One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 — Privacy is the most important concept of our time — and Escaping strings in Bash using !:q

Issue #179 — October 03, 2020

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One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020 joel.net \| points: 734 \| comments: 435

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Privacy is the most important concept of our time inre.me \| points: 405 \| comments: 190

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Escaping strings in Bash using !:q til.simonwillison.net \| points: 385 \| comments: 62

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Looking at the experience of black Britons through an American lens persuasion.community \| points: 384 \| comments: 343

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Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later flatkill.org \| points: 351 \| comments: 310

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Samsung Ads – Demand-Side Platform samsung.com \| points: 307 \| comments: 288

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Pressing YubiKeys bert.org \| points: 295 \| comments: 134

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“Really successful people say no to almost everything” inc.com \| points: 265 \| comments: 173

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Logging Everyone Out lists.wikimedia.org \| points: 259 \| comments: 121

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Memristor Breakthrough: First Single Device to Act Like a Neuron spectrum.ieee.org \| points: 248 \| comments: 104

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Loss of smell could be a ’highly reliable indicator’ of Covid-19, research says cnn.com \| points: 221 \| comments: 168

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How To Be An Anti-Casteist npr.org \| points: 217 \| comments: 264

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Google pub/sub released an ordering feature cloud.google.com \| points: 209 \| comments: 99

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Google is giving $1B to publishers to help convince governments not to take more niemanlab.org \| points: 206 \| comments: 102

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Swift Atomics swift.org \| points: 204 \| comments: 35

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Stripe Will Pay Workers $20k to Leave New York and San Francisco forbes.com \| points: 196 \| comments: 233

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Japan’s lost generation is still jobless and living with their parents bloomberg.com \| points: 193 \| comments: 236

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United States Obtains Final Judgement and Permanent Injunction Against Snowden justice.gov \| points: 180 \| comments: 121

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Software Freedom Conservancy: New Strategy for GPL Enforcement sfconservancy.org \| points: 167 \| comments: 87

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Pelican static site generator 4.5 blog.getpelican.com \| points: 164 \| comments: 90

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