SETI@home is in hibernation — Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market — and More students are turning away from college and toward apprenticeships

Issue #1075 — March 19, 2023

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SETI@home is in hibernation setiathome.berkeley.edu \| points: 465 \| comments: 291

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Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market dagster.io \| points: 444 \| comments: 255

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More students are turning away from college and toward apprenticeships wsj.com \| points: 430 \| comments: 392

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The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge thomask.sdf.org \| points: 392 \| comments: 302

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Are you ok? memex.marginalia.nu \| points: 278 \| comments: 167

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The U.S. military is missing six nuclear weapons (2021) nationalinterest.org \| points: 208 \| comments: 130

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More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass (2017) journals.plos.org \| points: 191 \| comments: 96

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How to own your own Docker Registry address httptoolkit.com \| points: 187 \| comments: 55

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AWS’s anti-competitive move hidden in plain sight lastweekinaws.com \| points: 184 \| comments: 100

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How to participate in Monday’s oral arguments re: Internet Archive blog.archive.org \| points: 181 \| comments: 65

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20 years of Nix 20th.nixos.org \| points: 179 \| comments: 68

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Libgsqlite: A SQLite extension which loads a Google Sheet as a virtual table github.com \| points: 179 \| comments: 63

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Anki-fy your life abouttolearn.substack.com \| points: 178 \| comments: 110

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Godot Arrives in the Epic Games Store godotengine.org \| points: 169 \| comments: 117

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Kenji López-Alt spent 5 months studying Chicago thin-crust pizza nytimes.com \| points: 157 \| comments: 128

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These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us youtube.com \| points: 155 \| comments: 173

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YouTube millionaires are not your friends vox.com \| points: 147 \| comments: 129

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Sleep habits may have long-term benefits acc.org \| points: 145 \| comments: 133

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Laptop Brands with GNU/Linux Preinstalled floss.social \| points: 141 \| comments: 66

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The Oberon+ Programming Language oberon-lang.github.io \| points: 131 \| comments: 82

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