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Russian government procured botnet to shift social media trending topics

therecord.media

A subcontractor for Russia’s Federal Security Service is accused of creating a powerful botnet that had...
A subcontractor for Russia’s Federal Security Service is accused of creating a powerful botnet that had the ability to not only launch damaging DDoS attacks but also manipulate trending topics on social media platforms, according to cybersecurity firm Nisos. In a report released this week, the company explained that...
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Fictional Monkeypox Outbreak Exercise Scenario [pdf]

nti.org
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The Microsoft Archives

youtube.com

science & technology
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Stroika C++ application framework version 2.1 released

github.com
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Rustdesk: The open source TeamViewer alternative

rustdesk.com
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“If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare”: A Review

centauri-dreams.org
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Which Linux distribution has the best community?

ycombinator.com
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2 years of running a minimal blogging platform

bearblog.dev

Recently I wrote a short TellHN piece on my experience running a minimal blogging platform. It...
Recently I wrote a short TellHN piece on my experience running a minimal blogging platform. It got a decent number of views and questions and I thought it a good idea to write a longer post expanding on it. Here goes! git init I started Bear almost by accident as I was creating a personal blog for myself (again). Th...
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Programming Burnout

bearblog.dev
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Building my first mechanical keyboard

not-matthias.github.io
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Meticulous (YC S21) Is Hiring #2 Founding Engineer in London

ycombinator.com
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Porting Lotus 1-2-3 to Linux

cmpxchg8b.com
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Ukrainian soldiers using electric bikes with rockets to destroy Russian tanks

electrek.co
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What We Misunderstand About WWII

theatlantic.com

books british empire course of the war good war second world war
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Monkeypox: Cases confirmed in 11 countries, says WHO

bbc.com
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The Atari 800XL

substack.com

Although I now have an Atari 800XL, it is not the one I had as a...
Although I now have an Atari 800XL, it is not the one I had as a kid. This one is a later model because it has the Rev. C BASIC built-in. It is not modified in any way. If you zoom in on the picture below a bit, you’ll notice the Option key is somewhat worn out. This is pretty common because you have...
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Ask HN: Any Tech Startup Cooperatives?

ycombinator.com
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Silly Lossy Text Compression Idea

snufk.in

Oh no, I've done it again. I've heard your cries, this time I have a decoder...
Oh no, I've done it again. I've heard your cries, this time I have a decoder idea too. The idea this time is to remove random letters from the text to make it shorter, and then 'decode' using autocorrect. Encoder import random import re import string def encode(text: str, remove_rate: float) -> str: """ Remove rando...
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Angular Diameter Turnaround

xkcd.com
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Math on GitHub: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

nschloe.github.io

Finally! On May 19, 2022, GitHub released one of its most requested features: Math support on...
Finally! On May 19, 2022, GitHub released one of its most requested features: Math support on Markdown! Many had been anticipating this for years, including myself, so much in fact that I wrote a browser extension to get there early. (xhub, it can do a few other things so check it out.) The syntax GitHub has chosen ...
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As economists warn of a recession, what lies ahead for the US economy?

upenn.edu
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Getting a Bourne shell “here document” into a shell variable

utoronto.ca

Suppose, for reasons to be discussed in a later entry, you would like to write a...
Suppose, for reasons to be discussed in a later entry, you would like to write a shell script that turns an embedded here document into a shell variable (ie, an unexported environment variable). As a preview, one reason to want to do this is that here documents allow almost arbitrary contents, while other forms of g...
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That Time I Saved the VR Club

hatingonoats.com
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Show HN: Parsing a Reverse Polish Expression

free.fr
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