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Tech Stuff

40 Programming Memes That'll Have Coders LOLing Instead Of Debugging

marcel A modern shell with a brilliant name: Marcell the Shell.

We have used too many levels of abstractions and now the future looks bleak

Twenty Modern open-source CRM:

Twenty's codebase is adaptable, fostering a collaborative environment where every user can contribute. This extensible and modular design ensures our product evolves with you, cultivating mutually beneficial growth that promotes progress and innovation.”

cobol-on-wheelchair “COBOL on Wheelchair is a minimal webframeworkHHHHHH just a proof of concept. However, it partially works, and it can handle …”

Also, COBOL on Cogs and IonicaBizau/node-cobol COBOL bridge for NodeJS which allows you to run COBOL code from NodeJS.

Someone saying 'No, it's less effort than that!'? Pushing for a lower dev estimate is like negotiating better weather with a meteorologist.

AkaSci Things get real when you need to patch a 46 year old computer that’s also 15 billion miles away from planet earth:

NASA is sending a software update to the Voyager 2 spacecraft today!

The patch contains logic to auto-recover from glitches similar to one in May 2022, when the AACS system on Voyager 1 started sending garbled data. The root cause was not fully diagnosed. The patch will be activated/tested on Oct 28. Voyager 1 will be next.

Data will be sent at 16 bps with a 19 kW transmitter using the 70-m dish at @canberradsn@mastodon.au.
Distance: 20 billion km; 18:40 light hours

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-team-focuses-on-software-patch-thrusters

Voyager

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Internet Artifacts Browse through the old internet.

Eye for Design

Why are we so fascinated by letters? 🤔

Letters have a talisman-like quality. They’re connected to childhood, these brightly colored blocks and magnets. You learn your letters and learn how to read and write over a formative period of your development. They’re ingrained into us at a really early age when we’re impressionable.

I wrote the book on user-friendly design. What I see today horrifies me "The world is designed against the elderly, writes Don Norman, 83-year-old author of the industry bible Design of Everyday Things and a former Apple VP."

The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop Mobile-first web designs cause significant usability issues when viewed on desktop. Content becomes overly dispersed across long scrolling pages with expansive white space and enlarged images and fonts, making it difficult for users to consume and understand the information.

This Is Why Japan Has Blue Traffic Lights Instead of Green “Blue traffic lights is what happens when you have one word for two colors.”

Peoples

orbyn 👍

ADHD Awareness Month should really run for three months to accommodate those of us with ADHD.

structuredsucc Sometimes ‘late’ is not at all the same as ‘couldn’t care less’:

It's so frustrating to see the way that non-ADHD'ers assign meaning to the barriers we experience as ADHD'ers.

Instead of letting being late mean that we're struggling to keep track of time, non-ADHD'ers assume it means that we mustn't care

These negative assumptions, and the changes to social relationships that often accompany them, can be as impactful and disabling as the barriers themselves

If You’ve Ever Heard a Voice That Wasn’t There, This Could Be Why Interesting: "The findings suggest that the neurological roots of hallucinations lie in how the brain processes contradictory signals from the environment, the researchers said.”

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No one tells you you're old. You have to come to the realization yourself while reading Amazon reviews for light bulbs

Antidepressants or Tolkien character? A fun game, especially if you’re literate: is the word an antidepressant or a Tolkien character?

Machine Thinking

Embeddings: What they are and why they matter Embeddings are a really neat trick that often comes wrapped in a pile of intimidating jargon. If you can make it through that jargon, they unlock powerful and exciting techniques that can be applied to all sorts of interesting problems.

Pigeons Problem-Solve Similarly To Artificial Intelligence, Research Shows - Slashdot 🤔

According to a new study published in iScience, the way pigeons problem-solve matches artificial intelligence. The Guardian reports: In the study, 24 pigeons were given a variety of visual tasks, some of which they learned to categorize in a matter of days, and others in a matter of weeks.

A Short History of Artificial Intelligence Tracing the rise of the robot mind.

