You say asize, I say psize!
An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too).
It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA
Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites.
FCKCRS
The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of “jaywalking” (via youtube.com).
The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, an industry group, established a free wire service for newspapers: Reporters could send in the basic details of a traffic accident and would get in return a complete article to print the next day. These articles, printed widely, shifted the blame for accidents to pedestrians — signaling that following these new laws was important.
Don't just run it, vet it.
Vet is a command-line tool that acts as a safety net for the risky curl | bash pattern.
It lets you inspect, diff against previous versions, and lint remote scripts before asking for your explicit approval to execute. Promoting a safer, more transparent way to handle remote code execution.
Do Buttcoiners know about this?
Hawala is a popular and informal value transfer system based on the performance and honour of a huge network of money brokers (known as hawaladars).
new Date("99") > new Date("100")"99" is year 1999, while "100" is year 0100. 1999 > 0100! Date starts interpreting numbers as years starting at "32".
Die unaufgearbeitete Geschichte der unaufgearbeiteten Geschichte.
Politisierte Medizin in der DDR: Geschlossene Venerologische Stationen und das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (via taz.de).
In der DDR konnten Mädchen und Frauen in Fürsorgeheime für Geschlechtskranke und in geschlossene Venerologische Stationen zwangseingewiesen werden – häufig ohne medizinische Indikation und unter ständiger Beobachtung des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit. Unter den Spätfolgen von Disziplinierungsmaßnahmen und Misshandlungen leiden viele Betroffene bis heute.
Why JPEG Became the Web's Favorite Image Format.
Thirty years ago, the JPEG became the dominant way we share digital photos on the Internet.
Relevant: Faking a JPEG.
I saw their notes with their info around Arena when the Hermanos were in town.
Hola! We just released our first original song inspired by Hermanos Gutierrez, La Lom & Khruangbin. (We still do suck but maybe we get better so stick around.)
Грай, Україно!
Durak: Is This The Best Card Game Ever?
Relevant: cardzmania.com.