Have you felt someone owes you money? Last year, credit reporting agency Equifax was rocked by a massive data breach affecting most (56%) Americans. The company agreed to one of the largest settlements of its kind, $700M to be disbursed, covering identity protection monitoring services and direct cash payments to help those whose data had…
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We are excited to announce that the Rust/WinRT project finally has a permanent and public home on GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/winrt-rs Rust/WinRT follows in the tradition established by C++/WinRT of building language projections for the Windows Runtime using standard languages and compilers, providing a natural and idiomatic way for Rust developers to call Windows APIs. Rust/WinRT lets…
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I’m happy to announce that the SourceHut project hub is now available for general use! This is one of the most important developments in the progress of the SourceHut alpha thus far. If you want to see how it works interactively, try checking out the SourceHut project, add your own projects, or browse the public…
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Commuters pass by Xiaomi Note 10 Pro smartphone advertisement at its flagship store in Hong Kong. … [+] Researchers think the huge Chinese business is infringing on people’s privacy, but the company denies any wrongdoing. Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images “It’s a backdoor with phone functionality,” quips Gabi Cirlig about his new Xiaomi phone.…
Read MoreContents Preamble I have little to say that’s of general value and haven’t found the time to level up My theory of bootstrapping The Rules Meta Rule 1: Rules are good Productivity and learning Rule 2: Most of what I learn is useless outside of its immediate context Rule 3: Focus “learning time” on things…
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Empty streets in Senamiestis, the old town of Vilnius. Lithuania has said cafes and restaurants with outdoor seating can reopen this week. Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius, has announced plans to turn the city into a vast open-air cafe by giving over much of its public space to hard-hit bar and restaurant owners so they…
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I have frequently wanted to use the external link symbol ( ) in text that I’m writing, without having to resort to including an image. Normally the solution there would be to find the graphical symbol in Unicode and figure out how to type it. Apparently at least one proposal for the external link symbol…
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Heuristics for effective management. Table of Contents Principles One on ones Coaching Feedback Thinking strategically Making decisions Coding Ticket and PR process Meetings Hiring Onboarding Announcing change Further reading Principles Always be aware of what’s going on in your team and product. Know the architecture just as well as anyone else — and stay current…
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and Reverse Engineering an Unknown Instruction Set Introduction Picroma Plasma is a vector image editor written by Wolfram von Funck under the company Picroma. Some videos of its usage are available on Picroma’s YouTube channel. Picroma/Wollay is also the author the game Cube World, and as a result, the game’s GUI is constructed using Plasma…
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Last week I talked about how lockdown and the recession have spurred more people to start online businesses. No-code products are a big part of this story since many of the newly unemployed are coming from non-technical backgrounds. But not all no-coders are in it to make money. @Tom_UK_Designer’s no-code site The Edinburgh Lockdown Economy…
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