Internet Archive expands Flash support — and Signal president says company will not comply with U.K. ‘mass surveillance’ law

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Internet Archive expands Flash support mastodon.archive.org \| points: 487 \| comments: 212

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Signal president says company will not comply with U.K. ‘mass surveillance’ law fortune.com \| points: 391 \| comments: 258

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“Our paying customers need X, when will you fix it?” twitter.com \| points: 302 \| comments: 258

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Wireshark Is 25: The email that started it all and lessons learned along the way blog.wireshark.org \| points: 294 \| comments: 63

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Food companies ‘sweetened the world’ and increased the risk of disease theguardian.com \| points: 256 \| comments: 228

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The theory versus the practice of “static websites” utcc.utoronto.ca \| points: 254 \| comments: 182

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The Uxn Ecosystem 100r.co \| points: 245 \| comments: 40

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Sniffnet – Comfortably monitor your internet traffic (like Wireshark) sniffnet.net \| points: 225 \| comments: 50

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Ziplm: Gzip-Backed Language Model github.com \| points: 222 \| comments: 57

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Another World ported to FPGA github.com \| points: 216 \| comments: 48

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The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training stackdiary.com \| points: 214 \| comments: 103

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Avast Scandal: Why We Stopped Recommending Avast and AVG safetydetectives.com \| points: 202 \| comments: 109

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Tor is not just for anonymity (2022) blog.pastly.net \| points: 194 \| comments: 127

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Generate RSS feed for any website using CSS selectors rss-bridge.org \| points: 194 \| comments: 51

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Matrices and Graph thepalindrome.org \| points: 183 \| comments: 39

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Debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests (2021) fastly.com \| points: 179 \| comments: 64

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering pt. 2 honeycomb.io \| points: 156 \| comments: 61

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The pull request hack is fucking magic shkspr.mobi \| points: 151 \| comments: 49

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Snakemake – A framework for reproducible data analysis snakemake.github.io \| points: 147 \| comments: 33

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The day I locked everyone out of the company intranet dancowell.com \| points: 121 \| comments: 88

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