List of "tech for good" job boards.
The world is in a lot of trouble right now. Many of us are asking: how can I help? This is a short list of “tech for good” job boards I’ve found.
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It is no wonder that these commercial actors have no interest in undertaking a holistic review of the ICANN ecosystem. In almost every scenario, they would lose power. So, maintaining the status quo is in their economic and strategic best interest.
Why are 2025/05/28 and 2025-05-28 different days in JavaScript?
What’s interesting looking at the timeline is that despite being designed as a standardized format, from its release in 2009 up until early 2020, there would never exist a point where the major browsers behaved consistently for missing offsets.
Maybe in homeopahtic doses…
Divya Godhan Ark, an age-old Ayurvedic remedy, is formulated by extracting therapeutic properties from gomutra or cow urine.
Slow Trans Europe Express to dawn.
“How we tried to book a train ticket and ended up with a databreach with 245,000 records.“
Such half-baked solutions would already be insufficient to sell a few concert tickets. But if a federal ministry gives away train tickets, special attention has to be paid that everything is well tested.
Quarkdown – Markdown with superpowers.
Markdown meets the power of LaTeX in this modern typesetting system. And it's free and open source.
The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine.
Basically, things could be much better if we spent less time congratulating machines for the work people do and we instead supported people more directly.
Should Ethiopian philosophy be universalist or Africanist?
The essential question is this: should Ethiopian philosophy be practised from a universalist perspective – therefore taking Ethiopian philosophy to be part of the universal quest for wisdom – or from an Africanist perspective that sees Ethiopian philosophy as a means of cultural reaffirmation?
This project generated around 30 Billion individual 4kB files of random data. These files were winnowed down to about 10,000 through some heuristics gleaned from the complete collection of Atari ROM files. Finally, a classifier system scanned them using an Atari 2600 emulator to see if any of these random files were actually an Atari game. This project answers a question no one asked, no one wanted, and is a massive waste of resources: What if I shove a billion monkeys in a GPU and asked them to write a game for the Atari 2600?