Now add a walrus: Prompt engineering in DALL-E 3 Last year I wrote about my initial experiments with DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s image generation model. I’ve been having an absurd amount of fun playing with its sequel, DALL-E 3 recently. …

Insecurity

What the !#@% is a Passkey?

A new login technique is becoming available in 2023: the passkey. The passkey promises to solve phishing and prevent password reuse. But lots of smart and security-oriented folks are confused about what exactly a passkey is. There’s a good reason for that. A passkey is in some sense one of two (or three) different things, depending on how it’s stored.

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Getting hacked on public Wi-Fi hasn't really been a serious threat in over a decade. Almost all internet traffic is encrypted by default. The main reason people think it's still a huge problem is due to consumer VPN companies spreading misinformation to try and convince people they need to pay for encryption.

Introducing HAR Sanitizer: secure HAR sharing Fantastic! “As a follow-up to the most recent Okta breach, we are making a HAR file sanitizer available to everyone, not just Cloudflare customers, at no cost.”

malwaretech Watch out for n-day exploits:

A hacking technique that's becoming more and more prevalent is n-day exploitation. Basically, whenever a company issues a software update to patch a security flaw, it's possible to figure out what the flaw was by comparing the code before and after the update to see what was changed. Once the hackers know what the flaw is, they can use it to target people who've not yet update their software. It's why it's important to regularly install software updates, even if they don't add new features.

iPhones have been exposing your unique MAC despite Apple’s promises otherwise “From the get-go, this feature was useless,” researcher says of feature put into iOS 14.

Everything Else

historical_world_images Tricycle from 1936.

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worst thing you can do when you’re cleaning, is to sit down for a minute

theeverywhereist

Changing my Pomodoro settings to 30 seconds of work broken up by 3 hour-long breaks

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fatgirlhedonist 🧠

If an executive from the cereal industry could talk to absolutely anyone in the ziplock bag industry, that would be great.

Assaf Todays trivia: What do these four pictures have in common?

Proactive Paul

public service announcement

in order to spell banana on a mobile device you need to draw a banana on your keyboard

sanderlinr

The pandemic got so weird that people started making cakes that looked like anything but cake and they had a whole-ass TV show about what was real vs what was cake.

Augie Ray

Pop quiz: Is the red line (at the beginning of the large surge in mass shootings):

  • When mental health problems began?
  • When violent video games started being published?
  • Or when the Republicans allowed the assault weapon ban to expire?

Vote for sensible gun laws in every election, and #vote Democrat at every level.

How Soap Works: The Science Behind Handwashing

While there’s still much we don’t understand about COVID-19, there's one piece of advice that experts in the health care community agree on: washing your hands with soap and water is one of the most effective ways people can keep from getting sick, and from passing the virus to others.

Vee TIL:

When sperm whales need a nap, they take a deep breath, dive down about 45 feet and arrange themselves into perfectly-level, vertical patterns. They sleep sound and still for up to two hours at a time between breaths, in pods of 5 or 6 whales, presumably for protection. No one knew whales slept vertically until a 2008 study documented the behavior. And no one captured really good photography of it in the wild until 2017 with Patrick Dykstra documenting sperm whales.
Credit - Mr. Patric Dykstra

Study shows Covid virus migrates within neurons, infects brain Ouch! “In a first, researchers have demonstrated that different variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind Covid-19, have the ability to infect the central nervous”

tsgalindo “existentialist philosophy in the 2040s and 2050s is gonna be lit!”

You’re Invited to a Colonoscopy! Why has America settled on colonoscopies when most of the world has not?

Colonoscopies are the first-line method for preventing colorectal cancer in America —and almost nowhere else. But do they work? We finally have a comprehensive trial, but it’s left gastroenterologists with more questions than answers.

A Jigsaw Explorer Jigsaw Puzzle That was quite fun. Wife buys puzzles that take an entire table to fill. I enjoy solving a puzzle in few minutes on the iPad.

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