A future for SQL on the web — Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship — and ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning

Issue #493 — August 13, 2021

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A future for SQL on the web jlongster.com \| points: 616 \| comments: 145

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Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship eff.org \| points: 569 \| comments: 289

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ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning 0ver.org \| points: 538 \| comments: 240

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Mosh: The Mobile Shell mosh.org \| points: 405 \| comments: 135

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Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support github.com \| points: 396 \| comments: 184

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Life Improvements Since the 1990s gwern.net \| points: 341 \| comments: 394

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For programmers, remote working is becoming the norm economist.com \| points: 327 \| comments: 415

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Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings fishdraw.glitch.me \| points: 325 \| comments: 60

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Thunderbird 91.0 thunderbird.net \| points: 313 \| comments: 252

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Internet of Snitches puri.sm \| points: 294 \| comments: 133

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Typography in Alien (2014) typesetinthefuture.com \| points: 237 \| comments: 81

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There’s a crack in the iPhone foundation and it could get a lot worse macworld.com \| points: 210 \| comments: 256

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NodeJS security cheat sheet cheatsheetseries.owasp.org \| points: 201 \| comments: 33

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Poly Network hacker returns $258M after stealing $600M forbes.com \| points: 184 \| comments: 285

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Darts: A Python library for easy manipulation and forecasting of time series github.com \| points: 178 \| comments: 37

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Who Is Being Monitored? tutanota.com \| points: 177 \| comments: 79

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Twitter’s new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some users headaches cnet.com \| points: 159 \| comments: 184

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The metaverse is a dystopian nightmare – let’s build a better reality nianticlabs.com \| points: 155 \| comments: 105

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Tether minted most USDT to just 2 firms – Alameda and Cumberland protos.com \| points: 155 \| comments: 160

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Fault Injection Attacks Against AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization arxiv.org \| points: 151 \| comments: 58

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