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This is the first article in a series that will be a fairly critical review of ActivityPub from a trust & safety perspective. Stay tuned for more.
In the modern day, myself and many other developers working on libre software have been exposed to a protocol design philosophy that emphasizes safety and correctness.
See also https://overengineer.dev/blog/2019/01/13/activitypub-final-thoughts-one-year-later.html
There is a lot of misinformation being promoted in various privacy circles about Tor. This article will examine some facts about Tor and assess whether it is the infallible privacy tool it’s made out to be by some. There is a growing chorus of people who blindly recommend Tor to anyone looking for online anonymity. This …
Are Product Manager useful ?
A survey of how tech projects run across the industry highlights Scrum being absent from Big Tech. Why is this, and are there takeaways others should take note of?
How Nubank switched from and End-to-End suite to a Contract and Acceptance testing strategy to scale to over 1k engineers
Cool cassandra use case.
Balancing pair programming
Database online schema changes — migrations without downtime.
How I learned to start worrying and love privacy
Human brain upload
Kopierer, die spontan Zahlen im Dokument verändern: Im August 2013 kam heraus, dass so gut wie alle Xerox-Scankopierer beim Scannen Zahle...
En 1895, le film
There is a contradiction between Edward Snowden’s opposition to Julian Assange’s arrest and the rhetorical games he plays with his character in Permanent Record.