that is easier to understand, but it can also produce more compelling disinformation" science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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Separating services out is not guaranteed to be the wrong design or anything, but identifying externalities and where complexity is shifting to will lead to better decisions. x.com/seancribbs/sta…

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"Moving to Hpc7g offers up to 70% better performance and almost 3x better price-performance compared to the previous generation AWS Graviton instances for compute-intensive workloads. They also consume up to 60% less energy for the same work" aws.amazon.com/blogs/hpc/appl…

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I knew it had millions of users, but didn't realize Google Reader had hit over 30 million. A shame that is still a "rounding error" at Google. theverge.com/23778253/googl…